Jersey Devil Press

The 2010 storySouth Million Writers Award nominations have begun.

For our part, Jersey Devil Press nominated “The Werebear Who Wished to Come in from the Rain,” by Mike Sweeney, and “You and Me and the End of the World,” by M.R. Lang. Good luck, guys.

Reader nominations are open until February 28, 2010. You can find out more here and then nominate a story you think deserves some much needed accolades.

Good evening, ladies and gentle-fops. I come to you on the decline of this fine, fine Groundhog’s Day with startling, amazing, terrific news:

Perhaps., by Stephen Schwegler, is now available for pre-order.



Yes, you read that right, Perhaps. is now available for pre-order. In our store.
Perhaps. is due in all your usual retail establishments on March 15th, 2010, but we, being the wonderful people we are, have decided to open up pre-orders for it for the month of February.

You can order it as a classic paperback or in the extra fancy “author signed” edition. I can’t promise you that Steve’s handwriting will be legible, but I can promise that the ink will be free of blood. He was against that for some reason.

All pre-orders will be personally packaged with love and good intentions and will ship on March 15th.

You can find an excerpt from the collection, the short story “Jesus Was Broke,” here. Read it, love it, buy it. In whatever order you want.

And when you’re done, don’t forget to check out Issue Five! Free and online, just the way Mama used to make it.

I didn’t think there’d ever be a time in my life where I’d purposely quote Short Circuit, but there you go.

Issue Five is indeed alive, or at least as alive as an online publication is gonna get. To commemorate such an indivisible milestone, we’ve got five–count ‘em, five–stories, from five authors, about five different topics. Our prime number lovers include Louis Wittig, Marc-Anthony Taylor, Dawn-Michelle Baude, Brandon Blackburn, and Andrew Frankel. Holy crap.

As always, this issue is available in two varieties: as a downloadable .pdf or you can read ‘em online. Choose wisely.