My long fermenting story THE ACCIDENTAL SLEEP appears in DANSE MACARBE today.
While I’m linking the section my piece is in you should take a look around Danse Macarbe it’s a special place, one of the best zines out there.
This is third piece I’ve had published in Danse Macarbe.
http://dansemacabre.art.officelive.com/MehrendgultigeErzahlungen.aspx
Why is it everytime I try to write a serious zombie story it turns into a comedy? I don’t know I just can’t write about zombies with a straight face. This happen.ed the last time I tried a zombie story too, but it came out really cute anway.Speaking of which I’m in Starbucks now and there is an old woman sitting next to me looking up hand guns on her Mac
I hardly ever if never mention this but I want to share my good news. I have learned this week that due to clean living and just the right medication the HIV virus is now undetecable in my system. I had found out I was indeed positive when I went into the hospital in August to be treated for a severe case of pneumonia. So it looks like clear sailing from here on in. All I have to do is keep taking my three little pills every morning.
Big Book of Strange Weird and Wonderful, that’s the amazing title of the soon to be released Volume one of best of Strange Weird and Wonderful Magazine. It’s available for pre-order now.
Didn’t they did an amazing job with the cover? And I like that my name is listed last because the most noticeable names on a list are the first and last names(follow the link.) Also It’s great because my good friend and editor of the Horror Zine Jeani Rector has a story coming in volume two so there’s more to look fowarard to! This anthology series is def going to be a big wonderful contender in 2012.
My story BAD TO THE BONE has been published most appropriately by the Carnage Consevatory
Hi, I’m Rebecca Besser, author of the zombie novella, Undead Drive-Thru. I write fiction, nonfiction and poetry for a wide range of age groups and genres. I’ve been published over 140 times in various publication.
To learn more about me feel free to visit my webiste or my blog
You can also find me on Facebook under: Rebecca Besser or Author/Editor Rebecca Besser
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Earth’s End, a Scifi Apocalyptic anthology, is being released by Wicked East Press in Jan 2012!
My story, “The Olden Gears,” is included in Earth’s End. Here’s an excerpt from my story:
“He drove faster, but everywhere he looked there was more destruction.
With numb fingers, he reached over and turned on the radio to see if there was any news about what was going on; it took him a couple of minutes before he could find a radio station that was still on the air.
“…Overnight the world has been bombarded with attacks by the elderly. On every continent, in almost every country, they’ve taken lives at will, showing no mercy…”
Looking out around him, he tried to decide how he was going to make it home. Almost every street was blocked off by accidents, and everywhere he looked, someone was being slaughtered; his attention focused back on the radio as they continued.
“…Medical experts are saying the cause of the outbreak and behavior in their elderly patients is linked to the chemical compound used in the ‘lubrication’ of the ReGen ‘parts’ surgically implanted; the chemical was supposed to act as synthetic blood. Once it leaks into the real blood system, it targets certain parts of the brain and triggers uncontrollable, aggressive behavior…”” ~ The Olden Gears by Rebecca Besser – Earth’s End
Would you like to win a free copy of Earth’s End???
On March 1st I’ll be having a drawing to give away a copy of Earth’s End signed by me (I’m also the editor). Everyone who comments on my Earth’s End post at one of the stops on my tour will be enter into the drawing (one entry per person, per blog), so you have a chance to win at every stop along the way. The very last post of the tour will be on my blog and will announce the winner (on March 1st). So, stop by as many blogs as you possibly can to increase your chances to win a copy of the book!
I will announce each posting on Facebook and Twitter. So, if you aren’t my friend or following me…you better start if you want to win. 
If you would like to purchase your own copy look for Earth’s End on Amazon!
A story I have been trying to get published for a long while,THE ACCIDENTAL SLEEP has finally found a home in the wonderful ONE and ONLY DANSE MACARBE Look for it there on Friday February 3, 2012.
DON’T BE A DUMMY CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO FIND OUT
Seriously, this is a rallying cry every writer, and lover of horror, should be involved in.
I’ve donated a copy of my bookTHE DARK JAR to this worthy cause.
Be a good guy. Contribute.
Get you self down to at Toys for Tots donation box and help a kid out today,
and enter for a chance to win a big box of books!
“Give a child a toy. We’ll give you a library.”
As many of you know sadly Strange Weird and Wonderful Magazine has ceased publication, but editor D. L. Russell, is producing two volumes of “best of,” called “A Big Book of Strange, Weird, and Wonderful”( Volumes one and two.) If all goes well the anthologies could possibly become an annual tradition. Anyway, I hear volume one which contains my story VICTIM NUMBER 13 will be out in April.
Don’t you just love that title, A BIG BOOK of STRANGE, WEIRD, and WONDERFUL? I just love it.
From the way they spit out those form rejections at Clarkesworld one would think they’re producing great literature over there.
Until one reads the magazine.
(I know, I know, but they’re never going to publish me anyway.)
In other stuff, I have just finished a bofo story about an old woman who raises the dead and I’m grazing around for an idea for a new one. I’m thinking maybe something to do with/ or surrounding a theatre or maybe a restaurant. I’m not just sure yet.
The new anthology Ghosts just out this week from Dark Moon Books contains my story A Dream for Sugar. You can pick it up at Amazon. This story ,among other things, is about a haunting, but you’re never sure who is being haunted until the end. The main character Sugar is a singer in New Orleans who’s searching for her daughter. I didn’t expect this story would get published this time around because I had just got out of the hospital when the editor wrote me and sent me a bunch of edits he wanted to do on the story. Well I didn’t feel well enough at the time to do it, I still had a chest tube in me and was experiencing significant pain. So I wrote him back and I told him I couldn’t do it at that time and we left it at that. Well a few weeks later I heard from Stan again and he said they really wanted this story in GHOSTS. So they did the edits for me and all I had to do was approve them, which I quickly did .
I have Kindled 3 short stories all horror comedy and all at 99 cents.
They areRemedy for a Stuntman
Almost Zombie and
Alien Dish
Got a wonderful review for the kindle of Music Man up at Amazon.
5.0 out of 5 stars The Music is Sweet and The Sax Man Flows, October 20, 2011
By
Bruce J. Blanchard “Darkenwulf” (Des Moines, IA)
(This review is from: Music Man (Kindle Edition)
The time is sundown more ways than one and the sax man is at his street corner. He pulls it out, feeling the instrument and hits that high E-flat. The sound flows through the air, the note being held for an eternity. Then, when you think you can’t take it anymore, he flows into a song. The man captures your soul in music. Like an artist who paints in broad strokes and slathers of color, Dikon, the sax man, will play life in all its pain, sorrow, and lonliness. This night, he will meet Virgil who will lead him on the strangest journey, cool cats, and become the herald of the up and coming.
What makes this short story sooooo sweet is the writing of Bruce Memblatt, a native New Yorker, who paints with every word in perfect place the sensitivity of Dikon. He paints the music, which is hard to do. He paints the streets and the people. He paints the strange journey of Dikon to the end of the story. For those who wonder what it takes to use the notes of music, the ultimate use of words, and combine them into a masterpiece of short fiction, read Music Man. Get a taste of the streets of New York, the people, and the music flowing through the air like a sweet harmony.
I cannot praise Music Man enough. If you have never downloaded a short story before, this is the one to start you off. ‘Nuff said.
Just wanted to mention a wonderful place for indie writers to get listed called Book Junkies LIbrary run by the very charming
Grace Guerra!
I just sold a story called A Dream for Sugar to Dark Moon Digest for thier special anthology editon Ghosts. Which should be coming out this month.
My wish came true my doctor was able to remove the chest tube today and I am happy as a clam ,or an oyster or a pink panda!
On a personal note if you read down futrher you will see I contracted a very bad case of punemonia in May and I was in the hostpital for quite a while. I was released from the hospital in late August, but there still was one hurdle I had to overcome. I have or had a leak in my lung, so I was released with a chestube, and every week sicne I’ve left the hospital I’ve visited my doctor to see if the leak has healed and the chest tube can come out, because it really is a HORROR to liive with, and that is no exageration. Tomorrow morning I return to the doctor after 5 weeks of having this tube poking out of my chest.
SO WISH ME LUCK that the tube comes out tomorrrow! THANK YOU!
My book and I recieved the following review from Grady Harp at Amazon. Mr. Harp is one of Amazon’s top ten reviewers:
This review is from: The Dark Jar: A collection of short stories by Bruce Memblatt (Paperback)
Bruce Memblatt, according to the biographical data provided, is a native New Yorker and has studied Business Administration at Pace University. In addition to writing he runs a website devoted to theater composer Stephen Sondheim, which he’s lovingly maintained since 1996. His stories have been featured in such magazines as Aphellion, Bewildering Stories, The Horror Zine, Bending Spoons, Strange Weird and Wonderful, Static Movement, Danse Macabre, SNM Horror Magazine,The Piker Press, A Golden Place, Eastown Fiction, Short Story Me! 69 Flavors of Paranoia, Necrology Shorts, Suspense Magazine, Gypsy Shadow Publishing, Black Lantern Publishing, Death Head Grin, The Cynic Online, The Feathertale Review, and Yellow Mama.
What drew this reader to Bruce Memblatt was that single story in the book WHAT FEARS BECOME, a taste of someone who had a special taint for the dark side of literature. That led to the discovery of this collection of 17 short stories collectively assembled under the title of THE DARK JAR. It should come with a warning label -’Terror inside – proceed with caution’. Memblatt has that gift of making a story brief but complete, creating people in whom we believe, taking those people on a strange journey – the surprisingly terrifying ending comes as a laser blast from out of the dark. When a writer can provide that degree of shock at the very end of a story he has succeeded in entering that realm of keepers of the haunted house – or, in other words, a king of horror stories.
Memblatt opens his collection with a very odd tale The Last Station of a man being questioned by a couple of seeming policemen and slowly discovers the reason behind his being held – as scary a situation as can be found. Then he moves to a graveyard to begin the story ‘Return’ in which a woman rises out of her grave as a skeleton, having been wrongly executed for a murder, only to return to her roots to discover a surprising truth. And then comes ‘Music Man’ – one of the strongest stories in a collection of ‘best of the best’ about Dikon, a homeless sax player who plays his horn on the same corner of New York City until he encounters a bizarre man named Virgil (yes, the spelling is intentional..). Virgil promises him a job and room to reward his talent and leads the curious Dikon into the bowels of the city where he encounters more about ‘life’ than expected.
The stories cover a wide range of topics and situations and characters, but each is sound and worthy of standing alone. Bruce Memblatt seems to have found his niche. Watch out, there likely will be more….Grady Harp, October 11 , 2011
I have just been approved for affiliate membership in the Horror Writers
Association!
I’ve taken a new leap into the world of self-publishing. I am publishing a collection of my short stories entitled,” The Dark Jar”
This collection contatins 17 of my works such as The Last Station, A Dream for Sugar, Amost Zombie and Music Man. The Dark Jar also contains a new peice called From THe Inside. And Lo and behold it is available for purchase now in Kindle at Amazon. It is, I promise, 52,000 words of pure gold! I humbly suggest these are wonderful stories that you can pop into your Kindle, or iPod or whatever, and read anytime, anywherere.
The Dark Jar is listed at a very reasonable 4.99.
SO go Here and order yourself a copy. And wait there’s more! The print ediditon will be realeased soon on Amazon. So stay tuned for more!
Aslo heard tonight that my personal fav of my stories Music Man, will be published at Bewildering Stories. I’m very happy about this because they are publishing a longer version of Music Man which hasn’t been published before.
I will let you know when it’s going up. Bewlidering Stories has a busy schedule so it will take some time.
I’ve taken a new leap into the world of self-publishing. I am publishing a collection of my short stories entitled,” The Dark Jar”
This collection contatins 17 of my works such as The Last Station, A Dream for Sugar, Amost Zombie and Music Man. The Dark Jar also contains a new peice called From THe Inside. And Lo and behold it is available for purchase now in Kindle at Amazon. It is, I promise, 52,000 words of pure gold! I humbly suggest these are wonderful stories that you can pop into your Kindle, or iPod or whatever, and read anytime, anywherere.
Why haven’t I written a new story in a while? In case you’re wondering why, it’s because I’ve been out of commission since May. I had a serious case of pneumonia which required over six hours of open chest surgery and a long hospital stay. I am home and out of the hospital now, but I still have a chest tube, because I have a small air leak in my lungs. I am quite impatiently waiting for the air leak to heal so I can get the chest tube removed and get back to my life. The tube is small and I am able to go out and get around with it, but on the negative side, it is painful, and I have to be very careful and catutious of my movements, it’s terribly hard to sleep and just do the normal things people do.
I have recently begun work on a new story which I hope to finish soon. It’s very hard to concentrate for me now, but I am trying.
The much talked about ande highly anticipated newest anthology in paperback from The Horror Zine entitled, “What Fears Become ” is now on sale at Amazon. If you buy this book I promise you will not be dissapointed. It is an amazing collection of horror short stories that will turn your head as welll as your hair.
Check out the video for What Fears Become with my story, The Product.
Here it is, folks, the exciting new The Horror Zine book, now out on Kindle!
WHAT FEARS BECOME: AN ANTHOLOGY FROM THE HORROR ZINE is an amazing creation from the morbidly talented new writers, poets and artists from The Horror Zine.
But this book also contains such best-selling authors as Bentley Little, Ramsey Campbell, Graham Masterton, Joe R. Lansdale, Piers Anthony, Elizabeth Massie, Cheryl Kaye Tardif, Ronald Malfi, Scott Nicholson, Melanie Tem and Conrad Williams. It also features a Foreword written exclusively for this book by Simon Clark!
This book is already causing a sensation, as seen from this press release:
The Highly Anticipated Anthology ‘What Fears Become’ Hits Virtual Bookshelves
WHat Fears Become is available at a wonderfully low price of USD $4.99!
In the USA:
What Fears Become
Check out this review
Review at Amazon
A story called “Music Man,” is included in this anthlogy from Unearthed Press, available at Amazon
I got distracted by a couple of little glitches in this story, such as “free-er” . . . the correct spelling is “freer” (and maybe too simple to believe) — also, “Avenue A and forth street.”
The thing is, though, this story has a very attractive quality to it; it uses repeating themes about light, such as:
The red setting sun bleached through the buildings surrounding the intersection like cracked ice under a bed of bourbon.
and:
But the light in the room, there was something about that dim light that brushed against his skin like waves of change, like something was about to happen.
as well as the repeating theme of breaking glass, and it all sets a mood that is poetic and surreal, vaguely threatening but not definable. The contrast of themes suggests danger and hope.
This all produces a very effective but subtle atmosphere, and builds gently to the climax at the end, which I was a little surprised at, but not disappointed with — at all.
Bruce, watch your spelling and punctuation — the little details do matter — but keep listening to your muse. Very nice work.
-Lester Curtis
Sold a story called, “A Weekend in the Country,” to Library of the Living Dead Press for their forthcoming anthology, “Ghostology.”
Ghostology
More details like publication date soon as I get them.
The delicious anthology of new fiction from Post Mortem Press containing my story “Intertwined,” is available at Amazon in both print and Kindle.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
- Dr. Seuss
Pssssst listen. Little secret here. Publishers don’t know more than you.
It don’t mean a thang, but you need to hear it once in a while.
Remember… they don’t.
Dinner with Henry part 25 is up at the Piker Press, titled, The Arrival, in this weeks eppy Digeo has her baby.
Dinner with Henry part 25: The Arrival
Dinner with Henry is now a weekly series.
I just had a story go up in Bewildering Stories. This is actually an early story, called “A Cut Above The Rest.” BS is a very busy publication and it takes a long time between acceptance and publication. I have two more stories scheduled to appear in Bewildering Stories in the coming months. Anyway, like I said it’s an early one so b…e kind.:) It is kind of fun though!
To find it click on the Readers Guide or index
Dinner with Henry part 24 is up at the Piker Press. Henry has now gone from a bi-weekly series to weekly and he just got his very own grahpic courtresy of wonderful publisher and editor Sand Palarski!
A story called “Almost Zombie,” has been accepted for publication in the May issue of Death Head Girn. This will be my secound piece published there, one called “Deahtbed,” was pubished there last July. Larry Green who runs and edits Deah Head Grin is a great guy and fine wrter in his own right, like me he’s a two time… veteren of Jeani Rector’s The Horror Zine, whith two stories published there, both great.
Just heard a story I wrote;” Intertwined,” has been accpeted for publication in the next anthlogy from Post Mortem Press called “A Means to an End.”
I sold a story called “Remedy for a Stuntman to Silverthought Press.
It went up tonight. Remedy for a Stuntman
This will be a fun one for all of you who like stories about heads in duffle bags. Really its a goodie. Enjoy!
I recieved some scheduling news from Bewlidering Stories today.
“A Cut Above the Rest” will be going up Jan 17 in issue number 416
“The Last Station” AKA as The Police Station will be in issue number 423
And the original
“Dinner with Henry” will be appearing in issue 430.
Don Webb of Bewlidering Stories also added that they could go up sooner, and some most likely will , but these are the dates as of today.
Canada’s answer to Mad Magazine, the Feathertale Review volume number 6 containing my story The Lottery Machine Engagement is now available at select bookstores throughout Canada and the US.
Or you can ordrer it online
I have a story that just went up in The Horror Zine, I’m very proud of this story I think it’s my best one, and it will be published in the Horror Zine’s next antholgy book too coming out in a few months. It’s called The Product
My story “The Police Station,” appeared in the Horror Zine’s January 2010 isssue. So it’s my second story at Jeani Rector’s wonderful zeen!
A story called The Last Party went up in the Halloween edition of Yellow Mama. Yellow Mama is THE most NOTORIOUS horror zine out there and it’s run by the fabulous and wonderful Cindy Romus who is a pal and a sweetheart. Also a shout out to Steven Cartwright who created the most PERFECT art work for this story.
A piece called “The Hiiden Life of Hermoione Maison” is up at Danse Macarbe’s Danse Macarbe Du Jour today. It will remain there this month and then be archived, but it is most easily visible today. This will be my second story publshed at the wonderful Danse Macrabe, one called “Snowbound” went up there a few months ago.
The anthology book from Static Movement containing my story, “Perseid,” is up at
Amazon now.
My first real review and it’s in FANGORIA! My story THe Police Station published in the anthology from Bear Mannor Media TWICE THE TERROR: THE HORROR ZINE was one of the stories they liked in this review! It’s a goodie!
Here:
“The Police Station” by Bruce Memblatt is absorbing in its structure and sense of anticipation. What starts out like a police procedural, as two detectives interrogate a murder suspect, unexpectedly takes a creative twist into the supernatural.
Here is the full review
A story called “The Surrounding Sky” went up at Necrology Shorts
