For your consideration, “What You Know” (PDF) by Geoffrey Girard, one of the exciting new stories in Jodi Lee’s Apex anthology Courting Morpheus.

Available for order now!

A quick reminder that you can catch up with a bunch of Apex editors and authors this coming weekend at Context 21 in Columbus, OH. One of those authors is Fran Friel.

Get $15 off the hard cover of Mama’s Boy and Other Dark Tales by using coupon code MAMASBOY15 at checkout.

Get $5 off the trade paperback of Mama’s Boy and Other Dark Tales by using coupon code MAMASBOY5 at checkout.

This deal is good through tomorrow.

http://www.apexbookcompany.com/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=24

Want some blood, sex, and blasphemy in a digital format? Well, we have it! Released today by Fictionwise from Apex Publications is Orgy of Souls by Wrath James White and Maurice Broaddus.

http://www.fictionwise.com/eBooks/eBook73234.htm

The e-book is on sale for $4.24 for the next two weeks. Fictionwise provides the book in a number of formats including Kindle, PDF, and eReader.

Want a piece of the Apex pie? If so, reserve your banner time now before some other chump grabs your spot!

We’re leasing the banner space for $40 a month. You can lease by month or reserve a spot up to three months in advance. Your banner will fly beginning October 1st.

The banner runs on all the posts, including Apex Magazine entries. Animated banners are okay. We reserve the right to reject a banner based on potentially offensive visuals.

If you’re interested, drop us an email at jason@apexdigest.com.

When you pre-order Catacombs & Photographs you can get Brandy Schwan’s first book, Grim Trixter, for an additional five dollars. All you have to do is enter a “Yes” (or any character) in the field at the top of the product order page.

If you’ve already pre-ordered and want in on the deal, just send an email to Jason Sizemore.

“Like a vintage wine, there is a distinctive sense of age to Brandy Schwan’s poetry, as if she is not conjuring her words from thin air, rather transcribing it from the exotic whispers of a muse that is far older than she. And the voice of that muse, filtered through Schwan’s elegant and masterful pen, is engaging, hypnotic and addictive.”

– Kealan Patrick Burke, author of The Number 121 to Pennsylvania & Others, and Master of the Moors

Dark Discoveries says this about Orgy of Souls:

Ultimately, the beauty of Orgy of Souls is in the many layers that went into its composition. On its surface, it is visceral horror with splashes of blood spraying off the page. Upon deeper inspection, it is a character-driven narrative involving two brothers with conflicting worldviews trying to protect one another. Driving it all is the religious conundrum, a subtle spiritual theme that the authors skillfully leave vague and ambiguous.

Publishers Weekly reviews I Remember the Future: The Award-Nominated Stories of Michael A. Burstein:

This hard SF collection wears its heart on its sleeve, along with the various passions (the Holocaust, education, moral dilemmas) of its author.

Dark Scribe Magazine loves Mama’s Boy and Other Dark Tales:

Kudos to Apex Publications for bringing Fran Friel to a wider audience. With unflinching tenacity, Friel takes the reader to dark, discomfiting places in Mama’s Boy and Other Dark Tales. You want to close your eyes at times, but Friel has seen to it with her hypnotic writing that you can’t. It’s like she sticks toothpicks under the reader’s eyelids, forcing them to witness the horrors she has uncovered in the shadows of her writing lair. That she’s so unyielding in her pursuit of our imaginations is at once unnerving and enthralling – and the sign of a writer dedicated to her craft. The Friel deal.

We’re pleased to share the news that Apex Publications has received its first major trade journal review. Publishers Weekly reviews I Remember the Future: The Award-Nominated Stories of Michael A. Burstein in this week’s issue (9/15/08).

You can read it at the PW website, about 4/5ths down the page.

I Remember the Future: The Award-Nominated Stories of Michael A. Burstein is still available for pre-order. It’s your best shot of getting a signed personalized copy of the hard copy.

Editor-in-chief Jason Sizemore receives the spotlight over at Publishers Weekly for Rose Fox’s “Nuts & Bolts.”

http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/400000640/post/910033291.html

Come see editor-in-chief Jason Sizemore and submissions editor Mari Adkins this weekend at Scarefest 2008 held in Lexington, KY. Apex Book Company will have a booth in the convention hall and will be selling books, mugs, shot glasses, and whatever else they can find for monetary gain.

For more information about Scarefest, visit their website at http://www.thescarefest.com/.

Are you the type of person that likes to wear shirts with alien heads on the front?

Yeah, us too!

Thanks to Maggie Jamison, the Apex Zazzle and Cafepress shops have been updated with new designs that might interest fans.

Apex Cafepress
Apex Zazzle

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