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The Horror at Pooh Corner

Posted on February 15, 2023 - April 12, 2023 by Joe


You may not have known about it, but the day we’ve all been waiting for is almost here! The Kickstarter for The Horror at Pooh Corner begins tomorrow, Thursday, February 16, at about 9:00am Mountain Time.

I really want this project to be successful because it will allow Hemelein to do more pro-pay projects in the future. I’ve received so much for the writing community through working with all of you on all my past projects, as well as reading so many stories by you. This means that the more people who back the project, especially in the first 24 hours, the more likely it is to succeed and build organic buzz about the project.

Will you help it get off to an amazing start by sharing this information with your friends, family, and anyone else you think might be interested? I’ve attached an image you can use to help promote it. I’ve also included some text (below) that you can use when promoting it.

Here’s the text you can use:

The Hundred Acre Wood has been part of the consciousness of the world for a very long time. For most of the history of the world, it existed on the fringes of awareness, just there, in the corner of your eye. In the early days of the Twentieth Century, a well-meaning fellow by the name of Alan Milne recorded some of the adventures of the denizens of that fell place, though he did brighten the real stories a bit in order to appeal to the children of the day. Now, the real stories can be told.

The dark truth of heffalumps and woozles, what the bees are really hiding, what happened to all the adults, the story behind Pooh’s obsession with hunny, what caused Eeyore’s gloomy outlook, why Piglet is horribly afraid all the time, why Kanga and Roo really came to the Hundred Acre Wood, what Pooh and Christopher Robin discovered at the North Pole, why Eeyore’s tail must be kept attached, the significance of red birthday balloons, what caused the great flooding of the Wood, the true purpose for Pooh poetry compositions, the story of Owl’s Uncle Robert, and more. These are the kinds of stories you can expect in The Horror at Pooh Corner anthology.

These are stories terrifying and humorous (sometimes both). The veil between insanity and the Hundred Acre Wood is thin, and cosmic horrors and other fell beings frequently cross over. Find here the true stories of how these encounters affect the denizens of the Hundred Acre Wood.

I’m looking forward to continuing to work with all of you in the future, and thank you very much for sharing this information far and wide!

Posted in Anthologies, Hemelein Publications, NewsTagged Kickstarter, Lovecraftian, Winnie-the-Pooh

Blog post on AML site

Posted on April 8, 2022 - April 7, 2022 by Joe

I had the opportunity to write a guest post on the website of the Association for Mormon Letters. I discussed the inspiration for and plans of Hemelein Publications, including the new Legacy of the Corridor publication series. This series highlights well known and lesser known authors from the Intermountain West, and the third volume comes out on April 19: Down the Arches of the Years by Lee Allred. I really enjoyed editing it, and I think you’ll like it.

Posted in Hemelein Publications, NewsTagged Association of Mormon Letters, Lee Allred, Legacy of the Corridor

Update for Summer 2021

Posted on July 30, 2021 - July 30, 2021 by Joe

I have several announcements to make:

A Universe of Stories was released on June 30, 2021. The official release event is on August 14 at American Fork Library at 11am. Come out, pick up your copy, and get signatures from the authors and the editor.

The Florilegium of Madness, a collection of short fiction and essays by D. J. Butler and co-edited by Callie Butler and myself, was released on July 28! It has a bunch of Hiram Woolley stories (The Cunning Man), as well as a bunch of other Cthulhu mythos and other dark fantasy stories. I enjoyed working with Dave and Callie to create this volume. This is the first collection of Dave’s stories, and the first in the Legacy of the Corridor publication series from Hemelein Publications. We’re still working on a release event for it.

We have a cover for Parliament of Wizards! This is the fourth volume in the LTUE Benefit Anthologies series that I co-edit with Jaleta Clegg. It comes out in February 2022.

I plan to be at FanX, too. Check out my schedule for more details.

Posted in Events, Hemelein Publications, LTUE Press, NewsTagged American Fork Library, anthologies, Jaleta Clegg, Parliament of Wizards

Anthologies and babies and writing, oh my!

Posted on January 16, 2020 - January 16, 2020 by Joe

It’s been a while since I last wrote on this blog, but I have reasons. Good reasons, even.

A Dragon and Her Girl, the second of the LTUE Benefit Anthologies, is all done and ready for publishing. You can preorder it on Amazon, and it will be available on Kindle Unlimited through the end of May. On June 1, it will become available on all the ebook platforms possible.

This anthology is exciting because I got to work with one of the nicest, most gracious, and prolific authors I know: Mercedes Lackey. I’ve enjoyed her short stories for years, and eventually I’ll get around to reading some of her novels (I really haven’t read any of them, honest). She and co-author Elisabeth Waters were so kind to let us include their story in A Dragon and Her Girl. The other authors in the anthology were great to work with, too. I think I’ve been blessed to work with amazing authors so far in my editing career. It’s been a joy working with Jaleta Clegg again, too.

In December, my son (who was due at the end of January) decided he’d had enough of baking and came very early. He spent a bit of time in the NICU to make sure he wasn’t going to have any of the issues often associated with premature births. He’s home, off the CPAP, and he and mom are doing fine now.

I’ve been stuck a bit on writing because of spending all my time on the above two items. I (along with Jaleta) also finished selection for Twilight Tales, the third LTUE Benefit Anthology, due for release in February 2021. It’s a light horror (think “Twilight Zone”) anthology in honor of Betty Pope, and will feature 31 tales of light terror and woe. We are now working on selecting the theme (and the honoree) for the fourth anthology in this series.

I’m about to begin work on editing A Universe of Stories, a short collection of stories by winners of the first American Fork Library creative writing contest. This anthology gives those winners the opportunity to go through the editing process and even earn a little money from the sales of the anthology. This will be an ongoing series, published first in ebook format, with a print omnibus version available after 3-4 of the ebook anthologies have come out. I’ll post more about this anthology (and its sequels) when it gets closer to release.

If you want to pick up signed copies of Trace the Stars and A Dragon and Her Girl, I’ll be at Life, the Universe, & Everything in February. A bunch of the authors in those anthologies will be there, too. I will also have a few copies of All Made of Hinges if you’d like to read “Napoleon’s Tallest Teamster“, my clockwork android story set in 1870s France.

That’s it for now. Thanks for stopping by!

Posted in Conventions, General rambling, Hemelein Publications, LTUE Press, NewsTagged A Dragon and Her Girl, A Universe of Stories, American Fork Library, anthologies, Jaleta Clegg, LTUE, Napoleon's Tallest Teamster, Trace the Stars

Updates on anthologies

Posted on November 18, 2019 - November 18, 2019 by Joe

I’ve been very busy the last few months since my last post. Twilight Tales, the third of the LTUE Benefit Anthologies, received more than twice the number of submissions as A Dragon and Her Girl. We (my co-editor and I) just finished reading all of the submissions and selecting the final stories.

Watch for an announcement regarding the accepted stories as soon as we receive back all of the contracts (they will be sent out over the next couple days). We are working with the cover artists (yes, there are two) for Twilight Tales, too. We will unveil the cover at LTUE this coming February, so watch for more details about that.

The final proofing for A Dragon and Her Girl is in progress, and the cover design is being finalized. Kaitlund Zupanic did an amazing job with the artwork for it, and I’m looking forward to seeing it in print.

There are a few additional things in the works that I can’t discuss yet. I hope to able to announce them soon.

Posted in Hemelein Publications, NewsTagged A Dragon and Her Girl, Twilight Tales

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