This year being our down year for conventions, I limited the events we were attending to those local to Chattanooga unless we were invited as guests to the Con.
That being said, the only events left on our calendar this year is LibertyCon ( https://www.libertycon.org/ )next week, and the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference in September.
For those who did not get a pass to LibertyCon last summer during the “Hunger Games”, I’m told there are some passes available due to cancelations, so go over to the site and sign up on the wait list to see if you can snag one before it’s too late.
We have several panels to talk about the Trailer Park and Car Warriors series, as well as a what’s new from Three Ravens on Sunday, where we’ll do a little show and tell about the titles that have came out over the last year, new titles in the works, a few changes in submissions moving forward, book giveaways, and award our newest authors with their Raven coins.
Catch me out and about, or at one of the following panels.
Now, onto the latest updates
New releases
Contested Landing vol 2
They’re back. They’re smarter. And the landings are DEADLIER!
CONTESTED LANDING VOLUME TWO!
The cosmos erupts as new threats demand bolder tactics! Orbital drops into hellzones! Planetary assaults against impossible odds! Every move is a knife-edge decision! Every attack, a desperate gamble!
Experience the future of warfare: lightning strikes, brutal sieges, and the raw courage of soldiers pushed beyond breaking point! Lasers scream! Worlds tremble! Survival demands innovation!
THE ENEMY IS HERE. THE STRATEGY EVOLVES. DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES?
CONTESTED LANDING VOLUME TWO! ENGAGE NOW!
A Touch of Aether (audio)
In the heart of the city, magic is real—and it’s dangerous.
Get ready for a wild ride through dark streets, where monsters roam, magic crackles, and heroes fight shadows at every turn. From wizards to vampires, gods to shapeshifters, these stories will drag you into a world where the impossible is just another day.
The city’s secrets are about to be unleashed.
Are you ready?
Trailer Park Double Wide Vol 1
The beer is cold. The shotgun’s loaded. And something just crawled outta the swamp…
From flesh-ripping cryptids to radioactive alien hellspawn, the trailer park is under siege—and the good ol’ boys ain’t goin’ down without a fight.
Guts, guns, and gallons of blood.
Monsters? Everywhere.
Survival? Optional.
IT CAME FROM THE TRAILER PARK: DOUBLE WIDE – VOLUME 1
A redneck creature feature where the body count’s high, the IQ’s low, and the carnage don’t stop ‘til the moonshine runs dry.
Lock. Load. And pray you ain’t on the menu.
Annoyed with Lloyd (update)
We freshened up the cover of the first B.E.N.T. novel to match with the upcoming novel releases
Coming soon
Everyone’s gonna get Wreckt…
Eddie Connor was a washed-up child star. Arnold Wreckt, a second-string bodybuilder with dreams of Hollywood glory. Neither of their BENT powers ever amounted to much—until they stumble into a cloud of strange red dust and come out supercharged.
Suddenly, Eddie’s got a plan: reboot Arnold’s action career, land a blockbuster deal, and ride the fame train out of obscurity—with Eddie playing fast-talking agent to his newly buffed-up best friend.
But in the world of cheap stunts and shady deals, nothing’s ever that easy.
Their producer owes the mob. Their screenwriter’s on the run. Their leading lady looks like she is eligible for Social Security. And a black-budget government agency wants to dissect them both to find out what makes their powers tick.
Now Eddie and Arnold are dodging bullets in the streets of Chicago, running from flamethrower-wielding femmes fatales, crooked cops, gangbangers, and politicians with itchy trigger fingers. Forget the cameras—this time, the action’s real.
To survive, they’ll have to fight dirty, think fast, and Get Wreckt!
In a city of shadows, one man walks the line between crime and justice…
San Francisco, 1947. The war is over, but for James Wolf, the battle’s just begun. Once a star inspector with the San Francisco PD, now a gumshoe scraping by on whiskey and regrets, Wolf prowls the alleys and avenues of a city that forgot how to sleep.
When a routine case blows open like a shotgun blast—Corpses pile up, bullets fly, and everyone’s got something to hide—especially the client.
Double-crosses, dirty money, and a city choking on its own secrets— the only thing sharper than Wolf’s wit is the blade at his back.
Wolf’s in it up to his neck, and the only way out is through the blood and the lies… He’s got a .38 in his coat, a score to settle, and nothing left to lose.
The city’s about to learn: you don’t corner a wounded Wolf.
Reviews~
James A Donzella has managed to reinvent the noir detective novel with The Dead Don’t Pay. Aside from the refreshing paranormal twist, Donzella has impressive comedy writing chops and he’s not afraid to use them. All the things you love about the hardboiled noir poetry of Raymond Chandler can be found on every page.
~Robert Morgan Fisher – Winner of the Chester Himes and Montana Humor Prize.
James A Donzella puts the don in a flat foot’s donut in this noir murder mystery. Stylistic, crafty, surprising and fun. He puts the Zella in thrilla? Ok, I’m trying too hard. But Donzella makes it look easy because I couldn’t put it down.”
~ Gary Kroeger – Former child actor, adult movie star and SNL Alum.
As a fan of 40s and 50s private eye fiction, I appreciate what James Donzella has accomplished with his novel The Dead Don’t Pay. He has pretty much provided the reader a time machine for stepping back into a well-realized late 1940’s San Francisco and into the shoes of one James Wolf, a hard-drinking, chain-smoking private dick who gets involved in the usual convoluted tale of smuggling and murder after being hired by a classic femme fatale who is not what she claims to be. Told with the witty, sarcastic verve of a Raymond Chandler, coupled with the spare, masculine style of Ernest Hemmingway by way of Dragnet, The Dead Don’t Pay pulls you along through all the twists and turns to a didn’t-see-it-coming ending that should satisfy mystery fans everywhere.
~Thomas A. Swyden -TV Writer, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Xena: Warrior Princess.
The Dead Don’t Pay is a fantastical ride down the dark alley of “film noir”. Mr. Donzella paints a magical world of days long past of the quintessential Private Dick, filled with great characters in a world of thugs, cops and sexy women. I couldn’t put it down. I put on some Dark Film Noir music from YouTube and I was transported back to the 1940s ala Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. As a “noir” fan I was enthralled and found myself feeling like I was actually in the story. “What’s gonna happen next? Keep reading!” Donzella’s book could be described as a love letter to San Francisco but even more so to the days of just damn good story telling! I could go on and on how much I loved this book!
~Frank Crim -Actor/Writer/Director/Producer – Los Angeles – Dexter, NCIS, Bosch, Dragnet, Criminal Minds.
“Hardboiled with cold-eyed characters and propulsive prose. The Dead Don’t Pay is a stunner of a debut by James Arthur Donzella.”
~Gary Phillips, author of the Harry Ingram Series.
Open Calls
The open call deadline for It Came From the Trailer Park Volume 5 is fast approaching. You have until midnight, July 1, 2025 to submit your stories.
Git er’ done!
After the success of the previous Trailer Park anthologies, we’ve decided to bring it back for another release of fun Creature Feature Horror.
Stories should be original creature-feature, horror-comedy with the same feel as The Evil Dead, Army of Darkness, Shaun of the Dead, or Tucker and Dale vs. Evil. And of course, our heroes winning the day in all of their redneck glory.
The added challenge this year, should you choose to accept it, volume 5 submissions should have a “Creep Killer Clown” twist to it.
Not sure what we’re looking for? Think Pennywise, Killer Clowns from Outerspace, or John Wayne Gacy.
Genre: Horror Comedy / Creature Feature
Word Count: 5,000 – 10,000
Opening Essay by: TBD
Edited by: William Joseph Roberts
Anchor Author: TBD
Due Date: July 1, 2025
Email submissions to: threeravenspublishing @ gmail dot com with “Trailer Park” in the subject line
Payment: Stories selected for publication in the upcoming Anthology(ies), will receive a percentage of sales divided equally between the contributing authors.
Please follow the Three Ravens submission guidelines that can be found here
