Author Archives: Steven

Diamond Comics Distribution Files for Bankruptcy

The news broke this week of the Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing made by Diamond Comics—the only distribution company that survived the 1990s’ Distributors Wars (that they and Marvel Comics helped instigate) that resulted in the elimination of every one of … Continue reading

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The Best of 2024: Readers’ Favorites

Another publishing year has come and gone, and StarWarp Concepts continues to welcome new readers with our most popular releases. So, as we do annually, let’s take a look at the top three titles that grabbed readers’ attention last year—in … Continue reading

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Happy Kiss a Ginger Day 2025!

According to the calendar site Happy Days 365, today is International Kiss a Ginger Day, a holiday created in 2009 as a “karmic counter event” intended to offset negative comments made about fiery-haired people (e.g., that gingers have no souls, … Continue reading

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Welcome to 2025…and to StarWarp Concepts!

Happy New Year! StarWarp Concepts—in case you’re wondering who we are—is a publisher of dark-urban-fantasy, horror, fantasy, and science fiction titles that are available for sale in brick-and-mortar stores and through select online booksellers and distributors (as well as our … Continue reading

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Happy Holidays!

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Nosferatu: Stalking Movie Screens and the Printed Page

Christmas is coming, and there’s no better way for horror fans to celebrate the Ghoultide Season than with the gift of vampire movies—specifically, the Christmas Day premiere of Nosferatu, writer/director Robert Eggers’s remake of the 1922 classic silent movie that … Continue reading

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Smashwords’ 2024 End of Year Ebook Sale Is Underway!

Hey, book lovers! Today’s the day when e-book distributor Smashwords (and its parent company, Draft2Digital) launches its annual End of Year Sale, during which you can purchase thousands of digital books at special prices! It runs from December 12 to … Continue reading

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DriveThru’s 2024 Black Friday Sale Is Underway!

The Christmas shopping season officially kicked into overdrive, with Thanksgiving Day here in the United States arriving yesterday. Now Black Friday—the biggest shopping day of the year—is upon us, when stores discount prices to generate sales, and Cyber Monday is … Continue reading

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Author Richard C. White at PhilCon 2024

This coming weekend, genre fans will be gathering in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, for PhilCon, “the world’s first and longest-running conference on science fiction, fantasy, and horror” (according to their website), which is being held at the Doubletree by Hilton. … Continue reading

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It’s National Novel Writing Month 2024!

Halloween’s over for this year, in the U.S. this coming weekend it’s time to turn the clocks back an hour as Daylight Savings Time ends, and with the arrival of November comes the annual event called National Novel Writing Month. … Continue reading

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