White Cat Magazine Issue 6 is Available!

White Cat Magazine Issue is available for purchase as a pdf with print and mobi/epub versions to follow soon.
Our Fall issue presents stories by John Shirley, John Claude Smith, Christie Maurer, Jamie Mason, and Charles P. Zaglanis, Ferrel D. Moore
Interviews featuring Jason Sizemore and Tom Piccirilli
Reviews by Blu Gilliand and George Beremov
Cover art by William Roberts
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White Cat Issue 6 is Coming...

October 2012

White Cat Acquires Sams Dot Publishing

I am pleased to announce that Sams Dot Publishing has been acquired by White Cat Publications, LLC. to bring our books and magazines to an even wider readership.  Tyree Campbell, the head of Sams Dot has been retained as the Editor-in-Chief for the Sams Dot imprint and all of the Sams Dot team will be joining the White Cat team.  We welcome them with open arms so that we can continue the creative vision of founder James Baker.

White Cat Publications, LLC. began as online magazine and eBook publisher and the addition of Sams Dot's print magazines and books will complement perfectly our product line.

Join me one and all in celebrating this new development.

Blu Gilliand Joins White Cat Magazine as Our New Book Reviewer

Blu Gilliand is a marvelously thoughtful reviewer and we're happy to have him on board over at White Cat Magazine.  He's already reviewed several books for us and he did such a great job we just had to ask him to join us.  Being a serious reviewer like Blu takes a lot of talent, and a passion for books.

For those of you who haven't had the pleasure of meeting him yet, here's his bio:

"As a reader and writer, Blu Gilliand's interests range far and wide, from the classics of Hemingway and Faulkner, to the adventurous non-fiction of Jon Krakauer and Susan Casey, to the four-color exploits from Dark Horse and IDW. But his heart lies in horror, thanks to a chance encounter many years ago with Stephen King's Pet Sematary. That book set him on a course leading to his current work as a writer of fiction (for Shroud magazine, Dark Discoveries magazine, and several anthologies and websites) and non-fiction (for Horror World, FEARnet.com, Ain't It Cool News, and many others). Last year he started his own blog devoted to horror and crime fiction, October Country, as a further outlet for his interviews, reviews and rambling.

Blu lives in the great state of Alabama with his wife, their twin daughters, and an ever-expanding cast of pets. In his spare time (ha!) he enjoys photography, movies, taking the kids to the park and heading down the interstate to the beach every chance he gets."

New Movie Reviewer at White Cat Magazine

We're proud to announce the addition of George Beremov as our new movie reviewer over at White Cat Magazine.  George is a devoted fan of cinema, and we became acquainted through his blog at http://cinemarvellous.blogspot.com

I was so impressed with his work that I invited him join our staff.  You can see his first review for us of the movie "Mirror Mirror" over at White Cat right now.

Join with me if you will to welcome George to our team.

Spring Issue of White Cat Magazine is Online!

We'll be working all day and into the evening to post the Spring Edition of White Cat Magazine.  So if you have time, stop on over and read the new stories.

The winner of our April Fool's Flash Fiction contest is Alex Hughes whose story Cartoon Bastard Clouds has rather a surprise ending to put it mildly.

We have a marvelously off-kilter story by the always entertaining Marissa Lingen titled Dinosaurs of the Southern Dust Bowl.

If you enjoy end of the world stories (and who doesn't), there's always the intriguing Centralia, by the British writer Tony Haynes.

Dystopic science fiction is represented in fine form by the sharp-edged short story Breaking the Ice, by the Australian writer Robert N. Stephenson.

We also have an eerie ghost story Tryst by Brian K. Lowe that our editors just loved.

There'll be more going up later tonight, but til then- enjoy!

Oops.  Got to go.  It looks like she needs help with her typewriter.

White Cat Publications First Kickstarter Project

Just a short intermission from our "Creative Juices" series to tell you all that we've started our first Kickstarter Program to help us launch our first book "Tainted Blood" with a major US book distributor. To take advantage of this huge distribution channel, we need help with funding and Kickstarter will make that possible. Drop on by at this link and take a look:

White Cat Kickstarter Project

Kickstarter is a fantastic venue for funding creative projects and we hope friends of White Publications will give us the support we need to become a strong venue for up and coming creative novelists.  We appreciate any help you can give us.  The rewards alone are worth a contribution!

October Edition of White Cat Magazine

The October Edition of White Cat Magazine is now out.  I'd like to thank all of the many writers who contributed to it.  And for those that didn't make it into this issue- please submit again!

The Ghost Box

Sometimes I find it hard to pay attention to daily life while I'm writing.  Phone calls go answered, emails ignored, friends and family thought of in passing but sure to be there when the story is finished.  The world stops for us while we write.  Everything is on hold except the story.

The last year has been like that for me.  On top of starting White Cat Magazine, I finished writing two novels- "Tainted Blood" and "The Ghost Box." which are now in the edit process.  They're both a bit dark and wild.  In "Tainted Blood," mercernaries track an ancient werewolf through the cities of Detroit.  A great deal of this sort of thing occurs unnoticed in the streets of Detroit, especially during hockey season.

"The Ghost Box" is the novel I wrote after seeing artist James Baxter's painting "Incident at Track 13."  I was writing a ghost story at the time, saw the painting of what looked to be a Civil War alien abduction, and suddenly saw how to blend my story with that imagery to make a suspense novel revolving around aliens, ghosts and a paranormal investigation gone bad.  It's based on a true story.  Okay, maybe not, but after living in that world as I wrote the novel, it seemed more real than daily life.

You see, it's tough staying in touch with the real world when you write this kind of stuff.  Then again, writers live most of their lives in the worlds they create; we just visit reality every now and then to drop off our laundry.

International Submissions Pouring in for Fall Issue of White Cat Magazine

We’d like to take a moment to express our surprise and gratification with the number of stories that we’ve received from writers around the world!

This is an exciting development for us, and we’ll be increasing the number of stories included in the new edition to include a special section for international writers who have been thoughtful enough to send their work to us.

Our editor lived for many years in Canada, and was especially grateful to see the large number of Canadian stories pouring in!

Over the coming months, we’ll be exploring ways to make White Cat Magazine multi-lingual.