Parallel Universe Publications has three books lined up for publication in the opening months of 2017.
The first will be Joseph Rubas's fine collection of stories, titled
Shades.
Joseph Rubas began writing in 2002 after reading Stephen King’s
The Stand.
His earliest efforts reflected his deep love of that novel; he tried
again and again to write a rip-off, but finally gave up around 2006 and
resigned himself to writing original fiction. His first short story was
published in May 2010 on the now defunct
Horror Bound Online website.
His second story was published in September 2010 in a Pushcart Prize
nominated literary magazine for new and beginning writers called
The Storyteller. Since then, his work has appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. His first collection, the now out of print
Pocketful of Fear, was released by a small publisher in 2012. His second collection,
After Midnight, appeared in 2014. His short fiction has appeared in:
Nameless Digest;
The Horror Zine;
Eschatology Journal;
Thuglit;
Manor House;
All Due Respect, and others. He has self-published three longer works:
The Rocking Dead: Seasons 1-3 (a parody of the AMC series
The Walking Dead);
The Rocking Dead: Season 4;
The Shapeshifter; and
Dracula 1912, the latter a novel.
In addition to writing, he has also edited two anthologies:
A Thorn of Death (2012) and
The 3rd Spectral Book of Horror Stories (2016).
He currently resides in Albany, New York.
The second will be a collection written by Carl Barker:
Parlour Tricks.
No cover available to show yet, but it will be the work of
award-winning artist Jim Pitts. Further details on this in the near
future.
The third will be a collection from Mike Chinn:
Radix Omnium Malum & Other Incursions.
Mike Chinn lives in Birmingham, UK, with his wife Caroline and their
tribe of guinea pigs. In 2012 he took early retirement so he can spend
more time writing (and not housework). Over the years he has published
over sixty short stories, as well as editing three volumes of THE
ALCHEMY PRESS BOOK OF PULP HEROES, and SWORDS AGAINST THE MILLENNIUM,
also for The Alchemy Press. His own contribution to the Pulp Adventure
genre, THE PALADIN MANDATES garnered two nominations for the British
Fantasy Award in 1999. A second Damian Paladin book, WALKERS IN SHADOW,
is to be published by Pro Se Productions; as is a Western: REVENGE IS A
COLD PISTOL. In 2015, his Sherlock Holmes steampunk mash-up, VALLIS
TIMORIS (Fringeworks), sent the famous detective to the Moon.
