Macabre Ink Digital Publishing

I’ve decided to take the independent plunge on audio editions of my novels, and hopefully of those offered through Macabre Ink Digital by other authors.  I have found some professional voice talent, some professional level studio rates, etc.  and plans are moving forward.  I’m going to try by hook or crook to pay for the first one myself.  It will probably be “The Not Quite Right Reverend Cletus J. Diggs & The Currently Accepted Habits of Nature,” which is a novella, and thus will cost less.

Here’s the thing, though.  Voice talent costs money.  Studio time costs money (even if the person doing the work owns it).  Equipment, cleaning up the audio, you guessed it.  Money.  My play is to offer the audio books at the same kind of reasonable rate that I have the digital books.  I won’t be trying to get rich…but I can’t afford to give it away either, so here’s my plan.

I’m going to work on funding the first novella myself.  Meanwhile, I’ve created a “Chip In” widget and page where you can help me out.  I’m not asking anyone to give me anything for free.  Here’s how it will work.

If you chip in $2.50 you will get one digital download from Macabre Ink Digital of your choice free.

If you chip in $5.00 you get $10 worth of credit for Macabre Ink Digital.

If you chip in $15 or more you will get $10 credit in the store (print and digital) and you will get a copy of the audio book when it’s complete.  Unless things change, the first audio book will be priced at $12.00.

Any contributor who deposits $7.50 or more can opt to have the audio book instead of credit in the store.

If you have other ideas – you want to be a character in one of my books, or you want a signed manuscript – something that’s worth a bit more – and want to be part of this, we’ll talk.  Heck, I might be induced to write a one-of-a-kind short story that’s never been published and sign it over to someone if they chipped in enough.

The sky is the limit.  I figure if I can get enough together to get This is My Blood (the full length novel) produced, between that and the novella I should be able to earn enough to get things rolling.

There is no sign up necessary just click on the widget at the side of this blog…or visit the CHIP IN web page for this project.

Just because it seems appropriate, I’m having another sale.  This time, it’s from now until just after Easter.  The two novels, This is My Blood, and On the Third Day, both involve Easter in one way or another.  One is a re-telling of the Gospel through the eyes of Mary Magdalene, fallen angel and vampire…and the other is the story of Father Thomas, who experiences The Stigmata every Easter Mass…it grows powerful each year…can Father Prescott, “The Miracle Man,” and Bishop Michaels, who believes (and secretly hopes) that it’s all a hoax, unravel the mystery of what is happening?  If they fail…are they ready for what happens on The Third Day?

The coupon code for On the Third Day is 3@ster  Just use that to get 50 percent off.

The coupon code for This is My Blood is 3@ster2 – you can have both books for the price of one.  Happy reading!  Spread the word!  Buy books.

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Deep Blue

Brandt is a drunken, self-loathing guitarist. When he locks himself out of his apartment and stumbles into an alley filled with trash can fires and the homeless, he is gifted – or cursed? – with the ability to play blues like he’s never heard…at a price. He must play to release the pain of the world before it drives him mad. There is another who wants that pain to grow…

Joined at the Muse

Joined at the Muse is a collection of thirteen stories, novelettes, and novellas featuring author David Niall Wilson in collaboration with some of the finest talents in genre fiction. There is horror, dark fantasy, fantasy, and science fiction represented. Two of the stories, those with John B. Rosenman and Stephen Mark Rainey, are previously unpublished.

The Orffyreus Wheel
In 1712, a remarkable man named Johann Bessler invented a wheel that spun after being set into motion until it was stopped with no mechanical input. The Orffyreus Wheel follows his adventures in inventing it, and those of his heir, Elly Kassel, as she fights to keep it from falling into the wrong hands.

On the Third Day

A Young priest experiences the Stigmata. When the Vatican sends in Father Prescott, the “Miracle Man,” to investigate, what ensues is a race to find the truth behind what’s happening at the Cathedral of San Valencez by the sea before the miracle – or curse – gets out of hand, and before they are faced with the question of what happens…on the third
day.

In honor of Read an e-Book Week, Macabre Ink Digital Publishing offers the following coupon code: eBOOKWeek

If you use this to buy e-Books from Macabre Ink Digital and use that code, you will receive a discount of 50%. That’s right. $1.00 stories for .50 – $5.00 novels for $2.50. All week, from the 7th to the 13th of March.

If you’ve been wondering when would be the time to start checking out e-Books, this is your week – particularly if you’re after books from Ronald Kelly, Steve Savile, Steve & Melanie Tem, or – well – David Niall Wilson. Now go…browse…BUY…but buy tomorrow if you want to save some cash.

DNW

PS – don’t forget that every $5.00 spent between now and midnight on the 8th (EST) gets you an entry into the other contest for free books. What a deal!

WIN AN ORIGINAL 1995 SIGNED COPY OF THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF ESCHER & OTHER ILLUSIONS – HERE’S HOW…

Between now and midnight EST on March 8th, I’ll be running a contest.  For every five dollars spent in the Macabre Ink Digital Store, in the Horror Mall, (this includes titles by me that were published by Darkside Digital – find them HERE) at the Horror Drive Thru Fantasy & Horror Sites, and in the Amazon Kindle store on Macabre Ink Digital products, you get one entry.  The more you buy, the more entries you receive.

All digital downloads by all authors published by Macabre Ink Digital are eligible, as are any print books in the Macabre Ink Digital store.

This collection has been out of print since the early 1990s, and there weren’t that many copies to start with.  The prize is even more rare.  I had to track it down and purchase it on line, and it arrived without the original signature page.  To remedy this, I’m signing the title page and numbering it #666.  I will also include a signed ARC copy of my new novel, VINTAGE SOUL, and your choice of one digital download from the store.  That’s a decent prize package.  Two runners up will receive $5.00 in Macabre Ink Digital store credit applicable to any title.

The clock starts now.  If you purchase works through Amazon, the Drive-Thru, or The Horror Mall, you’ll have to contact me by leaving a comment here at this blog or at my author’s website to let me know.  I CAN check to see what was purchased, but you’re on the honor system.

Let’s make this a real coming out party for Macabre Ink Digital.  It’s a great time to see what we’re all about.

-David Niall Wilson

I’ve tried something a little different this time out.  First, I gathered all the stories that came out in my very first collection, “The Fall of the House of Escher & Other Illusions,” which came out in 1995 from the first incarnation of Macabre Ink. – Macabre Inc.  … seems like a lifetime ago.  Some of you more familiar with my work will see just how long stories stick with me when I love them, as the novels “This is My Blood,” and “On the Third Day” were born of two stories in this very book…

I had to rescan and format two of the stories, and scan the artwork.  It was a labor of love, let me tell you.  I can say – I don’t write like this anymore.  On one hand, I know the craft has improved.  On the other, there’s an enthusiasm and style to these very early stories of mine that I still enjoy.  This collection includes a romantic fantasy, two vampire stories, a couple of my patented religious horror stories…in other words, variety.  I’ve published all the stories separately, and then I published the entire collection with all the original illustrations intact.

This is the first ever fiction collection by author David Niall Wilson. It was originally published as a signed, limited edition trade paperback in 1995.&nbsp; This book includes many early stories that have never been reprinted, and two – notably “On the Third Day,” and “A Candle Lit in Sunlight” that were later expanded to full-length novels.&nbsp; The cover is by the late and sorely missed Augie Wiedeman and the interior illustrations are by Michael Grilla. </P> <P>This collection includes vampires, magic, Lovecraftian horror, and religious fable. The introduction is by the late grandmaster of horror and fantasy, Hugh B. Cave.

All of the stories in this collection can be ordered individually on the site – or you can get the collection with original illustrations here.  DOWNLOAD THE COLLECTION FROM MACABRE INK DIGITAL. Or click the titles below to order the individual stories.  Very short stories have dropped to .50.

The contents include:

The Fall of the House of Escher
A Candle Lit in Sunlight
Miracles in the Night
On the Third Day
Yours, the Vengeance
On the Road to Damascus
Sparkling Eyes

A young thief chooses the wrong man to mug, and things go horribly wrong. He shares his sorrow with an angel in a graveyard, shares a drink and a song with his companions on a rooftop, and finds that every bit of his life can be charted through … Defining Moments. This story is a tribute to Ambrose Bierce and the classic story, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.”

This was first published at the online fiction site Gothic.Net many moons ago. It is the title story of the collection “Defining Moments” also available from Macabre Ink Digital.

Buy Defining Moments the story at Macabre Ink Digital

Buy Defining Moments the Collection at Macabre Ink Digital

This e-book is available in .PDF, Kindle, E-pub and PRC formats.  PRC format can be read using MOBIPOCKET READER for the PC, or on KINDLE, or the free KINDLE FOR PC or the free IPHONE KINDLE APP .

‘Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky

A Novella by David Niall Wilson

Leon flies a crop duster.  He also drinks a bit, and so he figures he’d better find a place outside of town to take off and land, just to avoid investigations.  He stumbles across an abandoned government airfield deep in the Great Dismal Swamp, not far from Old Mill, North Carolina.  He also discovers a lot of barrels filled with something – and being the paranoid type – eventually he starts to worry they’ll find him with those barrels, and it will be trouble.

He decides to get rid of it by “dusting” it over the local fields.  Who will know? The problem is – the chemicals in that barrel have some interesting effects on people.  They start to eat at Leon’s already troubled mind, and – since Leon accidentally sprayed them over the local marijuana crop, they start to eat at a lot of other minds as well.

The timing proves fateful for Jess, who just wants to get away from the tired, country life of Old Mill, NC and his tired old friends, like Teeter, who can’t stand still, but bobs back and forth like a metronome.  Only Mabel seems worth saving – the question is, will the two of them survive the night?

-Originally printed in the collection “Defining Moments”

BUY NOW AT THE MACABRE INK DIGITAL STORE!

We’re going great guns over in the Amazon Kindle store, as well as in the Horror Mall, and here on the site.  Remember, if you buy Macabre Ink digital from the Macabre Ink Digital Store, all the money goes to the authors and the publisher…but it IS fun to watch a title rise on the Amazon Kindle Store lists as well..
The Orffyreus Wheel

David Niall Wilson

Product Description

In 1712, a remarkable man named Johann Bessler unveiled an amazing invention. It was a Perpetuum Mobile – a Perpetual Motion Device – a wheel that spun after being set into motion until it was stopped with no mechanical input. It was capable of sustaining this motion and producing enough energy to complete “work” – meaning, literally, that there was something from nothing. Bessler never revealed his secret. He was hounded, mocked, and chased through a very rough and adventurous life. His secret died with him.

Except that it didn’t.

Elly Kassel is the granddaughter and heir of Evelyn Kassel, though the two were not close. Elly is called into the offices of eminent London Solicitors Ratliff & Brownridge, where she discovers that her grandmother was a rich woman. She also receives a trunk, and an envelope, which she is not to open until she reaches New York City. In New York, she is told, all her questions about her grandmother, and her inheritance will be answered.

She takes the flight with some trepidation, and is met by a man named Jonathan at who whisks her away from the airport without even time to grab her luggage. She is taken to a country estate, where she is introduced to Maxwell Black. Black tries to win her trust, but is not very diplomatic. As he is about to try to wrest the envelope she was given from her hands, she is rescued by two men and a woman and again dragged off into the night.

What follows is a series of harrowing near-misses as Elly studies and learns the secrets of The Orffyreus Project, where free energy might be a very real possibility, and her grandmother’s dream of bringing the perpetual motion wheel into production and wide-spread use for the good of mankind seems very possible, and Maxwell Black does everything in his considerable power to stop her, to steal the technology, and to see that the interests of the Petroleum industry are protected from the imminent disaster of obsolescence.

The novel follows parallel paths, showing the odd life of Johann Bessler as he tries to sell his invention to the highest bidder, and Elly Kassel as she tries to prevent her grandmother’s re-discovery of that invention doing exactly that. The two story lines bear down on one another, traveling along at a breakneck pace. Will Black repeat history and bury the wheel forever? The answer lies in “The Orffyreus Wheel.”

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