John W. Dennehy Blog

Cohesion Press has launched the primer anthology series for Military Horror/Science Fiction.

The first book in the series was SNAFU, An Anthology of Military Horror. The book was a major success bringing stories from the best writers in the Horror/Action Adventure realm, including Jonathan Maberry, Weston Ochse, Greig Beck, and James A. Moore, as well as emerging writers who draw the reader in and hold suspense like the big writers. At 446 pages of packed adventure, this book is well worth the purchase.

A second anthology is being release soon titled SNAFU: Heroes, Editor Geoff Brown brings back writers like Maberry, Ochse and Moore, but also adds everyone's favor big Joseph Nassise of Templar Chronicles fame. This book weaves together an impressive collection of stories and novellas, each one can be read in a single session. A good buy of 50,000 words- equal to a novel- for $2.99.

Later this year Cohesion returns with SNAFU: Wolves at the Door. this book is expected to run 80,000 words and will include a novella by James M. Moore. A collection of chilling tales bringing warriors and werewolves into conflict. Not too far down the road we will see SNAFU II: Survival of the Fittest in which more big name writers and emerging scribes will come together in what is expected to be another bestselling collection.

This is the cover to my Novelette- Escape From Venus- which will be released in October 2014 by Silver Screen Books.

My story The Collection is now out on Shotgun Honey for FREE.

 http://shotgunhoney.net/fiction/the-collection-by-john-w-dennehy.html

Pleased to announce that James Ward Kirk accepted my story Mangled for his anthology- Bones III.

Pleased to announce my story Desperate Welcome was accepted by the anthology The Haunted Traveler. Release date for this book is expected for October.

The New Black, a neo noir anthology by Dark House Press, edited by Richard Thomas.

The New Black drew me in quickly and held my interest from cover to cover. Although I often read a few books at a time, mixing them up, I kept reaching for it. 

This is a boundary breaking anthology that hopefully gets the attention that it deserves- a book with the appeal of genre fiction, but the quality writing of literary fiction. Thomas shows us that literary writing style can compel a story along. The New Black also demonstrates some of the range possible with neo noir. The New Black reflects that genre writers can be literary and literary writers can work within a genre. Hemingway and Fitzgerald wrote to the popular culture and now are considered literary. To that end, The New Black takes us back a century and hopefully helps moves us forward in the next decade.  

Stoked to announce Shotgun Honey accepted my crime story- The Collection- for publication.

Voluted Tales Magazine published Into the Darkness in its Voluted Dreams special edition. The thumbnail for the story is this guy with red spots. http://volutedtales.com/issue/voluted-dreams-3/article/into-the-darkness

My story Wild Eyes is now available on MicroHorror for FREE: http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/category/author/john-w-dennehy/ 

My story The Gift was accepted by the literary magazine The Stray Branch, and will appear in a future issue.