The first part of the Year in Exile is cancelled, due to unforeseen issues. As such, I’m deep into the submission pile now, reading stories for the September and December issues.
And while things are on track for the next set of guest editors, we will always be ready to adapt.
The June issue is nearly ready, and we have more surprises coming in July.
I’m working diligently to finish up the March issue of LampLight, and while there will be more about that soon, I am excited to announce what the plans for Volume 5 will be.
All four issues of LampLight Volume 5 will be guest edited.
The Year in Exile will start with the September issue, which will be edited by Damien Angelica Walters.
Damien’s new book, Paper Tigers has just come out, and the title story in her collection, Sing Me Your Scars has been nominated for a Bram Stoker Award.
The December issue will be edited by Katie Winter, the assistant editor of LampLight.
Katie has been with LampLight since the first issue, and her help has been invaluable. Her perspective has guided LampLight for years, and we are excited to have her at the helm.
We will update later for the editors of March and June 2017 issues at a later time. For now, though, send in your subs!
Welcome!
Editor, Jacob Haddon was on The Horror Show, with Brian Keene. The interview discusses the origins of Apokrupha, the hows and how-nots of making a magazine, and more!
Links for the two books, LampLight Volume 3 and the steampunk adventure, The Honey Mummy are below!
More discussion about the podcast on JacobHaddon.com
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The third Volume of LampLight maga
zine, collected into a single volume, featuring issues from September 2014 – June 2015
Featuring the full novella by Kelli Owen, Wilted Lilies. Fiction and interviews with Yvonne Navarro, Mercedes M. Yardley, Nate Southard, Victorya Chase.
Fiction from:
Gary A. Braunbeck, Sana Rafi, Nick Mamatas, Roh Morgon, Tom Brennan, Salena Casha, Rati Mehrotra, J. J. Green, Damien Angelica Walters, Gwendolyn Kiste, John Boden, Kristi DeMeester, T. Fox Dunham, Davian Aw, John Bowker, Kealan Patrick Burke
A mummy bound in honey.
An auction of archaic wonders.
An immortal link to the past.
Beneath the streets of Alexandria, Agent Cleo Barclay stumbled into a catacomb that changed her life. Her arms were taken, transfigured, and something remarkable was revealed–something that will stir an ancient life from the ashes of history.
A serpentine sarcophagus holds clues to Cleo’s past and future. She enlists Eleanor Folley and Virgil Mallory to collect the artifact at auction, to unravel its mysteries and her own. When the sarcophagus falls into the hands of an enigmatic Egyptologist, they find themselves participants in his diabolical pursuits.
Drawn to Alexandria by their friend–and the temptations of a newly discovered ring–Folley and Mallory will be challenged as never before.
The Honey Mummy is coming, 1 March, 2016!
A bungled museum theft. An ancient Egyptian riddle.
The rumor of strange creatures moving beneath the streets of Paris.
Kindle edition updated to include a free preview of The Honey Mummy!
Looking for the book that started it all? Travel to Egypt near the turn of the century for a steampunk adventure!
Save 40% by pre-ordering the Kindle edition of The Honey Mummy by E. Catherine Tobler!
Agents Eleanor Folley and Virgil Mallory are back!
A mummy bound in honey.
An auction of archaic wonders.
An immortal link to the past.
Beneath the streets of Alexandria, Agent Cleo Barclay stumbled into a catacomb that changed her life. Her arms were taken, transfigured, and something remarkable was revealed–something that will stir an ancient life from the ashes of history.
A serpentine sarcophagus holds clues to Cleo’s past and future. She enlists Eleanor Folley and Virgil Mallory to collect the artifact at auction, to unravel its mysteries and her own. When the sarcophagus falls into the hands of an enigmatic Egyptologist, they find themselves participants in his diabolical pursuits.
Drawn to Alexandria by their friend–and the temptations of a newly discovered ring–Folley and Mallory will be challenged as never before.
We are going to make some changes for submissions for 2016, starting now.
We will be reading from now until the end of January. From this we will pick stories for both the March and June issues.
LampLight will be closed for submissions 1 February, 2016.
When we open back up for Volume 5, we will have reading periods set up for the issues. This is just one of a few changes we will be making in 2016 to improve the way we operate, and improve response time.
Thank you, as always for reading, submitting and supporting LampLight!
Featured Writer is Tim Waggoner, who brings an all new short story, Trespasser. We talk to him about writing and art.
Kevin Lucia returns to LampLight with the first of a four part series on the history of the genre, entitled ‘Horror 101.’ The first piece is The House and the Gothic, focusing on haunted houses and the bad place.
Fiction from P. D. Cacek, Christopher Shearer, Jamie Lackey, Charles Payseur
Guest edited by Paul Michael Anderson.
Pre-Order the next Clifton Heights story from Kevin Lucia!
“A
Night at Old Webb” is an intimate tale of youth, wonder, attraction, and exploration of mystical places. Blurring the lines between memoir and fiction, it’s an unsettlingly sweet and sad story about friends, new and old, standing around being young together.”
To be released by Apokrupha on 24 July in print and ebook!
June is our anniversary month (birthday month?) here at Apokrupha. We became official in June of 2012 after over a decade of dreaming, plotting and wanting.
We are behind in the June 2015 issue of LampLight. This is for a few reasons, but mostly, if I dare pull back the curtain some, it is because LampLight, for the most part, is a one editor operation.
This year, 2015, has seen some incredible moments for me already, and some stressful ones. A wedding, a honeymoon, new jobs, moving, all the while trying to keep a float of the submissions and stay on track with the issues. The March issue came out on time, but the June one has not.
There is still a June issue coming. For these reasons, we are behind, but I will not rush this issue just to get it out. I owe it to both the readers of LampLight and the writers who have submitted stories to put the same focus as I always would into this issue.
I ask for a little more patience from everyone.
Paul Anderson is reading for September, which will be out on time, thus re-setting us back to a normal schedule.
The June issue is coming, bringing the final part of Kelli Owen’s Wilted Lilies, a great featured writer, and more. The Volume 3 annual will follow shortly after, and September’s issue will be on time.
And this fall will have some more surprises in store.
This June we are 3 years old, here’s to many more June’s to follow.
-jacob
There will be an AMA (ask me anything!) on Reddit in r/Books with LampLight editor, Jacob Haddon on 20 May 2015! Come by, we’ll be talking Lamplight, lit mags and probably a few random things as well.
We will post the link on the day!
http://reddit.com/r/books
We want LampLight to be a professional market. But being ‘professional’ is so much more than just a per-word payment amount. It also means payment for our editing team. It means polite, professional staff; well formatted ebooks and print copies; and most importantly, it means a readership worthy of the name.
And so we are coming to you, asking for help to achieve this goal. We want to get to 1,000 subscribers to LampLight magazine. This will allow us to increase our payments to full professional rate; hire additional readers and editors; and bring you more of the high quality dark and suspense fiction we have been for the last ten issues.
All of the funds from these purchases are going straight to us, no cut from Amazon or Kickstarter. All of these funds are going right back into LampLight magazine to pay writers and editors in our community.
These are our subscriber goals:
250 – Additional readers / editors for staff, reducing reply time for submissions
500 – At this level, we will make a bonus issue of LampLight every year that will ONLY be available to subscribers.
1,000 – LampLight becomes a Pro-Market, we adjust payment to match
We want to be a professional market, help us achieve that. Pick up a subscription, help spread the word.
We have two ebook bundles set up as well for a limited time:
For more information on our titles:
The Past issues: http://lamplightmagazine.com/past-issues/
Anthologies: http://apokrupha.com/catalog/
