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For Holly and Rick

By On April 1, 2013 · 1 Comment

To quote our Publisher Bob Booth (slightly cleaned up for publication), “This has been one hell of a year.”

The horror community suffered a devastating loss when Rick Hautala passed away on March 21st.  Anyone who has ever read Rick’s work will attest to what an amazing writer he was, but more importantly anyone who [...]

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BECHTEL’S BUCKSHOT BLOG: A Funny Thing Happened On Halloween …

By On November 16, 2012 · 2 Comments

I have a really cool story to share here, but for the life of me I can’t come up with a good intro, so I’m just gonna dive right in —

In a typical month, our Flash Fiction Contest will receive somewhere around thirty submissions (light months may be around twenty, heavier months around forty).  [...]

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Full Circle

By On September 6, 2012 · 3 Comments

Anyone catch that Today Show segment that spotlighted the young man who had a conversation with his twelve-year-old self?

I’ve been thinking about that.

When I was twelve, I had been reading and watching horror on a steady diet. Save for a few Christopher Pike books, I’d graduated from Young Adult horror when my much-older [...]

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Necon E-Books: Announcements for the Next Calendar Year

By On August 3, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Our company celebrated our second birthday at Necon this year, and to say that it’s been an interesting and exciting ride so far would be massive understatement.  Without doubt, it’s an amazing time to be in the digital publishing industry; technology and software continue to evolve, new opportunities present themselves, and the business is in [...]

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Bechtel’s Buckshot Blog: Our Time Of Year

By On July 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment

So Necon is exactly one week away as of this writing.  Seven days from now I’ll probably be either: A) On my way to the airport to pick someone up; B) Unloading the art show panels off the U-Haul; C) On my way to the doctor with a hernia from unloading the art show panels [...]

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Tiny Kingdoms by Janet Joyce Holden

By On May 16, 2012 · 4 Comments

This is all out war, and instinctively you hide among friends. Your strategy is insignificance, until the big push when you reach out and raise your arms in greater numbers, hoping to be acknowledged and given strength by a more benevolent force. It is a gesture that becomes your undoing, for now you are too [...]

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Bechtel’s Buckshot Blog: Getting Stoked

By On April 20, 2012 · 5 Comments

You never forget your first.  As such, this article is dedicated to two tremendously talented writers, each of whom we’re honored to say, were “firsts” for your friendly neighborhood e-book company.

The premiere title in our first library of books, Necon Classic Horror #1, was Rick Hautala’s Winter Wake.  In fact, Rick participated on the [...]

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Musing On My Old Mentor and What He Read

By On March 5, 2012 · 1 Comment

I was thinking about Don Grant today (Donald M. Grant, the publisher). About the books and writers he so generously introduced me to, and what the common thread might have been. The occasion was my reading of The Face in the Abyss by Abraham Merritt, the last major project Don was involved in publishing, having [...]

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Polio, Dominican Friars, and Necon — A Mystery Solved

By On January 28, 2012 · 7 Comments

A TV show premiered on Fox Wednesday night, called “Touch.” It is about a boy who is autistic, doesn’t speak, but has the amazing ability to see all of existence as a mathematical construct. By simply following the number lines he can discover why things happened in the past and, more importantly, what will happen [...]

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Bechtel’s Buckshot Blog: Having a Not-So-Blue Christmas

By On December 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Greetings again, one and all, and I apologize right off the bat if I’ve just put an Elvis Christmas carol into your heads.

This is our first new blog in over a month, and that’s not by accident or laziness or a lack of material — we decided to leave Bob’s last article up longer [...]

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