Hi everyone, I will be participating in a live author reading at Black Rock Books as part of the Horror Writers’ Association Connecticut Chapter. The bookstore is located in the Black Rock neighborhood of Bridgeport, CT on Fairfield Avenue. The event starts at 6:30 PM and features authors Edward Ahern, Gevera Bert Piedmont, and Jackson Kuhl. Hope to see you there!
you can find my new Substack account here: https://dtgriffith.substack.com/
I will keep this site alive, but transition its content to be more freelance-writing and portfolio focused. In the meantime, if you like what I write, I urge you to subscribe to my new Substack.
It’s time to put this blog back to work. Dormancy is never a good thing. My professional and creative life has evolved considerably since I first started this blog. My areas of focus still lie with writing fiction and for marketing and communications, though I have spent the last decade-plus diving deep into the world of eCommerce.
Please check out my latest contributing article about branding on the eComEngine blog:
Brand vs. Product Marketing: What’s the Difference?
If you ever have questions about eCommerce topics, particularly in the world of Amazon, feel free to reach out.
I’m excited yet humbled to announce the publication of A Silent Dystopia: Stories Of A Quiet Apocalypse. The book was released as an eBook on November 30, 2021. Print editions of the volume will be available in early 2022.
This being my first foray into editing a themed anthology, A Silent Dystopia was a labor of love. The project presented a few challenges. For instance, working within the confines of Dave Jeffery’s established universe of A Quiet Apocalypse would be challenge enough for one writer not living inside Dave’s brain. Overseeing ten, well, actually eleven writers when you count in Dave’s contribution, required using a new approach that I can attribute to managing multiple projects in my corporate eCommerce life. All of the stories needed to be rooted in the continuity established in the source material. A well-formed timeline spanning decades and a conceptual map defining the stories’ geographies across North America and Europe provided the necessary framework to thrive in this vivid world.
The novellas making up the A Quiet Apocalypse series and the stories in A Silent Dystopia are set in a not-too-distant future pandemic-ravaged version of our world. The original book was written long before our current day real-life pandemic and bears no resemblance. The disease meningitis unspecified, also known as MNG-U, has eradicated about 95% of the human population. The vast majority of survivors are left deafened by the virus. Those few lucky enough to retain their hearing after falling ill, or fortunate enough to have never contracted the virus, become precious commodities to the deafened. Forms of slavery and indentured servitude develop as class systems take shape. Meanwhile, those born without hearing, the culturally deaf, are blamed for MNG-U and living endangered lives.
Check out this list of contributors, each strong talents in their respective roles, with whom I am proud to share this volume.
· Raven Dane – The Invisible Girl
· Stephanie Ellis – Babel Hour
· Kev Harrison – The Courier
· Tom Jeffery & Dave Jeffery – The First Samaritan
· A.S. MacKenzie – Shut Up, Donny
· John Palisano – The Platform
· Steve Stred – Do You Remember?
· J.A. Sullivan – Wolf Pit
· Morgan K Tanner – In the Midst of Monsters
· David Youngquist – I Live to Serve
Afterword by: Chris Kelso
Design by: Adrian Baldwin
Artwork by: Roberto Segate
Published by: DEMAIN PUBLISHING
I hope that you will support these artists by buying our book. And after you read A Silent Dystopia, give it a rating and honest review.
D.T. Griffith 