Tales of Insanity Read to Patrons of Pandemonium

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By Jason Harris

 

On Thursday, Jan. 14, three authors came to Pandemonium Books & Games to read some of their tales from the collections Insanity Tales and Insanity Tales II: The Sense of Fear, published by Books & Boos Press.

Authors Stacey Longo and Rob Smales read from their stories in Insanity Tales II and Vlad V. read from his story in the first Insanity Tales.

From left to right: authors Rob Smales, Stacey Longo, and Vlad V.

From left to right: authors Rob Smales, Stacey Longo, and Vlad V.

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If you haven’t been to Pandemonium, we would suggest making the trip to Cambridge, MA, so as to cross it off your bucket list. It’s a cool place with dragons on the walls and other steampunk-inspired items hanging from the ceilings and sitting on shelves throughout the store.2016-01-14 18.42.04

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You can even find copies of Insanity Tales and Insanity Tales II gracing the shelves. If you live too far to make the trip to the bookstore, just click on the titles in the preceding sentence and it will take you to Amazon.

Pandemonium Books & Games is located at 4 Pleasant St. in Cambridge, MA.

Meet ‘Insanity Tales II’ Authors this Thursday at Pandemonium Books and Games

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Authors Stacey Longo, Rob Smales, and Vlad V. will be reading from and signing their stories in the collection, Insanity Tales II: The Sense of Fear at Pandemonium Books and Games this Thursday.Insanity Tales II: The Sense of Fear

The event starts at 7 p.m. and goes until 9 p.m. The bookstore is located at 4 Pleasant Street in Cambridge, MA 02139.

Black Friday Deals for Readers

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2015-11-25 20.15.15We at Books & Boos Press wants to give our readers a chance to fill their Kindles and other e-readers with spiders. We are giving away e-book copies of Where Spiders Fear to Spin by Peter N. Dudar from Nov. 27 through 30! Don’t miss this chance to read this novella by Dudar, who is a Bram Stoker Award Finalist.

Where Spiders Fear to Spin tells the tale of former soap opera star Sadie Mills, a woman literally haunted by her past whose final days are filled with horror. Her daughter resents taking care of her, her former lovers are dying off one by one, and her dead husband’s vengeful ghost has returned from the dead to drag her to hell.

To get your free copy, click here.

unnamedAlong with giving away Spiders, we have lowered the price on Insanity. You can now get $2 off the e-book or print copy of Insanity Tales II: The Sense of Fear until Nov. 30.

The collection features eleven stories from six of New England’s finest storytellers. David Daniel, Stacey Longo, Dale T. Phillips, Rob Smales, and Ursula Wong each have two short stories in the book; Vlad V. contributed a novella. Multiple Bram Stoker winner Joe McKinney (Crooked House, Plague of the Undead) wrote the foreword.

The book is a themed anthology: each author based their stories on different senses, going beyond the traditional (sight, smell, hearing, touch, and taste) to elements such as a sense of doom, of powerlessness to control the future, and a sense of false hope.

If you want some Insanity, click here.

Artist Mikio Murakami Hired to Create Cover for Next Book from Books and Boos Press

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Books & Boos Press is excited to announce that artist Mikio Murakami of Silent Q Design has been contracted to create the cover of Echoes of Darkness by Rob Smales, due out in early 2016.

Murakami founded Silent Q Design in 2006, blending together both the use of realistic templates and surreal imagery in his art. His talent has been commissioned for album covers, business logos, and book and magazine covers, including Shock Totem magazine. Most recently, he designed the cover of Among the Ruins by Stephen Williams.

A showcase of Murakami’s artwork can be found on his website, www.silentqdesign.net.

Echoes of Darkness is a collection of short stories by Smales, a previous Pushcart Prize nominee and most recently the winner of the 2015 eFestival of Words award for Best Anthology. More about Smales can be found at www.robsmales.com.

Meet Author Stacey Longo at Rock and Shock this Weekend

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Author Stacey Longo.

Author Stacey Longo.

Author Stacey Longo will be signing her books at the Books & Boos’ table at Rock & Shock this weekend. She will have on-hand copies of Secret Things, Ordinary Boy, Pookie and the Lost and Found Friend, and My Mom has MS. Two anthologies, Insanity Tales and Insanity II: The Sense of Fear, that each contain two of her stories and the anthology, Wicked Season, which she edited for the New England Horror Writers, will  all be on-hand as well.

She will also be on the Writer’s Studio panel on Saturday at 12 p.m.

Insanity Tales II: The Sense of Fear

INSANITY TALES II IS NOW AVAILABLE

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Books & Boos Press is excited to announce the release of Insanity Tales II: The Sense of Fear. This anthology showcases six of New England’s finest storytellers in a terrifying collection out just in time for the Halloween season.

Insanity Tales II features ten short stories and a novella. David Daniel (Goofy Foot, Reunion), Stacey Longo (Ordinary Boy, Secret Things), Dale T. Phillips (A Memory of Grief, Shadow of the Wendigo), Rob Smales (Dead of Winter, the upcoming Echoes of Darkness), and Ursula Wong (Purple Trees, the upcoming Amber Wolf) contributed two short stories each. Vlad V. (Brachman’s Underworld, The Moon is Dead!) wrote a novella for the collection.

Each story focuses on a sense—not just the traditional ones of sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste, but also of intangible ones, like a sense of justice or impending doom. The result is a suspenseful and terrifying anthology. Multiple Stoker Award winner Joe McKinney wrote the foreword, and said “If you haven’t read any of these authors yet, I envy you, because you are about to have a truly great reading experience.”

Insanity Tales II: The Sense of Fear is available on Amazon in print here or as an e-book here. It is also available wherever books are sold. For additional works by these talented authors, their first anthology, Insanity Tales, is also available here.

Cover Revealed for ‘Insanity Tales II: The Sense of Fear’

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unnamedBooks & Boos Press is pleased to present the cover for Insanity Tales II: The Sense of Fear. Artist Melinda Phillips created the cover, which plays off of the eye theme from the original Insanity Tales anthology cover. Insanity Tales II: The Sense of Fear will debut in early October.

The collection features eleven stories from six of New England’s finest storytellers. David Daniel, Stacey Longo, Dale T. Phillips, Rob Smales, and Ursula Wong each have two short stories in the book; Vlad V. contributed a novella. Multiple Bram Stoker winner Joe McKinney (Crooked House, Plague of the Undead) wrote the foreword.

The book is a themed anthology: each author based their stories on different senses, going beyond the traditional (sight, smell, hearing, touch, and taste) to elements such as a sense of doom, of powerlessness to control the future, and a sense of false hope.

The anthology is the second installment from Books & Boos Press. Insanity Tales debuted in October 2014.

To learn more about the authors involved, visit http://www.thestoryside.com.

Author at Granite State ComicCon 2015

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by Jason Harris

 

Author Stacey Longo appeared at Granite State ComicCon in Manchester, New Hampshire last weekend. It was the 13th year of this convention and the second consecutive year she has signed at this convention.

Author Stacey Longo.

Author Stacey Longo.

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Author Stacey Longo with fan Jason Rivers.

Author Stacey Longo with fan Jason Rivers.

Author Stacey Longo hanging out with Groot and Rocket.

Author Stacey Longo hanging out with Groot and Rocket.

Stacey with cosplayer R.W. Martin.

Stacey with cosplayer R.W. Martin.

Both Longo and Martin will be guest at Super Megafest in November. Longo will also be signing at VT Comic Con this weekend.

Goodreads’ Giveaway

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In preparation for our upcoming release of Insanity Tales II: The Sense of Fear this October, we are giving away three print copies of Insanity Tales, the book that started it all. Enter for your chance to win a copy here.IMG_8745

Our newest anthology, Insanity Tales II, debuts in October and contains eleven tales from six authors: David Daniel, Stacey Longo, Dale T. Phillips, Rob Smales, Vlad V., and Ursula Wong. We have continued the tradition of asking accomplished authors to contribute forewords to these collections. We had Jonathan Maberry write the first one; this time we brought in the talented Joe McKinney to contribute a foreword to this great collection that we know you will love.

The giveaway ends on September 13, so be sure to enter here today!

The 2015 Middletown Open Air Market

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By Jason Harris

 

Books & Boos Press was at the Open Air Market at the Wadsworth Mansion on August 30th with three authors: Stacey Longo, G. Elmer Munson, and Rob Watts.

From left to right: authors Stacey Longo, Rob Watts, and G. Elmer Munson.

From left to right: authors Stacey Longo, Rob Watts, and G. Elmer Munson.

This was my 4th year being involved with this event. This involvement has always been with bringing authors and books to the Open Air Market. The market has always been successful and always has a lot of people coming out to it. This year was the busiest I have ever seen it. The attendance for this year’s event blows the other year’s attendance out of the water.

Click here for a Patch article with a nice slideshow of pictures.

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Authors Stacey Longo and Rob Watts.

Authors Stacey Longo and Rob Watts.

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