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Meet the Schemers: Jonathan L. Howard

Schemers is the latest genre-crossing anthology of new short fiction from Stone Skin Press. From the classic myths to the pages of the Bible, from Shakespeare’s stage to the yellowed pulps of yesteryear, literature runs red with tales of plotting

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Meet the Schemers: Tania Hershman

Schemers is the latest genre-crossing anthology of new short fiction from Stone Skin Press. From the classic myths to the pages of the Bible, from Shakespeare’s stage to the yellowed pulps of yesteryear, literature runs red with tales of plotting

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Toronto Celebrates The Lion and the Aardvark

Last night’s Toronto launch of our modern fables anthology The Lion and the Aardvark exceeded expectations, thanks to a packed house of fable enthusiasts. Our supply of the book sold out at half-time. Writers Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, Ann Ewan, Heather J.

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Lion and the Aardvark Toronto Launch Event

With offices in London and writers from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland and arguably France, Stone Skin Press is a decidedly post-national operation. Yet since Creative Director Robin D. Laws calls Hogtown home, a nice swath of The Lion

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Factors in Arranging The Lion and the Aardvark

Ordering the stories in a fiction anthology is always an exercise in multi-level thinking. The Lion and the Aardvark, the upcoming book of modern fables I am editing for Stone Skin Press, adds some new wrinkles to the task. In

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Hear a Story From Shotguns v. Cthulhu

Author Chad Fifer ushers in a new era of the H. P. Podcraft Literary Podcast with this evocative reading of “One Small, Valuable Thing”, his contribution to our Shotguns v. Cthulhu anthology.

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Robin on the G*M*S Podcast

Hear me talk about the process of conceptualizing, commissioning and crowdfunding our first four books on the landmark 50th episode of the G*M*S Podcast. Regarding the post-interview discussion, I hate to ruin a thrilling mental picture but have to say

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Shub-Niggurath Syndrome

When I agreed to serve as creative director for Stone Skin Press, one of my challenges to myself was to always treat writers as I would want to be treated. This is simpler to say than to live up to.

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Behind the Scenes on Shotguns v. Cthulhu

Yesterday we revealed the Shotguns v. Cthulhu Table of Contents. Today we thought we’d draw back the squamous curtain and share the project brief we sent to our impressive roster of New Cthulhuvians. Here’s the meat of it, shorn of

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Shotguns v. Cthulhu Table of Contents Revealed

Though we’ve already revealed the author roster for Shotguns v. Cthulhu, we haven’t yet tantalized you with the titles of its fourteen tales of action-packed cosmic horror…until now: Kyla Ward, Who Looks Back? Rob Heinsoo, Old Wave Dennis Detwiller, Lithic

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