Dark Valentine Magazine – Volume 1, Issue 1 – NOW AVAILABLE!

Volume 1, Issue 1 of Dark Valentine Magazine, a new on-line quarterly devoted to dark fiction, is now available for free download at DarkValentine.net

The joint venture of Katherine Tomlinson (publisher), Joy Sillesen (Editor/Design Director); and Joanne Renaud (art director), the collaboration was born when the three women met while working on John Donald Carlucci’s online and print pulp magazine, Astonishing Adventures.

“There are a lot of online magazines and sites devoted to pulp crime fiction,” publisher Katherine Tomlinson said, “but with Dark Valentine we wanted to branch into other genres as well.

“I am thrilled with the support we’ve received from the online writing community and delighted with the quality and variety of stories in this first issue,” she added. “There are many talented writers whose fiction fits our vision and we hope to hear from them all.”

Contributors to the first issue include Agatha nominee mystery novelist Elizabeth Zelvin, romance novelists Stephanie Dray and Christine Pope, and UK horror novelist Peter Mark May. There is flash fiction from Sandra Seamans, Carol Kilgore, Cormac Brown and Blue Jackson among the 19 stories, which range from paranormal noir to pulp fiction to sci fi.

The first issue’s cover is by DV’s art director Joanne Renaud, who took her inspiration from Stephanie Dray’s story of love gone wrong, “The Threshing Floor.” Renaud assembled her staff of artists from all over the globe—Greece (Eleni Trigatzi), Thailand (Rina Ez), the UK (Jennifer Caro), and Poland (Pamela Jaworska)—as well as different states in the U.S. (Kat Laurange, Molly Brewer, Michael Lauritano, Larry Nadolsky, Laura Neubert, Jane Burson, and Sarah Winifred Searle.

“It was exciting working with all the great artists who contributed to the first issue of Dark Valentine,” Renaud said, “and seeing the various artistic interpretations of all the wonderful dark stories that were submitted.”

Submissions are now open for Dark Valentine Magazine’s Autumn issue. For information, see the website (designed by the talented Sarah Vaughn) at: http://darkvalentine.net/index.php/submission-guidelines/

The magazine is a paying market—“We’re all freelancers ourselves,” says publisher Tomlinson, “so it was important that we pay our contributors, even if only a token amount”—and plans are in the works for a print anthology built around an as-yet-unannounced theme.

The summer premiere issue of Dark Valentine is available now at the Dark Valentine website and will be archived.

Contact:

publisher@darkvalentine.net

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