Apex Publications, a wonderful small press publishing horror, dark fantasy, science fiction and very weird stories is in trouble and we can help. as I mentioned in the last post, the owner Jason Sizemore needs to sell books and if you spend over $25.00 in the Apex bookstore you get free shipping.

This is a way we can directly help save a book published and get some great birthday gifts for that Horror/SF/Fantasy reader in the process. Below are a couple of Apex books, click on the book cover to go to the Apex store if you find yourself interested in making a purchase.



Orgy of Souls
Author: White, Wrath James and Broaddus, Maurice
Format: Hardcover and Trade Paperback
Type: Novel
Page Count: 144pp.
Pub. Date: June 13, 2008
Publisher: Apex Publications
Links: Words of Wrath
Links: The Pontifications of Maurice Broaddus

Twenty for one.

Twenty souls for his brother's life is a price that seductively beautiful Samson is willing to pay. Twenty souls drenched in blood, powdered with cocaine and more than one kind of ecstasy. A fair trade for the life of a brother. A fair trade for the life of a priest. And everyone he meets seems so willing to give theirs away.

Samuel's faith often wavers. Diagnosed with HIV and in rapid decline, he hides his disillusionment in the rituals of the priesthood. But when Samson brings him the first blood-signed contract for a young woman's immortal soul, the steamy world of high fashion male models and the quiet decay of a sickly priest begin to writhe against the realities of life, death, and otherworldly power.

Brotherly love is a deadly seduction, beauty a dangerous game. Come worship in the brutal temple of Orgy of Souls. Your faith will never be the same again.

Wrath James White is a former professional fighter, trainer and writer. He is also an atheist.

Maurice Broaddus is a horror writer and a minister (called the Sinister Minister).





Beauty and Dynamite
Author: Kontis, Alethea
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Memoir, essay and poetry
Page Count: 280pp.
Pub. Date: Jun 13, 2008
Publisher: Apex Publications
Links: Aletheakontis.com
Links: Alethea Kontis's MySpace

Once upon a time, a young girl walked into a world of wonder and delight. But that's not where this story starts.

The young woman she became published a nationally recognized children's book and edited a star-filled collection of stories to benefit the tsunami relief effort. But that's not where this story ends.

Meet Alethea Kontis, a self-proclaimed Genre Chick whose life is an adventure that tears through these pages like a hurricane. Carrot-a-day cancer cures and Murphy as a guardian angel (yes, that Murphy, the guy with all those irritating laws) are just a part of the daily routine for the Incredible Whirlwind of Beauty and Dynamite, the force of nature masquerading in human form.

Through essays, poetry, and commentary from family, friends, and famous authors alike, a world of Blood Oaths and road trips, broken hearts and mended cars, comes alive with the strength of one woman's conviction that the world is there to be befriended.

You have now been introduced. Let your adventure begin.

Alethea Kontis is a buyer for Ingram Book Company, a contributing editor for Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest, and a freelance editor for Solaris Books. She also writes books.

More soon . . .