Hi, I’m Eirik Gumeny. You might remember me as the founding editor of Jersey Devil Press, the author of the Exponential Apocalypse series, or from that essay I wrote for Modern Love.
More likely you don’t know me at all.
Either way, however you got here, I’m putting together two new anthologies of weird fiction and I could use your help.
If you’re a fan of sci-fi, horror, fantasy, or broader speculative fiction that, in the words of Kurt Vonnegut, doesn’t disappear up its own asshole, I think you’re really going to enjoy these books. But I need your pre-orders to make them real.
Between being Verified in a way that doesn’t make El*n any money, the Algorithm, and just generally having been out of the game for a few years, I’m facing an uphill battle getting attention for these books. Doing two at once without an obvious hook probably didn’t help either.
That’s on me, for sure, but that’s also marketing – and something that a successful Kickstarter campaign can easily fix. But, I’m getting ahead.
Right now, I just want to make some really cool books. So let me tell you about them.
GREATER THAN HIS NATURE will be a collection of thirteen thrilling tales of mad science. I’m a sucker for cackling Victorian natural philosophers and atomic monsters from the 1950s, but I’m open to being surprised. In fact, I *want* to be surprised.
I also want to fill the pages of GREATER THAN HIS NATURE with stories from writers with chronic illness and disability. Because no one understands body horror and transhumanism and all the miraculous and monstrous parts of resurrections better than us.
Right now, the immunocompromised and medically vulnerable are being shut out of society. Right now, we’re angry as shit with nowhere to put that rage. Tell me. Tell your peers and any other readers brave enough to listen.
The second anthology is OPEN ALL NIGHT, a collection of horror and dark fiction set during the graveyard shift. Stories about all the weird shit that goes down when the white-collar Succession-types of the world are at home soiling their sheets, dreaming about how to exploit the poor even more.
Give me stories of revenge against the rich. Give me stories of overnight inventories gone bad, 24-hour diners going dark, and all the spooky stuff that goes bump in the night.
Look, I don’t know who’s actually going to see this. The entire social media ecosystem is collapsing, but it remains the only avenue available to those of us trying to make things with limited resources. Why, it’s almost like the billionaires are trying to stifle our creativity.
Pre-order GREATER THAN HIS NATURE and OPEN ALL NIGHT. Submit your stories. Help me get these books off the ground. Help me channel the rage of the mistreated and marginalized. Help me piss off the 1% by making something they don’t want us to make.
P.S. Please know that I’m paying writers for their work. It’s only a token amount now, but, if the Kickstarter is successful, I’ll be able to pay them more. What they’re worth.
Help me help writers of weird fiction. Help me help you.
Let’s make something cool. Let’s make something weird. Let’s make something important.