Announcing the Birth of Infernal Ink Magazine

I have for the last couple of years been a regular contributor to two different fiction magazines in a non-fiction capacity; Horrotica, where I have my “Belialian Woman” column and discuss sex and other twisted things, and Twisted Dreams, where I have my book review column “Hydra’s Hell”. I dearly love writing for both of these zines, but I have for a time now ached to do something more.

Towards the end of 2011, I took on the task of compiling, editing, and publishing an end of the world themed anthology, No One Makes It Out Alive: an end of the world anthology. This volume will in a matter of days be released upon the world and this for me will be a very proud moment, but again I ache to do more.

So, I talked things over with my co-collaborator for the “Belialian Woman” column, artist Dave Lipscomb, otherwise known as The DaveL, and him and I agreed that it is time that we have our own little home in the ‘indie’ magazine publishing world. With that in mind we will shortly be opening up submissions for the first issue of Infernal Ink Magazine.

Infernal Ink will be a different sort of magazine, in that it will focus on extremely dark fiction, and poetry, of all genres, but favor pieces with erotic, sexual, or humorous aspects. Basically, we will be looking for stories that make the reader cringe and turns them on at the same time, makes them laugh while a voice in the back of their head tells them they are going to Hell for finding such things funny, or just plain freaks them out and disquiets their minds. Evil, this is what we seek, in all its gory, fun, and carnal glory.

In addition to this, we will also be publishing non-fiction columns; “Andrea Rants”, wise and angry words from the mad woman of self-publishing, Andrea Dean van Scoyoc; Dave Lipscomb’s music column where he will discuss great music from new, old, and little known artists of note; “Bumps in the Night”, a contributor based column where we ask the reader to share with us their true stories of the paranormal or brushes with the magical; and finally, “The Opposite of Helpful”, a sardonic advice column where we, the publishers and regular contributors to the magazine, will shell out purposefully bad suggestions of how to handle whatever issues or situations seekers bring to us.

Publication of Infernal Ink will happen upon a bi-yearly schedule; happening twice a year, in April and then again in October. Issues will be made available for purchase in print and as downloads via Kindle, Nook, and in formats compatible with most other electric reading devices. It is our hope that by limiting publication to only twice a year we will be able to bring to the reader a magazine of greater quality then we would be able to were we on tighter deadline per issue, but this schedule is subject to change as time progresses.

I hope that all who are reading this announcement are as excited about this news as I am and that the majority of you will choose, in some way, to accompany us on this new journey. Full guidelines and requirements for the contributor based sections of the magazine will be forthcoming in the next few days, but in the meantime readers and would be contributors are welcome to contact me via private message or email (hydramstar@hotmail.com) for further information. We can also be reached on Facebook via our “fan” page under the name Infernal Ink Magazine. Other links and contact information will be made available at a later date.

Sincerely,

Hydra M. Star