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Author Archives: Jason Sizemore
Annual Apex Post-Halloween Raffle
November 1, 2008 – 9:04 pm
Are you ready for Halloween to be over? We aren’t! In fact, we’ve decided to hand out a whole host of treats, with only a little trick involved. That’s right! It’s time for Apex’s Annual Post-Halloween Raffle!
We’ve pulled from our high-security cellar vaults some the most fiendishly delightful goodies you’ve ever seen, like free fiction [...]
CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK JUNKIE: Marginalia
November 1, 2008 – 9:04 pm
Marginalia is really something of a complex subject. Technically, the term is used by collectors to define such items that are peripheral to a collection – small, obscure, related publications of uncertain value.
ATOMIC RUBBLE: Jeers of a Clown
November 1, 2008 – 9:04 pm
Since I started publishing fiction, my brand of humor as been repeatedly called ‘dark’ or ‘black’, which recently led to pondering the source. Does a dark sense of humor come from the viewpoint of an author, or does the world regularly present us with these scenarios that only a certain personality type recognizes as humorous? Is it the same thing? And where do we draw the line between dark humor and a simple lack of taste?
Annual Apex post-Halloween raffle!
November 1, 2008 – 3:04 pm
Are you ready for Halloween to be over? We aren’t! In fact, we’ve decided to hand out a whole host of treats, with only a little trick involved. That’s right! It’s time for Apex’s Annual Post-Halloween Raffle!
We’ve pulled from our high-security cellar vaults some the most fiendishly delightful goodies you’ve ever seen, like free fiction [...]
Halloween Contest winners!
October 23, 2008 – 3:25 pm
Jay Lake has made his decisions.
WINNER:
“Plebiscite AV3X” by Jason Fischer
RUNNER UP:
“Shaded Streams Run Clearest” by Geoffrey W. Cole
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
“Julie, the Spirit of Laws” by Jason Heller
“Life by Numbers” by Erin Cashier
The winner and runner up stories will be published November 4th (Election Day, yay!). Congratulations to Jason Fischer and Geoffrey W. Cole for beating out [...]
All our trade paperbacks on sale for $10
October 21, 2008 – 9:48 am
We here at Apex Publications always get a little over-excited for the haunting season. To celebrate this witching season, we’re using our own special blend of hocus pocus to brew up a spectacular Halloween Sale!
Until Halloween night at midnight, all Apex paperback books are on sale for only $10*! Don’t miss out on this [...]
October issue of Apex Magazine
October 2, 2008 – 10:06 am
Our first “monthly” installment of Apex Magazine has been released. As always, you can access our free e-zine by going to http://www.apexbookcompany.com/apex-online.
This month we have stories by Lavie Tidhar, Adam Roberts, Nathan Rosen, and Erik Williams. There are also interviews along with our assortment of popular non-fiction pieces.
Enjoy!
SHORT FICTION: Blakenjel
October 1, 2008 – 9:04 pm
Blakenjel bilong mi is black like unlit coal. His open wings are like smokers’ lungs. His skin is taut and fine like expensive vellum that was blackened in flames. There are many blakenjels, but only one bilong mi. I follow him in the darkness.
SHORT FICTION: Hunting Aliens
October 1, 2008 – 9:04 pm
“How do you want to do this?” Harry said. “You should load more rounds.”
“I’ll take the mother and baby.”
“With one bullet?”
SHORT FICTION: I Know an Old Lady
October 1, 2008 – 9:04 pm
I know an old lady who misused a teleportation chamber to merge her genetic structure with that of a fly. Perhaps she thought the compound eyes were desirable. Her true motives can never be known, as the replacement of her mouth with a proboscis rendered her completely incapable of speech. The total extent of the damage done is indeterminable. Her demise may occur soon.
PERMUTED PRESS PRESENTS: Spoiled Meat
October 1, 2008 – 9:04 pm
Yesterday in the park, I fed the zombies, tossing bits of cadaver onto the cold cement as they fought each other like pigeons for the morsels. They’re not so different from pigeons when you think about it, driven as they are by a primal need to feed, to sustain.
SHORT FICTION: Dick Does Time
October 1, 2008 – 9:04 pm
Dick sees Jane. It is the same Jane.
Jane is not calm. Jane moves strangely. There is no smile on Jane’s face. “Jane,” says Dick.
“Something is wrong,” says Jane.
INTERVIEW: You Want to Take it Outside? An Interview with Lavie Tidhar
October 1, 2008 – 9:03 pm
We had no electricity, very little shipping and, surprisingly, little food. I lost about fifteen kilos… but it was beautiful – I could watch the volcano every morning when I got up, I got to go around in boats, really get to know some of the most remote places on Earth.
THE BRIT’S BITS #2: Gill Turns Anorak
October 1, 2008 – 9:03 pm
Anorak: n Rather ‘sad’ person such as train spotter, often seen wearing said item of clothing whilst enjoying outside hobby in unpredictable English weather.
INTERVIEW: Brandy Schwan and Lizzie Borden
October 1, 2008 – 9:03 pm
As a new, untried minion of the Apex Empire, it was with great trepidation and quite a lot of fan-girl squeaking that I received my first assignment in the human realms. I was to acquire an interview with the infamous Brandy Schwan, the fiendishly brilliant poetess behind Apex’s upcoming release CATACOMBS AND PHOTOGRAPHS.
ATOMIC RUBBLE #10: Let’s All Go to the Snack Bar
October 1, 2008 – 9:03 pm
On a quest to show my foreign guests the beauty of the New England seashores, I drove them down the length of Cape Cod to Provincetown. But their excitement peaked before reaching what I considered the pinnacle of our destination, and they pressed their faces against the car windows, shouting, “Look! A drive-in movie theater! A drive-in movie theater!”
CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK JUNKIE #10: The Secret Book of Lists
October 1, 2008 – 9:02 pm
It is only human nature to make lists. For collectors, lists are almost their raison-detre. Collectors love nothing more than to compile lists of the things they collect. Bibliography – which is something I’ll be talking about at more length some other time – is the ultimate act of list-making in the book collecting world.