{"id":8141,"date":"2011-03-05T00:18:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T05:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8141"},"modified":"2011-03-05T00:18:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T05:18:52","slug":"free-spring-issue-of-dark-valentine-magazine-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8141","title":{"rendered":"FREE SPRING ISSUE OF DARK VALENTINE MAGAZINE IS HERE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download the <strong>FREE <\/strong>issue <a title=\"Dark Valentine - Spring 2011\" href=\"http:\/\/darkvalentine.net\/index.php\/2011\/03\/rites-of-spring\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> or click the cover.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/darkvalentine.net\/index.php\/2011\/03\/rites-of-spring\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8143\" title=\"Dark Valentine Spring 2011\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/spring_2011_cover_small.jpg\" alt=\"Dark Valentine Spring 2011\" width=\"216\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a>Featuring fifteen stories filled with dark desires, selfish needs and compelling urges, the spring issue of <em>Dark Valentine<\/em> caps the magazine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first year of publication with contributors from as far away as Poland.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a fantastic year for the magazine,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says publisher Katherine Tomlinson.  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have been thrilled with the quality of the stories coming our way.  In fact, a piece of flash fiction from our inaugural issue, Carol Kilgore\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Blues in the Night,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d has been short-listed for a Derringer Award, competing against stories from long-established print magazines like <em>Ellery Queen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mystery Magazine<\/em>.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Tomlinson praises editor\/design director Joy Sillesen for giving the publication its unique look.  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Joy does double duty every issue.  In addition to being a terrific editor, she has an artist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eye for layout and is the queen of fonts.  From the very first issue, her work made the magazine memorable.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>As always, each of the stories is accompanied by original artwork commissioned just for that piece.  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our art director, Joanne Renaud, has collected a terrific group of artists whose styles vary from the other-worldly richness of Kitamu Latham-Sampier\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s illustration for \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcSwamp\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to the noir-ish black and white stylings of Walter Conley,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Tomlinson continues.  As with the stories, the art was gathered from all over the world, with artists from the UK, Greece, Poland, and Australia as well as North America.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yes,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Tomlinson adds.  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are after total domination of all genres of dark fiction.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><em>Dark Valentine<\/em> is a quarterly magazine dedicated to dark fiction from every genre.<\/p>\n<p>Coming in June\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<em>Dark Valentine<\/em> Magazine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s anniversary issue which will be available in pdf, electronic formats, and print.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you like what you saw last year,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Tomlinson says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to love what you see this year.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Find the Spring issue of <em>Dark Valentine<\/em> at:  <a title=\"Dark Valentine - Spring 2011\" href=\"http:\/\/darkvalentine.net\/index.php\/2011\/03\/rites-of-spring\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>http:\/\/darkvalentine.net\/index.php\/2011\/03\/rites-of-spring\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contact:  <strong><a href=\"mailto:publisher@darkvalentine.net\">publisher@darkvalentine.net<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download the FREE issue here or click the cover. Featuring fifteen stories filled with dark desires, selfish needs and compelling urges, the spring issue of Dark Valentine caps the magazine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first year of publication with contributors from as far away as Poland. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a fantastic year for the magazine,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says publisher Katherine Tomlinson. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=8141\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8141"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8152,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141\/revisions\/8152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}