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Storylandia 37, The Key, is now on sale, and this site is moving to WapshottPress.org

Posted on March 21, 2021 | Comments Off

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Storylandia 37, The Key, is now on sale, and this site is moving to WapshottPress.org

In downtown LA, many worlds collide without interacting. There are the stock brokers and bankers cloistered within their shiny high-rises. There is the almost invisible working class that keeps them clean and fed. There are the totally lost: the homeless, the mad, the addicted. And there are those self-chosen to try and keep it all together: the teachers, the priests, the parole officers, and social workers, but who often see merely the forest, and not the trees. Only a 5-year old girl walks unafraid among all of them. And a broken ex-con and a hardworking doughnut-maker find their lives changed by this orphan who loves them both.

Where to buy: Amazon; Kindle.

Available on Amazon:
ISBN: 978-1-942007-36-4
Ronni Kern
The Key
Storylandia 37

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Drunk on Time! Storylandia 32!

Posted on January 21, 2020 | Comments Off

Where to buy: Amazon and Kindle. The Wapshott Press is an Amazon Smile charity. Please remember us when you’re shopping there. Thank you.

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Drunk on Time

Past, present, and future on view in a wondrous machine. Everything everywhere in every universe. Better than YouTube, but can this device bring happiness to a young slacker looking for love and life’s meaning?

J. H. Malone has had three careers: High energy particle research in Boston and Los Alamos, social work in San Francisco, and tech writing for startups in Silicon Valley. Over the past years Malone has placed science fiction, crime, romance, and other stories, as well as movie reviews, in two dozen Internet and print publications.

Where to buy: Amazon and Kindle. The Wapshott Press is an Amazon Smile charity. Please remember us when you’re shopping there. Thank you.

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Storylandia 29 now on sale

Posted on May 2, 2019 | Comments Off

Where to buy Storylandia 29: Print at Amazon (eligible for free shipping!); and Kindle.
Donations to the Wapshott Press, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, at www.Donate.WapshottPress.org are very very welcome.

Storylandia, Spring 2019, Issue 29

Crime Spree and Other Stories

by Tom Larsen

Storylandia 29 sample pages
From journeyman printer to small-time crook, pothead senior to retired nun, Tom Larsen has captured a wide range of life experiences in theses self-contained stories. This collection is an homage to the random fortunes of the baby boom. Whether set in the inner city, suburbia or the northwest coast, Larsen’s colorful cast confirms he knows of what he speaks.

Where to buy Storylandia 29: Print at Amazon (eligible for free shipping!); and Kindle.
Donations to the Wapshott Press, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, at www.Donate.WapshottPress.org are very very welcome.

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Crime Spree and Other Stories
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Now on Sale: Storylandia 26 “Marchers’ Season”

Posted on August 20, 2018 | Comments Off

Where to buy: Amazon (eligible for free shipping) and Kindle.

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Where to buy: Amazon (eligible for free shipping) and Kindle.

Marchers’ Season

“As a child in Arkansas in the 1950s, Gray Alsobrook watched his father drive away and abandon his family. So when Gray Alsobrook came home from the Vietnam War as a young man and started his own family with his wife, Doreen, he determined to put down tightly-holding roots in the first town where he got a decent job, even if it was a town with a racially troubled past like Meadowview, Alabama. Almost two decades later, their youngest child, Joe, enters the home-stretch of his senior year of high school. When the town erupts into protest and anger after the school board fires the town’s first African-Amercian schools superintendent and Joe is right in the middle of it all, Gray’s dedication to putting down roots and building a stable life is put to the test.”

Where to buy: Amazon (eligible for free shipping) and Kindle.

Help the Wapshott Press publish books that should be published! The Wapshott Press, publisher of Storylandia, is now a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Tax deductible donations can be made here: Wapshott Press Donations and thank you so much for your support! (PS. Paypal takes zero commissions from your donation to the Wapshott Press.)

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Posted in Issue 26, News, Novella, Sample, Wapshott Whatnot

Storylandia 15 review at Amazon

Posted on December 22, 2016 | 1 comment

“Julie Travis’ Storylandia collection is a must for any devoted follower of weird/dark/occult fiction. … I’d also comfortably file these stories between the stranger works of, say, Jonathan Carroll or Haruki Murakami, … transcend their genre trappings into a far more magical (sur)realist territory. … I can guarantee you’ll speed through these tales and be waiting as impatiently as I for a follow up.”
Storylandia 12 Amazon review, by Jon Yates, October 22, 2016

Thank you, Mr. Yates!

And in the realm of follow up:
Ms. Travis has stories in 2 other Storylandia issues:
“The Falling Man” in Issue 7
and
“The Ferocious Night” in Issue 12 and will have a book from the Wapshott Press in the near future as well.
Ginger Mayerson, Editor, Wapshott Press

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Storylandia 17 review on Amazon

Posted on August 26, 2016 | 1 comment

“Well done. Each story should be planned as a read aloud event for teens to adults – the good old fashion way.”
Amazon review by Shirley Riefenhauser, Storylandia 17 in paperback, but also in Kindle.

Click here to know more about Storylandia 17: Collected Stories by Arthur Davis

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Storylandia 15 author Julie Travis interview

Posted on August 5, 2016 | 1 comment

“PT: You’re a UK writer and much of your work seems very solidly grounded in the landscape here, and yet your first collection is appearing from a US publisher. Can you tell us a little as to how that came about? What has it been like working with Wapshott Press?

“JT: It came about by chance. I see my work as quite ‘British’ in terms of the folklore element as well as in the physical landscape. Some years back I trawled the Internet looking for possible publishers and came across Wapshott Press amongst others (I’ve had several stories published by North American magazines and webzines). I sent them a story because I thought the covers of their anthologies were gorgeous and my instinct said it was the right thing to do – even though horror/dark fantasy was not mentioned at all in what they publish. Storylandia’s editor, Ginger Mayerson, just understands what I’m doing. Two stories (‘The Falling Man and ‘The Ferocious Night’) appeared in two of their anthologies and when they moved to single author collections I was asked to do one. And they’re lovely to work with; friendly and professional. I feel blessed to have crossed Ginger’s path.”
Julie Travis Interviewed, by Peter Tennant, Black Static, July 19, 2016

Click here to know more about Storylandia 15: Collected Stories by Julie Travis

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Storylandia 16 review

Posted on July 29, 2016 | 1 comment

“As with Ramage’s previous Freddie Babington story we are thrown straight in at the deep end. We the readers have two choices: go with the flow or take copious notes. I took the latter route, but wasn’t sure that it helped me much. There are detailed descriptions of locations and family kinships, an emerging chronology of events and individual revelations. We’ll expect the usual red herrings and misdirections, of course, but like many a good writer of the ‘cozy’ genre the final denouement will have been clearly signposted if only we had the wit to spot it early on.”
Return of the gentleman sleuth, by Calmgrove, June 20, 2016

Click here to know more about: Storylandia 16: The Abrupt Disappearance of Cousin Wilfrid

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Congratulations to Megan Feldman on her new book!

Posted on August 10, 2015 | 1 comment

Congrats to Megan Feldman Bettencourt on the publication of Triumph of the Heart: Forgiveness in an Unforgiving World. Read the Publisher’s Weekly review and order your copy here: http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-59463-263-1 and also check out her site http://meganfeldman.com/books/. Or just buy it at Amazon.

You all remember Megan’s wonderful story, “Ashes,” in Storylandia, Issue 4. Always nice to see our authors hit the big time.

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William Wray, Storylandia 3 cover artist, art show in Los Angeles

Posted on June 2, 2014 | 1 comment

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William Wray, who graciously allowed us to use his painting “Dust” for Storylandia 3‘s cover, is having a show in Los Angeles at the LAUNCH gallery from June 21 through July 26, 2014.