Stories From the Plague Years June 8, 2010 • • • I’d like to invite you all to check out the new website for my good friend and amazing writing mentor Michael Marano: www.michaelmarano.com. I just finished designing it today for him in preparation of the upcoming release of his new collection of short stories [...]

The wait is finally over for anxious members of the Horror Writers Association. Late last night the PRELIMINARY ballot for the 2009 Bram Stoker Awards were announced. I am VERY excited to see that my novel Eternal Vigilance 2: The Death of Illusions has made it this far. Thank you to everyone who recommended the [...]

Book trailer for IN THE CLOSET, UNDER THE BED, the new short story collection from award-winning dark scribe Lee Thomas. Book trailer from Circle of Seven Productions. IN THE CLOSET, UNDER THE BED published by Dark Scribe Press (www.darkscribepress.com. Bookmark to: Hide Sites

Below are a few current market opportunities for writers: Bruce Boston and Marge Simon will be jointly guest editing the fiction for the December issue of The Pedestal Magazine http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/. They will be considering speculative flash fiction to 1000 words. Speculative includes science fiction, fantasy, horror, slipstream, and experimental. Payment will be $.08 per word. [...]

World Horror Convention 2010 is excited to announce that we will be holding three different Creative Writing Workshops over the Saturday and Sunday of the convention, to be tutored by MORT CASTLE, NANCY KILPATRICK and JO FLETCHER. Mort Castle has been a writer for over four decades, and a writing teacher for almost as many [...]

Anthologies are a dime a doze these days and especially when it comes to vampire and zombie short stories. However, today I was perusing the net only to have the cover to By Blood We Live make me do an instant double-take. What a clever cover design, mimicking the famous Lost Boys movie poster that [...]

At long last, the anticipation is over. The Horror Writers Association has announced the winners of the 2009 Bram Stoker Awards at its annual Stoker Banquet held tonight as part of the Stoker Awards Weekend held in Burbank, California. Nine new bronze haunted-house statuettes were handed over to the writers responsible for creating superior works [...]

**This list was originally compiled by Angelyne Bosch for the HWA newsletter.** The end of 2008 saw the release of two stories for Joel Jacobs. “Crazy Bones” appeared in Chimeraworld #5, The Rejects Issue, published by Chimericana Books, and “Night Scares” can be found in the hardcover Northern Haunts: 100 Terrifying New England Tales from [...]