Macromere Press

WELCOME TO COFFIN HOP 2011!

You’ve reached the site of Macromere Press, publisher of He Who Shall Remain Shameless, a paranormal adventure novel in stories available now in e-book format.

From October 24th through October 31st, Macromere Press will be participating in the Coffin Hop. Please click here to be taken to the Coffin Hop’s main page. From there you’ll see the list of participating writers and their blogs and sites. Our own David Ewald is on the list. Feel free to hop to his site, and to all the rest….

But what can you do on this site, besides read the backlog of posts related to our first release? Well, Macromere Press and David Ewald have put their heads together to come up with a contest for the Coffin Hop. Read on for the details….

Macromere Press’s Coffin Hop Contest

He Who Shall Remain Shameless is a novel in stories that follows the adventures of our hero and narrator, David Michael Ewald (not the book’s author) as he travels the world seeking out the ghosts of people that actually existed. Some people passed on long ago, others more recently. The most easily peggable spirits are

- Harriet Quimby, early female aviator extraordinaire (d. 1912)

- Christine Chubbuck, employee at WXLT news station in Florida who committed on-air suicide in 1974

- David Michael Ewald, not the hero of the book or the author of the book, but a four-day old infant who died in Michigan in 1954

- Christopher Coe, author of two novels, I Look Divine and Such Times, who died of complications brought about by AIDS in 1994

- King Aegeus, ancient Greek figure who leaped to his death from a high cliff into the sea that now bares his name

- Andrew Kehoe, the worst campus mass murderer in American history (d. 1927)

- Linda Gary, voice actress known for her work on ’80s and ’90s cartoons, died of brain cancer in 1995

- Alice Scribner, one of the first, if not the first, flight attendant killed in the line of duty (d. 1933)

- Leo Ryan, California senator and victim of the Jonestown massacre (d. 1978)

- Arthur Conley, known for his hit “Sweet Soul Music”, died of cancer in 2003

Our question to all Coffin Hop participants who happen upon our page is this:

What deceased real-life figure would you like to see in He Who Shall Remain Shameless? And…WHY?

The ‘why?’ is an important question, and it needs to be answered in the e-mail you send to us. We understand that many of you are coming to this site—and He Who Shall Remain Shameless—for the first time, but a quick perusal of any of the posts on this site will give you an idea of what the novel is about, and what would make a strong answer. 

E-mail your answer to macromere [AT] gmail [DOT] com

Of course, please give us your real name—but no more information is needed other than that, and your answer.

Macromere Press will read all responses and make a decision on the best, most surprising, most appropriate (in the spirit of the novel) answer. We will announce the winner—and post the winner’s response—here on November 1st, All Saints’ Day. Additionally, we are under the impression that the winner will be announced on the Coffin Hop site as well.

What does the winner win? A $5 Amazon gift card, good for your very own copy of He Who Shall Remain Shameless, or any other low-priced e-book, print book, video game, DVD, CD, dishwashing detergent, cat dress, fork and spoon set, gardening gloves, and so on and so on. While we would love the winning contestant to purchase He Who Shall Remain Shameless, we’ll never know what’s actually bought, so have at it!

As this site is powered by tumblr, the comment function is unavailable, so we are looking forward to reading all the responses to our contest question that are sent to macromere [AT] gmail [DOT] com.

Thanks for reading, and thanks for being a part of the Coffin Hop!