Congratulations to Mike Arnzen and Darren Speegle, both of their collections have made it on to the preliminary ballot for Best Fiction Collection of 2004. Here’s the ballot http://www.horror.org/stokerballots.htm Also, congrats to steve_vernon whose collection Nightmare Dreams and a story from it are on the ballot. Usually it’s the novel categories that have the toughest…

Award-winning speculative fiction writer, editor and mentor Lee Murray was named an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her significant services to literature. Murray has long been a champion both for Kiwi writing and for the genre of horror. She has worked tirelessly behind the scenes to showcase the quality and range…

Raw Dog Screaming Press is proud to be sponsoring the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference this year. AnnRadCon is held annually in conjunction with the Horror Writer’s Association’s largest gathering, StokerCon. This year’s conference will be a hybrid event and anyone with a ticket for StokerCon can attend AnnRadCon. If you haven’t signed up for StokerCon…

horrordiva just sent the link to a couple places where her review of Everybody Scream! is published. Check it out: http://www.gothicrevue.com/EverybodyScream.html Today it’s just been email after email to write. First I had to catch up on the correspondence from when we were gone, then do follow-up emails to people we met at the con….

I know you all have been anxiously awaiting more dirt on HF and I have been frantically working on getting pics online. I swear it really has taken the whole day to get this one page done. Here are the PHOTOS. I have to give a special shout out to blindsidepubs for the awesome pics…

Gentlemen, behold… another one of my promo shorts. This one is for Audiovile and was way more complicated to do than the rest. I’m no Brandon Duncan, that’s for sure, but I think this is a fun piece.