“I’ll look for it at Barnes & Noble. I hate buying anything on the internet. Just can’t seem to bring myself to type my credit card #. Just scares me, I don’t care how secure things are suppose to be.”

Hi Darhop,

Darklore won’t be in bricks and mortar stores – we’re employing a fresh approach, restricting ourselves to Internet sales (and perhaps, in future, a subscription-based model), in order to maximise the royalty to contributors…this way we can offer around four times as much to the writers, as we don’t have to give all the profit to the distributors/retailers (and lose money when bookstores send returns back to us). As Loren mentions, this is a focus of our anthology – empowering the contributors, so that they see greater returns from higher book sales, rather than a flat fee. As such, I think it’s a great idea worth supporting (though I would say that, obviously!)

In reality, it is actually a lot more secure using your credit card on the Internet than in a store, where even clerks have access to your credit card number, receipts sometimes turn up at rubbish tips etc. My only concern is that we are supporting the behemoth that is Amazon.com, to the detriment of independent bookstores, which I love (though have great fears for the future of).

For those interested in Darklore, please note that the website has just gone live (darklore.dailygrail.com). On there, you’ll find three sample articles in their original format (as PDF files), which I’m sure you’ll enjoy, as well as further details about the contributors and their articles.

Kind regards,
Greg
(editor of Darklore)

And as far as the limited edition, I doubt there are more than 10 copies available by now (I secured mine last weekend, oh yeah!!)

dailygrail.com rules! I invite everyone to go take a look. Thanks to them is why I became hooked to Cryptomundo. A nice place with a balanced look at all kind of interesting topics.

Yeah, I’m a fan