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Rejected For Content 5: Sanitarium is currently open for submissions until the end of October. If you fancy having a crack at getting something in the bloodstained pages of this relentless series, drop me a line.

Rejected For Content 4: Highway to Hell

Some roads lead to fame and fortune. Some roads lead to safety and sanctuary. Some roads lead to misery and suffering. Some roads lead nowhere. And some roads lead straight to hell.

Come along for the ride if you dare, as Rejected for Content 4 takes you down roads with only one true destination awaiting at the end. Ride actual roads with damaged, deranged souls, and travel along the highways of the mind where psychosis, darkness, and the depths of brutality and perversion dwell.

These stories have all been rejected for content: these stories will all take you on the highway to hell. It's a long way down.

Featuring K. Trap Jones, Eric LaRocca, Essel Pratt, T.S. Woolard, Amanda M. Lyons, Brian Glossup, Kindra Sowder, John Ledger, Jonathan Edward Ondrashek, James Longmore, S. A. Mckernan, David Owain Hughes, Rebecca Kolodziej, Michael Fisher, Rebecca Pate, Peter Oliver Wonder, Josh Davis, Roma Gray, Lyndon D. Johnson, G. Zimmerman, Mark Woods, William Bradley, Jay Helmstutler, and Toneye Eyenot.

Warning: Strong violence, explicit sex, coarse language, blood, and gore.
http://smarturl.it/Rejected4

Rejected For Content 3: Vicious Vengeance

From the shocking to the surreal, the poignant to the repugnant, the erotic to the extreme, Rejected For Content 3 delves into the darkest corners of human hearts and minds. The stories contained within have been rejected from other presses on the grounds of content; tales to shock and frighten, unnerve and disgust, with many disturbed souls driven by vicious vengeance. Featuring Toneye Eyenot, K. Trap Jones, Essel Pratt, Dani Brown, AJ Waters, Lisa Dabrowski, Matthew Weber, Andrew Bell, Jay Helmstutler, Edward Kenyon, Matthew Cash, Victoria Vassilious, Ian McClellan, Ash Hartwell, Stephen Kozeniewski, Roy C. Booth, Axel Kohagen, Brent Lorentson, Gregg Zimmerman, Michelle Garza, Melissa Lason, Catfish McDaris and Amanda M. Lyons.
http://smarturl.it/Rejected3

Riders: Plebs 2-Book Two

RIDERS: PLEBS 2-BOOK TWO
The Riders have been ambushed. Split. Outwitted. And in the hands of those who want them dead.

Terence ‘Terror’ Strawn, strip club kingpin and criminal entrepreneur, has those he came to wreak brutal bloody havoc on, right where he wants them. With his trusted army of thugs and several unlikely alliances on hand Terror is calling the shots and his shots spell depravity and disaster for the Riders.

However, as thorough and ruthlessly efficient as the attackers have been with their unexpected raid, they haven’t quite ticked every box in completing the job.

In their rush to get their prized captives to a secluded location for extensive torture and perverse purposes, they have not only left one of their own allies behind, but they haven’t quite rounded up all those foes they came to bring terror down upon.

Now the team despatched to tie up the loose ends at the remote Kallesin County residence they first ambushed the Riders and those they’ve been sent back to eliminate are about to discover that there is much more lurking in the deep of the woods surrounding the sprawling property. Something horrendous. Something remorseless and insatiable. Something with the unquenchable desire to rip, tear, mutilate and devour.

Soon, the blood is going to pour like rain, and nobody is going to be safe.

RIDERS: PLEBS 2-BOOK ONE
Very few survivors walked away from the fiery inferno and hellish bloodbath at the abandoned wastelands of St. Agnes. And for all intents and purposes, while Black Widow Justice and the Twilight Twins might be dead, from both the ashes of those personas and the ashes of the old church, come the Riders of the Apocalypse.

Still hell-bent on eradicating scum and degenerates, they ride on motorcycles dubbed War, Famine, Pestilence and Death, seeking to do just that.

Meanwhile, in the wilderness around Kallesin County, something is not right. A secluded domain, Kallesin County is home to many suspicious, guarded folk who like to keep their business private, but this time events transpiring around there are making the news. Bodies are turning up, badly mutilated and partially eaten. Some say it’s the work of wild animals, others say a rogue pack of dogs, while other outlandish claims suggest a cannibalistic serial killer is stalking the region.

While quietly celebrating another successful mission and discussing a holiday, the Riders and company catch wind of these unusual incidents via a television news report and most of them share the same initial thought. That these grisly discoveries are not the work of animal attacks or cannibal murderers at all, but instead, something far worse.

As the Riders holiday plans go ahead, so too do other plans. To travel to Kallesin County and confirm their suspicions about the unusual spate of deaths.

However, their latest vengeance mission hasn’t gone unnoticed. Now as they make tracks for Kallesin County, by way of holiday beach town Sunshine Cove, somebody is following in their wake. Somebody set on a furious, depraved vengeance mission of their own.

Once more brutal violence is going to erupt and swamp them all.

The follow up books to Plebs are out now. Riders is so big it has been split into two books. Riders: Plebs 2-Book One and Riders: Plebs 2-Book Two. Available in both Kindle and paperback.

RIDERS: PLEBS 2-BOOK ONE
Very few survivors walked away from the fiery inferno and hellish bloodbath at the abandoned wastelands of St. Agnes. And for all intents and purposes, while Black Widow Justice and the Twilight Twins might be dead, from both the ashes of those personas and the ashes of the old church, come the Riders of the Apocalypse.

Still hell-bent on eradicating scum and degenerates, they ride on motorcycles dubbed War, Famine, Pestilence and Death, seeking to do just that.

Meanwhile, in the wilderness around Kallesin County, something is not right. A secluded domain, Kallesin County is home to many suspicious, guarded folk who like to keep their business private, but this time events transpiring around there are making the news. Bodies are turning up, badly mutilated and partially eaten. Some say it’s the work of wild animals, others say a rogue pack of dogs, while other outlandish claims suggest a cannibalistic serial killer is stalking the region.

While quietly celebrating another successful mission and discussing a holiday, the Riders and company catch wind of these unusual incidents via a television news report and most of them share the same initial thought. That these grisly discoveries are not the work of animal attacks or cannibal murderers at all, but instead, something far worse.

As the Riders holiday plans go ahead, so too do other plans. To travel to Kallesin County and confirm their suspicions about the unusual spate of deaths.

However, their latest vengeance mission hasn’t gone unnoticed. Now as they make tracks for Kallesin County, by way of holiday beach town Sunshine Cove, somebody is following in their wake. Somebody set on a furious, depraved vengeance mission of their own.

Once more brutal violence is going to erupt and swamp them all.

RIDERS: PLEBS 2-BOOK TWO
The Riders have been ambushed. Split. Outwitted. And in the hands of those who want them dead.

Terence ‘Terror’ Strawn, strip club kingpin and criminal entrepreneur, has those he came to wreak brutal bloody havoc on, right where he wants them. With his trusted army of thugs and several unlikely alliances on hand Terror is calling the shots and his shots spell depravity and disaster for the Riders.

However, as thorough and ruthlessly efficient as the attackers have been with their unexpected raid, they haven’t quite ticked every box in completing the job.

In their rush to get their prized captives to a secluded location for extensive torture and perverse purposes, they have not only left one of their own allies behind, but they haven’t quite rounded up all those foes they came to bring terror down upon.

Now the team despatched to tie up the loose ends at the remote Kallesin County residence they first ambushed the Riders and those they’ve been sent back to eliminate are about to discover that there is much more lurking in the deep of the woods surrounding the sprawling property. Something horrendous. Something remorseless and insatiable. Something with the unquenchable desire to rip, tear, mutilate and devour.

Soon, the blood is going to pour like rain, and nobody is going to be safe.

With the aberrant, the erotic, the grotesque and the horrifying, occasionally all rolled into one, Rejected For Content 2 continues relentlessly down the path blazed by its predecessor, Splattergore.
These are tales deemed too hardcore or too outrageous for other publishers to consider; pieces both confronting and affronting, with strong messages woven through the tapestry of that often shocking content.

Featuring: Christopher Ropes, Mark Tompkins, Essel Scott Pratt, Kevin J. Macleod, Dona Fox, Christine Morgan, Michael Fisher, Michael Noe, Toneye Eyenot, Amanda M. Lyons, Mark Woods, Bryan Nickelberry, Magenta Nero, Matthew R. Davis, Roy C. Booth & Axel Kohagen, Stuart Keane, Alex S. Johnson and Jim Goforth.

Warning: Strong violence, explicit sex, coarse language, blood and gore.

This is my editorial debut and also features my tale 'Infernus Park Cannibals' as well as many stories from some who appeared in the first book and several new faces too.
Available here http://smarturl.it/RFC2

We all welcome reviews for both volumes; good, bad and ugly.

A few new anthologies added. Several more coming in the next few months, and my next novel Undead Fleshcrave: The Zombie Trigger is currently in edits.

Serial killers, strippers, perverted priests, cannibals, nature gone insane, demons, freaks of all kinds, both human and otherwise. This is a place where horrors are extreme and often ultraviolent, a place where sex is not taboo.
These are bedtime stories for the depraved; tales with every reason to be rejected for content.
http://smarturl.it/RFC2
Rejected For Content 2: Aberrant Menagerie

Axes of Evil II is now available. Get in there and bang your head! Or you might lose it...
http://smarturl.it/AxesofEvil2Axes of Evil II: Rise of the Metal Gods

The teeming terrors are here, ready to swarm and invade! You have been warned...
http://smarturl.it/teemingterrorsTeeming Terrors

Several other books from J. Ellington Ashton are also free including several titles from Catt Dahman and Werecat by Brian Woods. All free until the 16th of March.

Also currently free. Feral Hearts. Six different authors. Six different characters. Strippers. Vampires. No sparkly shit. Just bloodthirsty throat rippers.
http://smarturl.it/FeralHeartsFeral Hearts

Floppy Shoes Apocalypse is now free! Get in there quick and grab a greasepainted slab of clown horror. Be sure to leave a review; all the sanguinary scribes who contributed to bring you malevolent clowns at their worst will certainly appreciate it.
http://smarturl.it/fsa

My latest release, With Tooth and Claw has just been added. Feel free to check it out :)

With Tooth And Claw

Out now. Seven new pieces from the author of Plebs. There is a whole lot of gruesome death and violence inflicted within this collection of macabre tales, but the majority of it contains one common element. Weapons and tools are not utilised here, bloody havoc is caused, with tooth and claw.
http://smarturl.it/withtoothandclaw

Dave wrote: "Hi Jim, living in South Africa where we don't have many facilities or routes relating to the publishing world I am pretty naive relating to how to go about things. I did send the Fantasy novel to P..."

I'll send you a message here with a few ideas on where to start.

Dave wrote: "Relating to reading I enjoy horror mainly in what I like to call the Laymon genre. I loved Richard Laymon's books and now I try to find authors that kind of carry that legacy forward. So far there ..."

There are very few who can quite compare to how Laymon wrote splatterpunk. Brian Keene, Ed Lee and Bryan Smith are also comparable in many ways, but to me Laymon is still in a league of his own. He remains my biggest influence and inspiration in writing, though there are a whole lot of great newer horror writers starting to make an impact.
Have you ever considered getting them published with a press Dave, or is self publishing the route you're looking at taking?

Victoria wrote: "I love horror, psychological thrillers, mysteries, gothic, historical fiction, and occasional splatterpunk.
Inbetween the horrorfic reads I like to cleanse my mind body and soul lol- so I will rea..."

That is probably a great plan! :)