Friday, May 1, 2015


ATTENTION TEACHERS, WRITING COACHES, MENTORS: Do you have an outstanding student? Would you like to see him or her take the next step in furthering their writing skills? Crystal Lake Publishing, a publisher of only the best Dark Fiction, may be able to help you help them.

We are offering a unique opportunity to spotlight your student’s work on our New Blood page. This is for never before published authors only. If you have someone you would like to recommend, email us at crystallakepub@gmail.com, put New Blood in the subject line, and briefly tell us why you feel this student should be considered. Please include a short bio of your budding author and attach an example of their work.

If we’re interested, we’ll work with your student on editing the story, as well as pay them to publish it online, where many fans are waiting to provide feedback. You will, of course, be mentioned, as well.

You never know, your star student may very well be the next Stephen King or Shirley Jackson!



Saturday, January 10, 2015




This is a short story and a brilliant one at that.  In 61 pages author Wayne Simmons has packed in so much intensity that you feel like you are reading a full length novel.  Your attention is grabbed right at the get go and you are not released until the end.

“In the UK, a teenager goes missing every three minutes.”

Kayley Sands is about to become another statistic. Kayley is a young woman running from a past filled with nightmares.  Little does she know on that fateful bus ride home that the boogeyman is all too real. 

Waking from the bus ride tied to a bed in an unknown basement, Kayley must come to terms with the horrors of her past before she can fight for a future.

I highly recommend reading this!  You can find The Girl in the Basement and other books by Wayne Simmons on Amazon.