Best-selling horror author Shaun Hutson introduces new anthology for small press
New North-East horror publisher Dark Chapter Press has landed a best-selling horror author for the foreword to their forthcoming anthology Kill For A Copy.
Shaun Hutson has written over thirty best-selling horror and dark urban thriller novels, including the newly released Monolith. Hutson has stepped up to support this new horror publisher, and help their new release to reach a much broader audience.
Jack Rollins, of Dark Chapter Press, said of this coup, “Shaun has been an amazing source of inspiration and support. He took part in the Writer’s Block Q & A sessions for our website back in January, which we thought would be it, really. He enjoyed working with us, though and offered support on future projects, so when I asked him to be involved in our first anthology he didn’t hesitate and jumped straight in.”
The anthology is now the feature of a campaign on crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, aiming to raise funds in advance to help this small press pay each author professional rates for their work. Everyone is welcome to back the project and many of the pledge levels will see backer names included in the book on a special thanks page.
Dark Chapter Press was established in August 2014 following a successful campaign to launch the Jack Rollins novella The Séance. Since then, the Dark Chapter Press website has received over 52,000 visitors and featured excellent monthly competitions from August 2014 to February 2015.
The small press has pledged to discover the best new talent in horror and supernatural thriller writing, while ensuring that authors receive support, encouragement and feedback. Jack Rollins said, “In mainstream publishing, new authors can become jaded with standard rejection letters for work they have slaved over for months or years, and remain haunted by the nagging suspicion that their story never made it onto the editor’s desk. Here at Dark Chapter Press, we have the luxury of interacting with authors, providing encouragement and guidance and a much faster turnaround in story consideration, freeing the author up to either work on their next piece, or to offer their work elsewhere.”
Kill For A Copy
Collecting 17 chilling horror and supernatural tales, Kill For A Copy boasts a foreword from Shaun Hutson, ‘the Godfather of Gore’ himself. Dark Chapter Press has gathered a motley crew of authors most of whom are at the early stages of their writing careers, to showcase their grotesque works. With visions of dark, fantastic worlds, disturbed minds and beasts beyond imagination, this collection will shock, scare and grant the occasional guilty chuckle as you immerse yourself in the nightmarish landscape forged by these newcomers. In Kill For A Copy, Dark Chapter Press has unleashed a volume so essential to fans of horror fiction, who knows what lengths you will go to, to get your hands on a copy.
Kill For A Copy is scheduled for worldwide release in paperback and e-book format mid-June 2015.
Link to the Kickstarter Campaign: https://kck.st/1EJHzDV