Brain Jar Press

ALT Image contains a brain in a jar with robotic spider legs, and the following text: "Mojo says 'Resistance is futile! Read Brain Jar Press books or be destroyed!" This is why you don't leave marketing to the megalomaniacal brain in a jar"

ALT Image contains the cover of The Martial Art Of Writing over an picture of an MMA Ring. The accompanying text reads: "The thing about an art — and one of the things I love about both Kung Fu and writing — is that you’re never finished. No matter how good you get, no matter how much you achieve, you can always get better. You can always do more, continually improving your craft and expressing your art in more accomplished ways."

ALT Image contains a black-and-white photograph of author Sean Williams holding a sonic screwdriver, and the following quote from his chapbook Eyes on the Stars. Every genre from romance to high lit has its established readership and its conventions. Not knowing either is courting disaster, or at least inviting disappointment home for dinner. The immediate advantage of writing for a franchise is that both are laid on the table right at the very start. You can't swear in Star Wars novels just as you can't have the Doctor murder their assistant. Trying will only end in tears.

ALT Image contains a series of security fees from a mall parking lot, accompanied by the following text: The Centre | Meg Vann The pink welt pangs the flesh of my palm, running from lifeline to middle finger. Guilt stippled. I rub it away with my other hand, watching it fade as I make my way into my lair; a cave filled with rolling screens and cans sticky with a residue of flat fizz. There’s a soft click and whir as I switch the security cameras back on. It’s my job to keep them all safe. Available May 24

ALT A copy of Jason Nahrung's Cruel Nights resting against a pile of skulls.