Black Friday Shenanigans

If you’re reading this, we’ll assume you’ve woken from your turkey comas and made it back from the malls untrampled. Good for you. Because now it’s time to start the holiday season in earnest, and you know what that means: It’s time to spend all your money.

But don’t worry, we here at Jersey Devil Press are here to help you out. Starting today and continuing until the new year, all the books in our store are discounted. That’s right, you can get signed copies of Perhaps. or Exponential Apocalypse for only $9.99! The 2010 Jersey Devil Press Anthology is also $9.99, although none of those are signed. I mean, seriously, you ever try to corral twenty authors in a room with just one pen? It gets ugly.

We’ve also discounted our Genghis Khan Versus a Velociraptor magnet set to five dollars. That’s right, just five dollars! And speaking of merchandise, you should also check out our new CafePress store. It’s got t-shirts and coffee mugs and stuff. Stuff you can buy and give to people. Or keep for yourself. *hint hint*

Anyway, our point is, this shit is awesome and now you can buy it and fulfill all your societal obligations for the next month in one fell swoop! Our books will change peoples lives, and our t-shirts can also be worn to hockey games. And then there’s the coffee mugs. They hold coffee! Or tea! Or other things! It’s unbelievable.

And, don’t forget, our books are available on Amazon, too! They’re probably running some crazy ass deals of their own, so you might as well take advantage of it.


Pushcart Prize Nominations

We’re working hard on Issue Fifteen, and the Holiday Half-Issue, and, well, Issue Sixteen, too, but we still managed to mail out our Pushcart Prize nominations just under the wire. We had good reason to procrastinate, though, as two of the nominated stories came from Issue Fourteen.

Without further ado:

Run Away” by Z.Z. Boone
Big Girl” by yt sumner
Out of Steampunk and Zombies Comes Bruce Lee” by Jenny Ortiz
Album of the Year” by Gavin Broom
The Pragmatist” by Hilary Gan
That Was Called Love” by Chloe Caldwell

We’d also like to give a special mention to Caitlin Campbell’s “Honesty Spree.” It was magnificent, but was originally published elsewhere last year, so we didn’t feel right laying claim to it.

Anyway, good luck to the authors above, and we love you to all the others. We are fans of everything we publish here, but, sadly, we aren’t allowed to nominate all our stories for every award. Believe us, though, we would if we could.

No More Submissions Until Next Year!

Holiday Half-Issue submissions are now closed. If you haven’t heard from us yet, don’t worry, you will. The issue itself will go live sometime in December.

Regular submissions remain closed until 2011. We’ll let you know all the details on that when the January issue goes up. It will most likely involve writing things and then sending those things to us.