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Extension Alert

November 21, 2015 admin No Comments

Our StarkLight Press Steampunk Christmas Anthology submissions now has a deadline of Dec. 1!

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Don’t waste this precious extension- get out your steam-powered fountain pens and send in your submission soon!

Entries can be submitted to starklightdesk@gmail.com

For this contest,

we are looking for stories with a wry, speculative, thought-provoking twist- and this time, with an added shot of Christmas, Solstice and any other winter holiday you think goes well with gears and petticoats.

Minimum word count is 250

Maximum word count is 10 000

Poems and other print media are welcomed.

Deadline is November 20, 2015

Please put your story in .doc, .odt, .pdf format and submit along with contact information to:

starklightdesk@gmail.com

Share with your steampunk-minded friends today!

– Tony Stark,

Publisher and CEO,

StarkLight Press.

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StarkLight Press Bookstore

October 31, 2015 admin No Comments

Peruse through our available titles here, order yourself a copy of your favorite books today!

Starklight Volume 2– featuring fiction from L.E. Caine, Will Norton, Jeren Nethers, Virginia Carraway Stark, Nicholas Vincenzi and Tony Stark. This anthology touches on everything from aliens in the oil patch to demon children, planetary destruction to zombie apocalypse. Nice, light reading

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StarkLight Volume 3- this anthology features stories about forbidden historical romance, interplanetary vacations gone awry, possessed objects, Katrina Calvera and haunted hotels. This volume includes a short story from The Program at Green Hill, where psychics and other remarkable people find themselves working for the Navy. www.theprogramatgreenhill.wordpress.com

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Dalton’s Daughter- The official autobiography of Lt. Sasha Wheaton, GAF Medical Officer to Detach Detachment. Follow the salacious, exciting, scandalous career of the Galaxy’s favorite soldier as she moves from resource planet to one of the most influential women in the Galactic Association of Globes and Asteroids. (Adult content advisory)

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Tales from Space Volume 1- This highly addictive, thought-provoking volume provides backstory to the incredibly engaging GAF Mainframe Universe. Read the events behind important references in the GAF Universe, including the Legend of the Bluestone Maenad, Verily Wrought’s kidnapping, the foundation of the Grater Love Cult, Buxbie’s Better Bees and more!

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StarkLight’s Christmas Anthology

October 13, 2015 admin 3 Comments

Introducing a very special, close-deadline short story contest! StarkLight is putting forth a Christmas anthology of short stories… and our theme is: Steampunk Holiday Stories! As usual, we are looking for stories with a wry, speculative, thought-provoking twist- and this time, with an added shot of Christmas, Solstice and any other winter holiday you think…

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Tony Stark Interviewed for Hallowe’en Anthology

October 5, 2015 admin No Comments

This Hallowe’en, check out a chilling collection of stories from North American authors, compiled and edited by Laura Callender of Collaborative Writing Challenge fame.

Tony Stark has included a tale in The Grim Keepers, entitled Remus. It is an accounting of the events that transpired following the pivotal incident of the founding of Rome… in this story, Remus, trapped on the edges of life following his murder, uses the magical time of All Hallows Eve to settle accounts with his brother Romulus.

Below, find the interview regarding the Anthology- Many thanks to Virginia Carraway Stark for the interview opportunity!

Interview with Anthony Stark about his upcoming short story in The Grim Keepers anthology available October 23!

1. What is your favourite part about writing scary fiction?

My favorite part about scary fiction is the more subtle, spiritual aspect of horror. I like finding the place where culture meets horror and expanding that membrane, making myths and legends meet the modern day.

2. What inspired your story for The Grim Reapers anthology?

My inspiration for this story is, of course, the Roman legend of Romulus and Remus. With the fading of the year, the plight of Remus the famous ghostly brother seemed fitting. I combined it with oriental ideas of Yang and Yin, because in the old myths, demigods didn’t just die that easily… So I asked, what happened to all the life Romulus stole, and what dark place would that have left his brother?

3. What scares you most?

The things that scare me most are stories without beauty, hope and redemption. That’s not a good scary, either, but a horrible terror. The current obsession with worlds and movies that are post-post apocalyptic in nature, where everything is FUBARed and a ‘happy’ ending is merely some twisted form of survival for another day, that scares me. It scares me just as much that people eat up these bleak tales as that people can think to make them, let alone make them into gigantic movies. So much energy goes into them; like any creative product, it propagates itself in the world. That is truly scary.

Look for a link to the anthology to be posted on StarkLight Press later this month!

– Tony Stark,

Publisher and CEO,

StarkLight Press.

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StarkLight 5 Short Story Contest

September 25, 2015 admin No Comments

Due to circumstances beyond the scope of planning, StarkLight Press has had to postpone its fifth short story contest.

Usually, our next contest rolls out shortly after our current volume hits the shelves; however, this time, we will have to wait and begin accepting submissions after November 11, 2015.

For those of you that have submitted already in advance of the announcement, please re-submit your entries when we make our official announcement.

For all those waiting and working on their short stories for our Fifth Anthology, have no fear- you haven’t missed it! We will announce the beginning of the contest with fanfare and much post sharing

Until then, enjoy our three existing volumes!

– Tony Stark,

Publisher and CEO,

StarkLight Press.

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StarkLight 3 Prize Packs Arrive!

September 24, 2015 admin No Comments

Congratulations to the winners of our third short story contest who just received their long-awaited prize packs!

Here’s Van Fleming in Wichita Falls, Texas, with his super StarkLight Press merchandise and his copy of the third short story anthology. His lovely wife, Laura, snapped this momentous picture of Van’s name in print- a great inauguration to a fine writing career!

StarkLight Press is happy to promote first rate fiction from first time authors. No matter where in the world you might be, if you make innovative, thought-provoking fiction, horror, fantasy, sci-fi or speculative stories, we are happy to help you share it with our wide audience!

Look for Van’s next installment in his thrilling worldscape, appearing in StarkLight 4, as well as works from Will Norton, Virginia Carraway Stark and more!

– Tony Stark,

Publisher and CEO,

StarkLight Press.

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A Celebration of Contract

July 10, 2015 admin No Comments

In light of the recent contractual “flexibility” displayed by DeAndre Jordan of the L.A. Clippers, I feel it an appropriate time to say a word about the plight of the publisher in this regard. StarkLight Press was founded on the ideal of Collaborative media- multiple authors writing respectfully about a given universe, honoring its creative…

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Please Stand By

April 14, 2015 admin No Comments

Look for our upcoming series of video Interviews with StarkLight Anthology winners starting later this week, where we will be featuring our winners from StarkLight 3 including Jen M. Duell, Van Fleming, John J. Higgins and more!

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Creativity, as Defined by StarkLight Press

March 19, 2015 admin No Comments

People have been asking me quite a bit lately about creativity. Where do you get yours? What causes it? People have also been asking me: Is this story, artwork, poem, product, “good enough?” In response, I ask them if it is creative. See sentence one. After several evolutions of this discussion a definition of creativity,…

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Randy McCharles Gives StarkLight 3 A Grand Introduction

January 12, 2015 admin No Comments

Here is the awesome foreword written for our latest short story Anthology by Randy McCharles, well-known Calgary author and writing retreat guru. Many thanks to Randy for his thoughtful, high-energy and excellently penned words! Congratulations again to all of our winners! Foreword- StarkLight Volume 3 By Randy McCharles “Katrina, she is death.” So begins…

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