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January 2013Shock Totem Radio
Tag Archives: Mercedes M. Yardley
One of Our Own Journeys North
We’re very proud to share that our great friend Robert J. Duperre, who also occasionally writes for Shock Totem, has just signed a three-book deal 47North, Amazon’s publishing imprint. The deal is for three books, all to be co-written with fantasy author David Dalglish.
The first book, Dawn of Swords, will be released in January 2014, with Wrath of Lions and Blood of Gods to follow.
Yes, these are fantasy novels, but we read widely here at Shock Totem HQ and are very much looking forward to these books. And you should as well.
If you want to sample some of Duperre’s writing and would rather something a bit closer to horror, check out his four-book Rift series—The Fall, Dead of Winter, Death Springs Eternal, and The Summer Sun. If you don’t want individual books, buy the entire series as a very affordable digital omnibus.
You can also check out The Gate 2: 13 Tales of Isolation and Despair, which not only features three stories by Duperre, but also a story by Mercedes M. Yardley and yours truly.
You can read more about this deal on Duperre’s blog, The Journal of Always.
Posted in Alumni News, Staff News
Tagged 47North, Amazon, Blood of Gods, David Dalglish, Dawn of Swords, Dead of Winter, Death Springs Eternal, Fantasy, K. Allen Wood, Mercedes M. Yardley, Robert J. Duperre, The Fall, The Gate 2, The Gate 2: 13 Tales of Isolation and Despair, The Rift Series, The Summer Sun, Wrath of Lions
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Hellnotes Reviews Beautiful Sorrows
Brian Sammons has reviewed Beautiful Sorrows over at the Hellnotes website.
“Pass up this feast of fancy and fear and you’ll have nothing left but famine and no one wants that. Beautiful Sorrows is beautifully done from start to finish. Consider it highly recommended.”
To read the full review, click here. Have you picked up your copy yet?
Posted in Alumni News, Book Reviews, Reviews, Shock Totem News
Tagged Beautiful Sorrows, Book Reviews, Brian Sammons, Hellnotes, Mercedes M. Yardley, Reviews
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Horror Fiction Review Reviews Beautiful Sorrows
Sheri White has reviewed Beautiful Sorrows, by Mercedes M. Yardley, over at the Horror Fiction Review website.
“One of the more poetic stories in the collection, “The Boy Who Hangs Stars,” reads like a fairy tale for adults. It’s beautifully written, telling a tale of a boy who hangs the stars in the sky, and the girl who loves him.”
To read the full review, click here. Have you picked up your copy yet?
Full Disclosure: Sheri White has recently become part of our extended staff of writers.
Posted in Alumni News, Book Reviews, Reviews, Shock Totem News
Tagged Beautiful Sorrows, Book Reviews, Horror Fiction Review, Mercedes M. Yardley, Reviews, Sheri White
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Beautiful Sorrows Joins the 99 Cent Movement
For the next seven days, the Kindle edition of Beautiful Sorrows will be on sale for just 99 cents. Please consider buying a copy for yourself or a friend. Help us make this one a bestseller!
[ Both covers created by Yannick Bouchard ]
Praise for Beautiful Sorrows:
“Beautiful Sorrows… delicate prose with devastating impact. Mercedes Yardley is a female Joe Hill, and I fear her ‘Broken’ will haunt me to my grave.” —F. Paul Wilson, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Keep and The Tomb
“Mercedes M. Yardley has the Right Stuff. She demonstrates that in her wonderful collection of short stories: Beautiful Sorrows. Each story is a different kind of gem, the bagful priceless.” —Gene O’Neill, Bram Stoker Award™-winning Author of The Taste of Tenderloin and Double Jack
“Mercedes Yardley’s debut collection, Beautiful Sorrows, holds its hands out, palms up, no tricks, no irony, no clever retreats from honest emotions. Life’s travails inhabit these pages, and she renders them beautifully.” —Christopher Barzak, author of One for Sorrow and The Love We Share Without Knowing
Again, you can download the 99-cent digital version here. Or if you’d prefer the print version, you can order it through our webstore, Amazon, or other online booksellers.
If you have any questions, please let us know. As always, your support is greatly appreciated!
Posted in Alumni News, Sales, Shock Totem Digital, Shock Totem News, Staff News
Tagged Beautiful Sorrows, Christopher Barzak, F. Paul Wilson, Gene O’Neill, Joe Hill, Mercedes M. Yardley, Neil Gaiman, New Release, Paperback, Releases, Sales, Shock Totem Digital, Shock Totem Publications, Whimsical Horror
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Beautiful Sorrows—Now Available!
“Beautiful Sorrows… delicate prose with devastating impact. Mercedes Yardley is a female Joe Hill, and I fear her ‘Broken’ will haunt me to my grave.” —F. Paul Wilson
Shock Totem Publications is proud to announce that Mercedes M. Yardley’s brilliant collection of whimsical horror tales, Beautiful Sorrows, is now available in print and digital formats.
[ Cover created by Yannick Bouchard ]
The print edition is $13.99, and can be purchased through Amazon or our webstore. The digital version is a mere $2.99 (currently only available for the Kindle), and can be purchased here.
If you have any questions, please let us know. And if you purchase a copy, you have our sincere gratitude.
Posted in Alumni News, New Releases, Publishing, Shock Totem Digital, Shock Totem News, Staff News
Tagged Beautiful Sorrows, F. Paul Wilson, Mercedes M. Yardley, New Release, Paperback, Releases, Shock Totem Digital, Shock Totem Publications
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Beautiful Sorrows Hardcover—SOLD OUT!
The limited edition hardcover of Beautiful Sorrows is officially SOLD OUT! Mini-tribal!
Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who bought a copy. None of us expected our very first hardcover to sell out in a little over a week, but we’re extremely grateful!
If you missed out on the hardcover, you can still pre-order the paperback through our new webstore. Official release date for the paperback is October 19.
Thanks again to everyone who made this a success!
Posted in Alumni News, New Releases, Shock Totem Digital, Shock Totem News, Staff News
Tagged Beautiful Sorrows, Limited Edition Hardcover, Mercedes M. Yardley
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Beautiful Sorrows—Selling Fast!
A special paperback pre-release of Beautiful Sorrows was available this past weekend in Las Vegas, at the fourth annual Killercon convention. The entire Shock Totem team was on hand for this event and we sold out of all 50 copies we had.
[ The Shock Totem Five together for the first time ever! ]
If you did not attend the event, Beautiful Sorrows will officially be released next month in paperback and digital formats. You can pre-order it now through our new webstore.
The limited edition hardcover is scheduled for release in November. It is strictly limited to 50 case-bound copies signed by the author, P. Gardner Goldsmith (foreword), and Yannick Bouchard (artist). It is priced at $34.99, and also comes with the exclusive chapbook Star-Eaten Soul.
And it’s nearly sold out!
There are only 19 copies of the hardcover left, so if you want to secure a copy, order now. We expect it to sell out in the next few days.
[ Both covers created by Yannick Bouchard ]
Posted in Alumni News, Con Reports, New Releases, Shock Totem Digital, Shock Totem News, Staff News
Tagged Beautiful Sorrows, Chapbook, KillerCon, Limited Edition Hardcover, Mercedes M. Yardley, P. Gardner Goldsmith, Star-Eaten Soul, Yannick Bouchard
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Beautiful Sorrows Now Available for Preorder
As previously mentioned, we will be offering to those attending this weekend’s Killercon convention a special paperback pre-release of Beautiful Sorrows, by Mercedes M. Yardley.
But for those unable to attend or interested in the limited edition hardcover, it is now up for preorder. The case-bound hardcover is strictly limited to 50 copies, priced at $34.99, and comes with the exclusive chapbook Star-Eaten Soul.
[ Both covers created by Yannick Bouchard ]
The official release date for the paperback and e-book is October, while the hardcover should be available in November, if not sooner. You can preorder either the paperback or hardcover here.
If you have any questions, please let us know. And if you are attending Killercon this year, please stop by our table and say hello.
Posted in Alumni News, Con Reports, New Releases, Shock Totem Digital, Shock Totem News, Signings, Staff News
Tagged Beautiful Sorrows, Chapbook, KillerCon, Limited Edition Hardcover, Mercedes M. Yardley, Star-Eaten Soul
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Shock Totem Invades Killercon
This coming weekend, at the fourth annual Killercon convention in Las Vegas, joining the likes of F. Paul Wilson, Wrath James White, Jack Ketchum, John Skipp, Adam Cesare, and more, the Shock Totem Five will be meeting in person for the first time ever. We will have a vendor table all weekend long. If you’re attending, we’d love to meet you.
We are hosting a party Friday night as well. I say party, but since everyone shot down all my great ideas–bouncy castle, Sumo wrestler outfits/matches, Andrew WK karaoke battles–I’m not sure how much of a party it’ll be, but it’ll be fun…because when it’s time to party we will always party hard!
Yeah, I went there.
In addition, we will be doing a special pre-release of our upcoming collection, Beautiful Sorrows, by Mercedes M. Yardley. Own it weeks before its official release. We’ll have fifty paperback copies available (there will also be a limited edition hardcover release) at a special discount price. Mercedes will gladly autograph your copy. She’ll be doing a reading from the book as well.
For more info, click here. Preorders for the official paperback and hardcover release will go up later today and tomorrow. If you have any questions, please let us know.
Hope to see you there!
Posted in Con Reports, New Releases, Shock Totem News, Signings, Staff News
Tagged Beautiful Sorrows, Conventions, F. Paul Wilson, Jack Ketchum, John Boden, John Skipp, K. Allen Wood, KillerCon, Las Vegas, Mercedes M. Yardley, Nick Contor, Releases, Sarah Gomes, Wrath James White
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Psychos and the Appalachian Undead
Some staff news, ya’ll! Cue banjo!
This coming October, if not sooner, Apex Publications is set to release Appalachian Undead, a new anthology dedicated to the walking dead. I contributed a quirky tale called “Long Days to Come.”
[ click for full image ]
The brilliant artwork was created by Cortney Skinner. Quite a lineup, too: Elizabeth Massie, Jonathan Maberry, Tim Waggoner, S. Clayton Rhodes*, Maurice Broaddus, Bev Vincent, Tim Lebbon, Steve Rasnic Tem, John Skipp* & Dori Miller, and Gary A. Braunbeck, to name a few more than a few.
If you’d like to check out the full table of contents, click here.
You can also pre-order via the above link (and get 5% off if you tweet the link), but before you do, check out this groovy contest they’re running for those who do pre-order.
As always from Apex Publications, you can expect quality.
Not to be outdone, Mercedes and John each have stories—“Murder for Beginners” and “Intruder,” respectively—in Psychos: Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane, the latest slab—and I do mean slab; these things are massive—in an ongoing series edited by the inimitable John Skipp which has thus far included Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead, Werewolves and Shapeshifters: Encounters with the Beasts Within, and Demons: Encounters with the Devil and His Minions, Fallen Angels, and the Possessed.
[ click for larger image ]
Psychos is due out in September via Black Dog & Leventhal, and features new and classic fiction from the likes of Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Jack Ketchum, Joe R. Lansdale, Lawerence Block, Neil Gaiman, Leslianne Wilder*, Violet LeVoit, Weston Ochse*, Kathe Koja, and many more.
If you order now, Amazon has it for $10.07. That’s 608 pages for $10! No-brainer.
We hope you’ll buy both!
* Shock Totem alumni.
Posted in Alumni News, New Releases, Recommended Reading, Staff News
Tagged Apex Publications, Appalachian Undead, Bev Vincent, Black Dog & Leventhal, Cortney Skinner, Depraved Madmen, Dori Miller, Elizabeth Massie, Eugene Johnson, Gary A. Braunbeck, Jack Ketchum, Jason Sizemore, Joe R. Lansdale, John Boden, John Skipp, Jonathan Maberry, K. Allen Wood, Kathe Koja, Lawerence Block, Leslianne Wilder, Maurice Broaddus, Mercedes M. Yardley, Neil Gaiman, Psychos, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, S. Clayton Rhodes, Serial Killers, Shock Totem Connection, Steve Rasnic Tem, The Criminally Insane, Tim Lebbon, Tim Waggoner, Violet LeVoit, Weston Ochse, Zombies
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