Quintessence of Dust: Important Notification!

Today I awoke to an email from Pablo D'Stair over at KUBOA Press who, altruistically, has cracked the literary whip in order to have the artwork for my new book, Quintessence of Dust, finished well ahead of schedule. As you can see, it's damn pretty. The font echoes the work of Saul Bass and the artwork, abstract in its design, reminded me of some of the early work by Ivon Hitchens. Suffice it to say, two visionaries I'm flattered to reference and draw parallels to in this, my first short story collection. If you like the cover, please add a comment and I'll make sure it gets to the illustrator. I'm sure they'll be please to hear your views.

The reason the cover has been pushed through so early is because I was given a little ad-space in Dark River Press's first in-print magazine soon to be released, details of which I’ll post accordingly. That issue will feature, Night Holds the Scythe, a short story taken from Quintessence of Dust. It is not a cookie cutter horror story, but it is horror, telling the story of a man trying desperately to keep his daughter awake in a world where falling asleep means you never wake up. I believe Livius Nedin of Booked Podcast is writing a better version of this story, so keep your eyes peeled.

If you're interested in buying Quintessence of Dust, and why wouldn't you?, it's a pocketbook sized, mass market paperback, and to preorder it's ONLY $2.95 via this link. I don't even think you can buy a beer that cheap, and to be honest, beer won't be as fun as reading stories like, Anal Twine, 180 Degrees Shy of Heaven, Skin, and Morning Birdsong and the Hell Demons!

Keep checking back if you want a flavour of QoD (it's already been truncated!) to see when Dark River Press release the magazine, which I'm sure will blow you away with the author's attached (it's true, I've seen the line up!)

For now, thanks for reading and for sharing this completely self-centred moment with me.

Update: A few people have found that the link provided for the preorder page doesn't work.  If this is the case for you, try this direct link instead:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=JMQTGT2678XVY

If you're having further problems, let me know.  

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