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JournalStone Publishing Announces the signing of NYT best-selling author Jonathan Maberry to a 4 book deal.  Three separate short story collections – One featuring the first ever Sam Hunter collection – and a Joe Ledger Companion Book co-written with Mari Adkins and Preston Halcomb. SAN FRANCISCO, October 25, 2015 – JournalStone Publishing (JSP) President, Christopher […]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:   JournalStone Publishing is proud to announce the forthcoming release of a collection of twelve Lovecraftian Mythos tales from the biggest names in horror. The Gods of H.P. Lovecraft, edited by Aaron J. French.   SAN FRANCISCO, May 8, 2015 – JournalStone Publishing (JSP) President, Christopher C. Payne is pleased to announce […]

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JournalStone Publishing Announces the signing of Author Gary Braunbeck to a six book deal (reprints of the Cedar Hill series, a short story collection and a series of novellas, all set to be published in 2015. SAN FRANCISCO, October 3, 2014 – JournalStone Publishing (JSP) President, Christopher C. Payne is pleased to announce the signing […]

  SAN FRANCISCO, September 19, 2014 – JournalStone Publishing (JSP) President, Christopher C. Payne is pleased to announce the acquisition of the zombie oriented site, BuyZombie.com – Where the undead are online. Buy Zombie was founded by Stuart Conover in 2007 as the ultimate resource for zombie fans. The site is a hub for everything […]

SAN FRANCISCO, August 29, 2014 – JournalStone Publishing (JSP) President, Christopher C. Payne is pleased to announce the acquisition of the award winning site, HorrorReview.com – Home of the world’s best reviews for Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy. The Horror Review Site was one of the first Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy movie review websites. […]

San FRANCISCO, August, 2014 – JournalStone Publishing (JSP) President, Christopher C. Payne is pleased to announce the acquisition of the award winning site, HorrorWorld.org – Horror’s #1 Community on the Web.   Horror World originally started out as Masters of Terror run by Andy Fairclough of the UK. The site featured message boards for UK […]

SAN FRANCISCO, August, 2014 – JournalStone Publishing (JSP) President, Christopher C. Payne is pleased to announce the acquisition of “the next big thing in weird,” Bizarro Pulp Press. An independent publisher of genre fiction since its inception in January, 2013, Bizarro Pulp Press is known for experimental, off-beat, and grindhouse-style fiction that challenges the limits […]

SAN FRANCISCO, December 19, 2013 –JournalStone Publishing President, Christopher C. Payne is pleased to announce the additional signings of (David Liss & Eileen Curtright) and (Robert Jackson Bennett and Hank Schwaeble)  in the ongoing series of titles JournalStone Publishing releases under the “DoubleDown” series moniker. The DoubleDown Series of books pairs two authors and contains [...]

On the Pertinacity of Pronouns Michael R. Collings   Probably every writer has come across this problem at some point. A paragraph is progressing nicely, everything fitting into place, and suddenly—wham!—logic requires a singular, third-person pronoun: he, she, or it. For most writers, especially those that dabble in horror, the third-person neutral presents no difficulty. [...]

Adverbs: Villains or Victims? Michael R. Collings   It seems that, more and more, writers are saying nasty things about adverbs. “Remove adverbs!” “Eliminate adverbs!” “The road to hell is paved with adverbs!” (This latter from none other than Stephen King) As a general rule, there is some truth to what is being said. Used [...]