Now Available -- Dark Doorways: The Best of Post Motrem Press

Post Mortem Press' "best-of" anthology is now available. It features my short story "Carousel Gardens" alongside other PMP author,s as well as horror luminaries Jack Ketchum and F. Paul Wilson. The book is available from Amazon in paperback for $15.00 or in Kindle format for $2.99. This collection features a great variety of horror stories to satisfy any craving, from ghost tales to zombie fiction. Check it out today!

Additional Anthologies Available!

The anthology An Honest Lie Volume 2, which features my short story "The Registry of Lost Socks," is available for $16.55 plus shipping for a physical copy of the book and $10.00 for an e-book. Click HERE to order yours today.

The anthology Shadowplay, which is headlined by my short story "Carousel Gardens," is available from Post Mortem Press. The book costs $12.95 plus shipping. Click HERE to order your copy.

My steampunk short story "The Zumundo Cog" is available in the anthology Penny Dread Tales Vol. 1: Gears, Coils, Aether & Steam. This story was only available previously in a magazine that has now ceased publication. Available from RuneWright, the book retails for $16.95 plus $3.00 shipping and handling. Click HERE to order your copy today. Now available for Kindle and iPad!

Finally, my humor story "Guidelines for Selecting a Dashboard Totem" is now available in a fiction anthology from Untied Shoelaces of the Mind. The book is available in both hard copy ($7.99) and digital download ($0.99) and features a whopping 52 (!) stories -- that's less than 16 cents per story for the print edition and two cents per story for the e-book. Click HERE to order your copy today.

News: January 2012

Happy new year one and all! I hope everyone had a very nice holiday season and that the new year will bring plenty of happiness. Already, 2012 is shaping up to be a promising year on the writing front, so I say bring it on!

First, some contest results. In November, I announced a contest on my Facebook fan page that if I had 100 or more fans by Jan. 1, I would give away a signed copy of Dark Doorways: The Best of Post Mortem Press. Well, I met my goal, and the winner of the contest -- as chosen by random number generator -- is Aaron Cathell. Congratulations, Aaron! For those fans who didn't win, you can purchase the book through Amazon.com in paperback for $15.00 or in Kindle format for $2.99.

To put the final cap on 2011, I'd like to offer the following statistic: I submitted short stories to 61 markets this year. I received 42 rejections, with 10 submissions still pending. I withdrew my work from four markets after those works were sold elsewhere. Despite these numbers, I have placed every story I set out to sell this year except for one. Remember fellow writers: persistence pays off.

In other news, I began the new year with a new short story almost complete. While still lacking a title (and a concluding paragraph), the story is a contemporary piece of science fiction that was inspired by an article I read in MIT's Technology Review. I hope to have the story complete and out to market before the end of the month.

Edits are also underway on my novel-in-progress. With the help of my writing critique group, The Lamplighters is almost complete and ready to submit to agents. I haven't had any luck finding an agent yet, but I hope to continue the search in 2012.

Until next time, thanks for stopping by!

--Pat

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About Me

Patrick Scalisi is a journalist, magazine editor and emerging author from Connecticut. He has published fiction in several magazines, including The Willows, Neo-opsis, Twisted Dreams and Space Westerns, among others. His short stories have also appeared in a number of fiction anthologies, including An Honest Lie Vol. 2, Shadowplay and Penny Dread Tales Vol. 1. When he's not writing, Pat enjoys watching way too many movies than are good for him, reading more books than he has shelves for and listening to music (his tastes range from classical to classic and modern rock).

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