News & Events
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Just found out from my excellent translator Geng Hui that my novelette “Sweetlings” is included in the Jan./Feb. issue of Cityzine Magazine China. Check out Geng Hui’s website at https://site.douban.com/145351/ and illustrator He Wanjuan’s at https://www.instagram.com/wanbowl/
This is the first time I’ve been translated into Chinese and although I can’t read a word of it, I’m so pleased to be in print in another language!
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I’m delighted to announce a new collection, SPREE AND OTHER STORIES, to be published by Independent Legions Press in paperback and digital editions, edited by Alessandro Manzetti and coming out in February 2018.
The terrific cover art is by acclaimed artist Wendy Saber Core.
The collection will include: the novella SPREE (Cemetery Dance Publications, 1998) and the stories “Making the Woman” (from UNNATURAL ACTS AND OTHER STORIES, Richard Kasak Books, 1994); “Wall of Words” (from THE FLESH ARTIST, Silver Salamander Press, 1994); “Extremophiles (from AXES OF EVIL, Chuba Cabra House, 2014; “Things of Which We Do Not Speak” (from THE FLESH ARTIST, Silver Salamander Press, 1994); “How Real Men Die” (from FATAL JOURNEYS, Overlook Connection Press, 2014); “La Senora Blanca” (DANSE MACABRE:CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH THE REAPER, EDGE, Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2012).
For more information or to order: https://www.independentlegions.com/news
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I’m happy to say that my story “Dead Messengers” appears in FRIGHT MARE: WOMEN WRITE HORROR, an anthology of all female authors compiled by author and anthologist Billlie Sue Mosiman. The story is set in the small railroad town of Lamy, NM, just up the road from Santa Fe, where a Detroit-born Anglo who goes by the name Raimundo lives with his Latina girlfriend Esme. Like many in Santa Fe, Raimundo has developed an interest in New Age beliefs, especially those of (in Esme’s words) “a crazy preacher-lady who says you can fuck your way to God.” Maybe yes, maybe no, but Raimundo’s doing his best to find out.
Check out “Dead Messengers” and a host of other great stories by acclaimed women horror writers by googling FRIGHT MARE: WOMEN WRITE HORROR
I’ll be reading from “Dead Messengers” on March 3 at La Tienda at Eldorado (see post below.)
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Acclaimed UK author, blogger, and web entrepreneur Mitzi Szereto will be reading from ROTTEN PEACHES (The Thelonious T. Bear Chronicles) on Thursday, March 3, at the Performance Space at La Tienda in Eldorado at Santa Fe.
Joining her will be New Mexico author Dale Lotrek, reading from his recently completed ‘New Mexico’ novel, and Destiny Allison, host of the event and author of THE ROMANCE DIET.
I will be reading from my short story “Dead Messengers”, which came out this month in the anthology FRIGHT MARE: WOMEN WRITE HORROR.
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I’m happy to announce that “In the Cave of the Delicate Singers”, acquired by editor and anthologist Ellen Datlow, is now up and running and free to read at www.tor.com, along with this beautiful illustration by artist Ellen Barkin. It’s the story of a woman with a rare form of synesthesia who can feel sound waves and the harrowing rescue mission she undertakes in a cave with a nasty past.
I’ve had great responses to this story, which begins:
“In spite of its dark history, the entrance to the Brotterling Cave complex, eleven miles south of Kremming, Kentucky, appears bucolic, even inviting — a rocky, green arch, swathed in bulblet ferns, Virginia creepers, and sumacs meandering in lazy zigzags along the slope of the hill. In summer, a sumptuous veil of ironweed and lobelia spills over the lava-dark basalt, and cavers, from novice to expert, grind up the mudhole-pocked logging road in their four-wheel-drives, leave their rides in the turn-around, and trek inside like ants marching into the maw of a sleeping triceratops.
Most of the time, they come back just fine.”
Sometimes, of course, they do not.
To read more, visit www.tor.com.
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On Saturday August 23 at 2 pm, I’ll be reading from my new collection, Fatal Journeys, at Dark Delicacies in Burbank, CA. As Jack Ketchum puts it in his introduction, these stories feature “places you really shouldn’t go. Places that are dangerous to the heart, mind, and body.”
Stories not for the timid traveler.
For anyone unfamiliar with “the horror haven in Burbank”, Dark Delicacies is a horror specialty bookstore featuring signed editions, collectibles, graphic novels, DVDs, and terrific gifts for the zombie lover in your life, such as Zombie Cinderella and Zombie Snow White. Owners Del Howison and his wife Sue host weekly readings and other events.
I’m looking forward to visiting Del and Sue at Dark Delicacies and to spending some time by the ocean.
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In honor of Women in Horror Month this February, novelist and blogger Paula Cappa is featuring my story “Walled”, which appeared in the January issue of Nightmare Magazine.
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Lucy Taylor’s Stoker award-winning first novel, THE SAFETY OF UNKNOWN CITIES, is becoming an illustrated and completely re-typeset edition, to be published by The Overlook Connection Bookstore and Press in 2015!
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Due out May 1, 2014, from Crowded Quarantine Publications, OF DEVILS & DEVIANTS contains hardcore erotic horror by authors Bear Weiter, Graham Masterton, Lucy Taylor, Claude Lalumiere, Aaron J. French, Mandy DeGeit, J. Daniel Stone and many others.
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A heavy metal horror anthology
Writer and editor Alex Johnson has combined his taste for heavy metal and horror in AXES OF EVIL: A Heavy Metal Horror Anthology, due to be released on Feb. 1, 2014, published by Chupa Cabra House. Full TOC not yet available, but stories by Sephera Giron and myself will be among the line-up.
More info to come.