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Lunch with Charlotte

May 17, 2012 No Comments ›› Grey Gecko Press

Available July 1st, 2012 Every Friday for the last 25 years of her life, I had lunch with Charlotte and each week she told me more of her extarordinary story. To all appearances, she was a strong and dignified survivor, with old-world courtesies, a twinkling sense of humor and a lilting Austrian syntax. Yet deep within, she’d ...

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Jason Kristopher

Worldreader and Grey Gecko Press

May 7, 2012 No Comments ›› Grey Gecko Press

Worldreader’s mission is to make digital books available to all in the developing world, enabling millions of people to improve their lives. Digital technology is sharply reducing the cost and complexity of delivering reading material everywhere. We are developing the systems and the partnerships to get e-readers – and the life-changing, power-creating ideas contained in ...

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“Lonesome” by Wayne Basta

Apr 14, 2012 No Comments ›› Grey Gecko Press

For the settlers on the windswept plains of the planet Lonesome, life is hard and occasionally cruel. Faced with an influx of 'Newbies' - new settlers, with new ideas - the Originals' animosity is growing. And for one family, that animosity could spell the end. THIS IS A SHORT STORY of approximately 4,400 words. Also included ...

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Aristeia: A Little Rebellion

Apr 3, 2012 No Comments ›› Grey Gecko Press

"I like a little rebellion now and then...The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all." --Thomas Jefferson Unlike her brother, Saracasi Ocaitchi has always known that her loyalties belong to the ...

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A Fancy Dinner Party

Apr 3, 2012 No Comments ›› Grey Gecko Press

RELEASE DATE:   May 25, 2012 With a foreword by acclaimed horror author Jonathan Maberry, a dozen delectable and deliciously devilish delights await the discerning palate in this collection of short stories from the authors of Grey Gecko Press. The crunchy exteriors of these horrors thrill and excite, only to pale in comparison to the warm ...

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Jason Kristopher

Graygrey and other quandaries…

Feb 23, 2012 No Comments ›› Grey Gecko Press

In this fascinating and wondrous digital age of ours, sometimes things get overlooked. And it's easy to point fingers and lay blame, saying so-and-so should've done this, etc, etc, etc. Processes fail, people make mistakes and life goes on, somehow. In publishing in particular, a shrug and a quick "What can you do?" is about ...

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A Drop of Rain

Jan 16, 2012 No Comments ›› Grey Gecko Press

"Our planet is dying; we have to leave. There is another nearby world, ready to receive us, but the Governor placates the people with lies and threatens them with arrest or execution instead of acting to save our species. I have a plan, and it will take all I have and more to see it ...

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The Lightbringers

Dec 17, 2011 No Comments ›› Grey Gecko Press

The New United States in 2074 is a superficially utopian society that dictates positive thinking.  Privately, millions of people struggle to hide their inability to "think perfectly." A desperate nobody, Gaylen Andrews, finally visits the nation's secret underground of depravity in hopes of finding a cure for his mental torment.  He is caught up in a ...

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Jason Kristopher

Kindle Select, Lending Library and 4 Giveaways!

Dec 8, 2011 2 Comments ›› Grey Gecko Press

Amazon's KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) has announced the new Kindle Select Program today. Effectively, what they're offering is to allow books that publishers select to be a part of the Kindle Owner's Lending Library. This library, open to Amazon Prime customers, allows Kindle owners to check out books for reading on their Kindle devices, and only ...

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Jason Kristopher

Innovation in a Changing Industry – The Advance Reader Program

Dec 7, 2011 No Comments ›› Grey Gecko Press

Since I started Grey Gecko Press, my vision for the company has been one of innovation, 'new' thinking, and turning ideas on their head to see what shakes loose. I loathe the very idea of the phrase "Well, that's how we've always done it." The idea behind that phrase presupposes that just because you've always ...

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