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Hello happy readers! It's time to let you know that we're planning, at long last, a fourth edition of the Amityville House of Pancakes anthology. As you may know, AHOP serves a breakfast so good, you'll hardly miss your soul. Well, some of you may have missed it more than others, and with that in mind, we're pleased to announce AHOP 4 - the Kiva edition.
What is AHOP?
Amityville House of Pancakes is our irregular anthology of humorous speculative fiction - might be horror, might be SF, might be fantasy, but will always send milk shooting out your nose. We include 3 or 4 novellas from some of the funniest people on the planet - past guests have included Gary K Wolf, Adrienne Jones, Paul Kane, Jack Mangan and Jetse de Vries. Vol's 1&2 are now out of print, though Amazon says there's some used copies around. Vol 3 is still very much on sale.
What is KIVA?
Kiva is the granddaddy of microfinancing online - as a participant, you can contribute to loans to entrepeneurs worldwide, with the focus being on do-it-yourselfers in developing nations. Though a not-for-profit, Kiva is not a charity - recipients of loans pay them back according to terms decided with the local microfinance organization in their region. Kiva lets you see the people asking for loans, filter by types of businesses, even coordinate with other loaners by joining teams (yes, there is a CGP team!). The great thing about this is that once your loans are paid back, you can loan out again and again. See the site: http://www.kiva.org
 So what's the deal with souls?
I'll assume you're asking specifically about this book and not existentially - all proceeds from sales of the book will go to Kiva, either in loans or donations for the organization's administrative costs. So, good for the reader's soul. Also, the authors will be receiving a portion of their royalties in Kiva credit. Good for their souls too.
What do I do now?
Well, if you're the sort who enjoys good stories, and you must be if you're here, you can always treat yourself to a copy of AHOP 3, available at all your favourite online stores, and in the better bookstores near you (if they don't have it on the shelf, pester them!) and whet your appetite for the newest book, which will be available in mid-2011. If you're a writer who'd like to contribute, we'll be posting full guidelines on the website soon, and giving the other usual suspects (Ralan, Duotrope) the details. Submissions will be opening toward the end of this year, and in short, we're looking for novella-length work, 15-40k words, any genre but must be humorous in nature. Payment will be $100 advance on royalties, $50 cash and $50 in the form of a Kiva gift certificate.
Yeah but what do you think is funny?
Many of the books we've published are humorous in nature - if you want to see what tickles us, check out: AHOP 3, Stays Crunchy in Milk, Installing Linux on a Dead Badger, Ace Hawkins and the Wrath of Santa Claus, Brine, You're Not Very Important, Random Acts of Malice, Funnybones, or hunt up some of the earlier editions of AHOP.
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We are pleased to announce that the new edition of Sparks and Shadows, by Lucy A Snyder, is officially released and should be hitting store shelves, virtual and otherwise in the next few days. We've added 
The 2009 Bram Stoker Awards were announced at WHC2010 in Brighton, and we are extraordinarily pleased to congratulate Lucy A Snyder on winning the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry, for her book Chimeric Machines! Many, many congratulations Lucy, and thank you for the opportunity to publish this book - we're exceedingly pleased to know that others have enjoyed it as much as we did.
