Has It Really Been a Month Already?! -- Endings and Beginnings

Time flies when you are having fun...

It looks like October will be a month of endings and beginnings here at Mocha Memoirs. First of all, if you haven't gotten your story in to Alexandra Christian for the latest Sherlock Holmes anthology call, submissions END on October 14th. Time is running out--so if you have been procrastinating...get a move on!

It will also be the BEGINNING of availability for Ghosts, Gears, and Grimoires, the Steampunk Horror anthology that debuts on October 27th. I can't wait to see the book in print. There are some wickedly awesome stories in it.

Of course, Halloween is also coming--that is the END of October (and my personal favorite holiday) and marks the BEGINNING of National Novel Writing Month. If you have never participated in NaNoWriMo, give it a shot! What have you got to lose? Even if you don't finish, you will have more words than you started with. :)

The goal is 50,000 words in a month, which is a bit daunting, I know--but that works out to only 1667 words a day to make the goal. That isn't so bad. After all, this post has over 200 words, and look how short it is... It is a lot of fun, and I've gotten at least five or six completed manuscripts from the rough first drafts of November. Who knows? You might be the next discovery for us!

Last Chance!

This is it. The deadline was extended a week, but this is your final opportunity to be part of the Ghosts, Gears, and Grimoires Steampunk horror anthology. We have some really great reads for you, but there is still room for a few more. If you've been hesitating or procrastinating, this is the time to put pen to paper! (And I am in the same boat...)

So far, I am really pleased with the Table of Contents. I'll be revealing it soon. ;)

Mocha Memoirs is beginning to have quite a nice collection of Steampunk:

Heliodor by Shannon Wendtland

Avast Ye, Airships edited by Rie Sheridan Rose

"The Head Above the Gate" in RieTales...



But we can always use more, and that is where you come in. Get me a story by Friday! I want to see what YOU have to add to the genre. :)

AND THE WINNER IS...

The 2016 Women in Horror Flash Fiction Contest is complete and now it's time for the fun part--- THE WINNER! Our judges took the bundle of amazing stories and painstakingly wheedled them down to a top ten. Then, our loyal readers did their part and voted on their favorite! It was a neck-in-neck race that was really fun to watch on my end. Every story we received was great, but in the words of Connor MacLeod--- "There can be only one." So without further ado.....

**INSERT DRUM ROLL HERE**

The winner of the 2016 Women in Horror Flash Fiction Contest is...

STAYING by MYRIAH STROZYKOWSKI

 

Congratulations, Myriah! Our readers chose your twisty story of possession as their favorite of the lot! Myriah has won not only lots of bowing and proclamations of "we're not worthy," but also a $20 Amazon Gift Card!

 

Thanks again to everyone who entered, read, judged, and voted! We at Mocha Memoirs LOVE interacting with our readers and hope that you'll think about checking out all of our titles! You can also keep abreast on our new releases by subscribing to the newsletter using the form to the right! Stay tuned for more springtime fun coming up in March... 

A New Year, A New SALE!

Winter is here, finally and the holidays are over. Those dreary wintertime blues are starting to set in. We here at Mocha Memoirs Press love our readers and want to start 2016 with a bang! To that end we're having a blowout SALE on all of our anthologies and collections. We've got everything from steampunk to steamy erotic romance collections that are just the thing to curl up with on a cold winter's night!

From 1/18/16- 1/29/16, MMP is hosting the Warm Winter Collections SALE and CONTEST! All digital copies of our anthologies and collections will be just $2.99! And if print is more your speed, we're slashing those prices by 30% (for those print discounts, you'll need to go to CreateSpace and use Discount Code S9JNPK2Q).


We're also having a big celebration on Thursday, Jan. 21 from 7:30-9:30pm EST on Facebook.  You can join in from the comfort of your couch to talk with some of our authors about writing, submitting to anthology markets, and all their little tricks of the trade.


So there's really no reason not to fill up those Christmas Kindles with a ton of stories that will get you through the gloom. And if that wasn't exciting enough, we're also giving away a $10 Amazon gift card that you can use to buy even more books! So chin up, buttercup! We've got you covered at Mocha Memoirs Press!


In the meantime, click HERE to ENTER the Warm Winter Collections Contest and get lots of chances to win $10 in Amazon cash!!

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MMP Celebrates Women in Horror Month: Carrie Martin

Mocha Memoirs Press has long since celebrated and embraced diversity in speculative fiction. Join us as we spotlight our talented female horror authors throughout the month of February. Follow us on twitter @mochamemoirs to get daily tweets and more.

Carrie Martin (@CarrieBoo33) is a new author to Mocha Memoirs Press, but it a talent in her own right.

When asked how horror influenced her growing up, she replies, "I grew up watching horror movies that crept into my dreams and lured me into dark fictional places. Turns out, life is a horror story, and now the darkness has crept into my writing, too."

You can find Carrie's story and 21 other female horror authors' works in The Grotesquerie, a collection of 22 horror stories, all by women.

Welcome to Women in Horror Month

At Mocha Memoirs Press, LLC, we have a soft spot for horror. Sure, that spot is often stabbed, stomped on or haunted by the likes of talented horror writers--and we LOVE it. So, it's only fitting and somewhat self serving, that we celebrate Women in Horror Month! 

Our month long celebration spotlights our talented women who pen horror stories that linger long after you're done reading. Horror Editor, Eden Royce, has also compiled an impressive anthology of twenty-two horror short stories--all written by women. The Grotesquerie is available in print and ebook formats.

Great storytelling is great storytelling regardless of the genre. I encourage you to try some of the following titles this month, and to put your courage to the sticking place and enter, "The Grotesquerie" this month also.

Have a wicked and wonderful Women in Horror Month. To learn more about Women in Horror Month, visit their facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/WomenInHorrorMonth.

Best,
Mocha Memoirs Press
Here are the titles to our talented Women who write Horror:

Whispers in the Dark by Janet Eckford

In the Realm of Mystery and Light by Janet Eckford

The Other Man by Selah Janel

Bloody Rain by Rie Sheridan Rose (check out Rie's story in THE GROTESQUERIE)

Alicia by E.A. Black

In the Bloodstream  Compiled by Eden Royce (various stories by talented women in this volume)

Huntress by Siobhan Kinkade