Interview: The Grim Reader talks to Mercedes Murdock Yardley

  Mercedes M. Yardley is a whimsical dark fantasist who wears stilettos, red lipstick, and poisonous flowers in her hair.  She is the author of many diverse works, including Beautiful Sorrows, the Stabby Award-winning Apocalyptic Montessa and Nuclear Lulu: A Tale of Atomic Love, Pretty Little Dead Girls: A Novel of Murder and Whimsy, Detritus in Love, and the BONE…

Words & Music with Calvin Demmer

Calvin Demmer joins me today to talk about words and music. Calvin is a writer with over 30 stories to his name and he shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. A fellow metal fan, Calvin talks about how music helps him with his writing, by providing a wall of sound that acts as…

Dark review: Dark Moon Digest #26

The latest edition of Dark Moon Digest is amazing. It’s amazing for a couple of reasons. The first of these being that it is an emotional issue for the PMMP crew. Read the intro and the first story and you will see why. The second reason is the fiction. Dark Moon Digest is a quarterly…

Cover art spotlight: George Cotronis

Cover art – it can make or break a book. It can be the difference in a book selling 30 copies or 300 copies or 3000 copies! As a reader, I have actually purchased books on the cover art alone. It is imperative that the book looks good. If your cover is half-arsed then perhaps…

Interview: Max Booth III & Lori Michelle talk PMMP

I recently had a sit down with Max Booth III and Lori Michelle to talk about their adventures with Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing (Is this the longest named publisher in the industry?). Anyway, Max and Lori at PMMP have been grafting away since the summer of 2012 releasing a string of quality books that range…