In an unprecedented turn of events, we at DDP are please to announce that our Twisted Tails series of books continues to win awards on a year by year basis!
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Starting with the first book in the series, Twisted Tails One: An Anthology to Surprise and Delight has won the 2006 Dream Realm Award for BEST ANTHOLOGY, as well placing within the 2006 Preditors & Editors Readers Poll, TOP TEN Finisher for "Mainstream Novel". |
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In 2007 DDP released Twisted Tail Two. This second volume of works was so huge that we had to split it into two volumes! And it looks like the judges agreed since this title has won numerous awards ands placed within various categories. Twisted Tail Two - Volume II wins the 2008 EPPIE for BEST SCIENCE FICTION , while Twisted Tails Two - Volume I come in second place in the same category!
And to top it all off, Twisted Tails Two has made the finalist list for BOOK OF THE YEAR by Foreward Magazine in both the Science Fiction and Anthology categories. The final results for this competition is not in yet, so we are waiting in anticipation! |
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Twisted Tails III - Pure Fear is scheduled for release late April or early May 2008 and we anticipate further awards will be won! |
What the Critics say about Twisted Tails!
Twisted Tails One
Review by Margaret Marr, NightsAndWeekends.com
Twisted Tails is a delicious, diverse collection of weird and wonderful short stories. You'll find yourself dipping into this collaboration just to get away from it all between mundane tasks, like cleaning your house and doing mindless work for your boss at the office. Heck, you don't even need a reason to dip in because you'll be eager to read another one and another one and another until they're all gone, leaving you wanting more like the proverbial bag of chips.
Mr. Jacobs promises a sweet, sour, bitter, tangy, titillating, tantalizing, torturous, terrifying, humorous, and horrifying blend of tales to satisfy every taste, and I assure you he keeps that promise.
Things aren't always as they seem in these stories, yet you find yourself surprised by the ending every time. The tales keep you engrossed, each having originality I've seldom encountered in any compilation of its kind.
In “Eye for an Eye” by Peter Prellwitz, a special forces-trained waitress is out for revenge, and you'll feel it's justified. But wait…there's more to it than what is on the surface—so keep reading.
J. Richard Jacobs brings us a legend in “Things.” Stories get passed down from generation to generation, often distorted, until no one knows what's truth and what's fiction. Two battle-weary warriors find out the truth when they decide to take a shorter route to safety through the Black Wood where things dwell.
Marilyn Peake takes us to Roswell, New Mexico and asks, What if all the stories were true? Layla, a young woman obsessed with all things Egyptian, takes a tour of the museum at Area 51, hoping to be shown the captured alien. Afterwards, strange things begin to happen—things that Layla may not have control over.
In “Dead Wrong,” Steve Lazarowitz shows us that the world can get a heck of a lot crazier when people choose early retirement—and that doesn't mean sipping cold drinks on a hot beach while thinking about how much you enjoy not having to work anymore.
That's just a peek at the wonderfully uncanny stories that await you in Twisted Tails . You'll want to take this collection with you wherever you go—because you never know when you'll be stuck in traffic, or waiting somewhere for something, in need of a distraction to keep you entertained. The thirty-one short stories in Twisted Tails will keep boredom at bay—I promise!
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NightsAndWeekends.com
From Beverly J. Rowe, MyShelf.com
Here is a collection of tales that may leave your mind twisted. Twisted Tails is an anthology as warped as any I have ever read.
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Frightening, funny, and just plain weird, this sampler gave me a teasing preview of the great talent of these many writers. I will certainly be looking for some of the longer works by many of my favorites.
To read the entire review, visit: MyShelf.com
Review by TCM Reviews
Twisted Tails is an anthology as warped as the devil himself. J. Richard Jacobs rounds a motley cast of suspects, including several time Eppie finalist, Peter Prellwitz. Together, they weave a spell of spicy tales alluring as a tepid river that implores you plunge deeper, cajoles you swim further out, again deeper… At that moment, when your trust is bottomless, your valiance unwavering, pitiless waves swallow and spit you whole, lifeless, onto a bed of suppurating weed and murky froth.
The assortment opens with the sharpness of K. L. Nappier's Veil, the tale of a hideous troll so fetid, so scarred, it leaves more than the terror of death; Steve Lazarowitz picks the race with Dead Wrong, a tech noir filled with much suspense, much tension; J. Richard Jacobs grabs the baton with Things (best said with a Southern drawl), and curves a leg most gruesome in its bend. And though you shudder, you can't help but read on. Marilyn Peake casts aside children's tales to emerge with Tiger in the Plum Blossoms, an engaging story, oriental in set; D.L. White & Peter Prellwitz join forces in Cassiopeia's tears to make a sprint double; Jamie A. Hughes transmits the 72914 female; Biff Mitchell hacks into a termite colossal. Pause. Shuffle back to Steve Lazarowitz's A Matter of Grave Importance, read it with increasing astonishment…
And that is just a sample.
With J. Richard Jacobs' more than a smidgen of pepper, a clove of Terence West, a gloop of Jeremy Davies, a measure of Margaret Whitley's sweep endings and what else, oh what a treat! Best read how you please, fried to your own arrangement. Whichever way one delves, back to front, front to back, apiece, apiece – the crystal's sparkle is not lost, the diamond still glitters and a grassy burst of ruby wine endlessly toys on the back of your tongue. Pleasure, pleasure, pleasure, especially when it is filled with dread.
TCM Reviews
Twisted Tails Two
From Beverly J. Rowe, MyShelf.com
Volume I contains ten stories, each by a different author, which share their ideas of time travel and dimensions that are kinked and allow you to pass from one to the other at will. In Volume I, the surprising abilities of a small autistic child named Anabelle allow her to communicate with a mummy in the museum, and frightening things happen in Marilyn Peake's "Mummy In The Art Museum".
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Each of these stories has a surprise twist ending, designed to catch you off guard, and they really do just that. But be careful...the publisher states that you are on your own...no promise that once you are into a story, you will ever come out. Some stories will give you a laugh, and others will really creep you out and may send you on a time-warp tail-spin of your own.
To read the entire review, visit: MyShelf.com
The Twisted Authors for Twisted Tails
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1. VEIL by K. L. Nappier
2. ...IN DISTRESS by Jeremy Davies
3. DEAD WRONG by Steve Lazarowitz
4. THINGS by J. Richard Jacobs
5. SHANTY GIRL by Eugen M. Bacon
6. WITCHES? SEASON by Marilyn Peake
7. REFLEX. ACTION by Jeremy Davies
8. CASSIOPEIA'S TEARS by D. L. White and Peter Prellwitz
9. THE STORY OF A TERMITE by Biff Mitchell
10. THE LIES WE TELL OURSELVES by Jamie A. Hughes
11. CLONE OF CLONES by Eugen M. Bacon
12. A UNIFORM SHADE OF RED by J. Richard Jacobs
13. A MATTER OF GRAVE IMPORTANCE by Steve Lazarowitz
14. AIN'T NO DOC FOR THE FALLING APART BLUES by Biff Mitchell
15. TIGER IN THE PLUM BLOSSOMS by Marilyn Peake
16. EMMA'S DILEMMA by Margaret Whitley
17. DUSK MAGNET by Eugen M. Bacon
18. AN EYE FOR AN EYE by Peter Prellwitz
19. TWELVE IN, TWELVE OUT by J. Richard Jacobs
20. AN AFFAIR OF THE MIND by Steve Lazarowitz
21. IN A BAD MOOD by Biff Mitchell
22. THROWING UP SASHES by Peter Prellwitz
23. RETURN TO ROSWELL by Marilyn Peake
24. PICTURE POSTCARDS by J. Richard Jacobs
25. THE TANK by Steve Lazarowitz
26. THE BIG RED GIFT by Biff Mitchell
27. ENOUGH by Jamie A. Hughes
28. PASSAGE by Peter Prellwitz
29. DON'T WAKE THE DREAMER by Terence West
30. NEGOTIATIONS by J. Richard Jacobs
31. EVENING STAR by Margaret Whitley |
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VOLUME 1
1. Epoch by Terence West
2. The Art of Time Travel by Joyce K. Jensen
3. Neanderthal Nemesis by Darrell Bain
4. Bucking The System by J. Richard Jacobs
5. A Ringkle in Time by Biff Mitchell and Ann Dulhanty
6. The Librarian Who Wasn’t by Lea Schizas
7. Mummy in the Art Museum by Marilyn Peake
8. A Maji Maji Chronicle by Eugen M. Bacon
9. Heart of Stone by Jamie A. Hughes
10. The Edge by E. Don Harpe
VOLUME 2
1. Martian Colours by Jeremy Davies
2. Immutable With Limits by J. Richard Jacobs
3. The Thing Most Precious by K. L. Nappier
4. Moonbeams upon Stonehenge by Marilyn Peake
5. Two Birds with One Stone by Margaret Whitley
6. Soul Mates by Eugen M. Bacon
7. Boy from Brunet's Cajun Café by E. Don Harpe and Eugen M. Bacon
8. Devil's Triangle by Marilyn Peake
9. Ten Minutes by Anderson Gentry
10. Ticket by Christopher Hoare |
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1. SCHOOL DAYZED by Biff Mitchell
2. THE GHOST OF KORRIM McKARTHY by Brandon Berntson
3. THE BEAST IN THE BASEMENT by J. Richard Jacobs
4. DAY OF THE DEAD by Marilyn Peake
5. THE RAFT by Kim McDougal
6. DIVINE MESSENGER by K.L. Nappier
7. TRAPPED by Christopher Hoare
8. ALONE AND AFRAID by A. J. Chaboya
9. THREE ON A MATCH by John Klawitter
10. LUNCH WAS NOT ENOUGH by Kim McDougal
11. POST APOCALYPSE by Ann Dulhanty
12. ARACHNOTAIL by Biff Mitchell
13. THE ADVENTURES OF JACK CHEESE by John Klawitter
14. BACKSLIDE by K.L. Nappier
15. ABANDONED by Geoff Nelder
16. COMING ALIVE by John Klawitter
17. HANDYMAN by J. Richard Jacobs
18. A COMMUNICATION FROM THE DEAD by Ginny Davis |
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