QUAKES AND STORMS: A NATURAL DISASTER ANTHOLOGY

[NickolausPacione]

Those of you who want a book to read or get something for the horror / Science Fiction fan this year -- check out this anthology of you want to stories that carry a natural disaster theme. It has a who's who in the small press as well as a few other editors as authors including Brian A. Dixon of Revelation Magazine. More information on the book can be found on lulu.com. You won't be disappointed if you like old school horror or Outer Limits type science fiction, either that or you just like to read nonfiction about natural disasters there are three stories in the set that have that too. I joined forces with rising star Macey Baggett Wuesthoff to edit this one and if you want to check out her novel go to http://www.amberquill.com.

[Brenda Starrr]

Nice!

I love anything related to natural disasters. I'll have to look into it.

[NickolausPacione]

Nice!

I love anything related to natural disasters. I'll have to look into it.

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Very cool thank you, every bit helps with the relief in every natural disaster. The royalities after printing costs will go to the American Red Cross. Some of the authors on here appeared on a few well known anthologies in the small press including The Cyber-Pulp Halloween Anthology and the Rage Machine anthologies. I had a hard time finding an audience with this one, the book I knew will have an audience for it just a matter of getting one. The other book you will like if you have this one is Isaac's Storm. I gave a copy of the book to Carrie Masek as a trade for her anthology she appears in. I will get the link for Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson. The book is about Isaac Cline and how he dealt with the hurricane that ravaged Galvaston, Texas. My new story will have some referrence to this storm.

[Brenda Starrr]

I'll definitely check them out. Storms and natural disasters have always fascinated me, at least since I was 7.

[Msterbeau]

I'll definitely check them out. Storms and natural disasters have always fascinated me, at least since I was 7.

Me too... What is it with the human fascination for death, destruction and mayhem? :woot:

[Brenda Starrr]

I don't know about all that. I'm just in awe of nature. I saw a tornado one time, when I was 7. It was scary and amazing all at the same time.

[Msterbeau]

I don't know about all that. I'm just in awe of nature. I saw a tornado one time, when I was 7. It was scary and amazing all at the same time.

So why does EVERYBODY gawk at roadside accidents? Why were we glued to the TV watching planes crash into buildings over and over on 9/11? Why do people watch racing? For the crashes!!! Why is blowing things up so satisfying? Why can't we turn off the TV when a story on a natural disaster is on? *shrugs*

I saw a tornado down near the beach in North Carolina... We weren't far from it... People were spectating from an apartment balcony... Crazy!!

[Brenda Starrr]

I was also enjoying Hurricane Agnes. That was wild stuff there!

[NickolausPacione]

A tornado just missed my hotel room in Joliet -- ripped the roof off the Walgreens then it picked up speed and wrecked UTICA, Illinois. Which inspired the short story that is a work of fiction, but has a lot of tornado history around the Chicago area. There were a few that touched down in Glendale Heights but it was just after I was born. Of all the projects I did as an editor -- this was the most inspired. Macey and I knew all too well about the horrors induced by a natural disaster, and this was the project that really reflected it. I recently released a hardcover version of the book, so if you're game for this kind of book -- drop me a line and I will give you the link where to grab one. I am planning a drawing for copies of the book as a soft cover eventually. This would be the hardcover edition of the book if you're interested. When I was done putting the book together, I actually wept because it took me so long to co-edit the project. I am actually thinking about doing a volume two of the anthology.

[LivingxDeadxGirl]

Nice!

I love anything related to natural disasters. I'll have to look into it.

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I've read part of it. It's awesome so far! A tornado came right by my house one time. It was a scary experience. It did some damage to my neighbor's house and missed mine. I'll never forget it.

[NickolausPacione]

I'll definitely check them out. Storms and natural disasters have always fascinated me, at least since I was 7.

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Hey Brenda -- the anthology is now recommended for a BRAM STOKER, for me to even be recommended on being an independant press for the anthology catagory means a lot. One of the other Stoker recommended stories I got out there is on a quarterly magazine called The Ethereal Gazette. I got the magazing going more in the sense I had some overflow from TABLOID PURPOSES II and a few of the authors from QUAKES AND STORMS stayed on for that one. I am getting a good influx of authors from each quarter -- and this thing is a good size at about 335 pages, I do an editorial at the beginning of each one then sometimes do the photography for it. It is entirely a speculative fiction magazine from the Stephen King and Richard Matheson influenced, sometimes bring in an author whose influenced by Rod Serling. I look for nonfiction from time to time as long it can scare the crap out of the reader. The guidelines are on ralan.com. The next issue is sceduled to come out sometime between January and February 2006. I am getting a lot of submissions for the magazine, one of the artists who is sending me work actually worked with a writer who published me on Poets Against Suicide. That got published on a site called http://www.horrormasters.com.

[Homicidalheathen]

Mother nature is such a mean ass bitch! I will too, check it out and thanks for letting us know!

I want your autograph.

[NickolausPacione]

Mother nature is such a mean ass bitch!  I will too, check it out and thanks for letting us know!

I want your autograph.

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Even though there was someone active with this board who tried to get me in trouble with National Geographic when I was posting about it on another board. The problem with this one is that I didn't have a particular audience I wanted to go with it. It was a matter of finding the readership with this one. I knew that it would be a hard one to do when I did it. I just hope you're being sincere about this one. There are a few on the board that would hate for this to really take off.