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New Posting Schedule

There hasn’t been a lot of new content being posted lately, but that’s going to change.  The lack of posting has been largely due to overload and not to a lack of quality submissions.  We’re in the process of increasing our pool of slushies, and getting responses and contracts out to submitters. For those who [...]

Contest Update

Everyone who entered the Abandoned Towers contest should now have received personal communication from us. If you have not received such an email, please contact us through contest@abandonedtowers.com

Contest Extension

Hi folks, We’ve had some people with problems submitting through the eSub system, so we will be extending the deadline two weeks so that we can ensure that the problem is dealt with. New deadline is June 1 2012. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope that everyone who wishes to submit is able to. [...]

Looking for Reviewers/Reviewees

Probably not everyone has looked at every piece of content on our site, or even read all the pages in the drop down menus, so something that may have escaped your notice is that we do reviews in addition to posting great fiction, poetry and nonfiction. You can check out the official Abandoned Towers Book [...]

Facebook Contest

In the hopes of gaining new readership, we are beginning a contest on Facebook. No entry fees, and some nifty prizes. Here’s how it works. Like our Facebook page if you haven’t already (not this post, although if you want to like this post as well, that’s a-OK with us!). If you already like us, you’re [...]

Advertisers Wanted!

Abandoned Towers is re-releasing our existing issues in digest format over the coming months, and we’ve got additional print issues in the pipeline for 2012.  All full sized issues will gradually become available once more, with original advertising intact for no additional charge. As part of our relaunch festivities, we’re offering the following advertising specials [...]

Contest Submissions: eSub OPEN!

So we were a little delayed in being ready to accept your contest submissions, but we’re ready now.  Please do report any problems that you have.  We will in the near future be expanding the system to handle our regular submissions as well as the contest submissions. You shouldn’t have much trouble filling out the [...]

Contest Update

Some of you are total keeners, we announced our first contest just over a month ago (strange that it coincided with our relaunch, almost like we planned it), and way back then we told you that we’d start accepting submissions YESTERDAY.  And you know what?  Some of you were ready to do so… sadly we [...]

Reviews

Do you have a complete work? Would you like Abandoned Towers to review it for you? We would be happy to! We have an official review page.  We will review novels, anthologies, collections, graphic novels, audio books and comics, among others.  We ask for at least one copy to be provided (for us to read) and [...]

New Content

In order to mark our relaunch, we will be posting new poetry and fiction every day for the first week.  So far, we’ve had stories from Rita Crossley and Samuel Wood, plus poetry from Denny E. Marshall and Robert William Shmigelsky with more coming.

Launch Announcement

It’s official! We have launched the brand new Abandoned Towers website.  If this is your first time here, welcome!  If you’re a returning visitor, welcome and we hope that your experience is even better. Here are some things that I would like to point your attention toward: Our new submission process The inaugural contest announcement [...]

Submissions

We continue to receive many excellent submissions! I have contacted everyone who has submitted before December 11 2011, so if you sent us something before that time and have not heard back yet, please send a query to submissions@abandonedtowers.com with QUERY in capitals in your subject line. K.E. Abel Managing Editor Abandoned Towers Magazine

Electronic Submissions?

We’ve started to look into the possibility of going to Electronic Submissions (instead of e-mail) using a form which let’s you upload the file.  This would presumably have a mechanism to allow you to track the progress of your submission through the various internal processes of Abandoned Towers.  So we thought we’d open it up [...]

It Was An Ending; It Is A Beginning

Everything is here now, appropriately formatted, tagged and categorized.  So you’ll be able to find things in the archives with significantly less difficulty than before.  It’s also the start of something new, new look, improved content and organization and a new managing editor. Worth highlighting is that a few our the more popular posters have [...]

Introduction: K.E. Abel

Hi everyone, My name is K.E. Abel and I am the new Managing Editor of Abandoned Towers Magazine.  I’m incredibly excited to be here and am thrilled with the high quality submissions which I’ve seen so far.  We’ve been working hard to get things moving around here, so please spread the word that we are [...]

Just About There…

All of the content which was previously hosted in a Blogger blog at Blogspot has now been incorporated into this location.  Here’s a summary of some of the changes which have taken place over the last few weeks: consolidation of blog content going from 58 to 227 posts here change in the look of the [...]

2009 Posts Migrated

The 67 posts from 2009 are now properly included here.  That leaves 52 posts from 2010 and 1 from 2011 to migrate before the entirety of the Abandoned Towers blog is finally in one place. In 2009 you’ll find posts by: Bob Piekle C. E. Chaffin Dal Jeanis Jason Kahn Jim Fowler Oddcube Troy D. [...]

2008: It Was the Beginning

The archives here have now been updated to include all of the original posts from 2008 (all 44 of them).  You’ll notice a lot of announcements about content added to Abandoned Towers and that this was in the days before Abandoned Towers had it’s own domain. 2008 also marks the first posts by: Dal Jeanis Oddcube [...]

Migrating Content

So we’re still uncovering new things as we dig deeper into Abandoned Towers, and the latest find is an old version of this blog, which has content which wasn’t migrated to this location.  Some of it isn’t really necessary, but some of the bloggers who have been writing here, started writing there. I am in [...]

Changes, they’re a comin’

If you’re visiting Abandoned Towers for the first time this won’t be obvious and perhaps not if you’re a previous visitor.  For all intents and purposes Abandoned Towers is now under new management.  Personally I represent the technical side of that change. So what does this really mean, well in the short term, not too [...]

Submissions are OPEN!

Abandoned Towers Magazine is pleased to announce that we are now open again for submissions!  We are under new editor-ship with new submission guidelines.  Send submissions to submissions@abandonedtowers.com.  We look forward to reading your work!

Submissions Open!

Abandoned Towers Magazine is pleased to announce that we are now open again for submissions!  We are under new editor-ship with new submission guidelines.  Send submissions to submissions@abandonedtowers.com.  We look forward to reading your work!

Abandoned Towers Magazine Issue #7 now in print!

If you’d like to look through the issue before you snag your copy of it, I’ve created a nice flash flipbook for you. You can find it here:Abandoned Towers #7 Flash Flipbook Now what are you going to find inside? Here are a few excerpts: Observations of Bravery by Chad Weiss To better understand cattle, I’m going [...]

What if you were a baby dragon – all alone? – a must read children’s dragon stories from Toy Box Books

When WarmthInMorningSunAfterALongWinterNight heard a tattletale pebble go bouncing down the mountainside, she knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that she was doomed. The creatures had been watching her from afar for days, she knew, but Wimsaalwn could not fathom how they had guessed exactly when to come for her. Just hours before she had [...]

Introductions

Hi! I’m a Cyberwizards author. I’ll be posting the first and third Tuesday of every month. Since it’s the first Tuesday of August, I thought I’d stop in and introduce myself. I’m Jaleta Clegg. I write science fiction and comic horror with a dabbling of other genre fiction. My first book, Nexus Point, can be [...]

Abandoned Towers Issue #6 is Now Live and Available

I’m really happy with this issue. The cover art is great, and the content inside is even better. Anyone that would like to read a preview of the issue, or pick up a print copy, can do so by going here: http://atprintissues.blogspot.com/ I thought I’d give everyone a taste of what’s inside.  So here’s the [...]

What if the Battle of Gettysburg had Never Happened?

Announcing the release of a very special Science Fiction novel: A New Birth of Freedom by Robert G. Pielke It has taken centuries to recognize that all humans possess certain unalienable rights. There will come a time when we have to consider whether others deserve those rights as well. That time will come on July [...]

S4F: Meet David Siegel Bernstein – Forensic Statistician

Hello. My name is David Siegel Bernstein and I have a confession to make. (I take a deep breath) okay, here we go: I love Science Fiction and Fantasy. Yes, I dream about voyages between worlds in starships fully equipped with FTL drives, battling aliens from other dimensions, traveling the multiverse while standing still in [...]

Abandoned Towers Magazine Issue #5: Look What’s Coming!

Issue #5 goes on sale on March 1. Here’s a little taste of what’s you’ll miss if you don’t get a copy: Table of Contents Zap Zachary Returns by Stoney M. Setzer Gold by Arthur Mackeown Ray Guns by Doug Hilton Othan, Debtor by Kurt Magnus The Horrors of War by Chris Silva Mindforms by [...]

Announcing the Release of Poet Burgess Needle’s New Collection

Diminuendo Press is proud to announce the release of a wonderful new book of poetry by Burgess Needle. Burgess Needle is inspired by the natural wonders of our planet, the virtuosity of contemporary poetry, love, friendship and the two-edged sword of 21st century technology. After earning a degree at the University of Massachusetts, Burgess joined [...]

Abandoned Towers Issue #4: Sneak Peak

I know this is only the first of September, but issue 4 goes live on Nov. 1 and well… I thought you might like a taste of what’s in it. So, here’s the table of contents to whet your appetite: Table of Contents Editorial: Regrets by Bill Weldon, Editor vii Featured Story A Warm Welcome [...]

End of August Update

Can you believe it’s already the end of August? Man the summer sure flew past! Over at Abandoned Towers things have been flying pretty fast too. We’ve had all sorts of cool stuff come in during August. New cartoons, new stories, new poems, new odd reviews and new… everything. The big news now, of course, [...]

Jack of all Trades: the Most Enjoyable Fantasy Romance You’ll Read All Year!

Cyberwizard Productions is thrilled to be able to announce a new fantasy romance by K. C. Shaw. Jack Bywater is loved by the entire town. Handy with a hammer, able to drive a coach, great at getting wasps out of an orchard, he truly is a Jack of all Trades. And he’s just the man [...]

Midsummer at Abandoned Towers Magazine

Well, July is almost over. Here in Texas summer’s half gone and the new school year is fast approaching. June bugs are still hatching and flying in my back door, too. Someone needs to tell them that June ended several weeks ago, though my cats are certainly enjoying the feast. Over at Abandoned Towers Magazine [...]

Abandoned Towers Magazine July Update

It’s July and there are several updates to the AT website at http://cyberwizardproductions.com/AbandonedTowers. I’ve posted a new Odd Review by Oddcube. This time he reviews Mike Resnick’s The Goddess of Ganymede (pulp sci-fi all the way). A new Dragonslayer’s cartoon is up, and there are several other items that’ll go online in the next couple [...]

It’s May!

Spring has sprung and the May flowers have arrived with a boatload of new goodies over at Abandoned Towers magazine at http://cyberwizardproductions.com/AbandonedTowers. To start the month off on the right foot, we have a new Odd Review by Oddcube, and boy is it truly odd this time! Calling his review Attack of the Retro-Clones, Oddcube [...]

Middle of April Update

In the ongoing effort to make Abandoned Towers easier to use and easier to find stuff on, I’ve added a What’s New page. I update that page every time I add something to the website (which is just about every day) so check it frequently. In case you haven’t found it yet, and don’t know [...]

Beware! The Sha’Daa is coming!

The Sha’Daa: Tales of the Apocalypse by Michael Hanson is on it’s way and scheduled for official release on May 1, 2009 but you can pre-order copies now by visiting this page: www.cyberwizardproductions.com/altered/shadaa.html The Sha’Daa has its dark, eerie, terrifying roots anchored deep in the soil of fictional horror and mythic apocrypha. The end-of-days is [...]

Spring’s Just Around the Corner!

Outside my window, there’s a tree covered with tiny green leaves. Purple crocus have opened in one flowerbed, while bright yellow daffodils are nodding in the shade nearby. The signs of spring are all over, at least here in Texas. Before long, the highways around Austin will be covered with wildflowers and tourists having their [...]

Welcome to February 2009!

Welcome to February! This month, Abandoned Towers Magazine has several new serials just getting underway, all for your reading pleasure. First up, The Script of Sages by Andrew Cooper. This is a short serial of only 5 chapters, but don’t delay. You’ll want to read it right from the beginning. To whet your appetite, here’s [...]

Introducing Poet C. E. Chaffin

Due to the beneficence of Crystalwizard (also known as Kelly), the Grand Poobah of this whole operation, my first book of poetry in 11 years has just been released by one of her publishing arms, Diminuendo Press. It is entitled “Unexpected Light: Selected Poems and Love Poems 1998-2008.” Here’s the direct link: Unexpected Light Nearly every [...]

The Amazing, Revised, All New, Spiderman?

What in the world has happened to spiderman? For those who haven’t been reading the comic books, but have been reading the comic strip, Jan 1, 2009 came as something of a heavy shock. What did Marvel do? You can read all about it by visiting Abandoned Towers at http://cyberwizardproductions.com/AbandonedTowers and clicking on Eric S. [...]

Reviewing Murdoch

NY Times writer David Carr reviews Michael Wolff’s new book — The Man Who Owns the News”. Pull quote from the review: The book is a strangely alluring artifact, with huge gaps in execution and stylistic tics that border on parody; it will nonetheless provide a deeply satisfying experience for the ­media-interested. And the end graf: Many before [...]

Comics!

If you haven’t been reading Eric Brown’s articles on various comics, now is the time to start. His series on Jonah Hex will finish up with the last piece on Jan 1. And starting in Feb, he’ll be exploring The Flash. In addition to the longer series of several parts, you’ll find quite a few [...]

Trailer for DFF: Dead Friends Forever

Okay, this trailer’s pretty darn rockin, (although I’d say it’s too long). J.R. Turner’s DFF: Dead Friends Forever is out for the kindle at Echelon. The first three chapters are on her site here. A bit tough slogging on the skater terms in chapter one, but it speeds up pretty soon. This bit’s in Chapter Three, when she’s [...]

The Forest of Hands and Teeth Book Trailer

Aprilynne Pike, whose YA debut novel Wings will be coming out in May, has linked to an awesome YA book trailer by a friend of hers named Carrie Ryan. I’ve also linked it, below, for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy! Carrie Ryan’s The Forest of Hands and Teeth will be coming out in March, and I should review it then.

Abandoned Towers Issue #1 Now Available

Abandoned Towers issue #1 is now available in print. To pick up your copy, just go to the AT home page at http://cyberwizardproductions.com/AbandonedTowers or go direct to the order page at http://www.lulu.com/content/4592024 Remember, you’ll never find the stories and articles which are contained in the printed pages also online, so make sure you get your [...]

New Story Added to Fantasy On-line Content

Today I’ve added a new story called Dust to the Abandoned Towers online fantasy page. Have you ever noticed that, no matter how hard you try, the dust is every where? You scrub, you clean, you vacuum… but no matter what, the dust remains like some living thing with malicious intent. Maybe you’re not just [...]

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