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Look out Surrey, BC- amidst all the sci fi costumery and general geekful mirth will be purveyor of the Best speculative fiction in North America. That’s right, StarkLight Press will be roaming around VCON 39 with copies of our short story compendiums and GAF books. We will also be offering some of the coolest merchandise…
Many thanks to our multitudinous contributors who made keeping our short story contest open a real treat! Thanks to our growing list of fans and followers, StarkLight Press’ third short story contest had the best response yet! Keep checking in with our blog for updates on StarkLight Anthology 3, which should be out on ebook…
A fantabulous, gigantic congratulation goes out to Virginia Carraway Stark, author of Dalton’s Daughter and other GAF tales! She has reached 1000- One Thousand- Mille- Tausend- húmë Twitter Followers! A thousand thanks go out to her many followers, who all have excellent taste 😉 …
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Well, brave StarkLight Press soldiers, you only have until midnight PST on September 30 to send us your short story submissions and win a spot in our third anthology! It’s a hard mission, and I won’t lie to you- there may be some underpants on your heads before you’re through. However, those of you…
Granny and Esme (C)2014 Virginia Carraway Stark Her skin was white as milk and pulled with youthful bounce across her wind chilled cheeks, Esme’s eyes were wild and blue like the windy sky. Granny’s eyes burned like coals. “My dear, you must be ever so cold.” Said Granny, proffering her shawl to her. Ellie laughed…
In book cover form, that is. Introducing StarkLight Press’ first ever fan-sponsored book cover! To celebrate our recent new additions on facebook and the blogosphere, we are letting fans of our press vote for which ominously evocativ picture of Katrina Calvera to use for the cover of our third anthology. xProductBrowser(“categoriesPerRow=3″,”views=grid(3,3) list(10) table(20)”,”categoryView=grid”,”searchView=list”,”style=”); Your…
September 13 is a day to watch! Our own Virginia Carraway Stark has launched a poetry marathon, featuring scrolling twelve hour blocks of poetry every hour on the hour. Tune in September 13 for the poems posted by authors all over the net, and check in with StarkLight Press for our poetry anthology containing the…
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The truly great stories were sometimes written for money, sometimes under duress, sometimes through ecstasies of pain or pleasure. The one thing they all have in common is the authors squinched their eyes shut and poured out their vision on the page. Don’t drown your idea in premature critique. Write your vision down like a…
Bravo to all our brave short story contributors who overcame their own desires to hide and sent us such awesome stories! At this rate, we will have to start up an e-zine to post some of these, as our printing press can only publish so many anthologies at once- thoughts? Should StarkLight Press start an…
…and send in that short story to starklightdesk@gmail.com. Begin your fabulous career as a published author by entering a speculative or science fiction, fantasy or other thrilling tale in our short story contest today!