Robot Hearts: True & Twisted Tales of Seeking Love in the Digital Age is available at Amazon.com!

Love and technology have tied the proverbial knot, for better and for worse. Human interaction has gone hi-tech — it’s now both more immediate and global. Does courtship even still exist in the world of instant-everything? Can a real connection ever be made from afar? Robot Hearts is a collection of true stories from writers navigating the relationship maze of new media. Strange, diverse, heartbreaking and hilarious — each story, at its core, is 100 percent human.

“At the core of every cyber-intrigue is a human heartbeat. Robot Hearts captures the vulnerability that fuels our never-ending affair with technology. It is testimonial to the ways that love will always triumph over machines, even as it speaks through them.” – Lily Burana, I Love a Man in Uniform: A Memoir of Love, War and Other Battles

Cover art by Tony Acosta

Submissions for Tarnished: True Tales of Innocence Lost are now closed. Thank you to everyone who submitted, we will be in touch soon.

We wanted your true stories about your loss of innocence. We asked if you’d ever asked, “is that all there is?” This anthology promises to be packed with stories of coming of-age, coming to terms with harsh realities, fairy tales dashed and word-views rocked.

We are no longer accepting submissions for this book. You can still submit to Caught: True Crime Tales of Scamming, Scheming & Sliding By and Grounded: Communing & Colliding with Mother Nature.

Cover art: Linas Garsys

Caught: True Crime Tales of Scamming, Scheming & Sliding By

We have extended our deadline for Caught until the end of the year.

Whether you’ve stolen, conned, lied, or cheated here is your chance to come clean. Tell us about the times you’ve ripped someone off, the five finger discounts you’ve taken, the little white lies you’ve told.  Confession is good for the soul and we want to hear every crafty detail of yours. Tell us the tactless, the tricky and the downright terrible and we may want to publish it.

We are interested in unique personal essays that will disgust and delight readers. We want to hear from everyone, from petty criminals to hardened cons. Submissions might play with the nurture vs. nature theme, could be mastermind masterpieces, or may even be ‘anti’ crime; the collection as whole will evoke strong emotion and stand out in this popular genre.

Guidelines
All essays should be nonfiction narratives, written in the first-person. Focus on one or a few selected events; do not send rants or political speeches. Stories should be titled. Essays should be between 1000 – 5000 words, double-spaced, paginated and word-processed. No funky fonts, please.

Please include a brief bio (1-3 sentences) at the end of your submission.

Deadline: December 31, 2010
Please send your submissions to: blue@pinchbackpress.com

Writers chosen for the book will be contacted by March 2011. Their selected stories will be published in an anthology to be released Fall 2011. Each contributor receives two free copies of the finished book.
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