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Thursday, September 15, 2011

REVERSE UTOPIAS

Here is the second piece of cover art I have done for author C. J. Burch. The collection Reverse Utopias features four novellas set in a dystopian future and featuring one of his great characters, genetically enhance bounty hunter Angie Dupree. Dupree has appeared in several stories by Burch including One Man's Trash which was featured in Dark Worlds Magazine #2.

You can find C. J.'s book at Barnes and Noble and at Amazon.com.

I've been here and there. I've drawn a lot of pictures. I've written a bit, too. I'm not good at this self-promotion thing. Look, you want to know about me? just visit these websites. Okay?
www.mdjacksonart.weebly.com
http://mdjackson.deviantart.com
http://community.imaginefx.com/fxpose/mdjacksons%5Fportfolio

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

IMPORTANT STUFF and BAD NEWS

Well, the IMPORTANT STUFF was discussed. Sadly the news is not good.

The simple fact is that sales are down. Normally when we release an issue of DARK WORLDS MAGAZINE there is a bubble of sales which trickle off over time. With the release of issue #6 sales have not even started. It may have something to do with the economic downturn, it may be that there was too long a gap between issue 5 and this new one. Given the fact that sales of the last anthology that Rage Machine Books offered on Amazon.com, SWORDS OF FIRE, have been equally dismal, it seems that economics may be to blame.

Either way, it is discouraging because issue # 6 was the most promoted of all the issues we have put out so far, This is the issue that had the support of the magazine's blog which has been averaging almost half a million visits a month since it began. Unfortunately those visits have not been translating into sales.

So, unless sales pick up, it looks like issue # 6 will be the final issue of Dark Worlds Magazine.

This has led us to rethink what we are actually offering and how we are offering it. Without going into too many details we have decided to narrow our focus a bit and concentrate on smaller projects rather than the larger anthologies and the magazine. We are also going to try a different delivery service that cuts out some of the middlemen. That will, hopefully, maximize returns for the authors and artists, rather than the service bureaus.

So keep watching this blog and visit the DARK WORLDS blog for new developments which we will be offering soon.

Saturday, August 27, 2011

IMPORTANT STUFF

Today myself and the other publisher of DARK WORLDS MAGAZINE, G. W. Thomas are haunting the local second-hand bookstores in the interior. Along the way we'll also be discussing IMPORTANT STUFF.

What stuff you ask? Well, I don't know, but it'll be important!

When we come back I shall blog about any cool treasures we have found and let you know about any decisions that we make regarding the IMPORTANT STUFF.

Friday, August 26, 2011

I just want to remind regular readers of this blog (or even irregular readers. I'm not prejudiced) that I also do admin duties at the blog for Dark Worlds Magazine. In case you don't know I am the co publisher of DARK WORLDS a magazine of pulp derived fantasy, horror and science fiction. The magazine's blog has items posted by myself and the other publisher of the magazine, G. W. Thomas.

So please do give the blog a visit. There's lots of cool stuff there and at the rest of the website (www.gwthomas.org). But don't forget to come back here, because now that the summer is over I'm gonna be a blogging fool and there will be lots of neat stuff here as well!

That is all.

Saturday, February 12, 2011

DARK WORLDS #3 RE-ISSUED

Here it is!

Special re-issue of the third issue of the Pulp-Descended magazine of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery and other genres. This issue features the Fantasy "The Tomb of the Amazon Queen" by Michael Ehart that was nominated for a Harper's Pen Award! Also included are "Roadblock", a space opera adventure by Jack Mackenzie, "The Storming of Big Spree" an historical adventure by David A. Hardy, "Bayou Mirage" a Dark Fantasy by E. P. Berglund, "Let Sleeping Dogs Lie", a detective Mystery by Nick Andreychuk, "Laocoon" a Weird Western by G. W. Thomas, "Communications Delay, SF by Lee Beavington, and a Pirate Fantasy "Immortals of the Cannibal Coast" by Joel Jenkins and Martin Edward Stephenson. Our review/Interview is for BURY ME DEEP by Joshua Reynolds. Also includes a Dark Worlds Club section. Original cover by Aaron Siddall. New cover by M. D. Jackson. Illustrations by M. D. Jackson, Aaron Siddall, Sam deGraff and G. W. Thomas.

You can get more info and see a preview here.

Friday, January 28, 2011

TOMB OF THE AMAZON QUEEN

UPDATE: I forgot to mention that this is an illustration for a story called The Tomb of the Amazon Queen by Michael Ehart. which was published in Dark Worlds #3. The story was a Harper's Pen Award nominee and Ehart is a fantastic writer. Even Michael Moorcock says so!