Pure Evil - Apex Digest

[Evil Avatar]

Good Morning! (And if I don't see you: Good Afternoon, Good Evening and Goodnight.)

Again in the "Helping out the little guy." category, I bring you word of Apex Digest - The Magazine For Sci-Fi And Horror (http://apexdigest.com/), an independent chapbook-sized magazine of Science Fiction and Horror short stories.

I picked up the first two issues for $9.00 (including shipping) signed by the cover artist. The first short story was pretty good and I love the chapbook format for small press magazines (they hold up a lot better than a regular magazine).

Please help support this independent magazine and order a copy, or order both #1 and #2 like I did. Be sure to put in your PayPal comments box that you saw the magazine mentioned on Evil Avatar.com!

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[Evil Avatar]

Support the little guy! Buy these books! Down with Big Brother.

[Kelegacy]

I love literary magazines that have short stories and articles about writing. I bought an obscure one back in college from our bookstore and loved it. Problem is, they are so hard to find in mainstream book stores. I'd pick up a copy each month of sci-fi/horror/etc. full of short stories and writing articles if I could find one. Also, I'm always looking for great outlets to submit short stories to.

Thanks for the heads up, Evil. (by the way, what's a chapbook?)

[Sion]

Are these comics? Is it like Heavy Metal?

[Kelegacy]

no, Sion. They are magazines that contain short stories and other fiction. The cover art is nice, though, and may have belied the contents for you. But the insides are not comics.

[Evil Avatar]

Thanks for the heads up, Evil. (by the way, what's a chapbook?)

A chapbook is a print form that was made popular about 3 years ago with the advent of print-on-demand publishers. It is usually the size and shape of a small hardcover book, bound like a book rather than a magazine, and around 100 - 125 pages.

A lot of authors thought that they could break into the industry by writing short novels and having them printed as $12.00 - $19.00 chapbooks a few years back. The format kind of failed for medium length fiction since the price was too high and the fiction too short.

However, it makes for a great size for a short story fiction magazine. It is more durable than a magazine and as you can see from these issues of Apex, it can be printed for a lot less than the $12.00 people were trying to charge a few years ago.

[jasonb57]

Hi Evil, thanks for bringing my magazine to your member's attention. Apex is a literary magazine focusing on dark sci-fi that ventures into horror sci-fi. We don't print 'howto write' articles, but we do offer several non-fiction pieces each issue, stuff like H.G. Wells Vs. Jules Verne, etc.

Issue three has MM Buckner and Brian Keene. Brian has both a game and comic coming out based on his popular zombie series, The Rising and City of the Dead.

And I've got a deal going now that if you buy a subscription (18 bucks for 4 issues...512 pages of Apex) you get Angeline Hawkes-Craig's latest greatest novella free from Echelon Press.

Check it out at http://www.apexdigest.com

Jason Sizemore