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Okay, I know I already announced the store, but I’m so incredibly happy with how well the products have come out that I have to post a sample. This is one of our bumper stickers:
Go! Visit! Tell us what you think or what else it needs!
Deborah Grabien wrote a book that was published in 1994 in the UK. It’s never been made available in the US or anywhere else… until now. (See proposed cover art to the right.) We’ll be releasing it in January in print and ebook.
And Then Put Out the Light tells the surreal story of Emily Moon-Bourne. [...]
Our own, the very talented Sarah Avery has also posted a couple of offers for the Live Long and Marry auction here. She’s offering an out of print poetry chapbook and a copy of her novella Closing Arguments. Go bid!
Have you heard of this press? They give away their books for free.
What’s impressive about them is that they’ve taken a look at the traditional publishing model and, instead of reacting to it by doing new things, they’ve thrown it away and done something truly new, something that expands to fit the way we all [...]
We are very pleased to have joined in partnership with Action Audio to get our books out as audio books available from Audible. We still have lots of sorting out to do before the first books come out, but they’re coming. Watch for them!
Cindy Lynn Speer will be at Romance Galleria’s Mocha Mondays chat this evening at 9:00 PM eastern. She will discuss her short stories, how fables, myth, and magic have influenced her, and what’s coming next. She will be giving away coupons to the bookshop and free copies of her short stories. [...]
We’ll be chatting with all the Drollerie Press authors we can gather around the campfire on Thursday, December 18 from 10pm to 12am EST in the DP chatroom. We always have a lot of fun, and we’ll be giving away as yet unreleased ARCs, some of our currently available books, and more! Take a break [...]
It’s awfully late notice, but I just learned that there’s a chat going on at www.writerschatroom.com right now with publicist P. J. Nunn, talking about how to promote your work. It goes from 7pm EST to 9pm EST.
The long awaited Little Red Riding Hood anthology, Straying from the Path, illustrated by Anna Repp, with stories and poetry by Adrienne J. Odasso, Jennifer Moore, Batya Deene, Fraser Sherman, Angela Rega, Imogen Howson, Jo Thomas, Joselle Vanderhooft, Jessica Tudor, Greg O. Weatherford, Hilary J. Nowack, Genevieve Valentine, Skadi meic Beorh, H. Anne Stoj, David [...]
Gary Inbinder, author of Confessions of the Creature, besides being a writer who immerses his readers in historically accurate detail contained in an absorbing story complete with epic themes, is also an editor at Bewildering Stories. Bewildering Stories is an online ‘zine that focuses on giving new authors a start. They also publish reviews, interviews, [...]
In response to the last post, a commenter provided a link to a list of books by people of color on LibraryThing. I’ve read some of them, but my TBR pile is about to get much, much bigger. Books of Color list
Continuing our celebration of Black History Month, we have the next free book from Project Gutenberg, Booker T. Washington’s The Future of the America Negro. in the bookstore. It’s available in PDF, Microsoft Reader and Mobipocket formats.
We had hoped to provide a fiction piece today as well, but ran out of time. Look for [...]
Brilliant author and poet Joselle Vanderhooft (who will have works coming out from us soon!) is up for a Stoker and we’re rooting for her here at Drollerie. If you didn’t know, the HWA is broadcasting the awards RIGHT NOW on the internet at http://www.iscifi.tv/live/
Congratulations for the nomination, Joselle. You’re in very good company. [...]
Smart Bitches reports that the Brenda Novak Diabetes auction raised $252,300.00 this year! I’m very pleased to add that Drollerie Press donations helped raise $900 of that. Next year we’ll try to do even better.
To all of you who bid, many thanks!
We’re gearing up for our first annual Holiday Giving Sale, and we’re doing that in part by opening up our Cafe Press store. When the sale starts (November 23), we’ll be giving 10% of all proceeds to charity.
If you’d like to take a look at the store right now, it’s Drollerie Press Mercantile, here.
It’s [...]
We’ve updated the website a little bit with cleaned up sidebars and a drop down horizontal navigation so everything will be easier to find. That’s the good news.
The great news is that we’ve added “Better Together” discounts to our books. Browse the bookstore and find something you like and you’ll be offered a great [...]
Don’t forget! 4pm EST we’ll be chatting in the chat room and giving away prizes. Come find out what Joely’s got going on now, and what she’s hiding up her sleeve for next time. Chat with our other authors–they’ve all got exciting things coming too.
May 30th we’ll be releasing two new stories by some amazingly talented authors. To celebrate the release of these stories, we’re going to be having a party in our chat room at 4PM EDT (1PM PDT, 8PM UTC) on Sunday, June 1. Watch the sidebar for the link and join us to win a copy [...]
Don’t forget! We’ll be partying in our chat room Sunday afternoon at 4pm EST with author Rachael de Vienne to celebrate the release of her novel Pixie Warrior.
Pixie Warrior is a great fantasy read and we’ll be giving away a free copy, so be sure to come hang out with us.
Our chats are always a [...]
Drollerie Press is closing submissions until the backlog of current submissions is cleared up except for currently open anthologies. Please follow the submissions guidelines for the anthologies, available here.
Currently open anthologies include:
Trafficking in Magic/Magicking in Traffic edited by David Sklar and Sarah Avery, an anthology of retold Greek myth suitable for a YA audience, and [...]
Seriously–or maybe because we’re not so serious–we have the best chats ever. That was fun.
The next chat, assuming we get everything done on time will be to celebrate the release of Pixie Warrior by Rachael de Vienne.
On to the winners!
Scrappy is the proud new owner of a print copy of Still Life with Devils.
Anne W. [...]
(Edited: Come to the next one!) Come join us to celebrate the release of Rachael de Vienne’s fun-filled fantasy, Pixie Warrior.
NO PASSWORD required! (I keep forgetting to tell people that.)
Coming within the next two weeks, Rachael de Vienne’s novel, Pixie Warrior! It’s a great story for anyone who likes their fantasy about the whole family instead of just the couple who ride happily ever after into the sunset.
We’ll have an excerpt up soon, but here’s a preview of the cover art to whet your [...]
The annual Con or Bust auction, which provides assistance to people of color to attend conventions, is ending at midnight on Saturday the 13th. Please go take a look and see if there’s something you didn’t know till now that you can’t live without.
You do not have to be a LiveJournal member to bid. Just [...]
We just received word that Imogen Howson is an Eppie finalist for her beautiful story Falling. Congrats Imogen!
We always knew she was special. If you haven’t yet, check out her post just before this one. She’s even giving things away!
And many congratulations to all the Eppie finalists!
We USians commemorate some great people and ideas, but we also remember some wacky stuff. For instance, today is “Create a Vacuum day.” I’m betting that’s not the kind you get for your mom when you want to annoy her on Mother’s Day. Although I’m not sure which would be worse… I guess it depends [...]
Our e-mail server hiccuped (or something worse) between 5pm EST and 8pm EST on Thursday, 6 December.
If you e-mailed us during those hours, please re-send.
We are very pleased to announce that C. G. Bauer’s Scars on the Face of God is a finalist in the horror category and Bump in the Night is a finalist in the anthology category of the EPIC awards. The EPIC Awards are given annually to recognize outstanding achievements in e-publishing. Click on the covers [...]
::taps mike:: Is this thing on?
For those of you who don’t know me—which is probably most of you, since I’ve been shamefully absent for too long—I’m Amy Garvey, the Senior Editor of Drollerie’s new erotica imprint, Pen Flourish, and I’m looking forward to acquisitions with absolute glee.
Glee? You bet. I love erotica. [...]
These are the winners from the chat party yesterday. The earlier contest (blogged about below under the heading ‘Where stories come from’) doesn’t end until Sunday 20th.
First prize: Isabelle wins a copy of Frayed Tapestry and a print poster based on the Frayed Tapestry cover art.
Second prize: Sheila wins a copy of Frayed Tapestry [...]
In celebration, we’re providing two historical pieces written by African American authors W. E. B. Du Bois and William Wells Brown in the bookshop.
The books are free, provided by Project Gutenberg, and made available by Drollerie Press in Mobipocket, PDF, and Microsoft Reader. You can also download many other free classics in HTML or text [...]
We’ll be celebrating the release of Teri Rigg’s first novel, The Eyes Die Last, in the chat room on February 28th at 9:00 PM Eastern. Teri was the winner of a full manuscript edit from Drollerie Press in the Brenda Novak auction, and some of the proceeds from sales of the book will go to [...]
Never say we never gave you anything (not that we did. These are free books from someone else. But we did, just not these.)
The Greek YA and Magic in Trafficking/Trafficking in Magic anthologies are now closed to submissions. Responses will be sent out by the end of March/first of April.
Submissions to the the Ghost story anthology close on March 31. Submissions to Hellebore and Rue close on May 15th.
Drollerie Press is pleased to announce the launch of Flyleaf Press, our LGBTQ imprint, for which Joselle Vanderhooft has graciously agreed to serve as Senior Editor. The imprint is launching with a call for submissions for its first anthology:
Hellebore and Rue: Tales of Queer Women and Magic
edited by JoSelle Vanderhooft and Catherine Lundoff
We’re looking for stories [...]
The lovely and talented JoSelle Vanderhooft, a Bram Stoker finalist whom we are pleased to be publishing later this year, has posted an offering of her new poetry chapbook to the Live Long and Marry auction in support of gay marriage in California. I happen to be winning that particular auction and that hardly seems [...]
We’re celebrating! We have two new books, Shadow of the Antlered Bird by David Sklar, and And Then Put Out the Light by Deborah Grabien, available now in the bookshop, at Mobipocket and at Fictionwise (they should be up on Amazon for the Kindle soon). We’ve put them on sale for 15% off in the [...]
To celebrate Halloween, we’ve released Angela Cameron’s paranormal novella, Nocturne, a little bit early, only in our bookshop! AND it’s available for 15% off!
Angela is our newest author, and you can learn more about her on her author page, here.
About Nocturne:
Newspaper reporter Alyson Wingate’s life is comfortable. Safe. She likes it that way. She [...]
Well, we survived 2007. In fact, we did more than survive. I’d say we succeeded.
In the last year, we’ve been surprised that some stories sold like crazy, and surprised when some didn’t do quite as well as we’d hoped. We’ve expanded to Fictionwise and are working with Amazon to get our books out on the [...]
The versatile and talented Heather Ingemar will be providing a creative writing workshop for teens at the Columbia County Rural Library District in Dayton, WA on November 7th. Heather’s YA sequence, Dream Drinker Tales, will be out in ebook from Drollerie Press later this year, and in print in 2009. Heather’s stories, like so [...]
Hot off the presses: Benjamin Franklin House Literary Prize 2009 Winners Announced!
“In the 2009 Benjamin Franklin House Literary Prize, in association with The Telegraph, we challenged entrants to interpret this quote: “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety”. Entrants were asked to produce submissions [...]
We’re about to kick off our first ever Annual Holiday Giving Sale. On November 23, 2007 at 12:00 AM EST, all of our works available on the site will go on sale for 20% off or more and will be on sale through January 5, 2008 . In addition, a minimum of 10% of the [...]
Everything in the store is now 20% off! The authors chose three charities (though I threw in a tiebreaking vote), Habitat for Humanity, NOAH, and The Hunger Project. All three are extremely worthwhile.
Habitat for Humanity was started in 1976 and by 2005 had built 200,000 homes for more than 1 million people [...]
Take a look at the front page of our bookshop!
Still Life with Devils is now available. Alien Dreams is now available. And, to celebrate our great novels, we’ve put them both on sale with Restless Shadows.
All three are also available on Mobipocket.com and will be coming to Fictionwise.com next week.
It’s time to celebrate! Chat in [...]
Normally, we don’t post about things outside of DP news, but this is something that is so terrible, and so beyond my ability to comprehend, I have to share it.
This is the post of an Afghan girl who “…used to think big. When I was six, I made my mom let me go to [...]
Sorry!
I had a run in with Thomas the Tank Engine that delayed the chat room opening. Thank heavens I don’t have to stand around on spindly heels for this!
Underland Press is publishing a Kealan Patrick Burke “wovel”, a serialized novel online. He posts an installment and then readers vote on the next plot point and he goes on from there. I certainly enjoyed the first installment of Living. Check it out.
Catherine Lundoff has a charming short regency with good historical detail, Masquerade, in [...]
IBARW is winding down (tomorrow’s the last day), and there’s a wealth of good reading everywhere you turn. Some people are reviewing or recommending books they’ve read by minority authors, some are blogging about racism directly, and some are combining the two.
In an interview with School Library Journal, Kathleen T. Horning, the author of [...]
I know. It surprised me too.
We had big plans for April and we plan to carry most of them out, even though we’re starting a little bit late. It’s National Poetry Month and Thai Heritage Month. The second was International Children’s Book Day, the 13th through the 19th is National Library Week (in the US, [...]
It’s time for our monthly chat again, AND it’s Joely’s birthday! We’ll be giving away a copy of Joely Sue Burkhart’s incredibly hot novel, the second in the Blood and Shadow series, Road to Shanhasson.
We’ll also be giving away a copy of 24 Bones, Michael F. Stewart’s tense, paranormal Egyptian thriller, and a copy [...]
And it’s to your benefit!
Run over and comment on her blog and win:
Your choice of one download from [her] backlist: Survive My Fire, The Fire Within, The Rose of Shanhasson
Off Limits by Jordan Summers
My Immortal Protector by Jen Holling
Join in the fun at The Long and the Short of It as they finish up a month-long celebration of their two-year-anniversary with a two day chat at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LongAndShortRomanceReviews for non-erotic works and authors and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/whippedcream2/ for erotic works and authors.
It’s easy! Simply join the group(s), then chat with LASR/WC site owners Judy and [...]
Don’t forget, this afternoon at 4PM EST US (9PM for our UK friends), we’ll be chatting with Imogen Howson about her newly released story Frayed Tapestry, (available now in our bookshop and from Mobipocket and its affiliates. Coming soon to Fictionwise!) and with Gary Inbinder and his about-to-be released novel Confessions of the Creature.
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Finally, after technical difficulties, health issues, and more, we have finished selecting the works to include in the Little Red Riding Hood anthology and have contacted the authors to let them know. As soon as they contact us to tell us they haven’t given up on us, we’ll let you know the line-up. Amy and [...]
San Francisco native and mystery writer Deborah Grabien, author of the Haunted Ballads series, mysteries based on hauntings and old English ballads; Still Life with Devils, a newly released supernatural thriller set in San Francisco that features geomancy; and the upcoming Kinkaid Chronicles, a mystery series about an aging rock guitarist and his younger girlfriend; [...]
Deborah Grabien, author of Still Life with Devils from Drollerie; the Haunted Ballads mystery series and the upcoming Kinkaid Chronicles, out from St. Martin’s Press; among others, is going to be one of the panelists on a discussion about publishing in the LA area. The discussion is open to the public and Deb would love [...]
We’ve changed the way we’re doing things at Membra Disjecta. In order to free up some time for us and make the magazine more valuable to readers, we’re going to be publishing 2x a year, in print and online, with a subscription model. Some content will still be free, including the book reviews, but each [...]
We’re crossing and dotting the next issue of Membra Disjecta, which has been delayed until December. Right now, however, there is a lot of great work freely available at the website. Starting with this upcoming issue, some content will be free and some will be available online by subscription or in print. We’re working very [...]
The latest issue of Membra Disjecta is now available, with a new design, more stories, more…everything! Go, take a look!
Heather Parker, author of Middlewich, has a story in Big Pulp.
Go here to check it out. To read an excerpt of Middlewitch go here.
We’re back! Submissions are already coming in faster than we can respond to them (be patient, please!), and new books will be out very soon. In fact, here’s a sneak peek of the cover of one of our upcoming releases, Sorrow by John Lawson.
Return to Lawson’’s world of Witch Ember with a new tale [...]
Ladies and gents, we now have a forum! Come talk about our books, your books, or anything else you want to chatter about to one another or to us. The link is in the sidebar. We hope you’ll make it a regular stop.
In all the recent hullabaloo around here, I forgot to announce the winner of the contest held to celebrate the release of Gary Inbinder’s Confessions of the Creature.
C. S. Inman won a copy of the ebook of Confessions of the Creature, and if C.S. will contact us, we’ll hand it over. (dfisherATdrolleriepressDOTcom)
Thanks!
The Needles & Bones anthology is out to the authors for final tweaks, and we plan to have it available on Thursday. We’ll be celebrating the release in our monthly chat that night–that’s Thursday, May 21 at 10PM Eastern US time. The line-up in this anthology is stupendous, and we’ll have a free story by [...]
It’s difficult to describe an anthology, especially one containing works of such talent. In an attempt to give readers a better idea about Needles & Bones, I’ve created a more detailed description of the works it contains. The contents are described below, though the descriptions don’t do justice to the beauty of these works.
Please Note: [...]
We are pleased to announce two new free books available in the bookshop in celebration of Black History Month. They are The Conjure Woman by Charles W. Chesnutt, and The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James W. Johnson. Click the covers to download the books in DRM-free Adobe, Microsoft or Mobipocket format.
The Conjure Woman [...]
We are very proud to announce the release of three new books.
The long awaited sequel to Joely Sue Burkhart’s Rose of Shanhasson is now available! And would you believe Road to Shanhasson is even hotter? Read an excerpt of Book 2 of the Blood and Shadow series here, or buy the book in our bookshop. [...]
24 Bones
Michael F. Stewart
Seth, Horus, and Osiris are reborn, fated to re-fight their greatest battle.
Samiya, an Egyptian woman, and Taggart, a Canadian professor of Comparative Religion, have nothing in common, until they find themselves on opposite sides of a bloody war for causes neither is sure they believe in.
The Balance is in jeopardy, and either [...]
It’s almost time for July’s releases, so I thought I’d give you all a sneak peek. Don’t forget, we’ll be giving away a copy of each new release during the chat tomorrow night at 10 PM.
Kettlestitch
In Collecting Dreams we revisit Isabele, Heather S. Ingemar’s heroine who was first introduced to readers in “Dream Drinker,” a [...]
Elena Murphy’s story Provenance is up and available in all formats in the bookstore and in Mobipocket format on the Mobipocket website.Tom is a good father, a good ex-husband, and a good son. He’s also unhappy with his life and bitter about the choices he feels he’s been forced to make. When he meets the [...]
Jennifer Cloud’s full-length novel, Restless Shadows, is up in all formats in the bookshop, in Mobipocket format on the Mobipocket website, and will be available from other venues soon.
Anna Carswell is a sensitive. Knowing that her parents don’t really want her or understand her, she attempts suicide at the age of 16. Death comes [...]
Dear Author has posted an interview with Deena today, here.
Despite our computing woes, we expect to release Alien Dreams in early October. Watch for it in the bookshop. We’ll have a chat to celebrate as soon as we can schedule it.
Still Life with Devils is now listed on Amazon UK, Amazon France, Amazon Germany, [...]
Drollerie Press will be releasing Still Life with Devils by Deborah Grabien in early December, 2007. The novel, a supernatural thriller, focuses on family and relationships as well as figuring out whodunit and how. Grabien, who has received positive reviews from Publishers’ Weekly, Kirkus, Library Journal, Booklist, The Boston Globe the San Francisco Chronicle [...]
Ohio Governor Proposes Halving State Support; Many Libraries Could Close
Library aid would be cut by $227 million over two years
Norman Oder — Library Journal, 6/19/2009
$3.2 billion budget gap
Libraries’ cut significant
11 days to agree on budget
Trying to close a $3.2 billion gap by June 30, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland today proposed [...]
Our resources section is all about inspiration, and the list of sites that inspire us has grown too long for one page so it’s finally been updated and broken out into sections. It’s not perfect. There’s little rhyme or reason to where a link is on a page as long as it’s in the right [...]
It’s always a joy to receive a note from someone who likes one of our books, but there’s something particularly special about it when the note is from an author we really like as well.
Tate Halloway, author of the Garnet Lacey series (Tall Dark and Dead, Dead Sexy, Romancing the Dead, and Honeymoon of the [...]
Oyate needs our help. What is Oyate?
Oyate is a Native organization working to see that our lives and histories are portrayed honestly, and so that all people will know our stories belong to us. For Indian children, it is as important as it has ever been for them to know who they are and what [...]
Sunday, August 19th at 9PM EST US we’ll be having another chat to celebrate the release of Restless Shadows and Provenance. From now until then, both stories will be 25% off in the bookshop.
It’s that time again!
Drollerie Press is celebrating the release of Restless Shadows by Jennifer Cloud, and Provenance by Elena Murphy in chat tonight at 9pm EDT US. We’ll also be pretty giddy that Still Life with Devils by Deborah Grabien is now available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble for pre-order.
The chat will be linked [...]
We needed a break from shopping, so we’re taking one. We’re chatting in the Drollerie Press chatroom tonight. Pour a little nog, put on some carols, and come talk about books with us. We’ll be giving away an advance copy of the trade paperback The Revenant Road by Michael Boatman, and Deborah Grabien’s And Then [...]
Some bloggers, annoyed by cover whitewashing, and by the argument that book covers with non-white characters on the front don’t sell, have created a People of Color Reading Challenge. I ‘ve read more than one or two of the books on the list, but I would like to read more of them–not just because I [...]
Go vote for your favorite author, e-zine, publisher, novel, story, etc., etc., etc. If it has to do with words, you’ll probably find a category there.
(All the way at the bottom of the page. Don’t give up!)
Congratulations to Farrago’s Wainscot for your placement–Number 1 in Fiction ‘zine!
Congratulations to Romance Divas for best forum!
Congratulations to All Romance Readers for best bookstore!
Congratulations to Siren for best publisher!
And congratulations to the rest of you, who I do not yet know but intend to get to know quickly. Many congratulations to all the authors, [...]
Due to circumstances beyond our control, the gallery show scheduled for this evening at the Hybrid in Cleveland, Ohio will not take place. Hopefully we’ll be able to reschedule it in the not too distant future.
Deena
We’re late! When aren’t we? It’s been very busy behind the scenes around here.
First, most importantly, it’s Read an e-Book Week! All this week you’ll find our stories on sale for 15% off in the bookshop and for 10% off at Mobipocket.com.
This coming Sunday, we’ll be celebrating the release of two (Yes! Two!) new stories [...]
The Rocket Girls blog tells me this is small press month. They very kindly mention us as a small press that might be of interest to others, and one of the contributors to the blog is the publisher of a small press that I’ve personally found interesting, so I thought I’d return the favor. Medusa’s [...]
We had a little glitch in the bookstore, and the sale shut down last night. As a result, we’ve extended the sale in our bookstore through Sunday.
We test all the books in all the formats we offer before uploading them to the bookstore, but we’ve had buyers tell us that downloading the books with [...]
Well, it took typesetting a little while to get it right, but I’m very pleased to announce that Scars on the Face of God by C. G. Bauer is now available on our website and at Mobipocket, and will be available soon for the Kindle from Amazon, and for all available formats from Fictionwise.
Scott Nicholson [...]
Deborah Grabien will be in Cleveland to celebrate the release of Still Life with Devils in early December. Plans include a champagne reception at art gallery Hybrid, 2430 Tremont Avenue in Cleveland on December 15 at 8:00 p.m., and an author talk to discuss plotting a mystery, the Haunted Ballads series and Still Life with [...]
Sorrow, John Lawson’s amazing fantasy novel is now available in the bookshop and at Mobipocket, and will be up soon at Fictionwise in all available formats, and at Amazon for the Kindle. Don’t forget, our Mobipocket format books are also readable on the Kindle.
Return to Lawson’s world of Witch Ember with a new tale of [...]
StereoOpticon is finally available here and at Mobipocket, and will be available soon from Fictionwise, Amazon, and their affiliates.
What took so long? Every time it was formatted for a different reader, I found another little mistake: misplaced comma here, an odd italics there. It was a little crazy making. But the real reason is because [...]
I‘m sorry to have to report that the computer storing the bulk of the submissions we’ve received over the last two months has died a fiery and unexpected death. We are working on recovering as much data as possible, but we have not yet been able to recover the submissions. Rather than keep you waiting [...]
We’re celebrating some great releases with a summer reading sale. Everything in the bookstore is 10% off, except for new books, which are on sale for 15% off.
Don’t forget, we’ll be chatting with Imogen Howson, author of Falling, Frayed Tapestry and the newly released Fire and Shadow; along with Sarah Avery, the author of the [...]
We are very pleased to announce the first issue of our e-zine, “Scattered Things.” You’ll find great stories from Deborah Grabien, Jolie du Pre, Imogen Howson and Meredith Holmes, poetry from Joselle Vanderhooft and David Sklar, a couple of reviews for e-books you don’t want to miss; information about other great ‘zines with more free [...]
You may have noticed a change around here. We hope it’s to your liking.
The new bookstore replaces the old one and works much better. In the process of creating the new bookstore, however, something went haywire with our host and everything except that section of the site died an ignominious death.
I believe the change allowed [...]
The Helios project gives computers to poor kids who don’t have their own. With school starting up, the need is once again front and center. The most recent post is kind of heartbreaking and wonderful all at once. Seems one of the kind souls who gave a computer didn’t think the recipient should have gotten [...]
Fantasy Magazine features an ad for Rachel Oliver’s The Holly and the Ivan.
To see the ad go here. To read an excerpt of The Holly and the Ivan go here.
As a member of the Outer Alliance, I advocate for queer speculative fiction and those who create, publish and support it, whatever their sexual orientation and gender identity. I make sure this is reflected in my actions and my work.
It’s Pride Day, which makes it a good time to let you all know that we’ve [...]
We are very pleased to announce the release of the very funny and truly horrific book by Michael Boatman, The Revenant Road.
Obadiah Grudge finds that he’s been left a legacy he wants no part of: monster hunting. He can’t get out of it, though. The monsters are already hunting him.
The Revenant Road is available now [...]
Jennifer McKenzie! She wins an ecopy of Falling, an ecopy of Frayed Tapestry, and a Drollerie Press journal.
Jen, contact me via email (imogen AT imogenhowson DOT com) so I can send you your prizes. I know you already have a copy of Falling, so you can choose another Drollerie book instead. [...]
This website has gotten pretty big in a very short time, and there’s a lot of information tucked away in hidden corners, so I thought I’d provide a little guide to where everything is.
There are 5 sections of the website: the Bookshop, Interact, About, Authors, and Submissions.
The Bookshop is pretty self-explanatory. It provides downloads of [...]
For those of you who enjoy twittering, Felicity Bloomfield will begin posting a short story through Twitter. It takes place between “Tar” (free download here!) and “At Sea”, which is available in Needles & Bones. Click here for Felicity’s Twitter profile, or on Needles & Bones to buy the book.
And while you’re at it, don’t [...]
Great news! Unseelie by Meredith Holmes is now available on our bookshop and at Mobipocket. It will also soon be available on Fictionwise and on Amazon for the Kindle.
From the book: The darkness tasted like bitter bark and earth, sharp berries, and cold water. I could not feel it as it came over me [...]
I‘m very pleased to be able to announce that the excerpt of Unseelie is now available.
This book is so much fun. I am really pleased that Meredith Holmes submitted this, her first novel, to us. And, to encourage those of you who are participating, it started as a Nanowrimo novel. It’s grown far beyond [...]
The chat was fun! As usual we were all over the place, but we talked a lot about the new books coming out soon. Such as:
Michael F. Stewart’s 24 Bones, a supernatural thriller set in Egypt that combines Coptic Christianity with Egyptian myth, and comes out with something altogether new;
Kathi Wallace’s Assiniboin Girl, a YA [...]
I‘m very pleased to announce that Alien Dreams by John Rosenman will soon be available in our bookshop as well as on mobipocket.com, fictionwise.com and ebookmall.com. There’s no excerpt yet but as soon as it’s through final edits, it will be posted. For more information about John or the book, check out the front [...]
I can’t believe I put the title in LOLspeak. Obviously, I’m a bit giddy. The long awaited anthology, Vampires, Zombies, Ghosts, and Other Things That Go Bump in the Night is finally available! You can find it at Mobipocket as Bump in the Night now and at Amazon and Fictionwise soon. We have it available [...]
Liz won a copy of The Fire Within;
Paula won a copy of Confessions of the Creature;
Krista won a copy of The Rose of Shanhasson;
and Isabelle won a $10.00 gift certificate to our bookshop!
If you’re a winner, please drop a note to Deena at deena @ drolleriepress.com (remove the spaces!) and let us know where we [...]
I‘ve had my fair share of frustration and confusion with DRM. I don’t like buying a song and not being able to play it on more than one machine or one kind of player. I’d like to be able to read my e-book on my desktop, my handheld, and/or any other device I buy, especially [...]
The dark fantasy with a twist of romance, first book in the Guardian Circle (because she canNOT leave it after this crazy amazing buildup), Zerah’s Chosen by Isabelle Santiago is now available. To read an excerpt, go here. To buy the book, go here.
The rest of our September releases will be coming out this [...]
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