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Fragile: Anthology
2024
A box is an interesting thing. It contains the essence of mystery. What could be in it? Endless possibilities. For one moving company employee, this question takes on a razor-sharp significance when the box begins to act in a way no box should. Could it be alive? Dead? Something intelligent? Or just some old clothes? Something terrible? Something beyond description? In the Fragile anthology, 20 different authors present 20 brand new stories of horror, bizarro, sci-fi, and speculative fiction all based on a single prompt: A hapless mover knows better than to open a client’s boxes, but when one of them moves by itself, choices need to be made. Reality explodes with the roll of a die and fragments into myriad possibilities.
Stories from the Motel Sick
Coming soon from RoShamBo
Stories From The Motel Sick is a genre-bending anthology featuring new stories from authors of horror, bizarro fiction, sci-fi, erotica, noir, and so much more. Each story takes place at the Motel Sick, a strange, metaphysical motel on the edge of a highway leading to nowhere in particular. Each author has created a theme room at the Motel Sick, in which their tale of destiny unfolds.
The Motel Sick was created in 2011 with the publication of Michael Allen Rose’s novella Party Wolves In My Skull. The book has been compared to a Tex Avery cartoon meeting the infamous Russian storyteller Nikolai Gogol. This new anthology, Stories From The Motel Sick, is where we delve into the deepest depths of the motel, through the extraordinary vision of a crew of amazing authors, all of whom were invited to write their own story in this world. It promises to be epic indeed!
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As with any publishing venture, there are a number of risks, but I have done what I can to mitigate them. I have worked as a writer and editor in the world of small and indie presses for over a decade. Our first anthology, Fragile Anthology, was successfully released in 2024 and received a review in the print edition of Library Journal, along with a few reviews in the blogosphere, and I plan to leverage the momentum gained there to further publicize this new book.
Editor: Michael Allen Rose
Michael Allen Rose
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My plan is to release things as they happen, carefully curated, high concept books, one at a time as I see fit. I have seen so many wonderful small presses over the years come out with a fiery statement of purpose, release a load of books, and burn themselves out. The plan is to take it slow and just put cool things out into the world. I have a tattoo on my shoulder that’s a sigil meaning “Make Art Happen amidst chaos.” We’re going to try to do that.
In addition to continuing to publish high-concept anthologies with strong themes (shared prompt, shared world, etc.) and pushing against the boundaries of specific genres and tropes, RoShamBo is also looking toward other ambitious future projects. These include some non-traditional publishing formats, potential reissues of bizarro classics, and plans to revive the New Bizarro Author Series to share new voices in weird fiction.