May 27th, 2022!!!
For The Resistance!
The Alien Buddha Wears a Black Bandanna. Revolution and Protest themed works.
Alien Buddha Press 2020
Available now!
HOOSIER NOIR 2
AVAILABLE NOW!
HOOSIER NOIR is the low-rent home of gritty Indiana Crime fiction. Our debut issues featured indie crime heavyweights: Alec Cizak, Les Edgerton, and Preston Lang. That was just the beginning. Issue TWO features Marianne Halbert , Serena Jayne, Stephen J. Golds, C.W. Balckwell, and many more. available
We aren't going anywhere.
HOOSIER NOIR: TWO
The Goods Are Here!
Available now from First City Books!
Damaged Goods is a journey of a writer honing his craft. This is a collection of new and previously published stories by J. Travis Grundon. It's a great introduction to his work and a must-have for long-time readers.
Busy Day
Today, I had a third story abducted by Alien Buddha Press for their The Alien Buddha Wears A Black Bandanna anthology. Coming soon!
I also received an email informing me that I was a runner up in the Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. This makes me a 4x runner-up. The story I submitted will join other new pieces in Damaged Goods, available Oct. 16th!
Hoosier Noir: 2 Cover Reveal
COVER REVEAL
Photo by Robert Walker
Hoosier Noir: Two
Author Spotlight on Don Stoll
Submissions are still open until Sept. 15th!
Another Abduction
I'm happy to announce that I've had another story abducted by Alien Buddha Press. Look for it in Alien Buddha Zine #19. Dropping in October!
Abducted By Alien Buddha Press
I'm excited to announce that I had a story abducted by Alien Buddha Press. Check out my story 'Thick As Thieves' in Alien Buddha Gets Rejected. This collection features 36 contributors, over 260 pages of featured content that was previously rejected for other publications, or is simply rejection-themed.
Get your copy here.
Submissions are open!
Submissions are now open for Hoosier Noir: TWO!
Submission Guidelines:
Hoosier Noir is seeking gritty, well written short stories. All stories must involve an Indiana crime or Hoosiers involved in a crime. All stories should be 2,000 to 5,000 words. We’re also accepting flash fiction with a max of 1,000 words.
Please, put your name and the title of your story in the subject line. Include a cover letter in the body of the email as well as a brief (100 word) third-person biography. No reprints. Please, proofread your work.
No simultaneous submissions.
Allow up to 3 to 4 weeks after the end of the posted reading period before querying about the status of your submission. Send your story in standard manuscript format, double spaced as an attached Microsoft Word document (.doc or .rtf) to hoosiernoir (at) gmail (dot) com.
Rights: Hoosier Noir claims the following publication rights: First English-language Rights, English-language Periodical Rights, World Periodical Rights, and Electronic Distribution Rights. All rights revert back to the author six months after initial publication.
Payment: Each selected author will receive a payment of $15 ($10 for Flash fiction) & one contributor copy.
Submissions will close September 13th 2020 at midnight.
Submissions for our 4:20 Noir (Special Issue) Open September 15th 2020. This will not be limited to Indiana Crime Fiction. We are looking for your best marijuana-related crime fiction. All regular submissions guidelines and payment details remain the same.
Issue ONE is available here.
Unforgettable by J. Travis Grundon
J. Travis Grundon reading 'Unforgettable' from The Vincennes Writers Group collection, BAD DECISIONS. This reading was a part of our virtual event Hoosier Noir at the Bar. Check out the other videos on the Hoosier Noir TV YouTube channel for more badass readings.
Coming Soon!
COMING SOON FROM FIRST CITY BOOKS!
Damaged Goods is a journey of a writer honing his craft. This is a collection of new and previously published stories by J. Travis Grundon. It's a great introduction to his work and a must-have for long-time readers.
“J. Travis Grundon’s work has a unique voice in a world of similar voices, something that writers twice his age don’t have. His work, whether they’re straight-out horror, noir mashups or just plain weird, tells stories that strike nerves and stay in the memory long after you’re finished.” –Author John F.D.Taff, The Fearing
ONE
HOOSIER NOIR: ONE
Dunn & Dunn by J. Travis Grundon
Interrogating Rex Wiener
with Illustration by Ken Avidor
Author Spotlight: Alec Cizac
Last Exit Before Toll
&
Destroyers
Descent by Preston Lang
The Iceman by Les Edgerton
The Haunted Crave Knowing by J. Rohr
It All Comes Out In The Wash by N. B. Turner
The Selfie Killer by N E Riggs
Dick Pic by Don Stoll
We are already moving on issue two. We'll be making a few changes but we learned a lot working on ONE. I hope to have more details on that soon. Let's just enjoy the first issue for now!
Life Along The Wabash
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| The February issue of Life Along The Wabash |
I just got the new issue of Life Along The Wabash. This is the first issue with my column. It's called The Book Corner. I like the layout. I really dig that Sarah Wolfe cover too. I'm a big fan of her work.
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The first edition of The Book Corner.
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COMING SOON!!
HOOSIER NOIR
ONE
Author Spotlight: Alec Cizak
Preston Lang
Les Egderton
Don Stoll
J. Rohr
N. B. Turner
N E Riggs
J. Travis Grundon
&
an interview with Rex Weiner
Find Hoosier Noir on the First City Books website or Twitter @HoosierNoir
Big News
I'm happy to announce that starting in February, I will be a regular contributor for Life Along The Wabash Magazine. I hope to use this platform to help promote indie books and underrated authors.
My column will be called The Book Corner. Each issue, I will pick three books each month to review. One book will be from an author everyone knows. Book two will be from an author some people know but everyone should be reading. The last one will be a book by an author I think people need to know about.
I look forward to sharing more details soon!
- Travis
BAD DECISONS!!
&
The Vincennes Writers Group proudly present:
BAD DECISIONS
Bad Decisions is the Vincennes Writers Group 2019 Anthology. This is a great introduction to four very different writers. I'm very proud to have two stories in this collection.
Think you've made bad decisions? Check these out!
Bad Decisions is the Vincennes Writers Group 2019 Anthology. This is a great introduction to four very different writers. I'm very proud to have two stories in this collection.
Think you've made bad decisions? Check these out!
YES Erik T. Johnson
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So, what’s the deal with this Erik T. Johnson guy? Why should I care?
Because reviewers have tried (and admittedly failed—in a good way), to describe Erik’s striking originality by comparing his work with such authors as: Arthur Conan Doyle, Chuck Palahniuk, Clive Barker, Borges, a sober William Burroughs, Shirley Jackson, Umberto Ecco, Barthelme, Philip K. Dick, and, Erik’s personal favorite: “Mark Twain as possessed by the future spirit of Harlan Ellison.”
If that sounds intriguing to you, you’ll almost certainly dig his writing.
He’s committed to creating literary horror/SpecFic (the phrases are interchangeable) of the highest quality and working as a force to build the literary SpecFic movement, so that it will be accepted as an intelligent and entertaining genre on a level with the best SciFi—which once faced the same challenges of literary horror but broke out of the ghetto to find a broader readership.
That sounds nice. But good intentions, you know the expression . . . Where can I find his stuff—where should I start?
Start with Erik’s short fiction collection, YES TRESPASSING, the definitive representation, to-date, of his literary horror/SpecFic output. It’s garnered amazing press, and a look at Amazon ratings shows readers have been equally enthusiastic about his book.
THIS IS HORROR UK wrote: "YES TRESPASSING is “a magnum opus of staggering proportions . . . One of the best, most beautifully written collections of this or any other year. Erik T Johnson is writing at a level that all authors, new and veteran alike, should aspire to. Because what Johnson has achieved with YES TRESPASSING is nothing less than absolute greatness.”
Erik’s collection was called “electric” by Malerman; J. Daniel Stone, author of Blood Kiss and Lovebites and Razorlines said "Erik T Johnson is insanely gifted, and YES TRESPASSING is the proof. You can't get these stories out of your head.” Michael Bailey, Stoker-Winning editor for Written Backwards, who published YES TRESPASSING, stated that he did so because “this book will change you.”
John Boden, respected author and former managing editor at Shock Totem, said that YES TRESPASSING is “Weird fiction at its gonzo best" and "Brilliance unfettered and unscarred by convention."
YES TRESPASSING is the best place to check out definitive examples of Erik’s ever-progressing work to-date. Then pick up the #1 Amazon bestseller, five-novella collection from Grey Matter Press: I Can Taste the Blood (alongside Josh Malerman, best-selling author of Unbury Carol and Bird Box, and John F.D. Taff, Bram-Stoker-nominated, bestselling author of The Bell Witch and The End in All Beginnings).
What’s coming up next for Erik T. Johnson?
Erik is most excited about THE FOUR: A band of writers (Don’t worry he assures me, they’re working out a really cool band logo right now as you read this).
THE FOUR is: Josh Malerman; John F.D. Taff, J. Daniel Stone; and Erik T. Johnson.
“We’re approaching our projects as a rock group would albums. Every book by THE FOUR will be like a record, each consisting of four songs—a novella by each member. Novels are a possibility in the future—in fact, the possibilities are endless.
An outgrowth of the successful I Can Taste the Blood format, THE FOUR is currently wrapping up their next release, I Can Hear the Shadows.
“Josh, John, Dan and I are confident we’ve produced our best work to-date,” Erik told me. “We shared such an unprecedented, creative high while putting I Can Hear the Shadows together, that we’re already laying the groundwork for our second album. The enthusiasm is tangible.”
Look for it soon—sign up for updates at eriktjohnson.net.
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Erik T. Johnson is also among those featured in Firbolg Publishing's forthcoming BIRTHING MONSTERS, a book of creative writing and thinking about Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly (2018 being the bicentennial of her masterwork:
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus).
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus).
This is going to be a gorgeous book. With an introduction by S.T. Joshi and contributors including (but not limited to) such award-winning authors and poets as Lisa Morton, Bruce Boston, Jason V. Brock, Michael Bailey. Marge Simon, Robert Payne Cabeen, Brian Evenson, Eric J. Guignard, and Alex Scully and B.E. Scully, Johnson’s contribution is an essay with the enigmatic yet, he swears, justified title: The Necromantic Alchemist Victor Frankenstein Created by His Pagan God, The Creature.
Erik will be on hand for the book launch at legendary Dark Delicacies bookstore in LA on October 28th from 4 to 6pm.
Another cool thing: Robert Payne Cabeen produced much of the artwork for BIRTHING MONSTERS, including an illustration of Victor Frankenstein to accompany Johnson’s piece. He chose to use the author’s face for the good doctor:
Does Erik T. Johnson have anything else in the works?
Johnson, Stoker-Award-winning editor, and writer Michael Bailey, and Eddie Vitolo, an upcoming talent, recently finished a dark fantasy/Young Adult fantasy novel called SUNDAY. Planned as the first of a seven-part series, they are currently shopping SUNDAY around for a publishing deal. Feedback from peers and beta readers has been overwhelmingly positive.
In addition:
Johnson is presently engaged in writing a speculative detective/mystery novel, MARTIN BOX IS DEAD, featuring his well-loved Private Investigator, the titular Martin Box. You can sample no less than six Martin Box adventures in YES TRESPASSING: Water Buried; Pool Day; Krug’s Pen; Brain Scram; Martin Was Here; and, The Startling Objects.
Ok, can I move on to another website now?
WAIT! Real fast—Erik wanted to add that he’s grateful for anyone who takes the time to read his work, to spend the time reading about him in posts like this, and all the readers and writers who ’ve provided nice shout-outs over the past few years. And ESPECIALLY those who post Amazon.com reviews—it doesn’t take a minute, and if you like an author’s work, it makes a big difference to add a few more stars to their ratings! 
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