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Amy Grech's poem, "Machine Gun/Latté" will appear in a future issue
of Space & Time magazine.––––––––––––––
An in-depth interview with author Nicholas Kaufmann is now posted in the
debut issue of Annabelle, a Web-based lifestyle magazine. You can read it here: http://www.annabellemagazine.com––––––––––––––
Bare Bone #4, featuring Amy Grech's story "Ashes to Ashes" is available now at Project Pulp.
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Shocklines.com has started taking pre-orders for specially signed copies of WALK IN SHADOWS, Nicholas Kaufmann's debut story collection from Prime Books/House of Dominion:
http://store.yahoo.com/shocklines/wainshcostby.html––––––––––––––
Greg Lamberson's article — "Lovecraft's Bad Book" will appear in the second quarterly issue of H.P. LOVECRAFT'S MAGAZINE OF HORROR. It's his second article in the magazine.
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Amy Grech's "Damp Wind and Leaves" will appear in Cyber-Pulp's Halloween Anthology.
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Greg Verdino's short story "Just" will appear in THE DECAY WITHIN from 3F Publications, scheduled for late 2003/early 2004 publication. This is his second sale to 3F's "WITHIN" series; his story "The Accordion Man" will appear in THE FEAR WITHIN this August.
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Lee Thomas' story "Anthem of the Estranged" has been purchased by John Pelan for inclusion in The Dark Side III - A Walk on the Dark Side.
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Amy Grech's story "Russian Roulette" has been purchased by Thomas Deja for the Dark Streets After Hours anthology.
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Nicholas Kaufmann's story "Have You Come to Raise the Dead?" will appear in THE DECAY WITHIN, which will be published by 3F Publications in October.
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Nicholas Kaufmann's first short story collection, WALK IN SHADOWS, has been acquired by Sean Wallace at Prime Books for their House of Dominion imprint. Collecting nine previously published short stories and two originals, WALK IN SHADOWS is scheduled to be released in Autumn of 2003.
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Lee Thomas' Story, Shards, has been sold to the MicroSHOCKS Anthology
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Nicholas Kaufmann's story "The Jew of Prague," from Lone Wolf Publications' STONES anthology, was included in Andy Hatchell's 2002 Consolidated Recommended Reading List. You can see the list (and find out if you're on
it, too!) here.
Also, Nick has put up some photos from the HWA's 16th Annual Conference and Bram Stoker Awards on his Web site, here.
There are quite a few pictures, so please give the page time to load.––––––––––––––
Greg Lamberson has sold a 2,000 word article, "Re-Animating Lovecraft," to Wildside Publishing's upcoming fiction magazine 'H.P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror.' The article is scheduled to appear in the first issue, and -- hopefully -- will lead to a regular or recurring series, 'Arkham Film Vault.'
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Lee Thomas is pleased to announce the following short story sales:
"All We Are" - to Underworlds
"Heirlooms of Misery" - to Agony in Black––––––––––––––
Amy Grech's story "Come and Gone" appears in issue 14, volume 2 of Cthulhu Sex, available now.
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Nicholas Kaufmann has sold his story "V.I.P. Room," originally published in DECADENCE, to Maxim Jakubowski for THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST NEW EROTICA, VOL. 3, due out on November.
He also reports that Victor Heck's out of print anthology THE ASYLUM, VOL. 2: THE VIOLENT WARD, which includes Kaufmann's "Not That Kind of Story," has been reissued with a beautiful new cover by House of Dominion/Prime Books.
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Amy Grech's story "Ashes to Ashes" will appear in Issue #5 of Bare Bone, due out in November, 2003.
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Exciting news from the fearful leader!
Adam Pepper's debut novel, Memoria, will be released at this summer's Horrorfind Weekend by Medium Rare Books.
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Adam Pepper's short story "Diary of the Apocalypse" has been selected for The Best of Horrorfind II.
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Kris Dikeman's story "What Comes After" has been sold to Eden Publication's Zombie anthology The Book of Final Flesh.
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Nicholas Kaufmann's short essay on the Spanish, French and Italian lesbian vampire movies of the 70s and early 80s, titled "In Praise of European Women," will be one of the extras in Lee Thomas's e-book novella PARISH DAMNED, coming this February from Creative Guy Publishing.
Also, Nick's story "The Dead Stay Dead," which made it to the Preliminary Ballot of 2000 Stoker Awards, has seen some interest from an independent filmmaker who may include it as one of the stories in an anthology-style horror movie.
And finally, Nick's Stoker-recommended story, "The Jew of Prague," as well as Judi Rohrig's STONES anthology, where "The Jew of Prague" can be found, are mentioned on the Web site of Count Gore De Vol, popular TV host of the Washington, D.C. area. You can see what the Count's people have to say by
going to http://www.countgore.com/tomb.htm.
Visit soon -- the Web site changes content pretty often.––––––––––––––
Amy Grech has two sales to announce:
"Prevention" will appear in the Femmes de la Brume anthology, due out later in 2003.
"Crosshairs" will appear in the Scriptures of the Damned anthology, also due out later in 2003.
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Lee Thomas is pleased to announce two sales:
"From the Soul, A Single Moment Captured" was accepted by The Urbanite for #14
and "Opiate of the Masses" has been sold to Eden Publication's Zombie anthology The Book of Final Flesh.
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Nicholas Kaufmann reports that his short story "Toad Lily" has been sold to the Horrorfind Web site, pending contract, for January 2003 publication.
Also, on November 21, his short 5-page play "Mr. Kingston's Anniversary"--a crime drama/comedy/ghost story--was performed as a cold reading as part of the Downtown Theater Lives series, which uses its casual workshop setting to revitalize interest in downtown theater after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks
(for more information on DTL, go to http://www.jmtcinc.com/downtown.html).There is now some talk of turning "Mr. Kingston's Anniversary" into a short film, though this could be months,even years, away.
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Lee Thomas' story, "Pierce" has been accepted for the Circus Anthology due in 2003 from Lone Wolf Publishing.
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Greg Verdino has sold his short-short story "Wrong Side of the Hall," written under the pseudonym Boz Armstrong, to UK online/wireless literary zine The-Phone-Book.com. The story is scheduled to appear in text and audio versions on December 1, 2002.
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Ron Breznay has made his second sale, just a week after his first. His story, entitled "Vein No. 6," will appear in Vesper's Publishing's forthcoming anthology, The Night Has Teeth.
Ron says: "Woo-hoo!"
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J.V. Sanders' 25th anniversary retrospective of serial killer David Berkowitz, "I Am The Son Of Sam," is now available at the online archives of Fortean Times.
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Wonderful news from our own fearful leader, Adam Pepper!
Please welcome to the world, Shannon Kate Pepper!
Born November 3, 2002 at 6:25 PM, weighing in at a mighty 7 lbs, 2 ounces!Also, Adam is a featured author in the current issue of The Murder Hole in their special "Bad Boys of Horror" issue!
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Ron Breznay just made his first sale. He got the go-ahead to do a series for Hellnotes, the e-mail horror newsletter. The series is The Old Masters of Horror, appearing in 14 parts, once a month.
The first article will be an introduction, including a discussion of general books on classic horror writers. Articles 2 through 13 will each focus on one author (H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, August Derleth, Arthur Machen, M.R. James, Ambrose Bierce, Lord Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood, William Hope Hodgson, Clark Ashton Smith, Frank Belknap Long, and J. Sheridan Le Fanu).
The last article will be a summary of authors not covered by individual articles. The first article should be in Hellnotes this month. The series was inspired by the HWA NYC Chapter's Lovecraft walking tour of lower Manhattan in September (pictures of the walking tour will be posted in the picture archive soon).
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A reprint of Lee Thomas' holiday story "Bounty" is currently posted at The Swamp. The story originally appeared in Alternate Realities last year.
It's a fun piece of holiday cheer, made with love... and human body parts.
Comments are appreciated.
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J.V. Sanders has resigned as Assistant Editor of Fortean Bureau and cites the magazine's new editorial philosophy as the reason. "Switching from dark fantasy and horror to science fiction opens up some exciting new possibilities for FB. At the moment, though, my interest in sci fi is limited to the new DUNE novels by Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson, so leaving the magazine at this point seemed like the right thing to do. Needless to say, I had a great time at Fortean Bureau and I wish everyone there continued success."
"Rite of the Fire Demon" by J.V. Sanders has been recommended for a 2002 Bram Stoker Award. Originally published in the October 2002 issue of Fortean Bureau, the story is currently available in the magazine's online archives.J.V.'s illustrated article, "The Lovecraftian Art of John Coulthart," can also be found in the online archives of Fortean Bureau.
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Nicholas Kaufmann has a movie review of the new DVD release of Nicolas Roeg's 1973 shocker Don't Look Now at FeoAmante.com He also reports that he'll be helping judge the Writer's Digest Self-Published Book Contest again this year.
Nick just created a Yahoo newsletter for fans to keep up with his latest publications appearances, contests, etc. To subscribe, send an e-mail to NewsFromNick-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
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October has been a busy month for Amy Grech! Here's what she's been up to:
Her Halloween story, "Damp Wind and Leaves" is online now at Rouge Worlds.
"Don't Touch me Unless you Mean It" is online now at Shadow of the Marquis.
"Perishables" is online in the October issue of Apocalypse Fiction.
"Drawn to Darkness" is live at Really Scary.
"Dust" is online now at Blood Rose.
"Dead Eye" will appear in the Halloween issue of The Wildclown Chronicle.
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GREG VERDINO (http://www.gregverdino.com) announces a number of new sales .
His story "The Scraping Sound," which Brian Keene compared to "Night Shift-era King," is currently live at horrorfind.
"The Theory of Cellular Memory" is available at the murderhole.
Greg also announces the sale of his supernatural horror story "The Accordion Man," set on a New York City subway train, to THE FEAR WITHIN (3FPublications), scheduled for April 2003 publication and available for pre-sale through the publisher and at shocklines.com.
Greg has also been confirmed as a contributor to THE DECAY WITHIN, the second anthology from 3F, slated for October 2003.
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Lee Thomas' story "Warmth" is in this month's issue of FORTEAN BUREAU.
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Meghan Fatras' erotic horror story "Jaded" will appear in the debut issue of Scared Naked magazine, due out in December.––––––––––––––