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It hardly seems possible that it was seven years ago, when the concept for Courting Morpheus become a reality as the original publisher and I worked out the details. It’s been a crazy roller-coaster ride since then, but what else would one expect from the town of New Bedlam anyway?
Insanity, naturally. A Lovecraftian darkness, absolutely. A madness only Poe could dream of? Probably. Wouldn’t surprise me in the least bit if Lovecraft and Poe hide in the basement of some poor sap’s house down on 5th Street.
After two years of running the ‘zine, a failed attempt to bring it to print and six months of beating files into some form of order, we’re back. And never mind those sticky fingers crawling up over your neck, they’ll leave you alone soon enough. Stop fidgeting.
Town Archives Volume 1 will release exclusively in ebook format through Smashwords and Kindle on Wednesday, February 15th. Volume 2 will follow just a month later, on Wednesday, March 14th. Announcements closer to release days will be made here and through Facebook and Twitter.
We are also taking names for people who wish to purchase the complete collected files in limited edition print. The information is on the purchase page. Proceeds from the sale of the print version – should it happen – will be divided between the imprint (35% for comps/future anthologies) and the authors (65% split evenly). We will only put it through if we have enough confirmed pre-orders by June 30th.
With that, we bid you a brief but mischievous… see ya later!
Jodi Lee is publisher and editor in chief of Belfire Press, and its imprints The New Bedlam Project and Needfire Poetry. Her writing has appeared in several anthologies as well as magazines on and offline for the past decade. She recently released her first short fiction collection, Into a Long Ago Future.
