Book Release: STRAEON

From the creator of the acclaimed Campbellian Anthology series comes STRAEON: a new quarterly exploration of stories that are longer, more complex, more mature, and more challenging than the norm. If you’re looking for space unicorns, sexy vampires, or short comedies that end in bad puns, you won’t find that here. But if conventional genre stories don’t quite fit you—if...

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If you're not reading SHOWCASE, you're missing great stories!

Here's what we've published lately!   "Lightspeed Messenger," by Michael Andre-Driussi "Copy That," by Holly Schofield "How the Invasion Came to Able Tooling of Cooper's Creek, Kansas," by Tyler Tork "The Last Tree," by Rebecca Roland "Bottoms Up," by Gary Cuba "Viral," by Simon Kewin "Waters of Oblivion," by Michael Haynes "Dragonomics," by Richard...

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EOCL Sale: Stupefying Stories 1.2

One of my pet peeves is the traditional publishing industry “All Rights for the Remaining Balance of Eternity” contract, so when we launched the e-book version of Stupefying Stories, I included a “three years and out” self-destruct clause in the contract. To my surprise we’re still here three years later, and that self-destruct clause is now armed and ready to blow. Therefore,...

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Inventory Clearance Sale: It Came From The Slushpile

Yes, it’s our original print edition, done as a prototype to see just how closely we could emulate the look and feel of a vintage digest-sized pulp in what was initially planned to be a quarterly magazine. We spent a small fortune on this one, and aside from my never being really happy with the way the cover turned out, it worked...but it also convinced me our money was...

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STORYBLITZ!

STUPEFYING STORIES SHOWCASE returns to production with STORYBLITZ: A Storm of Stories! Featuring: Fulfilling, by Joy Bernardo The Thing About Analyn, by David Steffen Disclaimer, by Bret McCormick This Cat Must Die! by Jason Lairamore A Failure to Communicate, by Phil Temples The Pro Turned Weird, by Stephen Lickman Back from the Dead, by John Lance Till Death Us Do Part, by E.N. Loizis And that's just what we published today...

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It's our first-ever 36-HOUR SALE!

That's right. For the next 36 hours, STUPEFYING STORIES 1.1 (a.k.a. the October 2011 issue) is on sale for the irresistibly low price of $0.99! Slightly notorious around here for being the last time we ever attempted to publish poetry, issue 1.1 is better known for being the first time Anatoly Belilovsky appeared in our pages, as well as the first publication of the outstanding...

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Cross-links are live

Every day, we get a little closer to what we're trying to achieve. Today, it gives me great pleasure to announce that we've got the cross-links working. Which means that if you open the Amazon.com page for the Kindle edition of Scout's Honor, you'll find a link to the paperback edition, and vice versa. Better yet, the reader reviews and ratings are now shared across both...

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BOOK RELEASE: FIVE STARS

Title: FIVE STARS: Five Outstanding Tales from the early days of STUPEFYING STORIES Contributors: Aaron Bradford Starr, Rebecca Roland, Guy Stewart, David W. Landrum, Ryan M. Jones Editor: Bruce Bethke ISBN: 978-1-938834-35-6 (print edition) ISBN: 978-1-938834-34-9 (ebook edition)   FIVE STARS is the new STUPEFYING STORIES sampler package.* These five carefully...

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IT'S ALIVE!!!!!

After more "learning experiences" than I like to think about, our first print-on-demand book, Scout's Honor, is finally debugged, finished, approved, and ready to go. Today you can get it at this link (https://www.createspace.com/4958544) but over the next few days it will be percolating out to Amazon worldwide, and then out to distributors, bookstores, and...well, basically,...

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Book Release: The Book of Judith: Sixteen Tales of Life, Wonder, and Magic by Judith Field

Featuring: "The Prototype" "The Night the Cat Crept In" "Psychopomps" "The Great Grampando" "Leaky Magic" "The River Bride" "Lindow Five" "The Tap-Washer Talisman" "Stitch in Time" "Novichok-452" "The Finnegoid" "Diva" "The Way to a Man's Heart" "Transit of Mars" "Full Fathom Five" "And then there were three" Now available for Amazon Kindle and Kindle Reader Apps at...

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Book Release: Stupefying Stories 1.13 (August 2014)

Featuring: "Personal Space," by Alison Pentecost "The Great Work of Meister VanHocht," by Auston Habershaw "Rainbow Spores," by Jamie Lackey "End Times," by S. R. Algernon "Her Symphony and Song," by Sarah Frost "Happy Valley," by Garth Upshaw "Memory Makes Liars of Us All," by Eric Dontigney "Meat 2.0," by William Ledbetter Now available for Amazon Kindle and Kindle...

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Book Release: Scout's Honor, by Henry Vogel

Rampant Loon Press is pleased to announce the release of our first original novel: Scout's Honor: A Planetary Romance, by Henry Vogel. Currently available for Amazon Kindle (and already a best-seller with twenty reader reviews!) Scout's Honor will be available in the Nook Press and Apple iTunes store shortly, and (now this is the part we're really excited about) in...

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SHOWCASE #18 IS LIVE

Issue #18 of our free companion webzine, SHOWCASE, is now live at this link: http://www.stupefyingstoriesshowcase.com/index.html Featuring: "DEATH BITES" by Bill Bibo, Jr. "SPORT OF KINGS" by Judith Field And another Progress Report by yours truly. SHOWCASE #18! It's got ninja leprechauns!...

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STUPEFYING STORIES 1.12 (March 2014) is released!

STUPEFYING STORIES 1.12 (a.k.a., the March 2014 issue) is now live on Amazon and selling in the U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, India, and Japan.  For sales links, samples, and more information, see the SHOWCASE site. More sales links coming soon! Featuring:      CHRISTOPHER LEE KNERAM      “Anachronic...

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Reading Period Closed

*** PLEASE NOTE *** STUPEFYING STORIES is currently CLOSED to unsolicited submissions while we concentrate on releasing new books. We will resume reading new submissions for STUPEFYING STORIES, SHOWCASE, and the STUPEFYING STORIES PRESENTS line on June 1, 2014. Note also that this closure affects STUPEFYING STORIES only. STRAEON remains open to new submissions. ...

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SHOWCASE #15 RELEASED

The changes announced in SHOWCASE #14 are already paying off, as SHOWCASE #15 rolls out right on schedule this week. If you're looking for the latest news, latest download links, and best of all, FREE STORIES, check out our companion webzine, STUPEFYING STORIES SHOWCASE, now ready for your reading pleasure at this link: StupefyingStoriesSHOWCASE.com  This week featuring: “Best in Show,” by Robert Lowell Russell “On the Pond,” by Jake...

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Stupefying Stories is temporarily closing to new submissions

Effective March 1, 2014, STUPEFYING STORIES will be closed to unsolicited submissions until June 1, 2014. The short explanation is that the volume of new submissions we're receiving is interfering with our ability to release new books on schedule. For a more complete explanation, see the editorial in SHOWCASE #14. If this works as expected, we will again be closed to unsolicited submissions from October 1, 2014, to December 31, 2014, and thereafter...

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SHOWCASE #14 ESCAPES!

For the latest news, latest download links, and best of all, FREE STORIES, check out our companion webzine, STUPEFYING STORIES SHOWCASE, ready to read now at this link: StupefyingStoriesSHOWCASE.com This week featuring: “Advances,” by Liz Colter “The Collections Agent,” by A. G. Carpenter  “How Love Works,” by Jamie Lackey “Stanley P. Strauss, Destroyer of the Universe,” by Samuel Marzioli Editorial: And we're back...again, by Bruce Bethke ATTENTION,...

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SHOWCASE #13 ESCAPES!

For the latest news, latest download links, and best of all, FREE STORIES, check out our companion webzine, STUPEFYING STORIES SHOWCASE, ready to read now at this link: StupefyingStoriesSHOWCASE.com This week featuring: “Cold Beyond White,” by Beth Cato “Above the Ice,” by Matthew Timmins  “Searching for Home,” by Lance J. Mushung “The End,” by Scott M. Davis 2014: The Changes Ahead, by Bruce Bethk...

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