Five Rivers to re-issue Schnarr’s horror collection
In an agreement reached this week between J.W. Schnarr and Lorina Stephens,Five Rivers has acquired the publishing rights to Schnarr’s collection of 22 horror short stories, entitled Things Falling Apart.
Although Schnarr originally self-published the collection under his imprint, Northern Frights Publishing, work commitments became such that he was pulled in too many directions. “It’s really all about time and fatigue,” he says. “I’ve been finding there really isn’t time enough in the day to handle all the extra work publishers put in sending off emails, review copies, promoting multiple books at once, etc. I finally decided enough is enough.”
Schnarr and Stephens were introduced through Five Rivers’ Editor in Chief, Dr. Robert Runté, when Schnarr and Runté met at When Words Collide 2011.
“Having J.W. Schnarr join Five Rivers’ authors is very exciting,” says Lorina Stephens. “His work deserves an audience. He writes very much in the tradition of classic greats such as Edgar Allan Poe and Guy de Maupassant, but of course with a completely modern, fresh voice. With Schnarr it’s not so much about gore and splatter, as it is about sliding like a scalpel inside your head and lodging there. His characters are very believable, ordinary people who are hurtled into horrific situations, sometimes of their own making whether through love or stupidity, sometimes not.”
Cover art has been assigned to Schnarr’s long-time artist colleague, Gavro Krackovic, who lives and works in Podgorica, Montenegro.
Things Falling Apart is scheduled for release August 1, 2012 in both print and digital formats.