Swedish publisher Mark Sin Deniz, who formerly was the co-owner of Eneit Press, has formed a new publishing company and a new imprint within it. The publishing company, Gilgamesh Press (subtitled "The Second Assyrian Empire") has "a vision, which is to promote awareness of the Assyrian people and their history through literature. The aim is to produce quality books, about Assyrians, by Assyrians and also writers from other cultural backgrounds with the Assyrian culture, history, and mythology as focus."
The imprint, Morrigan Books, "sees the return of the phantom queen, that lover of war and destruction coming to make dark speculative that bit darker (the double espresso shade of speculative fiction)." The companies were launched in December, but are already "signing on authors, working with editors, and are intent on becoming a force in the market." They plan to "promote new and established authors and editors in the speculative fiction genre."
One of their first projects is the anthology Voices, which Deniz has moved from Eneit to Morrigan (see this article). Voices is still open to submissions, until the end of May. See this page for guidelines.
Deniz has also announced that Morrigan is reading for a new horror anthology: The Age of Blood & Snow, edited by Skadi meic Beorh. For this book, they're looking for dark fantasy, black horror, slipstream, or dark romance "tales of Vikings, elementals, witches, beasts, swordsmiths, villains, seers, spirits, bloodshed." They're paying $20 per story (100-5,000 words), and reading submissions until 1 June 2008. For full details, see this page.
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