Calls for Cthulhu

As you probably know, Brand Gamblin (creator of C4C) has written a novel which is now available on Amazon. It’s a sci-fi story about the adventures and challenges of mining the asteroid field. You can listen to the audiobook for free here.

If you’d like to win a free copy of Tumbler, just tweet something about the book, with the hashtag #TumblerGiveaway. This contest is only running today, so you should jump on this fast. Tomorrow morning, a winner will be randomly chosen from those on the list, and that winner will receive a free copy of the book.

Good luck!

Update: The free copy of Tumbler went to Jeffrey Hite, of the “Great Hites” website, and assistant editor for Flying Island Press. Congratulations, Jeffrey!

We’ll have another giveaway next week. keep watching for it. And if you can’t wait, you can read the first few chapters, or even buy the book here.

Brought to our attention by us by “Cthulhu Cultist” and Rich Sigfrit here is a video by the Damsels of Dorkington called “I kissed a nerd.” A little ways in, you can see our dark overlord getting frisky with the singer. Enjoy.

Flying Island Press chose my short story “Snake Skin” for publishing in their premiere issue. Come check it out!

Flying Island Press
Press Contact - Scott Roche
sroche@flyingislandpress.com
(336) 462-9676

Enjoy Your Sci-fi and Fantasy How and Where You Want

Beginning July 4th, science fiction and fantasy fans will be given a
new place where they can discover authors and stories they’ll be able
to enjoy wherever they go.  Flagship, the new e-zine by publisher
Flying Island Press, will soon be releasing short stories every other
month in formats for the Kindle, the iPad and iPhone, and other
electronic readers.

Flying Island Press also recognizes the increasing popularity of
podcasts and other forms of audio fiction.  So, in addition to the
e-zine, an audio version will be available to listen to on any MP3
player.  Stories they release will be available both in text and in
audio, allowing the consumer to choose their preferred version.

Zach Ricks, managing editor for Flagship, had this to say.  “I wanted
to hearken back to what some have called the Golden Age of Science
Fiction.”  It’s his hope that “FlagShip will be a place for
optimistic, entertaining fiction.”

Each issue will cost $1.99 for the text version or the audio version
or get both for just $2.99.

Issues will be available starting July 4th, 2010 at
http://flyingislandpress.com/flagship

IO9 has a clip from the Man’s Guide to Love, wherein a man tells the story of how Cthulhu kisses helped him woo his wife. Enjoy.

The Man’s Guide To Love #120 from themansguidetolove on Vimeo.

We recently had a comment from Cthulhu Chick, whose knitted Cthulhus are available for sale on Etsy. If you’re into cute, plushy madness, you could do worse.

On June 18th, 2010, I will collect all of the responses, assign each a number, and then use a random number generator to select the winners. The first number selected gets the first prize, the second number selected gets second prize, and so on.

Alan Moore, creator of Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell, is apparently looking at doing a comic about our favorite cephelopod. If you remember how he destroyed the world in “Watchmen” you should know that Alan has an affinity for our dark lord. This could be amazing, or it could just make your brain melt. (link via io9)

It’s not often that I cross the radar of a NYT bestselling author. But at Balticon last week, I had a chance to meet the new steampunk star, Gail Carriger, and sit on a panel about YA books with her. Later, she blogged about it, calling C4C “genius”, and embedded C4C Episode 1 on her post. How cool is that?

Lovely painting on My Confined Space of Cthulhu and his little brood. Click on the pic to see it full size.

To celebrate the deathday of HP Lovecraft, Cthulhu has made a special stop by with a glimpse of Steampunk Cthulhu and a promo for Scott Sigler’s new book “The Starter“. Hope you like it.