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How dare Starbucks depict a mermaid WITH TWO TAILS! David Jacob Knight's timely satire on the controversy.

"Starbucks, or any company for that matter, has no right to put whatever branding they want on their products if it violates my mermaid religion."

 Read the full article at davidjacobknight.com.

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Antho: Wizards of Mass DestructionEditor(s): Thom Brannan, Rob PeglerPay Rate: $25 per storyReading Period: September 15, 2015 – March 15, 2016Guidelines: http://darktomorrow.net/?page_id=742
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THE MARKET Antho: Third Flatiron Anthologies (Summer 2015 will be "Only Disconnect")Editor(s): Juliana RewPay Rate: 3 cents/word, 6 cents/word for lead storyDeadline: March 31, 2015. (We do a new theme each quarter)Guidelines: http://www.thirdflatiron.com/liveSite/pages/submissions
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According to a dietary study conducted by Ivan Pavlov of ZED Institute, eight in every ten zombies prefer Italian over other human, uh, cuisine. In light of these findings, Thom Brannan and I would like to introduce our bestselling book Pavlov’s Dogs in Italian.

Thanks to Dunwich Edizioni for the translation and the awesome cover.

To celebrate, the first novella in the Dog Years series, prequel to Pavlov’s Dogs, is free on Amazon.

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Zine: TerraformEditor(s): Claire L Evans, Brian MerchantPay Rate: 20 cents a wordGuidelines: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-to-submit-stories-to-terraform 

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Warner Bros. Entertainment was hacked this morning in retaliation to the depiction of Smaug in its new blockbuster film The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.



When WB employees arrived this morning for work, they noticed a poorly written warning on their computer screens. The warning depicted what at first appeared to be a skull with long skeletal fingers, but upon closer examination turned out to be Smeagol, another character from the film. “This is just a beginning,” the warning states....

Today, we announced the release of David Jacob Knight's newest thriller, The Phone Company. The book will be 99 cents on Amazon today. We're also hosting a giveaway for a signed copy on Goodreads.

Thanks to everyone who made the release a great success!

Stephen King’s novel Doctor Sleep, child of The Shining, is a fun, inventive book that falls short of the abject terror for which its father is hailed.

The Shining terrified me when I first read it years ago, and it terrified me again when I reread it recently in preparation for the sequel. King has a knack for making human monsters, and often he makes monsters out of people we normally trust: fathers, neighbors, cops. The Shining does this traumatically, turning Jack Torrance, beloved father...

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(Jacob Kier and D.L. Snell)

Last time, the book skyrocketed to #5 in Kindle Horror! 

On sale till 1/28/14.

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