The 2010
Jersey Devil Press
Anthology!

The 2010 Jersey Devil Press Anthology is now available, from our store, from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or from any other store of your choosing (ISBN 978-0-9846127-0-3). Also available in .epub, .pdf, and Kindle varieties.

Clocking in at nearly 200 pages, The 2010 Jersey Devil Press Anthology is the best of what we’ve published so far and then some. Twenty stories by twenty authors, all awesome. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll probably get hungry. And none of that is hyperbole.

This, however, is:

Can’t read? No problem! The 2010 Jersey Devil Press Anthology is a bright, sexy red. Just having it on your bookcase classes up the joint tenfold. Who cares what’s in it?

Have embarrassing gas? The 2010 Jersey Devil Press Anthology can stop it. Dark circles under your eyes? The 2010 Jersey Devil Press Anthology will get rid of them! A crippling lack of self-confidence? The 2010 Jersey Devil Press Anthology will give you self-assurance in spades. Too short? Buy six copies and attach three to each shoe. Hate trees? Buy a gross of paperbacks and set them on fire.

I have it on good authority that that person you really admire already has two copies. You don’t want to look bad in front of him, do you?

Look. You need The 2010 Jersey Devil Press Anthology. More than you need oxygen. More than you need peanut butter! Your life will be forever empty without it! Buy it now! In paperback, .epub, .pdf, and Kindle varieties.

Should you disagree with us, or suffer from the affliction known as procrastination, that’s OK. We won’t judge you. At least not a lot. Because next Tuesday, July 27th, the anthology will go live on Amazon, as well as magically appear as a .pdf, an .epub and in the Kindle Store. And possibly Apple’s iBookstore, too, but they’re kind of draconian these days so who knows.

If you’d prefer to see our smiling faces when you buy the book then you’re in luck! Four days after the book release, there’s the book release picnic! Saturday, July 31st, from 1:00 p.m until question mark, in Brookdale Park, Bloomfield, NJ. We’ll have books on hand for sale, you can meet editors and other writers, you can point and laugh at the Jersey stereotypes that will undoubtedly be walking past. It’ll be a blast.

What have we been so busy with? Why, the release of the 2010 Jersey Devil Press Anthology! And setting up the requisite launch picnic!

To celebrate the release of the 2010 JDP Anthology, we’ll be having a picnic in Brookdale Park in Bloomfield, NJ. You’re in charge of bringing your own snacks, but we’ll have plenty of copies of the anthology on hand. And probably a couple of snacks, too, despite ourselves. Date is Saturday, July 31st, from 1:00 p.m. until five or six or something. Consider it a chance to meet other authors and readers and get some much needed sun. And, let’s face it. You need some sun.

E-mail tickets@jerseydevilpress.com for more information on the exact location within the park. No, tickets are not actually required, but we don’t get to use that address nearly enough.

In the meantime, you’ve only got until July 27th to order the 2010 Anthology and any other JDP book for just $25! That includes Exponential Apocalypse, Perhaps., or another copy of the anthology. That’s right, two copies of the 2010 Jersey Devil Press Anthology for just $25! And all orders of $25 or more, of anything, will ship with a free set of magnets! Use them to stick stuff to metal!

Well, OK, it’s not in the pudding. The proof is on my desk. But either way, it’s here and it’s pretty.

In fact, it’s so pretty that we’re unconsciously doing strange, uncharacteristic things, just so it’ll talk to us. Things like special deals in the store!

From now until release day, July 27th, order the 2010 Anthology and any other book for just $25! That includes Exponential Apocalypse, Perhaps., or another copy of the anthology. That’s right! Two copies of the 2010 JDP Anthology for just $25! That’s a savings of at least $3.98! Assuming you don’t live in New York, you can probably buy a sandwich with the savings!

Also, as if the above wasn’t sweet enough, all orders of $25 or more, of anything, will ship with a free set of magnets! That’s another $7.50 in savings! You could buy a pizza! At that one pizzeria, on Tuesday, pick-up only. No toppings. Savings!

So there you go. Incentive to shop early and shop often. Alternately, you could shop smart and shop S-mart, but that tends to end with shotguns and tears. I think I’d rather have a book.

Pre-orders for the 2010 Jersey Devil Press Anthology are now open!

You can do so by going to our store and adding the necessary quantities to your cart. Might we suggest “a lot?”

While you’re there, don’t forget we have other books, too. And magnets. Because they’re magic.

The 2010 Jersey Devil Press Anthology is nearly 200 pages of awesome and will ship on July 27, 2010. Maybe a day or two earlier if live far away. It would be mean to make you wait any longer than you have to.

*cover art subject to being less blurry

After a couple of weeks of dicking around behind the scenes, it’s our pleasure to formally announce the 2010 Jersey Devil Press Anthology!

The 2010 Anthology showcases the best of what we’ve published so far, as well as six — count ‘em, six! — new stories, all of which epitomize what we here at Jersey Devil Press are about. Stories rife with Jersey attitude, dark humor, and zombies, and werebears, and unicorns, oh my! It’s a veritable bacchanal of genre-straddling, clown-fearing, taco-hunting, world-ending prose!

The 2010 Anthology is set for release on Tuesday, July 27th, and will be available in paperback and a variety of digital editions.

Featuring work by:

Andrew Frankel
Ansley Moon
Bruce J. Berger
Christina Murphy
Danger_Slater
Daniel McDermott
Gavin Broom
Jenny Ortiz
Jonathan Plombon
Jonathan H. Roberts
Kate Delany
Kevin Brown
Louis Wittig
M. R. Lang
Mike Sweeney
Ryan Werner
Stephen Schwegler
yt sumner
Z. Z. Boone

Pre-orders begin next week!

Word Riot Press just released What’s Your Exit? A Literary Detour Through New Jersey, a collection of poems, stories, and essays by a number of New Jersey authors, as well as some people who just drove through it once or twice.

I haven’t actually finished it yet, but so far I’m digging it. There’s enough variety to suit whatever literary mood you might be in, and everything revolves around Jersey in one way or another, so that’s a plus. And where else are you gonna find (surprisingly resonant) poetry by Jason Biggs, the dude who fucked a baked good in American Pie? Hell, there are alternative tables of contents, sorted by Parkway and Turnpike exits. That alone should arrest your interest.

Figured a large enough number of our readers and writers have some sort of Jersey ties that I’d throw this out there. If nothing else, it’s a pretty solid defense against anyone who only knows New Jersey through The Sopranos or Jersey Shore.

You can order What’s Your Exit? from from Amazon or from Word Riot directly.

Also wanted to mention that Stephen Schwegler is giving away a copy of his book Perhaps. to one lucky reader. You can tell this is all him because, nice guy that he is, he’s not even making you jump through hoops for it. You can check out the details here.

And while we’re talking about contests, go check out Bananafish’s first Short Story Competition. The winner gets money AND a t-shirt.

OK, now, time to rock out the May issue. Make sure you catch up on April’s while you still can!

Well, OK, yeah, you can catch up on all the issues all the time, but let’s at least pretend there’s some urgency here.

Wishes & Fishes
by Eirik Gumeny

Once upon a time there was a monkey. But this was no ordinary monkey. This was a magic, wish-granting monkey. Unfortunately for the monkey, though, this wish granting came at a price: He had to be listening to country music for the wish to come true.

The monkey hated country music.

He tried to like it, he really did. He wasn’t a stupid monkey, he knew that liking country music would be in his best interests. But there were songs about tractors. Tractors! The monkey just couldn’t do it.

One night, while drowning his sorrows in cheddar biscuits at Red Lobster, the monkey met a girl monkey. They got to talking and everything was great, until a Garth Brooks song came on over the PA system. The monkey immediately became annoyed.

“What’s wrong?” asked the girl monkey.

“I hate country music,” replied the monkey.

“It’s not THAT bad.”

“I know,” continued the monkey, “and it gives me the power to grant wishes, but…”

“You can grant wishes when you hear country music?”

“Yeah.”

“How is that a problem?”

“I really, REALLY hate country music.”

“Why don’t you just wish for the power to grant wishes WITHOUT having to hear country music?”

The monkeys lived happily ever after.

If you’ve already submitted a Print Only story and not yet heard back, don’t fret. We’ll treat your submission with the same love and respect we always do.

This closing will most likely be permanent. We’ve received, and accepted, some great stories submitted solely for the print anthology, but, next year, we’re thinking all potential contributors will have to go through the website first. There’ll still be some never-before-published stories, but we’re going to try and request new contributions from authors we like. But that’s getting ahead of ourselves. We’ve still gotta get this year’s anthology banged out.

Selections of already-published pieces for the print anthology will begin in earnest in May. We’ve got a rough idea of which stories we’ll pick, and those lucky authors can expect an e-mail formally requesting their OK then. We’ll announce the line-up in June and hopefully get the book out in July. ‘Til then, you’ll have to sit tight, tear through the archives and the current issue, and make your best guesses.

First, a reminder that Perhaps. is now available. We’ve got paperbacks, signed copies, and digital versions for your Kindle or e-reader. Buy one now!

Second, Duotrope’s Digest updated their classification system, opening us up to some new authors. Hooray! That said, New Submitters, please know that we are not fans of murder for the sake of murder. We prefer humor in our horror. Also, stop sending us stories about rape. Seriously. Fucking stop.

Third, we’re fixin’ to have ourselves a little shindig in New York City come the 24th of April. Part reading, part theater workshop, part free beer. Full details soon, but, for now, just mark your calendars. You won’t want to miss it.