Deathcatmedia.com http://deathcatmedia.com Publishing Fri, 14 Jul 2017 20:27:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8 DEATHCAT MEDIA http://deathcatmedia.com/2015/11/deathcat-media/ http://deathcatmedia.com/2015/11/deathcat-media/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2015 16:02:45 +0000 http://deathcatmedia.com/?p=32 I’m starting DEATHCAT MEDIA, LLC to publish both my own books, and those of other authors whose work I like and wish to promote. As an author, I’ve had 15 books published so far by a number of mainstream publishers in New York, London, and elsewhere, (see `MY BOOKS’), but I don’t want to fool with publishers anymore. Mainly, I want to write and publish whatever I want without having to constantly worry about some overly sensitive editor whom I’ve never actually met, deciding `this is what he really meant to say’. That, and I don’t want to have to sacrifice 85 to 90% of my work right out of the box for the dubious honor of being published. Given the unfortunate demise of bookstores, and the rise of technology, specifically the internet, it’s no longer necessary to fool with publishers at all.

It’s truly an exciting time for new writers and publishers alike. Never have the opportunities been greater for both books and authors which may be a bit out of the mainstream in terms of regional appeal and/or subject matter. Books may be now targeted to specific markets without the expense of trying to promote a particular book nationally, when marketing efforts should actually be focused instead on regional sales. Our first book, `Glenwood’ for example, will be available nationally through createspace and amazon, but marketing efforts will be concentrated primarily in Mississippi, and southern states, since the book deals with Natchez, Mississippi, and would, generally speaking, likely be of greater interest to readers there, than, say, in Minot, North Dakota.

The terms `independent’ and `self’ publishing are usually spoken with derision by literary snobs, but it should be remembered that many so-called mainstream publishers were once regarded as `independents.’ Advances in technology such as `print on demand’ now make it possible for anyone to keep a book in print forever without having to worry about how many books must be printed at one time and stored somewhere until they are sold (or not), and so-called independents now have the same access to the internet and other non traditional outlets as large publishers.

As an author, and now as a publisher, I feel that authors should be paid for their work. A publisher shouldn’t make ten times more money than the author who wrote the book to begin with. Happily, indeed, joyfully, the ever increasing irrelevance of giant publishing conglomerates gives an author, for the first time in literary history, the opportunity to control his own destiny.

The purpose of Deathcat Media is to publish books that are interesting, informative, entertaining, sometimes edgy, and above all fun. I hope you enjoy our work and that you will buy our books. Thank you for your consideration.

Kindest regards, Scott Faragher

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GLENWOOD http://deathcatmedia.com/2015/11/glenwood/ http://deathcatmedia.com/2015/11/glenwood/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2015 04:02:12 +0000 http://deathcatmedia.com/?p=23      BookCoverPreview 

 GLENWOOD Is the first book from DEATHCAT MEDIA (Available late December 2015)

Natchez, Mississippi                                                                                                            

Wealthy aristocrat Mark Delgado arrives at Eldorado for his regular nightly visit with equally rich and and pedigreed cousin, Jeannie Murdock, and finds the front door to her elegant 1840s raised cottage unexpectedly open, and no sign of her. A quick and desperate search of the house reveals a trail of blood leading to the side porch, down the exterior stairs, and to the driveway. Delgado calls the police, who quickly determine that Miss Murdock has been murdered and her body moved. She is found dead early the next morning in a thicket of weeds on the densely wooded property of her neighbors’ decaying antebellum mansion. Glenwood.

When the eccentric man and woman who live at Glenwood are arrested and charged with their neighbor’s murder, Los Angeles celebrity defense attorney Mark Weinstein, intrigued by the case, and lured by the international press it generates, arrives in Natchez, Mississippi on his own private jet. With his host of junior attorneys, and his own press corps in tow, he expects to easily exonerate the defendants and return home to L.A. Instead, he finds himself facing a determined DA with a distinct home court advantage, and his own `dream team’ immersed in a dark and many layered culture which they don’t grasp, one which plays by its own rules. There are others not directly involved in the matter, who have their own reasons for making certain this case never goes to trial, who will stop at nothing, including murder, if necessary, to keep Weinstein from representing the defendants.

This interesting tale, inspired by the true story of the sensational 1932 `Goat Castle Murder’ has been updated and dynamically retold in the present by author Lester Seelig, of Nashville, and Palm Beach. He manages to capture the subtle nuances and undercurrents of a culture closed to outsiders, as only a native southerner can, in this interesting, emotionally charged tale, which takes place in exotic Natchez, an exquisitely beautiful place, untouched by time.

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