OK, now I’m dizzy.

Anyway, Issue Eleven is now online for your reading pleasure and features new stories by Micah Dean Hicks, Shea Newton, Isaac James Baker, Leah Petersen, and Tarl Roger Kudrick, as well as the triumphant return of Brian Long. It’s a good ‘n. All y’all should get to readin’ nowish. Seriously. Before I figure out some other way to devolve the language in this post.

You can find the stories here, and the .pdf here.

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.

Seriously, though. Thank you to everyone — contributors to the online magazine, to the the book, readers, writers who haven’t made it to the site yet, that newspaper guy in Wisconsin — for sticking with us and helping us do what we do. As with almost all online mags, money is a foreign, lusted-after thing for us. Jersey Devil Press is a labor of love and caffeine, so knowing we’re being read, knowing we’re appreciated, goes a long way.

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.

Between the Anthology pre-orders, the picnic and our own lives, Monica and I are going to be more than a little swamped for the next few weeks. As such, we’re just not going to have the time to read through submissions the way we normally do. Rather than amass a backlog and make you wait weeks and weeks, we figured this was the more responsible way to do this. Plus it means we’ll be in a better mood when we do get to your story.

The handful of subs currently in our inbox should be rocked out by the end of tomorrow. Anything that comes in between now and August is just gonna sit there. While we’re not going to immediately reject it, we are gonna go in a little annoyed, so it’s probably in your best interests not to do that.

Thanks for your understanding in these hot, busy, hot, trying times. We look forward to being inundated with your best work on August 1st.

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!

We’ve done it. We’ve made it to the double-digits. Woo!

With us on this momentous occasion are the spectacularly-named authors Caitlin Campbell, Ezra Fox, Ally Malinenko, Ash Krafton, P.G. Edwards, and Carl Fuerst. Seriously, they sound like a lit class syllabus. Or, as is probably more appropriate, a summer reading list.

So get to reading. Don’t even think about putting it off. You remember how well that ended up, right?

Individual stories are here, .pdf is here.

But, hey, you can still find all those awesome authors here on the website! Just click that Authors! Authors! link over on your right. Or, you know, the one I just inserted into the post. Either way! Click it. It’s a sexy list, right?

Want to be part of it?

Then take a look at our submission guidelines. And check out our editor interviews here and — most recently, at Six Questions For… — here.

Study them, memorize them. Print them out and sleep with them under your pillows. Then send us what you’ve got. And maybe you too can be one of our sexy, awesome, wonderful authors and end up in the next anthology.

Ryan Werner‘s started up “Our Band Could Be Your Lit,” wherein he’ll write 100 stories under 700 words based on songs suggested by readers.  You can follow him on Twitter, too.  I’ve sent in mine.  Have you sent in yours?

Now, I know what you’re thinking: “That sounds kinda, sorta similar to yt sumner‘s ‘You and Me’ project.”  Well, Ryan thought so, too.  He freely admits she inspired his site.  More to the point, have you sent yt your damn postcard yet?  She’s still not at 100.  Check the details and then fucking do it.

Speaking of authors who want you to send them stuff, Victor David Giron‘s Curbside Splendor wants your submissions!  He’s looking for literary fiction and poetry based in contemporary urban settings.  You can find updates on Facebook, too.  They’re only a few pieces in, but so far so good.

And then there’s Stephen Schwegler. He and I got bored and wrote a ridiculous story entitled “Screw the Universe” over e-mail. Now we’re shamelessly sharing it with the world. Thanks, internet!

So what’s everyone else doing?  Got a website or a project you need a hand with?  Feel free to leave a link in the comments or e-mail info@jerseydevilpress.com with whatever you’ve got.

Sharing is caring, friends, and we care.  We care so hard.

*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!