The Twighlight Manor Press

Thank you for visiting our official Squidoo Page. Est. in 1978 as Books by EelKat, the name was changed to The Twighlight Manor Press in 1993. TMPress is a small press publishing house for Gothic, horror, sci-fi, and dark fantasy fiction. We like haunted house, ancient curses, vampires, ghosts, wizards, pirates, mermaids, bad faeries, haunted mansions, crazed doctors, mad scientists, creepy asylums, black cats, hell hounds, and things that go bump in the night.

This profile is still under construction. Come back soon to see the finished version. Be sure to visit The Twighlight Manor Press's home page as well:
http://www.freewebs.com/twighlightmanorpress/

 

As you may know by now Twighlight Manor Press is currently not publishing anything at this time due to a medical emergency in the family, which you can read about  here.

We had planned on Moonsnails going to press in September of 2006. At this time we do not yet know when Moonsnails well start production, possibly in the spring of 2009, if all things go well.

Buried Treasure is still in it's planning stage and should see print sometime in 2010.

We hope to have The Twighlight Manor Press back up and running by fall of 2008. Wish us luck.

You can find more updates as they become available at Star Log, Star Log Pink, and Xavier's Nest.

The Twighlight Manor Press, Moonsnails, and Buried Treasure will each have their own blogs in the near future. You'll be able to keep track of current news and updates from there.

We are a small press publisher, specializing in a tiny niche market. TMPress is a family run home business. Until 2004 all of our books were hand bound, hand inked volumes, limited to less than 5 copies per title. To date more than 30 titles have been written. Currently none are in print. Plans are underway to release them in paperback editions over the next few years.

We are not currently taking submissions for book manuscripts, though that may be in our distant future. For the time being we only publish books for The Twighlight Manor series, and it's spin-offs, all of which are written by staff members.

Genres:

Gothic
Horror
Science Fiction
Gothic Romance
Dark Fairy Tales
Ghost Stories

Publisher of:

The Twighlight Manor
gothic series

The Crystonite Chronicles
sci-fi series

Planet Ptarmagin
sci-fi series

The Adventures of Pink Frog
children's fantasy series

EelKat's Twisted Tales
horror series

...this section is being edited and will be back shortly...

Contact Info:

Wendy C. Allen, editor-in-chief, twighlightmanor@yahoo.com

Book Layout:

6" x 9", 32 - 300 pages, 60 lb bright white paper, B&W text, perfect bound, 10pt laminated cover in full color ; other binding options and sizes to be added in the future.

Payment:

Staff: Royalty 100% of sales, response time: one week or less.

Non-staff: sorry but we no longer take submissions for non-staff written materials.

Fiction Needs:

Short stories and novels up to 300,000 words. Literary & Genre fiction.

Prefers:

Gothic, Science Fiction, Horror, & Fantasy. Cross-gen OK.

Will Consider:

Action, Adventure, Alien Invasion, Alien Realms, Alternative Histories, Amateur Detective, Ancient Civilizations, Animal Stories, Biographical Fiction, Christmas, Classic Literature, Colonial America, Cryptology, Dark Fantasy, Dragon Tales, Ethnic Fiction, Faerie Realms, Fairy Tales, Family Sagas, Fantasy, Folklore, Furries, Futuristic, Ghost Stories, Gothic Romance, Halloween, Hard Science Fiction, Haunted Houses, High Fantasy, High Seas Adventure, Historical Fiction, Horror, Humor, Inspirational, Kung Fu, Literary, Mad Scientist Sci-Fi, Mermaid Tales, Mystery, Murder Mystery, Paranormal, Pirate Tales, Psychological Thriller/Terror, Regional: Maine, Regional: Quebec, Romance, Science Fiction, Serials, Short-Shorts, Sleuths, Space Fantasy, Space Travel, Spiritual, Sword & Sorcery, Supernatural, suspense, Thriller, Time Travel, "Twilight Zone" style, UFO stories, Unicorn Tales, Utopian Realms, Victorian, War, Western, Wizard Tales, Young Adult.

Art:

INSIDE ILLUSTRATION:

Rarely uses illustrations. Illustrations provided by author. B&W, pen & ink, line art only ... no pencil, no shading, no grey-scale, no color, our printer well not accept them. We do not resize or edit artwork. All illustrations must be 4" x 6" or smaller and camera ready. Do not send originals. Email files as attachment. Files must be compatible with MSWorks, MSPaint, or MSPublisher 97. Note that we can not accept .tif files, our email treats them as a virus and deletes them. See fiction for needs & rejects list.

COVER ILLUSTRATION:

Cover Art provide by author; full-color photography or paintings, covering any genre. See fiction for needs & rejects list. Always seeks beach and ocean themed photos or paintings. Do not send originals. Email files as attachment. Files must be compatible with MSWorks, MSPaint, or MSPublisher 97, .jpg files prefered. Note that we can not accept .tif files, our email treats them as a virus and deletes them. See fiction for needs & rejects list.

Sorry but we no longer take submissions for non-staff created materials.

We like to see strong characters. Character driven stories. Well written plots. We like fantasy realms, dreamscapes, and alien planets. Creativity is always welcomed. Pirates are always good, we need more pirates. Never see enough mermaids and sirens. Let Brian Froud's books inspire you.

Sometimes accepts poetry, but only rarely, if it tells a story and has strong characters. Same as fiction needs, plus: seeks longer "epic length" story poems akin to Robert Browning's, Pied Piper of Hamlin or Edgar Allan Poe's Raven or Dr. Seuss' Green Eggs & Ham. Prefers long rhyming poems with strong characters and a story plot.

Non-staff: sorry but we no longer take submissions for non-staff written materials.

Same as fiction rejects, plus: Does not accept free-verse poetry, haiku, poems without characters, poems without plots, or poems without rhythm.

The Twighlight Manor Press is the brain child of Wendy C. Allen a.k.a. EelKat. Below is a list of lenses written by TMPress editor Wendy C. Allen. These lens are written as advice to our staff and authors, to help them improve their writing skills.

While beneficial to any one interesting in a writing career, these lenses are to be considered the TMPress guidelines we use for accepting or rejecting manuscript submissions. Please read these lens before sending in your submission to us.

Copper Cockeral Cards & Gifts stocks cards, shirts, prints, and gift items featuring original art and photos by Maine native Wendy C. Allen a.k.a. EelKat.

For more designs by Wendy C. Allen visit the original Copper Cockeral @ http://www.freewebs.com/coppercockeral

The Pidgie Fund is a non-profit organization which raises money to provide food and shelter for animals in need in the Southern Maine area.

A Writer's Desk is an online chat-room/message board-online forum group, for writers of fiction.

Black Bobcat Fashions Designs by EelKat, is the Gothic and Historical Reenactment line of fashions designed by Wendy C. Allen.

Purple Peacock Patterns Designs by EelKat is the line of patterns created by fashion designer Wendy C. Allen for her Black Bobcat Line.

The Rabbit Hole is the yet-to-be-built Gothic-CosPlay-Reenactment fashion boutique specializing in designs by Wendy C. Allen aka EelKat.

Shot at 2007-04-04

Hello! I am a 1964 Dodge 330 4-door sedan, VIN 4142216364, my name is The Goldeneagle. This site was created by my owner Wendy C. Allen of Old Orchard Beach, Maine, to save my life.



I am the main character of the original Twighlight Manor book, and a major supporting character of more that 30 other books and short stories by Maine author Wendy C. Allen.



I started out in life as a silver undercover Police car in Maine. In 1975 I retired from my job as a police car and was sent to Marcot Motors of Old Orchard Beach, Maine, where I was painted gold by some fool with a paint brush. He totally ruined my lovely silver paint job and left me streaked with brush lines. I was only there a few months before I was bought by the Allen family, who sanded me down and painted a lovely shade of metalic orange.




I remained the faithful family chauffer for the next ten years. Together we drove on many roadtrips throughout the NorthEast. In 1978, I took them to New York where we croosed the Brooklen Bridge during it's major repair construction. That same year we went to Washington D.C. I took the Allen family to Arcadia in Bar Harbor to see The Thunder Hole in 1981. Every year I drove them to New Hampshire where we visited The Old Man on the Mountain and Story Land and The Swift River. Three times I climbed Mt. Washington.




I've brought home puppies and baby chickens. I waited in hospital parking lots and veterinary clinics. I remained forever and always a faithful friend. The only friend who was always there, steadfast and unmoveble, silent and unjudgmental. My red plush seats always there like a shoulder to cry on when no one else would lend and ear or a shoulder. I alone remained to one true friend, the only friend to the child who loved me and defend me when no one else would put up with my break downs and failrues.




Over the years I grew old and tired, my engine weak and my transmission failing. My last trip was a desperate trip to the hospital, one dark and stormy night in 1985 when a hurrican flooded the town, sending the Atlantic Ocean over the Peir and up Maine Street. My last trip came when abulances could ride faster than my Mopar engine and Mrs Allen had to be rushed to the hostpital at 3AM. We speed through Old Orchard fatser than ever before, through hurrican floods that went higher than my door panels seeping water into my interior and flooding my floors, filling my transmission and engine with icy salt water, we made it to the hospital with Mrs. Allen, but I did not make it back home on my own and was towed home by a friend's little VW Rabbit.




In spite of my loyalty, with a dead trasmission and an engine full of salt, I was usless, and parked in the yard, put up for sale for junk.



I was rescued from a trip to the junk yard in 1985 by 9 year old, Wendy C. Allen, after my trans died. Since 1985 I have remained a decoration on the hill in her rose garden, where she sits in my seats or on my hood to write the stories in which I appear. Without me, she can not write these stories for I am the one that inspires them. I have been happy in my life of peace and rest here in Old Orchard Beach these past 30 years. That has now changed.




New town ordinances and zoning laws have been set in Old Orchard Beach. As a result the police, the code enforments officers, and the town manager are now in attempt to see my death and destruction, with threats of stealing me from my rightful owner and sending me to become scrap metal in the junk yard.



This is an outrage! They well not listen to reason.



My profile now comes to you to spread the word and ask for your help in saveing my life. An entire network of websites devoted to my plight are now in the works and links to them well be added here within the next few hours.



Please join the protest and put an end to the Old Orchard Beach reign of terror. Old Orchard Beach is a town not a dynasty, they have no right to take me from my home and kill me!







PLEASE DON'T LET THEM KILL ME!!!!!

To read more, please visit my profile: http://www.myspace.com/savethegoldeneagle




Shot at 2007-04-04