I would like to offer a warm welcome to all of our new blog followers, Facebook fans and superlative fiction aficionados.
Welcome to StarkLight Press- the Center of the Media Galaxy!
What does our awesome tagline mean, exactly? Well you should ask.
At StarkLight Press, we believe in two things above all else- the Imagination and the Power of Story.
We believe that the Imagination is truly the seat of everything great in the human psyche. Without its fire in the crucible of our minds, we would not be able to rise above our misfortunes, our limitations, and our pain. It allows us not only the ability to develop innovations in our lives in terms of concrete reality, but it is an integral first step in raising the tones of our hearts and minds. Without imagination to provide us with windows into There, we would never be able to soothe our spirits so heavy with the troubles of Here.
To that end, StarkLight Press fosters an Immersive Fiction Experience, with credibly fantastic worldscapes, characters and action that gives the mind a playground for the Imagination, with plenty of tire swings and monkeybars for all.
We believe in not just casting a light on other realms, worlds and dimensions, but illuminating them as fully as hearsaid experience might convey, so that the reader has fodder for their imagination long after they put down one of our books.
By stoking the fires of the imagination with such vibrant and intricate worlds, StarkLight Press provides you, the reader, with an escape that will lift your spirit throughout your day, and inspire you to look at your own familiar worldscape with a fresh perspective. A fresh perspective that maybe will make your own worldscape a little bit more awesome. This freshness of subject matter is the key to releasing all the positivity the human imagination can produce. We hope at StarkLight Press to inspire this world to blossom with ideas and purpose beyond the limits set for it, and us, by those who lack imagination entirely.
The Power of Story is the cordwood by which the fires of the imagination nurture both our hearts and our future. By telling fascinating, credible and, well, amazing stories, StarkLight Press aims to remind the reader that the Universe is in fact at least as amazing as those childhood fancies entertained, and that they can exist in the adult realm as well by providing our grown minds with the added intricacies, information and plot that are required to stoke the fires of a more developed reader.
We’ve heard the wistful wishes of fans from all over, that they only wish they had MORE of a story, or knew MORE about a certain aspect of this, or that. More… and better. Stories that don’t deliberately fall flat for mass consumption. Characters that are pale versions of what they should be to sell… whatever. Worlds that are REAL, not just slapped together with the spit and baling twine of a dozen writers scanning fan commentary after every new installment comes to the public trough.
StarkLight Press believes that its readers are canny, cognitive and reject the mass-media spoon with its conventions full of mushy and indistinct snippets of story.
We know you can handle it.
That’s why we make certain our fiction serves only two masters- Imagination, and the Power of Story. If it doesn’t come to mind to speed your morning commute, we won’t publish it. If you don’t find yourself bringing it up at the dinner table the next week, it’s not yet good enough. If it doesn’t make your eyes widen with the delight of your starving inner child who is finally able to satiate its grown up mind on fiction that not only soothes but satisfies- you sure won’t find it here.
That’s what we’re all about, which is why our GAF Universe has been a cult favorite amongst the brightest and most creative folks out there.
That’s why our StarkLight Anthologies are so popular, filled to the brim with new authors armed with new, exciting tales.
That’s why our non-fiction imprint, Arras Books, is ground-breaking, because it re-introduces the mundane world to the reader by adding the truth behind the dusty history.
That’s why we keep our universes living, and infinite, not vague past histories of dreams once dreamed, now dead.
Our stories are the future- they have tales to be told, and worlds to be explored.
Most importantly, they have things they are willing to share with each of us, here and now, today.
-Tony Stark,
Publisher and CEO, StarkLight Press.
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