✒ Editor’s Note
Welcome back, Talestack Readers!
Happy September!
It’s a whole new month and a whole new round-up of fiction news! We’ve got new projects, shout-outs, milestones, and more! Maybe your new seasonal read is lurking in this issue?
As always, please hype each other up in the comments. Go visit, explore, give virtual high-fives, and let your colleagues know that you’re with them.
Have a fantastic week, and happy writing!
S.E. Reid Editor of Talestack News
📣 Announcements!
Finished Projects:
Josh Tatter has just completed his first serial and his first-ever western. You can read Everett Brooks and the Midnight Riders as a traditional serial—complete with needle-drops provided by Josh—or as a one-page story with no page flips. From the synopsis: “He held her as she died. The end of their outlaw days had been so close. He buried his revolvers with her so she could keep part of him forever.
He kept her Remington for the same reason.”
New Projects:
ReddOscarWrites is launching a new 10-chapter horror novella called A Slow Ascent of Madness, starting September 7th. “Newlyweds Charles and Abigail desire wealth beyond their dreams and have heard rumours of gold beneath the town of Sageburn. People have flocked from miles around in the hunt for luxurious wealth but find more than gold beneath the hills of Sageburn…”
Sara Dietz has just launched her new serial, Remembrance, starting September 9th. “Leah Harvey has suffered migraines for years. Due to a car accident, she misses a session with her neurologist, who has enrolled her in a clinical trial for a potential new treatment. After the missed session, Leah begins to experience increasing paranoia, anxiety, and irritability. At first, she chalks it up to residual effects of the accident, or of missing her treatment, but she’s quickly drawn into a complex network of secrets threatening to burst. Not only is her view of her condition changed forever, but her understanding of her very self.”
Leigh Parrish recently published a new short story called The Seer. Anyone familiar with Parrish’s work knows that it is very carefully researched and crafted, often for months, so when Parrish publishes it truly is news!
S.E. Reid is starting a new weekly episodic supernatural serial called Goldgreen. The first episode will drop on September 8th. “In the fall of 1962, an eccentric director and a screenwriter with a hidden past set out to make a most unusual TV show. ‘Goldgreen’ was an intimate, character-driven western drama filmed on-location in a historic ghost town on a remote island in Washington State, unusual for its time. But the show only filmed eight episodes before the cast and crew mysteriously vanished. To this day, the reruns of the eight completed episodes are all that remain.”
Milestones & Wins:
Dale Mahfood is working on the second novel in his Wood and Water series and is hoping to sandbox the story here on Substack to gather feedback. Stay tuned!
Kim H. is stepping out with courage and submitting work to various literary publications—a big step, worth cheering on! You can check out Kim’s work at Title, goes here.
📚 The Bookshelf
(Titles listed in order of release date.)
Michael P. Marpaung’s space opera novel, Inquisitor’s Promise, is now available for purchase as a paperback through Amazon! (More purchase options here.) Release Date: 8/28/23
❤ Shout-Outs
William F. Edwards would like to shout out Metanoia by Kerry Jane, a serialized novel about the journey of the soul across different lifetimes. He’s enjoyed it very much as a fan and hopes it gets more attention!
Sujan Sundareswaran would like to shout out Michael R. Chandler: “[Michael] has been helping me by beta-reading Fable, and he’s been doing an insanely good job of it. Just wanted to do a shoutout, and thank him for his deep, insightful, and meaningful feedback.”
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Thanks for the shoutout!
To everyone reading, I highly recommend Josh Tatter's Everett Brooks and the Midnight Riders. Great wild west story.
What an amazing resource. Thank you for putting together!