Blood Notes
By Publisher AL J. Vermette
Well BMR Fans the time has at last come! Blood Moon Rising has hit 10 years old,
let the party begin!!!!!!!!
That’s right my Legion of readers….. you the fans have made this horror publication
ten years old this month and we thank you for coming along with us all these years.
As far as small indy magazine production goes, this magazine has beaten the odds
by lasting past its first 5 issues. Sad but most small presses never last past their
10th issue never mind making it to number 41 as we have just done with ten years
behind us. I have to say sometimes I never thought it would happen. When I first
started Blood Moon Rising in the early spring of 2000, I never really thought….
hoped for…but never really thought that we would make ten years. Back then I had
an idea of what I wanted for a new horror magazine, my horror magazine and
something that I could call my own. The plans for this publication really go back to
the late 1980s when I first thought of the idea. Over the years as I made my way
from no name writer to author I once again reclaimed the notion of doing a horror
publication of my very own. Although years before that I was already coming up
with ideas for the mag and my Creature Feature Department was truly the first one
to be made up and a few years later the title itself came to me as I drove under a
red rising full moon one night. It was also a play and words from the CCR song Bad
Moon Rising as well.
After myself and my partner Shoshana Strier started Sapphire Publications in late
1999, I knew that it was just a matter of time before I would turn my idea of a
magazine into that of reality. In the spring of 2000, I started to put it together and
found other writers who had the love of all things horror such as I. Together we
turned out what would be one of the first if not the very first horror magazine of the
21st century. On a sunny day in June Blood Moon Rising Issue #1 made its debut
at the comic convention held in Madison Square Garden in New York City. That
issue was small and poorly put together and yet showed horror fans that something
new and wonderful had risen. Two Months later Issue #2 clawed its way into the
hearts of horror fans and we knew from there on we were hear to stay. As the
magazine gained more exposure and more and more people found it on news
stands and in bookstores online and off over the next few years, I knew that I had
created something that people enjoyed. A wonderful feeling too.
As time went on though and the state of publishing saw a down slide in all sales due
to the piss poor economy and the rise of more and more content being moved to
the growing internet we knew something had to change. Most of our online
bookstores shut down and nearby bookstores that were open for years started
slowly dying and closed. After the death of our biggest online outlet Shocklines.
com, our cash cow outlet, we like many other publishers faced something none of
us saw coming. Do we…can we go on? Most of the publishers listed with
Shocklines.com went the same path as the store itself and came to a painful death.
A truly sad thing too. Others hung on and made it the best they could. For us we
thought of new ways to present the magazine, keep all that our fans loved about the
magazine and bring it to them in an even better way then before. As I said to my
staff one day. “If we don’t evolve, then we too will die like the others in our genre”.
The course of action we took was to reboot the magazine and give it to our Legion
of fans in a new and better way. We took BMR online and made it part of our web
site. Now we could once again return to FULL color so now the blood flows red
again. Over the last few years and the cost of printing BMR suffered from down
sizing and went full Black & White but now with the freedom of being online we can
do anything we want with no restriction on the magazines production value. This
online change took place seven years into publication and for the last three years
of being online we hear fans love it even more. Online also gives us more exposure
then even before and…….AND as a thank you to our fans we made the magazine
FREE to all who read it. Now that’s really love for our fans!
Over the years, BMR saw many writers and artist come and go and our Staff has
changed ever so slightly as well. I would like to thank long time writers and artists
some who are still with us and the others who have moved on over the years. D.W.
Jones, Eric S. Brown, Robert Freese, Dark Soul, Sandy Reese, Sam Wallace,
Benny G. Leal, Craig Pitre and my editors Shoshana Strier, William H. Pratt.
So now with ten years behind us and now on to the future and the next ten. As you
can see we have re-vamped the whole Blood Moon Rising web site to something
much better and way cooler. The new site is from our new…yes new head editor
Mr. D.W. Jones who not only remade the web site but is now in charge of all short
story submission as well. As William Pratt and myself move on to other projects
within the Sapphire Publications/ Blood Moon Rising Productions universe, D. W. is
now the man to send your fiction to from this issue on. As for Pratt and myself we
are working on other projects such as our new online web series Come The Reaper
and Lycanthrope to start with. We are also shooting a movie review series called
and based on our BMR department Graveyard Cinema. All shows will be available
to view on our web site soon along with other sites such as You Tube and Fearnet.
com to name a few. Please check out all of our new online TV shows and enjoy, for
we do it all for you our Legion of horror fans.
And now began to read Blood Moon Rising Issue #41 our 10 Anniversary issue!
By Publisher AL J. Vermette
Well BMR Fans the time has at last come! Blood Moon Rising has hit 10 years old,
let the party begin!!!!!!!!
That’s right my Legion of readers….. you the fans have made this horror publication
ten years old this month and we thank you for coming along with us all these years.
As far as small indy magazine production goes, this magazine has beaten the odds
by lasting past its first 5 issues. Sad but most small presses never last past their
10th issue never mind making it to number 41 as we have just done with ten years
behind us. I have to say sometimes I never thought it would happen. When I first
started Blood Moon Rising in the early spring of 2000, I never really thought….
hoped for…but never really thought that we would make ten years. Back then I had
an idea of what I wanted for a new horror magazine, my horror magazine and
something that I could call my own. The plans for this publication really go back to
the late 1980s when I first thought of the idea. Over the years as I made my way
from no name writer to author I once again reclaimed the notion of doing a horror
publication of my very own. Although years before that I was already coming up
with ideas for the mag and my Creature Feature Department was truly the first one
to be made up and a few years later the title itself came to me as I drove under a
red rising full moon one night. It was also a play and words from the CCR song Bad
Moon Rising as well.
After myself and my partner Shoshana Strier started Sapphire Publications in late
1999, I knew that it was just a matter of time before I would turn my idea of a
magazine into that of reality. In the spring of 2000, I started to put it together and
found other writers who had the love of all things horror such as I. Together we
turned out what would be one of the first if not the very first horror magazine of the
21st century. On a sunny day in June Blood Moon Rising Issue #1 made its debut
at the comic convention held in Madison Square Garden in New York City. That
issue was small and poorly put together and yet showed horror fans that something
new and wonderful had risen. Two Months later Issue #2 clawed its way into the
hearts of horror fans and we knew from there on we were hear to stay. As the
magazine gained more exposure and more and more people found it on news
stands and in bookstores online and off over the next few years, I knew that I had
created something that people enjoyed. A wonderful feeling too.
As time went on though and the state of publishing saw a down slide in all sales due
to the piss poor economy and the rise of more and more content being moved to
the growing internet we knew something had to change. Most of our online
bookstores shut down and nearby bookstores that were open for years started
slowly dying and closed. After the death of our biggest online outlet Shocklines.
com, our cash cow outlet, we like many other publishers faced something none of
us saw coming. Do we…can we go on? Most of the publishers listed with
Shocklines.com went the same path as the store itself and came to a painful death.
A truly sad thing too. Others hung on and made it the best they could. For us we
thought of new ways to present the magazine, keep all that our fans loved about the
magazine and bring it to them in an even better way then before. As I said to my
staff one day. “If we don’t evolve, then we too will die like the others in our genre”.
The course of action we took was to reboot the magazine and give it to our Legion
of fans in a new and better way. We took BMR online and made it part of our web
site. Now we could once again return to FULL color so now the blood flows red
again. Over the last few years and the cost of printing BMR suffered from down
sizing and went full Black & White but now with the freedom of being online we can
do anything we want with no restriction on the magazines production value. This
online change took place seven years into publication and for the last three years
of being online we hear fans love it even more. Online also gives us more exposure
then even before and…….AND as a thank you to our fans we made the magazine
FREE to all who read it. Now that’s really love for our fans!
Over the years, BMR saw many writers and artist come and go and our Staff has
changed ever so slightly as well. I would like to thank long time writers and artists
some who are still with us and the others who have moved on over the years. D.W.
Jones, Eric S. Brown, Robert Freese, Dark Soul, Sandy Reese, Sam Wallace,
Benny G. Leal, Craig Pitre and my editors Shoshana Strier, William H. Pratt.
So now with ten years behind us and now on to the future and the next ten. As you
can see we have re-vamped the whole Blood Moon Rising web site to something
much better and way cooler. The new site is from our new…yes new head editor
Mr. D.W. Jones who not only remade the web site but is now in charge of all short
story submission as well. As William Pratt and myself move on to other projects
within the Sapphire Publications/ Blood Moon Rising Productions universe, D. W. is
now the man to send your fiction to from this issue on. As for Pratt and myself we
are working on other projects such as our new online web series Come The Reaper
and Lycanthrope to start with. We are also shooting a movie review series called
and based on our BMR department Graveyard Cinema. All shows will be available
to view on our web site soon along with other sites such as You Tube and Fearnet.
com to name a few. Please check out all of our new online TV shows and enjoy, for
we do it all for you our Legion of horror fans.
And now began to read Blood Moon Rising Issue #41 our 10 Anniversary issue!
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