April 15

Writing News

#1

I sold my short story “Men in the Moon” to the Greek magazine 9. This of course means I can stop embarrassing myself and amusing editors with the unfortunately uncommon submission typo “Men in the Mood”.

#2

Art and full table of contents for Horror Library volume 4 has been announced. I’m very pleased to be part of this one.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Into The After – Kurt Dinan

Ghosts Under Glass – Tracie McBride

Ash Wednesday – Lorne Dixon

Santa Maria – Jeff Cercone

Dreamcatcher – Nate Kenyon

Sporting the Waters of the Bermuda Triangle – Greggard Penance

To Judge the Quick – Hank Schwaeble

Driving Deep into the Night – Harrison Howe

In The Red – Charles Colyott

Skin – Kim Despins

Drain Bamage – Jeff Strand

Guardians – Tom Brennan

God’s Work – Matt Bain

Sleepless Eyes – Tim Waggoner

Flicker – Lee Thomas

Jammers – Bentley Little

The Fishing of Dahlia – Ennis Drake

What Once Was a Man – Michele Lee

Mourning with the Bones of the Dead – Gerard Houarner

Final Draft – Mark Worthen

I Am Vision, I Am Death – Erik Williams

The Healing Hands of Reverend Wainwright – Geoffrey L. Mudge

Testaville, Ohio – M. Alan Ford

Stone – Catherine MacLeod

Campbell’s Pond – Brian Knight

All Dead – JG Faherty

Exegesis of the Insecta Apocrypha – Colleen Anderson

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February 12

One more note

Here’s a list of my own credits that feature a GLBT character and who did/is publishing them. Just in case you’re taking notes or something.

  • Meat World, Dark Futures: Tales of Dystopian SF, forthcoming
  • What Was Once a Man, Horror Library v. 4, forthcoming
  • Rot, Skullvines Press, August 2009
  • Scarecrow (reprint), Pseudopod.org, August 15, 2008
  • Carnivorous, Black Ink Horror XXX, December 2008
  • Scarecrow, Cthulhu Sex Magazine, Issue 16 volume 2

    • That’s six of thirteen from a relative beginner, all but one horror. There are horror people out there buying good fiction that includes GLBT characters. Please don’t forget that.

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    February 9

    Silver Veins

    My SF short story, Silver Veins, featuring my first attempts at writing an autistic main character, is now live over at Expanded Horizons. Teaser below, but you really should click through for the whole thing since it’s free to read…

    * * *

    Years, Trista thought. She stared out, through the foot-by-foot square window in her wall, and wanted to scream. She wanted to pluck the lamp from the table beside her and bash in the window, the only window in her quarters. She wanted to punish it until either her emotions bled out in sticky red on the walls, or the window gave way and the stars bled into her chambers.

    She’d spent years on starships or space stations or off planet condos. For years, the same small square of technology and blankness had held her hostage. Her quarters were shaped to fit the people who lived in rooms like these. It was nothing, empty in its natural state, and there was not much more than that around her.

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    February 3

    2009 Stoker Awards (Long List)

    2009 PRELIMINARY STOKER BALLOT

    This is the PRELIMINARY ballot. The FINAL BALLOT will be announced in a few weeks. Congratulations to all!!

    Here’s the full ballot:

    Superior Achievement in a Novel

    AS FATE WOULD HAVE IT by Michael Louis Calvillo (Bad Moon Books)
    SACRIFICE by John Everson (Leisure)
    ETERNAL VIGILANCE II: DEATH OF ILLUSIONS by Gabrielle Faust (Immanion Press)
    TWISTED LADDER by Rhodi Hawk (Tor/Forge)
    VORACIOUS by Alice Henderson (Jove)
    THE BONE FACTORY by Nate Kenyon (Leisure)AUDREY’S DOOR by Sarah Langan (Harper)
    PATIENT ZERO by Jonathan Maberry (St. Martin’s Griffin)
    QUARANTINED by Joe McKinney (Lachesis Publishing)
    CURSED by Jeremy Shipp (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

    Superior Achievement in a First Novel
    DAMNABLE by Hank Schwaeble (Jove)
    THE BLACK ACT by Louise Bohmer (Library of Horror)
    SLAUGHTER by Marcus Griffin (Alexandrian Archives Publishing)
    BREATHERS by S. G. Browne (Broadway Books)
    THE LITTLE SLEEP by Paul Tremblay (Henry Holt)
    SOLOMON’S GRAVE by Daniel G. Keohane (Dragon Moon Press)
    DISMEMBER by Daniel Pyle (Wild Child)
    SLIGHTS by Kaaron Warren (Angry Robot)
    THE DEAD PATH by Stephen M. Irwin (Hachette Australia)
    THE FOREST OF HANDS AND TEETH by Carrie Ryan (Delacorte Press/Random House)

    Superior Achievement in Long Fiction,
    MAMA FISH by Rio Youers (Shroud Publishing)
    HUNGER OF EMPTY VESSELS by Scott Edelman (Bad Moon Books)
    DIANA AND THE GOONG-SI by Lisa Morton (MIDNIGHT WALK)
    DOC GOOD’S TRAVELING SHOW by Gene O’Neill (Bad Moon Books)
    THE GRAY ZONE by John R. Little (Bad Moon Books)
    THE LUCID DREAMING by Lisa Morton (Bad Moon Books)
    DREAMING ROBOT MONSTER by Mort Castle (MIGHTY UNCLEAN)
    LITTLE GRAVEYARD ON THE PRAIRIE by Steven E. Wedel (Bad Moon Books)
    ROT by Michelle Lee (Skullvines Press)
    BLACK BUTTERFLIES by Kurt Newton (Sideshow Press)

    Superior Achievement in a Short Fiction
    IN THE PORCHES OF MY EARS by Norman Prentiss (PS Publishing)
    BLANKET OF WHITE by Amy Grech (BLANKET OF WHITE)
    KEEPING WATCH by Nate Kenyon (MONSTROUS: 20 TALES OF GIANT CREATURE TERROR)
    ONE MORE DAY by Brian Freeman (SHIVERS V)
    THE CROSSING OF ALDO RAY by Weston Ochse (THE DEAD THAT WALK)
    WHERE SUNLIGHT SLEEPS by Brian Freeman (Horror Drive-in)
    THE NIGHT NURSE by Harry Shannon (Horror Drive-in)
    PLAGUE DOGS by Joe McKinney (POTTERS FIELD 3)
    THE OUTLAWS OF HILL COUNTY by John Palisano (Harvest Hill)
    NUB HUT by Kurt Dinan (Chizine)

    Superior Achievement in a Anthology,
    MIDNIGHT WALK edited by Lisa Morton (Dark House)
    POE edited by Ellen Datlow (Solaris)
    HARLAN COUNTY HORRORS edited by Mari Adkins (Apex Publications)
    HE IS LEGEND: AN ANTHOLOGY CELEBRATING RICHARD MATHESON edited by Christopher Conlon (Gauntlet Press)
    LOVECRAFT UNBOUND edited by Ellen Datlow (Dark Horse Books)
    DARK DELICACIES 3: HAUNTED edited by Del Howison and Jeff Gelb (Running Press)
    BUTCHER SHOP QUARTET 2 edited by Frank J. Hutton (Cutting Block Press)
    GRANTS PASS edited by Amanda Pillar and Jennifer Brozek (Morrigan Books)
    MIGHTY UNCLEAN edited by Bill Breedlove (Dark Arts Books)
    BRITISH INVASION by Chris Golden, Tim Lebbon and James Moore (Cemetery Dance Publications)

    Superior Achievement in a Collection,
    A TASTE OF TENDERLOIN by Gene O’Neill (Apex Book Company)
    SHADES OF BLOOD AND SHADOW by Angeline Hawkes (Dark Regions Press)
    MARTYRS AND MONSTERS by Robert Dunbar (DarkHart Press)
    IN THE CLOSET, UNDER THE BED by Lee Thomas (Dark Scribe Press)
    A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FIENDS by Michael McCarty (Sam’s Dot)
    GOT TO KILL THEM ALL AND OTHER STORIES by Dennis Etchison (Cemetery Dance)
    DARK ENTITIES by David Dunwoody (Dark Regions)
    SHARDS by Shane Jiraiya Cummings (Brimstone Press)
    UNHAPPY ENDINGS by Brian Keene (Delirium Books)
    YOU MIGHT SLEEP… by Nick Mamatas (Prime)

    Superior Achievement in a Nonfiction
    WRITERS WORKSHOP OF HORROR by Michael Knost (Woodland Press)
    STEPHEN KING: THE NON-FICTION by Rocky Wood and Justin Brook (Cemetery Dance)
    CINEMA KNIFE FIGHT by L. L. Soares and Michael Arruda (Fearzone)
    ESOTERIA-LAND by Michael McCarty (BearManor Media)
    MORBID CURIOSITY CURES THE BLUES edited by Loren Rhoads (Simon & Schuster)
    THE STEPHEN KING ILLUSTRATED COMPANION by Bev Vincent (Fall River Press)

    Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection
    CHIMERIC MACHINES by Lucy A. Snyder (Creative Guy Publishing)
    MORTICIAN’S TEA by G. O. Clark (Sam’s Dot)
    DOUBLE VISIONS by Bruce Boston (Dark Regions)
    VOICES FROM THE DARK by Gary William Crawford (Dark Regions)
    BARFODDER by Rain Graves (Cemetery Dance)
    STARKWEATHER DREAMS by Christopher Conlon (Creative Guy Publishing)
    TOWARD ABSOLUTE ZERO by Karen L. Newman (Sam’s Dot)
    NORTH LEFT OF EARTH by Bruce Boston (Sam’s Dot)
    GRAVE BITS by Todd Hanks (Skullvines Press)

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