About new and not so new Mort Castle releases in horror --
Mortcastle
Date: 6/14/2000 11:02:41 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: victo...@darktales.com (DarkTales Publications)
Reply-to: dark...@egroups.com
To: da...@darktales.com (Horror Reader)
PRESS RELEASE
June 15, 2000
For more information contact:
Dave Nordhaus, CFO and Senior Editor
da...@darktales.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DarkTales enters Mort Castle's Story Collection, Moon on the Water, in Pulitzer
Prize Competition
DarkTales Publications will enter Mort Castle's short story collection, Moon
on the Water: Selected Stories 1972-1999, into contention for a Pulitzer Prize.
The annual Pulitzer award is given to a distinguished work of fiction "by an
American author, preferably dealing with American life."
"That's exactly what we have with Mort Castle's collection," states Dave
Nordhaus,
CFO and publisher of DarkTales Publications. With Butch Miller, editor, and
Keith
Herber, editor and artistic designer, and Nordhaus at the helm, the small press
has quickly established itself in the fields of horror and dark fantasy with
such well received books as Sephera Giron's Eternal Sunset, Steve Savile's The
Secret Life of Colors, and the anthology series Asylum.
"But," continues Nordhaus, "good writing is not meant to be confined to any one
genre. Author Mort Castle, who's been writing for over 30 years, sees his
'niche
audience' as people who can and do choose to read and we agree that's the
target
group for this book."
The book opens on a distinctly literary note, with a "Foreword" by
internationally
renowned poet and scholar Lucien Stryk, in which he writes: "Mort Castle's
stories,
piece after finely honed piece, give a full sense of life. . . in the U. S. A,
painting a vivid sense of goings-on light and dark."
The book is thematically united, as noted by critic Thomas Deja: "Each (story)
add(s) to. . . a portrait of America as a land ruled by delusions." But while
Castle might portray the "American Dream" as "nightmare," Moon on the Water
presents
a far more positive view of American society.
Castle says, "If I don't believe in myths, I do believe in people, and there
you have the subject, theme, and raison d'etre of everything I write."
June 16 2000
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DarkTales and Bookface.com Join Forces to Bring Horror Books
to the Digital World
Today: Prerelease of Pulitzer Prize Nominee, MOON ON THE WATER, at Bookface.com
Chicago, IL - June 16, 2000 - DarkTales Publications (www.darktales.com) and
Bookface (www.bookface.com) today announced a partnership agreement that will
allow the independent press publisher to deliver their books to readers
directly
over the Internet.
"We immediately saw the potential in Bookface.com and wanted to be a part of
what they were doing from its very inception," said David Nordhaus, CFO and
Senior
Editor at DarkTales Publications. "Our company, utilizing digital archiving
and print-on-demand for our paperbacks, and Bookface.com, with their innovative
approach to book display, was the perfect complement of new technologies.
Imagine
the first online bookstore to make books available in their entirety for
perusal
to the potentially huge marketplace of the Earth, where readers may "walk" in
and browse books at their leisure before making a purchase, (the virtual
counterpart
to sitting down at your local Barnes and Noble store with a book in your
hand)...then
add our limitless supply of books with POD to the equation. It just makes
sense."
"DarkTales has a definite energy," said Lou Anders, Senior Editor at
Bookface.com.
"They have a wonderful mix of name and new authors, and titles that sell
themselves.
DarkTales brings their distinct edge to our Horror Genre, and we're very
excited
to be working with them."
DarkTales books that are immediately available at www.bookface.com, include:
Scary Rednecks & Other Inbred Horrors, by David Whitman and Weston Ochse;
Deadtimes, by Yvonne Navarro; Clickers, by J.F. Gonzalez and Mark Williams;
Eternal Sunset, by Sephera Giron; In Memoriam, by Mort Castle; Demonesque, by
Steven Lee Climer; The Asylum, edited by Victor Heck; and Secret Life of
Colors, by Steve Savile.
DarkTales plans to offer new titles each month at Bookface.com.
DarkTales will also offer an exclusive prerelease of the collection Moon on the
Water, by Mort Castle at www.bookface.com starting today. Moon on the Water is
being entered as a candidate for the Pulitzer Prize and will be available in
trade paperback format soon.
"Bookface.com is about bringing quality reading experiences to the world.
DarkTales
is about bringing horror to the world. It is a natural fit," added Len Liptak,
Director of Marketing for Bookface.com.
ABOUT DARKTALES
DarkTales is an independent publisher of original horror fiction books,
collections,
anthologies and chapbooks, from both the freshest faces on the horror scene,
to best-selling authors. Using state of the art print-on-demand technology for
their trade paperbacks enables them to rapidly expand with low investment and
little to no risk of loss traditionally caused by undersales of books.
DarkTales
is also home to one of the largest and most active horror communities on the
web, complete with chatrooms, convention coverage, and a listserver (hosted by
eGroups.com) so popular it was in the top 25 most active listservers of any
subject
in July 1999. DarkTales Publications can be found at www.darktales.com. For
more information, call David Nordhaus at 718-889-3405 (voice/fax).
ABOUT BOOKFACE
Bookface is an Internet infrastructure company that provides the technology for
putting valued content online securely. Located South of Market, in the heart
of San Francisco's Internet Media Gulch, privately held Bookface combines
scalable
infrastructure software and media industry expertise. The Bookface service and
technology offering enables content providers to reach their online audience
while protecting valuable content from being copied, altered, and redistributed
-- access is simple and direct with only a standard browser and Internet
connection!
Bookface can be found at www.bookface.com. For more information, call Len
Liptak
at 415-957-1400.
CONTACTS
DarkTales: David Nordhaus, 718-889-3405, da...@darktales.com
Bookface: Len Liptak, 415-637-5560, L...@bookface.com