"Rejected" is a limited-edition, multi-genre fundraising anthology where proceeds from online sales benefit the Spay/Neuter Coalition of Georgia. The coalition is a 100% volunteer, Georgia 501c3 non-profit that dedicates itself to implementing more spay and neuter for domestic cats and dogs via education, outreach, and collaboration with others on the same mission. They also promote the many low cost spay/neuter options already available to the general public. The "Rejected" anthology is one that contains pieces by a multitude of extremely talented authors and poets that span a wide gamut of genres from contemporary to traditional poetry, romance to horror to psychological thriller. The only stipulation? To coincide the theme of the fundraising, each piece was required to have been rejected by a publication company or collective at least once! We are glad to have been able to not only find these stories a home but to also have the ability to use them to promote spay/neuter efforts that will prevent the abandonment of numerous cats and dogs throughout Georgia. From everyone involved in the "Rejected" anthology, thank you for helping us support an amazing cause and making a positive impact in the world! We look forward to your feedback and hope that you enjoy our stories and poetry as much as we enjoyed putting these pieces together.
Authors
Raised in Fredericksburg, VA he's spent his whole life dreaming and creating worlds in his head. In college he studied Art History and Classics-Latin before embracing his love of English Lit and seeing where that took him. He's been published variously for his humor work as well as his fiction/fantasy - the latter is what he's becoming known for, being featured in various anthologies. Married, with cats, his apartment looks like the cross between a comic book shop and a Toys'R'Us circa 1989. 'A Queen of Blood and Glitter' is his first novel.
Freida Kilmari is an author and editor from the southwest of England, and lives with her fiancé in the peaceful county of Wiltshire. She spends her days editing various works of fiction, and her nights writing her own fantastical pieces. She's the author of Man VS Happiness (book one of the Versus Collection), and the soon-to-be-released Ennéa Vasíleia Universe (a multi-series science-fantasy universe based on her own take of Greek mythology). To stay up-to-date with the latest news from Freida Kilmari and join in the author fun, follow [Freida Kilmari - Writer and Editor] on Facebook. Join the magic of the Ennéa Vasíleia Universe, grab free signed copies, stay up-to-date on the latest news and events by joining her reading group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/kilma...
R.C. Mulhare has the distinction of reading a translation of the famous cursed play "The King in Yellow" without going mad, once successfully defended her day-job workplace from zombies, through some judicious use of clearance-rack garden tools, survived a fight with Yog-Sothoth cultists in a hallway of a hotel in Providence; she's also picked up some extra work editing posts for the product blog of Umbrella Corporation... In actuality, R.C. Mulhare was born in Lowell, Massachusetts and grew up in one of the surrounding towns, in a hundred year old house up the street from an old cemetery. Her interest in the dark and mysterious started when she was quite young, when her mother read the faery tales of the Brothers Grimm and quoted the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe to her, while her Irish storyteller father infused her with a fondness for strange characters and quirky situations. When she isn't writing, she moonlights in grocery retail. She's also fond of hiking in the woods of the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and browsing the antiques shops one finds all over New England. A two-time Amazon best-selling author, contributor to the Hugo Award Winning Archive of Our Own, and member of the New England Horror Writers, her work previously appeared with Atlantean Publishing, Macabre Maine, FunDead Publications, Deadman's Tome, NEHW Press, and Weirdbook Magazine, with more stories in various stages of publication. She shares her home with her family, a parakeet with a dictionary in his teeny head, about fifteen hundred books and an unknown number of eldritch things that rattle in the walls when she's writing late in the night....
