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DEAD MALLS Special Edition Hardcover

Created by Darby Harn

Stephen King meets Choose Your Own Adventure in a VHS-style collector's edition with custom end papers and sprayed edges!

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Getting Closer To Sprayed Edges & New Reward Tier!
over 1 year ago – Sun, Apr 06, 2025 at 06:51:39 AM

We're getting closer to our next stretch goal!

At $1500, we'll unlock custom sprayed edges for the hardcover edition! Let's make it happen!

I'm also introducing a new reward tier! I host a One-Hour Short Story Workshop at major cons like Indianapolis Comic Con, Twin Cities Con, and others coming this year! In the workshop, I teach ready-to-work tips and tools to aspiring writers, who then put them to work right there in the room. These tools are inspired by my writing journey, with stories published in Strange Horizons, Interzone, Fantasy Magazine, and elsewhere. As an indie author, I know how hard it is not to know where to start. I want to help as best I can, and hopefully, this workshop will accomplish that. It will be a two-part sequence: lecture/writing, and then review.

Check it out!

This weekend, I'm part of the amazing Narratess Indie Sale! You can get my ebooks and many other authors for a very sweet deal! Check it out!

Check out this great-looking sci-fantasy Kickstarter campaign live now!

Stretch Goal Unlocked!!! Let's Keep Going With Custom Sprayed Edges!
over 1 year ago – Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 06:32:01 AM

You did it! Thanks to your support, we've hit our first stretch goal: custom end papers on the VHS hardcover edition of the Dead Malls map directory! 🎉

Next up are custom sprayed edges!!!

At $1500, we'll unlock a custom design featuring cool, retro 8-bit art of the creepy blue glow that's spreading through the mall in the story. Help make the book the best it can be!

Also, last night, we celebrated the launch of Dead Malls on the FanFiAddict YouTube channel! This special livestream included myself, A.J. Calvin, and Adam Bassett, who created that amazing mall map directory for the campaign. You can watch the replay now!

Check out this other great Kickstarter campaign!

The award-winning series returns with a new volume!

Lastly, if you'd like to check out my other ebooks, many will be on sale this weekend 4/5 as part of the epic Narratess Indie Sale! You can find TONS of other great ebooks as well!

WE FUNDED!!! 🎉
over 1 year ago – Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 04:20:30 PM

Thank you all so much! So much work has gone into making this book and this campaign a reality. Nearly a year and a half of writing, revising, planning, developing, conceptualizing... and you've made it all happen in a few hours. I can't thank you enough. ❤️

But we're not done yet!

We're already close to hitting our first stretch goal: special end papers for the hardcover edition of the Dead Malls map directory, created by Adam Bassett!

Let's make it happen! 

After that, we have another great stretch goal: custom sprayed edges for the hardcover, detailing the strange blue lightning that seems to be infecting the mall in the book...