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And
so, Morrígan Books is now getting ready to double its
catalogue within the next four months. In addition to The
Even, How to Make Monsters and Voices we
see three new anthologies hit the shelves this year with:
Grants Pass, in August, Dead Souls, in September
and The Phantom Queen Awakes, in December.
I
still feel like we're new in the field but six books,
containing names such as: Katherine Kerr, Elaine Cunningham,
C. E. Murphy, Anya Bast, Ramsey Campbell, Ed Greenwood and
Jay Lake, along with a whole host of new talent, tells its
own story. It is a signal of intent that we are not prepared
to merely print some books, have a good time and hope to be
noticed along the way. No, we are contacting big name
authors with the belief that they will want to write for us.
We are looking out for the next big thing by advertising
open-call submissions, and we are putting our money where
our collective mouths are and making sure the finished
product looks as good as it can.
I
have reminded myself of this in the last couple of months as
Morrígan Books has faced several trials, trials which I
believe many indie press companies go through, due to not
having the resources and/or time of the big publishing
houses. The team has stayed focused through this and pulled
together to get the job done.
Writing this, I'm not sure of whether or not Grants Pass
will make it to its launch date at GenCon, 13th August, due
to printer issues. Dead Souls is moving ever nearer
its September deadline with a few little niggles to mar the
project and The Phantom Queen Awakes is taking a
little longer than expected, due to the aforementioned two.
Not
only am I impressed with how the team is planning around
this, but I am also aware of how good these three books are,
making sure that the quality to be found in our first three
titles is maintained. It is this that we are working on this
year, and it is this that helps Morrígan Books to hold its
head high in the world of indie publishing.
The
real question is, how can you still be without a Morrígan
Books title on your shelf, as we have covered the dark
fantasy arena (The Even), tightly themed horror
anthology (Voices), contemporary collections by
up-and-coming authors (How to Make Monsters), dark
Celtic fiction (The Phantom Queen Awakes),
post-apocalyptic fiction (Grants Pass), and tales of
twisted evil (Dead Souls)?
There'll be offers and competitions coming up soon and so
keep an eye out for that too!
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The Even
by T.A. Moore
Voices Anthology |
Available for
Pre-Order from
Morrigan Books - Dead Souls
Before God created light, there was darkness.
Even after He illuminated the world, there were shadows —
shadows that allowed the darkness to fester and infect the
unwary. The tales found within Dead Souls explore the
recesses of the soul; those people and creatures that could
not escape the shadows. From the inherent cruelness of
humanity to malevolent forces, Dead Souls explores the
depths of humanity as a lesson to the ignorant, the naive
and the unsuspecting. God created light, but it is a
temporary grace that will ultimately fail us, for the
darkness is stronger and our souls…are truly dead.
Within
these pages, a man, so affected by the horrors he has
witnessed at war, that he believes that another is guiding
his actions, a small boy, with enough malevolence in him to
shake a young girl to her core, a tattoo artist with a
hidden agenda, a future that is not so bright as we might
have imagined, a puppet show with a damning message, a
different twist on the theory of Beethoven’s Immortal
Beloved, Adolf Hitler, as not seen before, something in the
desert, and many more tales of darkness and human suffering.
Dead Souls
contains twenty five stories that will only ensure the
darkness without enfolds you in its cold embrace…beware…be
ready…be damned!
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