Cover image for We All Float in Diseased Seas
October News and Updates (note that if you get my newsletter, you get Bonus stuff not in this post! Shoot me an email if you want to be added to the list!)
Greetings for the spooky season my friends, and I hope this finds you healthy and thriving. I apologize for this being about a week late, but there is a reason for that, which I'll get into below. So let's get to it!!
Music:
We All Float on Diseased Seas drops tomorrow Bandcamp Friday!
New solo release (been a while since I have had one of those!) for Bandcamp Friday! This is a single track, mostly guitar with some sprinkles of Rhodes EP MIDI in the mix. Dark ambient, great for the background. Play it loud! Stream for free starting tomorrow or only 4 bucks to download: https://pentamethdemon.bandcamp.com/album/we-all-float-on-diseased-seas Feel free to share with others as you see fit! Recorded in the last 24 hours, so this is very fresh and the main reason for the delay in sending this out!
Dark Prairie Atmospherics Collective Vol. 2 continues
Coming hopefully soon, the other collaborators are hard at work on their contributions-hoping for a November/December drop. Stay tuned to the Pentameth Bandcamp page
Other Music News
Still aiming to get the other ambient deathy thing worked on before the end of the year.
Writing:
ABCs of Terror Vol. 4 Out Now from D&T Publishing
The editor of this email regrets the error in the title - ABCs of Terror Vol. 4 is out now on Amazon and Godless! Links below and this contains my story "L is for The Lacrimosas"
E-book via Godless https://godless.com/products/abc-s-of-terror-volume-iv-edited-by-dawn-shea
Amazon for physical https://www.amazon.com/ABCs-Terror-IV-D-Publishing/dp/B0BFTMJHYB/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=abcs+of+terror+volume+4&qid=1665076796&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIwLjAwIiwicXNhIjoiMC4wMCIsInFzcCI6IjAuMDAifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=ABCs+of+Terrr%2Caps%2C236&sr=8-1
Other things in the works
Still working hard on Year 2 of the Concern - currently about 3000 words into a supplemental story (novella?) for the Emporium Crepuscular cycle. Moving in modes erotic and very weird, I am hoping to execute a bit of a trick with this one which will leave the reader shook!
In 2023, there are a couple of releases from a new press - these will be very limited run and special. The first should come out in Q1, with stories by myself, Nick Vasi, and Mat Fitzsimmons. Just want to whet the appetite and look for more on this soon.
The second is slated for Q2 or Q3, and is a collection of stories and poems titled "Frayed Black Ribbon and Tattered Yellow Knots". Here are two very gracious blurbs I received:
"Beautiful, evocative, and downright creepy; the most poetic takes on cosmic horror I've ever seen." -- Christine Morgan, author of Lakehouse Infernal
"Matt Henshaw's Frayed Black Ribbon and Tattered Yellow Knots, perfectly paired with playfully grotesque Mat Fitzsimmons illustrations, points to the future of the Dark Poetic Weird." - Matthew M. Bartlett, author of Gateways to Abomination
This also has an introduction written by the great Douglas Ford! (Little Lugosi, The Beasts of Vissaria County)
More to definitely come on this!
Other Activities
A LIVE Performance of Selected Items from Olde Wyathscope's Quarterly Concern!!
Yes, this is a true thing that is happening, and the other reason for this getting a slight delay. I will be performing selections from the Concern at Pecha Kucha Night on Friday October 28 at 7PM at Broadway Food Hall in Urbana, IL. The presentation is 20 slides with 20 seconds per slide, and I got the thumbs up from the coordinators of the event last night. This is going to be CRAZY, especially knowing some of the other presentations. The event will be recorded for posterity and uploaded to YouTube - watch the crickets chirp, the audience lose their minds, and me dragged off stage covered in blood and viscera (my own) I am hopeful that this will raise awareness of the Concern to another level, and maybe even an opportunity to talk about the project in interviews....speaking of which...
Interview and review forthcoming on Red Cape Publishing!
Peter over at redcapepublishing.com sent me an interview form and will be reviewing the Concern later this month. Follow Red Cape Publishing for more on when this will drop. A lot of fun doing this, and always open to doing more of these things!!
