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Queer-run indie horror micropress, publishing anthologies since 2020. Firmly anti-AI. Find us at sliceduppress.com SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION coming 31st August! Preorder here:

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Sliced Up Press@sliceduppress· 3h

Storyboard 10

3 storyboard panels

The first is captioned "Montage of main character injuries - #1 lightning electrocution" and shows a lightning bolt zapping a dog-like cartoon figure, they appear as an x-ray, only the whites of their eyes visible against a black silhouette

Panel 2 shows a purple cartoon dog (it's the same dog) drinking poison

Panel 3 shows the dog getting its head flattened by a heavy object

Sliced Up Press@sliceduppress· 1d

Storyboard #9

3 storyboard panels

The first shows students walking toward a school, the path is lined with bone-like trees

The second shows their feet as they tromp through ankle-deep leaves

The third shows the sun at their backs, their shadows pointing the wrong way

Sliced Up Press@sliceduppress· 2d

Storyboard #8:

3 storyboard panels:

Panel 1 shows a young boy called Matty, delighted by the character Kippy-Kip on TV. He waves both hands, a spoon in one of them

Panel 2: milk flicks from Matty's spoon and hits the screen

Panel 3: Matty looks back from the TV, expecting trouble

Sliced Up Press@sliceduppress· 3d

Storyboard #7: To find out what these all mean, preorder your copy of SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION here, and you'll find out on the 31st of this month: sliceduppress.com/smt

3 storyboard panels, all depicting a grinning face. The face gets closer in every panel and looks more and more distressed with each one.

Panel 1 is captioned: SMILE

Panel 2 caption: KEEP SMILING

Panel 3 caption: DON'T STOP

Sliced Up Press@sliceduppress· 3d

Storyboard #6

Three storyboard panels

The first shows someone squeezing an upended paint bottle

The second shows their face looking frustrated, as they squeeze the bottle too hard

The third shows red paint (?) splattering upwards onto their face as they look dismayed, there is a direction noting that the audience is shocked as [REDACTED]

Sliced Up Press@sliceduppress· 5d

Storyboard #5

3 panel storyboard

Panel 1 - a smiling robot strapped to [REDACTED]

Panel 2 - a drill pressing in closer from the right hand side of the frame, towards the robot's mouth

Panel 3 - the robot screams as the drill withdraws, showing a cracked hole in its still-present smile

Sliced Up Press@sliceduppress· 6d

Storyboard #4:

3 storyboard panels:

Panel 1 - A sound director busy at work on a TV show

Panel 2 - They turn to check on their daughter

Panel 3 - Their face fills the frame as they say: "that's not my daughter"

Sliced Up Press@sliceduppress· 7d

Storyboard #3:

3 storyboard panels:

The first shows a tennis ball rolling into frame

The second shows someone called Lyle's foot as he kicks the ball away, out of frame

The third shows the ball smashing into a lighting rig, sparks dropping

Sliced Up Press@sliceduppress· 8d

Storyboard #2:

3 storyboard panels.

Panel 1: A police cruiser, with its lights flashing, outside a suburban house

Panel 2: A detective stands next to a coroner, asking them to lift up a bloodstained sheet on the ground, which covers a dead body

Panel 3: Close up of the sheet coming off to reveal the body; the skull has been caved in

Sliced Up Press@sliceduppress· 9d

These storyboards seem to be in no particular order. This is the first:

3 storyboard panels:

panel 1 shows a large bubblegum-pink shoe, captioned "sneakers look too huge"

panel 2 shows the action of the shoe's wearer hitting their foot into a stair railing

panel 3 shows the sneaker deflating with a note stating that the accompanying sound FX should be "dull puffing". Smelly green gas seems to emit from the deflated shoe.

Sliced Up Press@sliceduppress· May 14

Page numbers or not, it's definitely giving TV guide:

Saturday Mournign Television paperback proof, in the style of an old TV guide magazine - the cover star is a black & white skeleton draped in robes, the main headline style text reads "Channel Your Fears - Serpents, Puppets, Aliens...Custard?" - the tagline is "terror that comes in airwaves"

Sliced Up Press@sliceduppress· May 2

Here's our TV guide-inspired cover for SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION! 💀📺 Release date is 31st August, review copies will be ready to offer out shortly.

Sliced Up Press@sliceduppress· Mar 22

Copy edits are moving forward slower than expected for SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION, but in the meantime we can say with 99% confidence that this is the final running order! 💀📺

Copyrights:

TV Guide Found in a Hollow Tree, 1989 © Oladosu Michael Emerald
Episode Guide: Tymberwolves © Tom Coombe
Fifty Billion Crucified Robots Can’t Be Wrong © D. Matthew Urban
Here’s One I Made Earlier © A.J. Sharpe
Billy’s World © S.S.N. Smith
Grilling Time! © J. Neira
Rod & Stinky’s Last Laugh © Adrienne Clark
The Serpent Saints from Mars © Victor Sweetster
A Little Piece of Yourself © Toshiya Kamei
rub-a-dub © Die Booth
Together, Tomorrow © Ashley K. Frantik
The Pilgrimage of the Meatclay: an Ascent © Matt Neil Hill
the animators © M. Lopes de Silva
Meat-waves © Monica Carroll
This is a Test © Joe Koch
A Day at the ACME Corporation © Ann O’Mara Heyward
Don’t Look Too Closely © Nico Martinez Nocito
Button Town © Mia Dalia
Power Paladins/Grease Monkey: The Tv-ening © Jude Deluca
One Second Smarter © Ana Rotea
Drawn to Death © Tashi Saheb-Ettaba
Duck and Cover © Derrick Webber
How to Get Distracted While Writing an Essay © Ute Orgassa
Varmint Holes © Em Starr
Longer Than You’d Think © Julia Dzindzio
Very Special Episode © Nichole L. Lightner
Channel 31: Static in the Custard Hour © Fendy S. Tulodo
The Kids are Not Alright © Jacy Morris
Blackberry Yoghurt © A.J. Malachite
Notes from Standards and Practices © Buzz Dixon

Sliced Up Press@sliceduppress· Dec 24

This Xmas season, don't forget to look after the essentials - and maybe seek out a proofreader (psst, we're opening up for FREE editing slots to help the LGBTQIA+ horror writing community next month! No lemonade though, sorry). sliceduppress.com/editing-serv...

A banner in a bookshop that reads "Mind, Body and Sprite"

Sliced Up Press@sliceduppress· Dec 17

Simpsons meme in 2 panels.

Panel 1: A bus driver says "don't make me tap the sign"

Panel 2: bus driver taps the sign which reads "Gen AI is garbage"

Sliced Up Press@sliceduppress· Jan 21

Feeling very this cartoon

3 panel cartoon - in panel 1, a mermaid plays a song on a harp. In panel 2 a pirate in a boat says "i don't like the thing you are doing can you do a different thing that i like". In panel 3 the mermaid, aggrieved, replies "I will fucking increase the fucking thing"

Sliced Up Press@sliceduppress· Dec 25

Merry Superman punching Batman's fake Santa beard off while two kids watch agog day for those who celebrate

Sliced Up Press@sliceduppress· Aug 7

Oooh, we got our release copies of SLAY AND SLAY AGAIN! and our pet dinosaur couldn't be happier! Get your teeth into your own copy here (no dinosaurs but plenty of queer horror): sliceduppress.com/sasa

Dinosaur looking on happily as a bunch of copies of SLAY AND SLAY AGAIN! are fanned out in front of it

Sliced Up Press@sliceduppress· Aug 4

Hey, look, we hit the #34 spot in the 'Zon's best sellers for LGBTQ+ Horror Fiction! www.amazon.com/gp/bestselle...

Slay and Slay again book cover (screenshot from Amazon's bestsellers page, linked in post)

Sliced Up Press@sliceduppress· Aug 1

Wheeeee, look what broke the TOP TEN in the Hot New Releases for LGBTQ+ Horror charts on Amazon! www.amazon.co.uk/gp/new-relea...

It's SLAY AND SLAY AGAIN! our new anthology!

Sliced Up Press@sliceduppress· Jun 10

Eh? You want to see the blurb? Well OK, just a snippet...

"...the authors in Slay And Slay Again refuse to hide or apologize for who they are. Their stories reflect the rich variety of the darker side of queer human experience..." - Joe Koch, author of The Wingspan of Severed Hands and Invaginies

Sliced Up Press@sliceduppress· Apr 27

Reviewers! If you want an ARC of SLAY AND SLAY AGAIN! (ebook or paperback), please drop us a line via our website and we'll get you a copy! sliceduppress.com/contact

Slay and Slay Again! book cover (hands in Pride colours reach out from a sea of monochrome hands into a pink mist, with the book title beneath)

Sliced Up Press@sliceduppress· Apr 23

Aaaah, the proof of SLAY AND SLAY AGAIN! arrived! Aaaaaah, after a few layout fixes we're going to start offering out review copies this weekend! AAAAAAAAAH!

SLAY AND SLAY AGAIN! paperback book cover - hands in Pride colours reaching out from a sea of other hands through pink mist to the book title itself in pink below, with a dash of bling and bloodsplatter, of course.

Sliced Up Press@sliceduppress· Apr 23

I'm just a person, waiting in front of a letterbox, mentally willing the first paperback proof of SLAY AND SLAY AGAIN! to arrive faster.

impatient Judge Judy looking at her wristwatch, compelling it to move faster by tapping at it

Sliced Up Press@sliceduppress· Apr 9

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Slay and Slay Again manuscript uploaded successfully...

Sliced Up Press@sliceduppress· Apr 2

The full author line-up for SLAY AND SLAY AGAIN! is here and it's so good! Check it out below (with a slight cover image tease to boot)! ☠️🌈

Full author lineup for SLAY AND SLAY AGAIN:

Avi Ben-Zeev, Elizabeth Lynn Blackson, Amanda Nevada DeMel, Minh-Anh Vo Dinh, Phillip E. Dixon, Dex Drury, Mason Hawthorne, Lor Gislason, Anastasia Jill, Bitter Karella, Lindsay King-Miller, Norah Lovelock, Avra Margariti, Marisca Pichette, Eric Raglin, Xan van Rooyen,
Eva Roslin, Marc Ruvolo, Alan Mark Tong, Ezra Wu, Jamie Zaccaria

Sliced Up Press@sliceduppress· Apr 1

Picture of the staff who operate this account:

broken egg (and a whisk for some reason)

Sliced Up Press@sliceduppress· Mar 15

Tonight: rest up after Day Job Tomorrow/Sunday: ACCEPTANCES BEING SENT OUT FOR SLAY AND SLAY AGAIN!

Sliced Up Press@sliceduppress· Feb 24

You've got until this Thursday to send us your queerest horror for SLAY AND SLAY AGAIN! sliceduppress.com/submissions

Screenshot of Billy Eichner's "let's go lesbians, let's go!" bit from Billy on the Street

Sliced Up Press@sliceduppress· Feb 15

TWO WEEKS! (to send us your queer horror story/poem) sliceduppress.com/submissions