Dead Guns Press is back!

It was a hard journey but we got here :)

Whether you are joining us for the first time or have travelled with us over the years - welcome to our new site :)

Things have changed in many ways the most obvious of which is we are now a paying market! Dead  Guns Press will be releasing an annual Hardboiled anthology of crime fiction, which may well become bi-annual. Check out our Submissions page for more details and a great look at the fantastic cover by John Thompson.

We are also bringing our very popular E-zine back. Whether you are a seasoned vet of an author or a new to the game wordsmith you can submit and gain experience and exposure to an ever expanding audience.

This site is always to be considered a work in progress and, as such, you may find errors. If you wish to you can report them via our Contact page or over on Facebook.

This is gonna be fun!

​- M.

Work has been continuing on the site, with major changes to the layout and SEO continuing. There are three pieces of artwork that John is creating that will make the overall site look a lot better (they will remove the need for temporary placeholder graphics).

Many thanks to those who have had an early peek at the work-in-progress :)

M.  

It's been a long time...
Dead Guns Press has stood back, taken stock of the situation, and is almost ready to launch again!
Most noticeable change is this website but far more is going on behind the scenes.

​Get your guns cleaned and your pens out...

Greetings one and all! I’m sure most of you are just frothing at the bit for some news and you’re going to get it. We got this blog and decided to use it for a change so here we go.

First off, and this one is one that everyone has been waiting for. Dead Guns Magazine… WTF is going on? Well, partly (partly? lol -M.) you can place blame at my feet. I’ve been working the formatting for some months and basically, it boils down to: I flaming hated the layout and the script got damaged at one point due to my own negligence and then, back to square one. I’ve decided to go basic and this one is slated – drumroll please M?- January 15th, 2016. Regardless of my hopes for this one being a mighty eight by ten, I’ve been relegated to using the standard six by nine instead. Yeah it sucks waiting for this long but this is where we’re at and look for it to hit Amazon and Lulu on January 15th. Also, we revised the cover, so here it is, the final:

Lulu…
What gives there?
Well, we decided to expand our publishing outlets. Amazon is nice but we gotta spread our wings and fly or go down in flames. 2015 goes down in our books as a low point due to life in general but 2016 is looking to shape up and here’s why.
First, and this is for the contributors of the hardboiled anthology series or anyone else interested for that matter. We’re publishing, for a very limited time, hardback editions for the first three Hardboiled anthologies via Lulu. Are we making any dough off it? No, we’re not. (Wait... what? -M.) It’s our way of saying thank you guys for considering DGP for your story submissions (that's cool -M.). These editions will be edited once more and formatted accordingly. I know I plan on acquiring these limited editions for my own library and we hope you will also. Once these are gone, they are gone forever into the ether. So I add here for your review of the dust jacket for the first edition of Hardboiled: Crime and Detective. This edition will only be available from January 15th through April 15th….hmmm, don’t forget your taxes either guys. Crime Scene will then be available from April 15th through August 15th and then Dames and Sin from August 15th through December 15th…then, it’ll be over for these limited hardcover editions but the paperbacks will still be available.