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Photos of Vargo signing

These are a little late being posted, but below are a few photos of T.J. Vargo, author of Low Man, at his first signing at the Mansfield, Ohio Barnes & Noble on October 25, 2008.
It was a great turnout, and attracted a lot of readers. Thanks to everyone who showed up and gave your support [...]

Sorry for the silence

Sorry for the silence here on the blog, as well as a slower turnaround on submissions. A nasty sweep of strep throat went through the office, knocking out two editors, one first reader, and our admin assistant for a week. Of course, once we figured out what was going on, everyone scattered and did what [...]

Formatting? Who, me?

Double-spaced or single-spaced? Courier font? Times New Roman? Wingdings? Spaces between paragraphs? Wait a second…should I put my name somewhere on this thing? Margins? What the hell are those?
Any of these questions sound familiar?
If you’ve ever submitted a manuscript for publication, then odds are you’ve asked yourself more than a few questions about formatting. Sure, [...]

New office almost complete

For those of you who weren’t aware of this, we are currently in the final stages of building both a new home and a new office for Leucrota Press. The  construction should be complete within the next six weeks, and then we’ll have about two weeks for the computer techs to come in and wire [...]

Responses and questions to rejections

At Leucrota Press, we pride ourselves on always giving a reason why a manuscript was rejected, many times even commenting on or giving a short critique of the story to help the writer out. For those stories that are “almost there,” we’ve even called the writer up to discuss a few points on how to [...]

Some “light” jokes to brighten your writing day

We found these while scrubbing the web, and thought we’d share the fun.
How many science fiction writers does it take to change a light bulb? 
Two, but it’s actually the same person doing it. He went back in time and met himself in the doorway and then the first one sat on the other one’s shoulder [...]

Low Man available today

Low Man by T.J. Vargo is now available. 
Orders can be placed directly through our site, or via any online bookstore seller, and at select Barnes and Nobel stores. If your local store does not carry the book, simply request it and they can have one sent to the store for you.

Abaculus special orders

 

 
 
To celebrate the upcoming Abaculus II anthology, we are holding a special for the first 25 people who would like to order directly through us. 
From now until December 12, 2008, anyone who pre-orders the Abaculus II anthology directly from us can have the previous year anthology for only $5 more plus shipping. Our first anthology [...]