Back on January 23, 2019, we announced the first of our two special guest authors in our upcoming anthology of automotive horror, It Came From The Garage! That was none other than Guy N. Smith, whose outstanding literary career of five decades produced several bestsellers. While we're not yet at liberty to divulge who the second special guest author will be, we can share with you a tentative list of participating authors and the cars they've written about. Stick around, because there's plenty more exciting news yet to be revealed.

From Miami author and college professor Dr. Julio Varela comes our newest release: Alma Mutters. It's a biting parody of the private school system that will leave you in stitches. The release date is March 31, 2019.

​Xavier Mas Penoso is in over his head. He's returned to Bellarmine Jesuit Prep to teach Philosophy to the entitled teenage offspring of Miami's wealthiest families. Only, the hallowed halls of his alma mater aren't quite as gilded as when he was a student. Textbooks and notepads have been replaced with more laptops and i-Gadgets than the NSA Headquarters. The clergy running the school are P.T. Barnum’s spiritual successors: media-savvy priests who know that suckers are born every minute, and that they need a top-dollar education, too. Under their tutelage, the leaders of tomorrow develop skill sets in private and public sector corruption, depending on the boy’s appetites.

Xavier soon realizes he’s trapped in a job he hates. Academics has taken a distant backseat to Bellarmine’s Holy Trinity: the Hype, Spectacle, and Buzz that justify its raking in tuition fees twice the size of J-Lo’s biker shorts. But Xavier is not one to give up on his principles so quickly. With empty-headed teens keyed up on Ecstasy on one hand, and a corrupt administration on the other, he plots his glorious revenge that could cost him his teaching career.

Hey gumshoes and vampires, it's finally here!

Crack open The Secret Files of Hugo & Victoria if you want a unique mix of noir mystery, paranormal action, and gut-busting comedy.

Hugo is a hardboiled private eye writer with wits as sharp as a switchblade. Victoria is a vampiress in denial of her mystic heritage. The duo solve the most outlandish crimes and write novels about their experiences as only private eye writers can.

Together, this unlikely pair face off against a mob of crazed coin collectors, a terrorist attack by the international criminal Ibn Etin Salami, a coven of evil vampigs and hampires (like vampires, but with more oinks and grunts), and more absurd and amazing scenarios than you can shake a vampire bat at.

Will they survive? Can the unlikely pair find love? And will Hugo ever fix his rust-bucket “classic” Yugo? Find out in The Secret Files of Hugo & Victoria.

​—Big Al's Books & Pals, February 22, 2019

Chock full of anecdotes—some heartbreaking, others laugh-out-loud funny—​I Was A Teenage Cuban Arsonist is a powerful memoir of Ramiro Perez's adventures growing up in pre-revolutionary Cuba, and later, as an exile in Miami.

As a youth, Ramiro and his two older brothers get into trouble with bloodthirsty nuns, discover girls, and inadvertently burn down the family farm. Upon arriving in Miami, he is recruited into a counterrevolutionary movement formed to oppose Castro. In a blink, Ramiro goes from penniless immigrant to soldier of fortune.

Likening this book to a "highlight reel" of his life, Perez's life story promises intrigue, adventure, and the tongue-in-cheek humor he is known for.

Deal yourself another round of horror in Antonio Simon, Jr.'s Tarot of Hate, Vol. 2. The inaugural volume (which you can get here) served up the scares in tales about murder and revenge. This time around, Simon's changed his approach. These eight tales are about human perversions, the supernatural, and death in its most twisted form.

The book is currently in production, and is slated for release on April 30, 2019. It'll be ready for pre-order in the coming days, so watch this space.

If you've been hanging around our website lately, you've probably already picked up on some of the changes we have implemented. One huge change is in our Authors page (go visit in case you haven't been).

We're grown to boast over 50 authors (53 to be exact) and we couldn't be any happier that our literary family is growing. If we keep growing at this rate, we might have to change our name from Darkwater Syndicate to Darkwater Army (probably not, we really like our name).