Jake Bible Fiction

  • Friday Night Drabble Party pre-empted by…

    No Party tonight due to the holiday weekend.

    But if you need free drabble fiction then try this out here One Foggy Night: A DEAD MECH Prequel Short

    Or watch this fun film here:

    Cheers!

  • DEAD MECH and the Apex Trilogy

    Many of you may know, but many more may not, that Severed Press has picked up the entire Apex Trilogy!

    They will be re-releasing DEAD MECH, The Americans, and Metal and Ash this summer. The ebook for DEAD MECH should be up for sale by this weekend (July 5th), with the others following soon. The print books take a little longer due to formatting, printing, etc. But ebooks, yay!

    And I get to show you the new cover for DEAD MECH:

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    I posted it super big so you could see the coolness. Now, I am a HUGE fan of the original cover, but when switching to Severed we needed to make sure to differentiate between the two releases. That means if you have the original it is now a collectors’ item! Um, if there are collectors out that collect my stuff. Sure there are!

    How is this version different? Everything is the same except for some serious line edits and proofreading. Not that the first one was a jumbled mess of Esperanto, but the editing (while professional) wasn’t tight. This manuscript is tight. TIGHT! The same treatment will be given to The Americans and Metal and Ash.

    So be on the lookout for the announcement of the re-release of DEAD MECH! Spread the word, get a copy with the new cover, tell your friends, buy fifty paperbacks and chuck them at strangers while screaming, “Eat that, deader scum!”. Or something along those lines.

    I will keep you posted as it all progresses to glory! GLORY!

    Cheers!

  • Friday Night Drabble Party!

    Here it is, another Friday, another Party, another fantabulous Drabble!

    I know you missed me last week, but I was busy doing this!

    You like? Great!

    Now how about some 100 word fiction? Oh, yeah!

    Enjoy!

    ***

    PERCY!
    By
    Jake Bible

    “You’d think with his complete lack of empathy, Carlton wouldn’t be so torn up,” Mungle said as he watched his co-worker writhe on the floor in anguish. “It’s just a hedgehog.”

    “You shouldn’t have stepped on it,” Timmons responded. “It was his first pet.”

    “Get a hold of yourself, man!” Mungle shouted.

    “Percy! PERCY!” Carlton cried out, his hands trying to rip at his close-cropped, blonde hair.

    “Ok, I’ve watched enough,” Timmons sighed. “Hand me the RPG. I want to double check it before the plane lands.”

    “Will do,” Mungle said, shaking his head at Carlton’s antics at their feet.

    ***

    Cheers!

    Disclaimer: Do I have to say it? No actual hedgehogs were harmed in the writing of this drabble.

  • 48 Hour Film Project pre-empts Friday Night Drabble Party!

    So, no Drabble Party tonight. Sorry. I am busy doing the 48 Hour FilmProject with Team Long Shot! For the next 48 hours we will be writing, shooting, performing, editing, and submitting our 4-7 minute short film for the Asheville 48 Film Festival competition. Wish us luck!

    Not sure what it is? Check it out here 48 Hour Film Project

    Last year we took Best Use Of Genre (Mockumentary) and Audience Award for Group A! Our winner is below! Enjoy!

    The Party will be back next week, for sure!

    Oh, and by the way, I signed a three book deal with Severed Press. Read more here Three Book Deal With Severed Press

    Cheers!

  • Three Book Deal With Severed Press!

    So I am pretty freakin’ stoked to announce that the Severed Press has picked up the Apex Trilogy!

    That’s right, folks, DEAD MECH, The Americans, and Metal and Ash will be re-born and re-released into the world! Severed Press is a small horror press that is making great strides in the publishing industry. Based in Australia, they have released some great horror fiction by authors such as Wrath James White, Tim Curran, and Eric S. Brown. They plan on updating the covers (So cherish the versions you have now! Collectors’ items!) and getting the entire trilogy out into the world again this summer (or winter down under).

    Why, you ask? Why go with a publisher when I have already self-published the series? Simple: I don’t like being a publisher. You know how I walked away from podcasting because of the time thing? Apply that to self-publishing. It takes a lot of time and energy and makes a writer a bit schizophrenic. I would much rather go with a publisher, even a small press like Severed, and let them deal with all the headaches of editing, formatting, cover design, proofing. I need time to just focus on writing. This doesn’t mean I’m not still self-publishing Natural Born Cyborgs. I am. It just means that the Apex Trilogy will have better exposure to publications and reviewers and I’ll have more time to focus on Natural Born Cyborgs since I won’t be as busy trying to hustle and pimp the Apex Trilogy.

    But rest assured that my hustling and pimping days are not over. Hell no, yo! I am a writer in the 21st century. I’ll be pimping the shit out of the Apex Trilogy! But I’ll have a publisher in my court, getting my back, on my side, another colloquialism, which is nice. Being solo is lonely. Sure, there are indie groups I could align with, but so many are reactionary and divisive. I’m just not that guy. This is writing, people, not the bloody French Revolution. No one’s lives are at stake, despite the hyperbole by the extremists on both sides of publishing.

    Which brings me to this: there are no sides in writing. It isn’t Us vs. Them. It isn’t Big vs. Indie/Self/Martyr. It isn’t about who gets the best percentage of royalties, or whether or not you have control over edits and cover. It’s about the writer and the reader. With this deal I get to reach more readers and spread the fun that is the Apex Trilogy. It’s like I’m Jakey Writerseed spreading my wonderful word herpes across the land! Across the WORLD! WORD HERPES FOR ALL!

    Ok, that was a bit much even for me.

    The bottom line is I will have all the privileges that go with being published. I want to expose more readers to my word herpes, I, Uh, need to stop saying that. I want to expose… Maybe not use the word expose? I want the Apex Trilogy to find new readers and to make a bigger impact in fiction than it has. I want it to gain more attention so maybe when it comes time to launch the comic book series, or a movie producer comes sniffing around, it will have a strong enough name as a franchise to get the dues it deserves.

    It isn’t about me, it’s about you- the reader. It’s about you- the fans. It’s about bringing the series to life in a way it hasn’t been fully able to under my watch. It’s about letting someone else be a cheerleader for a time.

    So, whoop, there it is. I am going to be an officially published author with all the treasure and warts that come with that. It may also mean my local bookstore will return my emails. Snobby bastards…

    Anyhoo, be on the lookout for more announcements about the release dates. And spread the word!

    Cheers!