Newsletter Repository
"Step inside the shadows — where every newsletter brings you closer to the things that haunt the page."
Subscribers to the newsletter will be the first to get their hands on exclusive free novellas and early-release books from Brett Gilliland’s ever-expanding library of horror, mystery, and darkly comic tales. From bite-sized nightmares to full-length adventures, these stories will drop straight into your inbox before they’re available anywhere else — a chance to step into new worlds, meet unforgettable characters, and get a head start on the scares.
Newsletter #1
It all begins with an idea. In this debut issue, we’re opening the doors to the worlds of horror and dark fantasy — with a welcome note, a peek at upcoming releases, free novellas on the horizon, and a first look at the madness behind the Dumb Luck and Game series. Consider this your invitation into the shadows — where every story is just the beginning.
Newsletter #2: Shadows & Feedback
In this issue, I’m inviting readers to join the early reader pack for my upcoming novel Night Creatures Coming — a chance to see the story before publication and help shape the final draft. You’ll also get a behind-the-scenes look at the cover design process for Everything I Learned About Vampires from Watching Dracula Was Wrong. Step into the shadows and be part of the process.
Newsletter #3: Breaking the Rules of Horror
In this issue, we pull back the curtain on Everything I Learned About Vampires From Watching Dracula Was Wrong with a behind-the-scenes look, a personal Q&A on where ideas come from, and exclusive updates on what’s creeping toward release next. Step inside—if you dare.
Newsletter #4:
Happy Turkey Day
In the Thankskilling Edition, missed mail becomes forward motion. After a creation-heavy October spent refining worlds, upgrading covers, and shaping holiday releases, this newsletter brings new stories to the table—grit, gratitude, and Christmas-season debuts ahead. Includes the micro-story Happy Thankskilling, project progress, and the origin of Jack and Bart, the Halloween detectives imagined in 1978 from trailered “what-ifs.” Winter turns haunting too, with White Witch and its Chris Woodward music collaboration arriving this Christmas.
Newsletter #5
A Cold January
In the January Edition, the year opens quietly—and sharply. Cold settles in, sickness slows everything down, and the work moves inward. This issue reflects a pause forced by winter: recovery, reflection, and the strange clarity that comes when the body stops before the mind is ready. Witches linger in the background, illness becomes a threshold, and stories continue to take shape in the hush between deadlines. Updates include where projects stand after the holiday rush, what survived the sprint to release, and what’s beginning to stir now that the frost has fully set in.
Newsletter #6: The Book Is Done. Your Turn.
In this edition, the spotlight turns from creation to connection. After a season of releases, revisions, interviews, and long nights in the dark, Newsletter #6 is about what happens after the last page. This issue leans into gratitude—for readers, reviewers, and supporters who keep independent horror alive—and reflects on the closing chapters of Jack and Bart’s Dumb Luck and Dead Things as the series moves toward its final five books.
Inside, you’ll find a look back at the journey so far, a peek at what mysteries may come next (with fewer monsters and more missteps), and a reminder of how small reader actions—reviews, recommendations, shared words—shape the future of these stories. This issue also invites readers into the conversation with an “Ask the Author” call and explores how stories linger long after they end.
The darkness doesn’t stop when the book closes.
Sometimes, that’s when it finally starts talking back.
Newsletter #7: Winter Closes One Chapter.
February may be brief, but this month’s GilliGoree Press newsletter is packed with turning points.
Inside, you’ll find the explosive conclusion to the Dumb Luck & Dead Things saga with Jeremy the Voidbringer—the end of the cats, the Meowtrix, Jeremy, and the doll as we know them. We look back at nine books that reshaped Pickleton and forward to a new era of grounded mysteries for Jack and Bart.
We step into the Writing Crypt to explore what’s developing next, including the Trog series—spanning 1970 to 2025—and the evolution of Red in the Hood, from stage musical concept to full novelization.
You’ll also find this month’s Reader Challenge, a winter horror feature, and a note of gratitude recognizing the editorial work that helps bring these stories fully to life.
New chapters close. New ones begin.
Welcome to February at GilliGoree Press.
“It all begins with an idea. A shadow at the edge of a dream, a whisper in an empty room, a flicker of something that doesn’t belong. Horror writing is about catching that spark before it fades, then following it into the dark. Sometimes it becomes a creature, sometimes a haunted house, sometimes a secret no one should ever uncover. My stories grow from these fragments — the small, unsettling moments that make you stop and wonder, what if? That’s the heart of horror: taking the ordinary and twisting it until it reveals the nightmare lurking underneath.”
— Squarespace