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Author Lineup For Shadows And Teeth 4 Announced

6/21/2019

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It is our great pleasure to announce that volume four of our award-winning Shadows And Teeth horror anthology is well underway. It's been a while since we released the previous volume back in 2017, but rest assured, we're coming back strong with a fresh crop of nightmares in tow for your reading pleasure.

Take a sneak-peek at the author lineup below. It's still a tentative lineup, and it's subject to change as circumstances may arise, but these are the contributors at present. Each of them is a pedigreed word-slinger in his own right, and with them on board, you can be assured that volume four of our premiere horror series will not disappoint.

No release date is set at the moment, but we will update you as progress continues.
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Douglas Ford
Jonathan Edward Ondrashek
Mark Towse
Andrew Bell
Michael Warriner
Isaac Thorne
Antonio Simon, Jr.
R. Perez de Pereda
Apara Moreiya
Douglas Fairbanks
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Coming Soon: Audiobooks For Tarot Of Hate 2, The Secret Files Of Hugo & Victoria

6/14/2019

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Hold tight, because there's a wave of new audiobooks coming soon. We've secured voice talent for J.E. "Buck" Buchanan's acclaimed comedy, The Secret Files of Hugo & Victoria, as well as the terrifying collection of horror that is Tarot of Hate, Volume 2. They'll be ready around September of this year.

No matter what your tastes in fiction, Darkwater Syndicate is your place for the very best fantasy, sci-fi, horror, comedy and thrillers. You know why? Because we're the publisher with a defense contractor's name, and we're not afraid of telling a good story. Click the covers to find out more about these titles.
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It Came From The Garage Hits #3 Spot On Amazon UK Bestseller List

6/9/2019

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Fresh out of the gate, our horror anthology about cars behaving badly is burning rubber for the top of the charts. Hardly a week since its release, It Came From The Garage! has hit the number three spot on Amazon UK's bestseller list in the category of Horror Anthologies.
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New Release: It Came From The Garage!

5/31/2019

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Shift your fear into top gear.

Set your pulse racing with this collection of automotive horror that fires on all cylinders. This bad boy comes fully-optioned with fifteen tales of classic cars and motorcycles behaving badly; and the star-studded lineup is sure to provide all the nightmare fuel you can handle.

So strap in and hold on, because we’re going pedal to the metal. It’s blood-soaked horror or bust, and we aren’t stopping for anything. You’re in for a ride.

See immediately below for the author lineup and purchasing links.
Story and author lineup for It Came From The Garage!:
1. "Trucks" - Stephen King - Semi-trucks and other vehicles
2. "Wheels of Evil" - Guy N. Smith - 1949 Jaguar XK-120 
3. "M.A.D. Mobile" - Antonio Simon, Jr. - 1971 Dodge Demon
4. "Faster Than Anything" - Apara Moreiya - 1972 Pontiac Trans Am
5. "The Horseman Comes Riding" - Stephanie Kelley - 1967 Ford Mustang
6. "Special Delivery" - David Owain Hughes - 1972 Caterpillar 769B Off-Road End Dumper
7. "Sprites And Violets" - Paige Reiring - Austin Healy Sprite
8. "Ugly Joyride" -  R. Perez de Pereda - 1965 Ford Galaxie 500 LTD
9. "Out On Arrowhead Road" - Sarah Cannavo - 1970 Dodge Challenger
10. "The Driver" - Alana Turner - 2029 Safe Independent Transport ("SAINT")
11. "Prodded, Hot-Rodded And Garroted" - Douglas Fairbanks - 2006 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution
12. "The Cavalier Cavalier" - Jonathan Edward Ondrashek - 2001 Chevy Cavalier A/FX Coupe Exhibition
13.  "A Moment In Time With Black Shadow Tess" - Richard Ayre - 1952 Vincent Black Shadow Motorcycle
14. "The Highway Phantom" - Michael Warriner - 1971 Buick Riviera
15. "The Black Engine" - Nicholas Paschall - 1974 Cadillac Miller-Meteor Criterion Ambulance
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Coming Soon: South By Southwest Wales Audiobook

5/29/2019

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Listen up, ya palookas! South By Southwest Wales, the gritty detective thriller by David Owain Hughes, is coming soon to your earbuds. Narrator Russell Archie gives a 1940's Humphrey Bogart spin to the audiobook, which is so jam-packed with action you can almost smell the gun smoke.

Look for it on Amazon, Audible, and iTunes in June.
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Coming Soon: It Came From The Garage!

5/3/2019

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Buckle up... it's coming. 

It's taken us 18 months to produce, between writing, editing, and negotiating all the necessary rights, but now, our most ambitious project to date will be unveiled May 31, 2019.

Allow us to introduce It Came From The Garage! This unique anthology of automotive horror features fifteen panic inducing stories about cars, and their owners, behaving badly. The book is a gearhead's dream - or nightmare - come true, featuring true star power in terms of authorship and the vehicles represented. 

You can pre-order this book today for the May 31 release.

See further below for a listing of contributing authors, their stories, and the vehicles. 
​Confirmed line-up for It Came From The Garage!:
1. "Trucks" - Stephen King - Semi-trucks and other vehicles
2. "Wheels of Evil" - Guy N. Smith - 1949 Jaguar XK-120 
3. "M.A.D. Mobile" - Antonio Simon, Jr. - 1971 Dodge Demon
4. "Faster Than Anything" - Apara Moreiya - 1972 Pontiac Trans Am
5. "The Horseman Comes Riding" - Stephanie Kelley - 1967 Ford Mustang
6. "Special Delivery" - David Owain Hughes - 1972 Caterpillar 769B Off-Road End Dumper
7. "Sprites And Violets" - Paige Reiring - Austin Healy Sprite
8. "Ugly Joyride" -  R. Perez de Pereda - 1965 Ford Galaxie 500 LTD
9. "Out On Arrowhead Road" - Sarah Cannavo - 1970 Dodge Challenger
10. "The Driver" - Alana Turner - 2029 Safe Independent Transport ("SAINT")
11. "Prodded, Hot-Rodded And Garroted" - Douglas Fairbanks - 2006 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution
12. "The Cavalier Cavalier" - Jonathan Edward Ondrashek - 2001 Chevy Cavalier A/FX Coupe Exhibition
13.  "A Moment In Time With Black Shadow Tess" - Richard Ayre - 1952 Vincent Black Shadow Motorcycle
14. "The Highway Phantom" - Michael Warriner - 1971 Buick Riviera
15. "The Black Engine" - Nicholas Paschall - 1974 Cadillac Miller-Meteor Criterion Ambulance
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New Release: Tarot Of Hate, Volume 2

4/30/2019

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Deal yourself in for another round of horror as only Antonio Simon, Jr. can write. In the follow-up to 2017's inaugural title (which you can get here), Simon delves into new horror territory. The book's eight stories explore the depths of human perversion and plunge readers into paranormal nightmares. See below for a taste of what you'll find between these blood-soaked pages.

M.A.D. Mobile
—Paul inherits his father’s classic car and a warning that he rid himself of it before it drives him to perdition.

The Confession of Pompeius Postumus
—A Roman living in the first century AD writes a chilling account of his housemate’s perversions, and the just as twisted means he employed to put him down for good.

It Happened At Stratosphere Heights
—The Stratosphere Heights amusement park stood for seventy years; plenty of time to form heartfelt memories… and to garner insidious secrets.

Where Did You Go, Craig Sheehan?
—Craig, an antiquities plunderer, sets off to find the Ark of the Covenant. His mysterious disappearance has left the world wondering: where did you go, Craig Sheehan?

La Dauphine
—A nineteenth-cenutry theatre producer in Paris uncovers an Italian play that has been lost for four hundred years; he is none the wiser of the horror and blood that will follow in the wake of the performance.

The Sea-Goer
—A rich widow invests in a haunted bed and breakfast on Miami Beach and soon learns that the paranormal is not to be trifled with.

Doors
—A two-bit crook sets his aim on bigger heists after he masters the ability to bend time and space to his will.

The Wondrous Warehouse of Federico Fermín
—A down-on-his-luck single father lands a job as a night watchman for a warehouse where nightmares are made and loosed into the world.
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Author Event: Julio Varela At Books & Books

4/22/2019

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Hot on the heels of his latest novel, Alma Mutters, Julio Varela has announced that he will be hosting an author event at Books & Books in Coral Gables.

Come See Julio Varela, Author of Alma Mutters
When: June 30, 2019 @ 6:30 p.m.
Where: 265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, FL 33134

Alma Mutters is a hilarious and scathing satire of the private school system. After twenty years teaching in the frying pan of higher education, philosophy professor Xavier Mas Penoso (“Most Bashful”) leaps from the skillet and straight into the forest fire of his alma mater. Back in the 80s, Bellarmine Jesuit Preparatory School had taught him to analyze and synthesize in a school with little patience for slackers. However, in the intervening thirty years, Bellarmine’s old school Jesuits have been supplanted by a new breed of media savvy priest, long on ambition, short on integrity. In a school where volitional acts have no consequences, Xavier resolves to dispense wisdom, even if it takes rocket-propelled grenades, a Kevlar helmet, and more holy water than The Exorcist.
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About The Author, Julio Varela
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​Julio Varela teaches undergraduate literature, humanities, film, and philosophy courses in South Florida, where he began teaching in 1993. Dr. Varela’s writing credits include Vortex to Virus, Myth to Meme: The Literary Evolution of Nihilism and Chaos in Modernism and Postmodernism, published in 2009 by VDM Verlag, as well as a number of book reviews for Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science. He received his doctoral degree in humanities from Florida State University in 2004. Dr. Varela lives in Miami, Florida. This is his first novel.
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Authors: We Are Temporarily Closed To New Submissions; See You In 2020

4/5/2019

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Thanks to the overwhelming support of the worldwide community of authors, we now have a great many manuscripts under consideration. In order to afford them the care and attention each deserves, we have decided to temporarily close to new submissions. Authors: thank you for your confidence in us; readers: thank you for supporting our authors' craft. Without you, we wouldn't be able to keep bringing you the best in genre fiction. We plan to re-open to submissions in 2020. See you then, but for now, take care.
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Darkwater Syndicate Announces Company Re-Branding, Shift Into Cookbook Market

4/1/2019

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The executive board of Darkwater Syndicate has announced that the company will be taking a new direction. After much deliberation, and a few drunken fistfights in the boardroom, the company has decided to publish cookbooks exclusively. Beginning  April 1st, 2019, it will publish cookbooks in the genres of fantasy, science fiction, horror, comedy, and thrillers.

"It wasn't an easy decision, but we think it's the best way forward," said Antonio Simon, Jr., Darkwater's Head of Business Development. "The market for cookbooks - sci-fi cookbooks in particular - is up 537% since 1988's Julia Childs's Cookbook for the Modern Martian Household. And let's not forget Edgar Allan Poe's horror cookbook classic: Quoth the Raven, Feed Me More!"
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Antonio Simon, Jr.
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Ramiro Perez
Not everyone was on board with the decision to shift into the cookbook market. The company's Head Acquisitions Editor, Ramiro Perez, was markedly irate. A longtime fan of hack-and-slash fiction in the vein of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian stories, Perez joined the company in 2014 for the stated reason of wanting to read more contemporary fiction. When asked for his opinion on the changes in the company, Mr. Perez stated: "Get these ****ing reporters out of my ****ing office!" The seventy-seven year old then flipped a desk and threw an empty rum bottle at the reporters. The cantankerous Cuban was not available for further comment.
"I sure don't like it," said Apara Moreiya, the company's resident dragon and unofficial mascot, when asked about the change. "I didn't sign up to edit cookbooks; they're sooo boring! What's more, they've replaced me as company mascot!"

The company's beloved fire-breather was informed on the morning of April 1st that he would no longer serve as the company's mascot. The change of mascot is scheduled to coincide with a company logo and name change. To better suit their shift into the cookbook market, "Darkwater Syndicate, Inc." will henceforth be known instead as "Rosewater Syrup Cake, Inc." The new mascot will be the company's namesake, a lovely rosewater syrup cake. New logos and corporate images have been devised in accordance with the re-branding. See below.
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Apara Moreiya
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Douglas Fairbanks
The fourth and final member of the former Darkwater team, Douglas Fairbanks, could not be reached for comment. In much the same way salmon return to the rivers in which they were spawned, Mr. Fairbanks is believed to have absconded to the South American oil platform off the coast of Belize where he was conceived.

Look to Rosewater Syrup Cake, Inc. for the very best in new and exciting genre cookbooks.
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Proposed company mascot: a lovely rosewater syrup cake
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Proposed company logo in line with re-branding efforts
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