This poor journal was badly in need of a revamp, and so today, I buckled down and overhauled it. Now each published deviant (or category, as needed) is highlighted with a star. Their accomplishments are listed in black bullet point for easy location. Also, some of the links were broken, so I tracked them down and got shiny new ones that actually work. Now, new deviants should appear toward the top of the page, and new listings for deviants already here will appear at the top of their individual lists.

Take your time, look these over, and if you enjoyed any of this, be kind enough to leave a review on their page. Remember, writers need all the support (and traffic) they can get. If you know a deviant who published their work, drop me a link, and I'll add them here. This is how the platform is built for self publishers. Word of mouth, so let's keep gabbing about all the awesome stuff the lit deviants are doing! Also, many thanks go to :TheShelfLife: for digging up so many of these published peeps!

=Tobaeus

           Wondering where Silex went? He's over at Smashwords, waiting to invade and assimilate your e-readers.

~DaphneArgent

          Widow: "A story of love between a young goddess and a distraught knight, defeated by the vileness of a woman."

*Magic-fan

           A Glimpse of The Dark: "Seven stories, seven topics. Seven tales fill this book and lurk in the darkest depths of fantasy. The dark is their common theme, while each individual story shows an entirely different view. The victim, the successor, the antagonist. Take a look through the eyes of each character and live their lives, feel what they feel, and find out what drives them. Many horrors lurk in the dark. Are you ready to see them?"

=joseph-sweet

           The Damned (Book One of the Damnation Chronicles):  "In a desperate bid to save his sister's life, Marcus becomes trapped in the underworld, forced to watch helplessly through the eyes of a shape-shifting demon as it begins to systematically destroy all which he holds dear just to torment him. With time running out, the promise of possible escape looms on the horizon, but how far will he go to free himself and save those he cares about?"

           Redemption (Book Two of the Damnation Chronicles): "Lost in the land of the dead with no memory and separated from Rose, Marcus must face the coming trials with his soul and his sanity intact. Rose, meanwhile, must face her past and rise above the darkness within or fall forever. But are higher forces at work here guiding them? And to what purpose? Find out in this tense continuation of the "Damnation Chronicles" series."

           The Gathering (Book Three of the Damnation Chronicles): "Mortal now and plagued by visions of millions of worlds ending, mass death, and multitudes of survivors being led to him; Marcus is presented with an option to ascend for real this time, and leave behind all which he knows or remain alone in a world hurtling towards certain destruction. Will he disappear forever along with all that he knows and loves, or possibly save some of it, but leave it all behind forever, regardless?"

~Snow-Machine

           The Crooked God Machine is a dystopian horror novel you'd be crazy not to add to your collection.

           A Gentle Hell "is comprised of four dark speculative stories of quiet tension and uncomfortable nostalgia, written for deformed children and girls that dream of demons."

Deviant Based Publishing and Publicity Opportunities

*ExistenceWeSummonYou might be bribed into writing a review of your work.

~sjslack is starting up her own publishing company, called Inspired Quill. Go check it out, see if this is for you!

`SRSmith is an affiliate of, and a writer for, 365 Tomorrows. Go and give it a look! Maybe you can submit something while you're there.

*AleisterDoe

           Lima is now on Kindle.

~WDLady

           Nightmarish Reality is now available through Createspace or Amazon: Eighteen-year-old Zander Russell suffers from constant nightmares. He doesn't know what is causing them and why his nightmares seem so real, resulting in cuts and bruises all over his body. Seemingly an average student, Zander goes to a typical high school where he's constantly bullied and teased. The nightmares occur more frequently in the day, blurring the lines between reality and mere illusions. When Zander meets and befriends a stranger, he begins to realize how truly different he is. It's only a matter of time before the dark demons of the past suddenly begin to reveal themselves. Armed with a pen and a notebook, Zander records what is happening to him as he tries to put back the missing pieces of the puzzle. He must stop the nightmares before they start to take on a life of their own. Is it too late for Zander to control what he's unleashed into the world?

*keyanadrake

           Time Speaker: Murderer. Assassin. Cold-blooded killer. Jaola, the Agency assassin code-named Cheetah, is the best in the business. She never stops until her target is dead. That is, except when she can get away with mercy. Jaola is a woman trapped between her duty to the Agency and a deep-seated desired to be free. A gifted telepath born into the Agency, she was never given the choice. Instead, she has to take her freedom by force.

~Psycho-blue

           Blade in the Snow: Combining romance, action, samurai fiction, westerns, and fantasy, "Blade in the Snow" promises to excite, intrigue, and plunge the reader into a world where the old ways of swordfights and magic transition into the world of guns and science, as well as a young couple's quest to find happiness even when circumstances try to tear them apart.

*Droemar

           The Sarcastic Guide to Writing is pretty self explanatory.

           Highsong is the story of how a boy and a dolphin save Earth from the threat of alien invasion.

`zebrazebrazebra

           Find many of her works on the Hunger Mountain website.

           Her poems are featured on Soundzine's website. "No Place Like" and "Lay Her Path With Love".

           She is featured in Starry Rhymes, published by One Night Stanzas.

           Her work is in the Autumn 2011 edition of Voiceworks through Express Media.

=Cooper3

            Mana Pool deals with the Mayan calendar prophecy and its effect on humanity. Available on lulu, scribd, nook, and kindle.

`PinkyMcCoversong

           "Having Died Suddenly" appears in issue three of Pomegranate.

           "On Seeing the Future in a Puddle" appears in issue one of Quay.

           <a href="[link]>"Remembering the Dead" appears in the July 2007 issue of Soundzine.

           "I Prefer to Ride the Elevator Alone" appears in issue Six of Umbrella.

           The Wolf, Issue 17 features some of her work.

           Her work appears in the Fox and Aquarium issues of Fuselit.

           Her poetry appears in issue 14.1 of <a href="[link]>Fourteen Hills

           < a href="[link]">Art as Memorandum is featured in Cimarron Review.

           Dear Teen Me is now taking preorders! Reserve your copy today! If you want to wait, though, the book will officially be released on November 16, 2012.

*The-Monoblos

           Devastation of War (The Sixth Era): After one hundred years of war a turmoil between two sovereignties is brought to rest. To the victor go the spoils according to tradition but that only makes defeated enemies hate their foes more. War is about to erupt for a second time and who knows what will happen.

*Obsidian-Nightfall

           Marked With a Crow's Foot: The novel deals with the theme of ageing: what makes us adults and how childhood affects the people we become. It weaves together the three narratives of long time friends Ted, Liz and Jethro, all of whom have something holding them back in childhood despite being adults. The three attend a celebration of diversity to come face to face with themselves but things go wrong and they come closer to themselves then ever they would have hoped.

=thetaoofchaos

           Bluebird is a book of poetry partially based on the poem by Sylvia Plath entitled "The Disquieting Muses".

~MichaelGrin

           Princess Nonomi is the story of a young and severely troubled woman.

*Centauran

           Golden: This is a vampire story … with a difference.

           Wolfmagic: David is just sixteen when he discovers that his eldest brother, Olivar, has murdered their sibling, Friedel, to ensure his undisputed accession to their father's throne. David's friend and mentor, the royal magician, gives him a magic ring and urges him to flee, before Olivar kills him as well. Reduced from prince to pauper, David takes to the forest, where he meets a very strange wolf. Can he release Geran from the evil curse, and at the same time, avenge himself upon his murderous brother …?

           Rafe 'n' Me: The comedic tale of a gay lad who has been dealt a cruel blow by nature, being seriously underendowed in the penis department. On the night of his sixteenth birthday, he makes a wish for someone, anyone, to do something! And that's when the demon appears...

           Scandinal: What would you do if you were gay, and on the evening of your seventeenth birthday party a beautiful, charming and spectacularly-endowed boy asked if you wanted to have sex with him? What David actually did was drop his punch all over Mum's new carpet … and then spend much of the evening trying to avoid his very persistent … and increasingly strange gate-crashing suitor. No shoes or socks and apparently no possessions, as bold as brass … and then of course, there was his almost uncanny ability to appear and disappear at will...

           Pyramid: The successful author of a series of fantasy novels, Cliff Face is advised by his agent that if he changes his name, sales will instantly cease. Struggling with the latest adventure in his 'Pyramid' universe, Cliff decides to take his dog for a walk one morning … and finds himself inside his own creation, where he is forced to deal with a very nasty monster - before it eats everything.

           The Swayer of Sankara: Seventeen-year-old David is exploring the island in the middle of the lake on his parents' property, when he finds a strange, tomb-like building. The inscription over the doorway suggests there might be something rather nasty inside. What he discovers turns his normal little world upside-down. Find out what it is, and why David has to go to hell - with, as his mother puts it - a professional sodomist.

           Moving Miniatures: David, second son of a Lord, rescues Cockney urchin Eric from a beating, quickly falling in love with him after repeated visits to the hospital to visit the irrepressible lad. However, Eric has a secret; a strange method of exacting revenge upon those who wrong him. As their relationship develops, David is drawn into Eric's world of miniature paintings … some of them not quite as safe as others. Find out about 'moving paint' … and why the future is in peril.

           Blue: a mean theft causes tragedy...revenge is sweet.

           Broomsticks: why is someone killing priests ... horribly?

           Hidden Treasure: He's an albino; weird and disturbed. Why?

           Centauran: David is nearly 16, the son of two scientists of the seeding-colony on Hope, orbiting Alpha-Centauri in the Centauri binary-star system. Life is hard; they have little technology except Fred, the ship's computer, who controls the colonists' lives in their secure, moated compound, together with his little sock-eating dusting-robots called 'snufflers'. David has a tentative sexual encounter with his friend Peter, and is shocked when Peter later goes missing. Join David and the Ifshiri in their adventures to save their world from something very nasty.

           Assassin: Sent out one morning by his mother to hunt for food, Dav is the only literate member of his small clan, excellent with a game bow, but sadly lacking with axe, sword and pike. He returns laden from his hunt to find his village burning and his family and kin being slaughtered by a group of mounted soldiers led by a witch. Determined to avenge his family, Dav meets a strange creature in the forest and is changed into the fearful, near-invisible thrate, a deadly assassin. What is it the witch seeks and how will Dav and Cil defeat her?

~MadameRuby

           Forget Me Not: A junkie addicted to vampire blood, Zach roams around the country as an unattached thrall, always looking for the next vampire to temporarily satisfy his craving. Then he falls in with Jian, a Master-class vampire cursed by a witch to slowly fade from existence. When the witch destroys his home, Jian runs with Zach to start over somewhere else. He finds a place as Master of Detroit, a position that helps to delay the effects of his terrible curse. But when Silas catches up to them, Jian is out of time and must make a choice about what matters more: his regained power or his blood junkie thrall.

*AndrewWinegarner

           Gilgamesh, his graphic novel, is available through Barnes and Noble and Amazon. "Before the Bible and legendary figures like Hercules, King Arthur, and Beowulf, there was Gilgamesh. As the king of Uruk, a city in ancient Mesopotamia, Gilgamesh protected his people from harm, battling a multitude of fierce demons with the steadfast help of his brother, Enkidu. But Gilgamesh's reign faced the ultimate challenge from the power-hungry goddess Ishtar, who proposed marriage only to be unceremoniously spurned by Gilgamesh. Ishtar's rage led Gilgamesh to his greatest battle, a battle that shook Gilgamesh to his core and led him to travel further than any other man—to the land of the gods on a quest to find immortality."

*WriterOfStuff

           Book one of The Vampire Flynn Trilogy, Eyes of the Seer is on lulu.  It all started with a murder. Two victims lay dead at the hands of Peter Dawes, but what laid in wait for him was not the sound of sirens or the banging of a gavel. It would turn a doctor into a killer and a man into a monster....

=angeljunkie

           Razorblades + Stolen Poetry: 'I've accepted the fact that my stubborn little heart is probably going to get pretty bruised out there in the big, scary world, but I'm okay with that. As beat up as I've gotten - and as talented as I am at finding those situations - I always make it out one way or another. Sometimes I think that'll be the time I can't put myself back together. And then I do.'

~Michelay

           Lamp Post Publishing granted Michelay a book contract for her upcoming YA novel tentatively titled Lucas, Guardian of Truth. Release date pending.

*LunaticStar

           In The Drowned, Detective Harry Coal returns to the city of his birth after a twelve year absence to pick up where his recently deceased father left off. Ending the reign of organized crime over the city. But it won't be easy for him. Gangsters from rival mobs are turning up dead. Children are vanishing. All of the evidence is pointing to a single entity, donned a mafia killer. Who is he? And will Harry want to stop him when he finds him?

~pendragonvamp

           Hunter Imperium, Book One of Imperium: ...I found myself no longer afraid of what I was losing but now I was afraid of what I was becoming. Did you ever wonder how it would feel like to become a vampire? All the wonders and fears of feeling immortal and beyond human? What if you were a Hunter taught since you could walk that being a vampire was a damned existence? Would you be able to live with yourself after being forced into such a life? Or would you crumble under the horror and find a way to end your life? What if the man who forcefully changed you only did so because he found you a threat and wanted to eliminate you? My name is Zane Carpathia... welcome to my world... welcome to my nightmare... welcome to Imperium.

^lightningmonkey

           Elephant Tree Magazine picked up two of his poems: "Un Sospiro" and "We Inhale Ashes, the Sky".

           The Missing Slate picked up his poem Adam.

`jade-pandora

           Offerings: This second edition of Jade Pandora's first book, Offerings, is a delectable foray back to her early work. One can still feel her strong poetic voice pulsing from every stanza in this volume, for her work stands well the tests of time.

            Shooting Star: Eclectic and diverse, spanning topics from spiritual to erotic, this collection of poetry by the award winning poet Jade Pandora will transport the reader to worlds far and near--fantastic and familiar--but always grounded in her humanity.

           Stolen Light: At the pinnacle of her talent (so far) Jade Pandora has created a collection of works unparalleled. Spanning the gamut of human experience, the readers of Stolen Light will get a glimpse most intimate into the mind and soul of this modern poetic genius.

           Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka Volume 2: Editors, M. Kei, editor-in-chief, Sanford Goldstein, Patricia Prime, Kala Ramesh, Alexis Rotella & Angela Leuck, read all contemporary tanka published in English during 2009, over 16,000 poems. Sources included tanka journals, social media, musical performances, chapbooks & many other formats. The result is Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka, Vol. Two, showcasing tanka, tanka prose & tanka sequences by 140 poets from over a dozen countries.

           Atlas Poetica: Now entering its fourth year, Atlas Poetica is one of the most prestigious journals publishing contemporary tanka in English. With its focus on place, it provides a welcoming environment for international tanka as well as tanka from Anglophone communities around the world.

           Modern English Tanka- Vol. 3, No. 4- Summer 2009: This issue of Modern English Tanka includes the poetry of sixty-seven poets from around the world plus several book reviews.

           Veranda Literary Journal features her poem "Epoch" in their anniversary issue, Verandah 25.

~SadisticIceCream

           Looking for the story "The Thinnest Threads"? Look no further than Volume Three, Issue Four of The Battered Suitcase. (Helpful hint: It's on page 44.)

           "Open at the Close" was featured in The Gone Lawn.

            "Arms" was picked up by Defenestration.

           Sillyness picked up her short piece "Yorick".

           Her short piece "Collide" appears in The Missing Slate.

~reddaverocker

           Daydreamer featured the short story "Nobody's Daughter" in their second issue

           His short piece titled "Leaving" was featured by a site called 6S, or Six Sentences.

*fallenidle

           Phantom Kangaroo picked up the story "We Are All Haunted" for publication in their fourth issue. Go and have a read!

           Luna Station Quarterly picked up her short story "For A Muse of Fire"

          Rarely Pure and Never Simple: A Collection is a collection that takes the reader along with the author as she attempts to understand the world around her. Pick up your copy through Amazon

           Tales of the Zombie War picked up her poem  "Compulsive Reloading"-

           Sex and Murder Magazine picked up her poem "Four Grand". Go and give it a read!

           Dinosaur Bees published her poem "Afraid" in Issue Three

~molly-snicklefritz

           The Dead Mule School for Southern Literature has picked up two of Molly's poems. Since it might be a little hard to dig them up from the site itself, I'll provide links to the deviations: "Old Tool Shed"  and "Lines Down Hwys 44 and 395

:devjon-com

           Jon has learned to make a living at the world's oldest profession. As a prostitute. When he catches the attention of Marcus and Lydia, Jon believes he's graduated to the less dubious profession of porn star. But as events unfold, Jon is left to wonder if his current profession will end him up on a coroner's table. Find out if he's right in this high-tension, adult only read, jon.com.

*denlm

           Dina Karson has been used all her life by people she believed she could trust. First by her father, who raised her to be a cold blooded murderer, and then by her would-be rescuers, The Guild. Dina saw them as saviors when she woke up in a cabin with no memory of her past. They saw her as a fertile woman who could revitalize a stagnant gene pool, and as a powerful psy who might just manage to take down their next target: her father. Will Dina be able to unlock the mystery of her past? Find out in Fellowship of Psys.

           Jasper Petty has a sixteen year case of grinch-itis. With his dreams of becoming a novelist dashed with his father's tragic death, Jasper has had to grow up sooner than he would have liked. And watching as his friends went on to build lives and families while he suffers a string of heartbreaks- all women named Carole, and almost always at Christmas- has caused him to turn bitter. This year, he catches the attention of Chi, an eccentric devil who may or may not be God. And he wants Jasper to take one more shot at finding happiness. With who? Another Carole, of course. See if he succeeds in Not Another Christmas Carole.

~BarbecuedIguana

           The Celtic Shelf explores life on the scenic, prehistoric Western Europe in a time when people were beginning to leave their caves to explore the big, wide world around them. The heroes of this tale include a dwarf with a golden axe, a warrior with a twisted soul, and the first ever archer. Follow them as they discover that not all advancements are good, and not all of them can be stopped.

#DistinctLiterature

           Distinct Issue one is a collection of poems and short stories from deviants around this very site. This is a brilliant idea for getting the dA lit community out there to the rest of the world, and I sincerely hope they come out with an issue 2 soon.  Find it here!.

`alienhead

           What would you do if you felt like you were fading away? Would you welcome it? Fight it? Write yourself off as crazy? Donovan Candle chose the third option and continued to live his life. But when his wife is abducted, Donovan finds himself fighting for both their lives. Will he manage to save them both from A Life Transparent? Find out by picking up his book, A Life Transparent through Amazon or Barnes and Noble

Miscellaneous

           Under the Stairs is an anthology featuring such deviants as ~reddaverocker, *fallenidle, *Alizabith, ~julietcaesar, *georgie-ludovic, ~darkblackpoet, *Kneeling-Glory, ~SourPopsi, *Magic-fan, and =kersee9. Go and have a look!



Let's see, what else have we got here?

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