Home from Florida

Got back last night from 11 days in Florida, visiting my parents (dad's home and has a visiting nurse coming in four times a week plus will start having physical therapy to hopefully help with his balance and strengthen his legs.

Photos from ICFA will be posted but in the meantime I've posted a few family shots and landscapes and clouds (yup I love those Florida clouds).

More bad news from publishing. My wonderful editor at M Press, Rob Simpson, has been laid off. I have no idea what this means for Lovecraft Unbound, which is in production and due for pub in October.

Running out to do errands. More later.

Books Books Books-free for blogging

After opening my mail, I've discovered that I have received my author copies of the new trade paperback of Twists of the Tale, my cat horror antho and also The Coyote Road.
I will be giving away some of these titles for blogging (and I'd love for whoever blogs about them to also post your review on amazon--don't know if it helps, but it can't hurt). Afraid it can only be within the US because of postage costs--unless you're willing to pay postage.

I'll do one at a time and warn you all in advance. I'll make the first announcement Wednesday.

The official Stoker Ballot

Final Stoker Ballot 2009

Superior Achievement in a Novel

COFFIN COUNTY by Gary Braunbeck (Leisure Books)

THE REACH by Nate Kenyon (Leisure Books)

DUMA KEY by Stephen King (Scribner)

JOHNNY GRUESOME by Gregory Lamberson (Bad Moon Books/Medallion Press)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

MIDNIGHT ON MOURN STREET by Christopher Conlon (Earthling Publications)

THE GENTLING BOX by Lisa Mannetti (Dark Hart Press)

MONSTER BEHIND THE WHEEL by Michael McCarty and Mark McLaughlin (Delirium Books)

THE SUICIDE COLLECTORS by David Oppegaard (St. Martin's Press)
FROZEN BLOOD by Joel A. Sutherland (Lachesis Publishing)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

THE SHALLOW END OF THE POOL by Adam-Troy Castro (Creeping Hemlock Press)

MIRANDA by John R. Little (Bad Moon Books)

REDEMPTION ROADSHOW by Weston Ochse (Burning Effigy Press)

THE CONFESSIONS OF ST. ZACH by Gene O'Neill (Bad Moon Books)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

PETRIFIED by Scott Edelman (Desolate Souls)

THE LOST by Sarah Langan (Cemetery Dance Publications)

THE DUDE WHO COLLECTED LOVECRAFT by Nick Mamatas, and Tim Pratt (Chizine)

EVIDENCE OF LOVE IN A CASE OF ABANDONMENT by M. Rickert (Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)

TURTLE by Lee Thomas (Doorways)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

LIKE A CHINESE TATTOO edited by Bill Breedlove (Dark Arts Books)

HORROR LIBRARY, VOL. 3 edited by R. J. Cavender (Cutting Block Press)

BENEATH THE SURFACE edited by Tim Deal (Shroud Publishing)

UNSPEAKABLE HORROR edited by Vince A. Liaguno and Chad Helder (Dark Scribe Press)


Superior Achievement in a Collection

THE NUMBER 121 TO PENNSYLVANIA by Kealan Patrick Burke (Cemetery Dance Publications)

MAMA'S BOY and Other Dark Tales by Fran Friel (Apex Publications)

JUST AFTER SUNSET by Stephen King (Scribner)

MR. GAUNT AND OTHER UNEASY ENCOUNTERS by John Langan (Prime Books)

GLEEFULLY MACABRE TALES by Jeff Strand (Delirium Books)



Superior Achievement in Nonfiction

CHEAP SCARES by Gregory Lamberson (McFarland)

ZOMBIE CSU by Jonathan Maberry (Citadel Press)

A HALLOWE'EN ANTHOLOGY by Lisa Morton (McFarland)

THE BOOK OF LISTS: HORROR by Amy Wallace, Del Howison, and Scott Bradley (HarperCollins)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

THE NIGHTMARE COLLECTION by Bruce Boston (Dark Regions Press)

THE PHANTOM WORLD by Gary William Crawford (Sam's Dot Publishing)

VIRGIN OF THE APOCALYPSE by Corrine De Winter (Sam's Dot Publishing)

ATTACK OF THE TWO-HEADED POETRY MONSTER by Mark McLaughlin and Michael McCarty (Skullvines Press)

Interview with me by Roberta Lannes

You'll have to scroll down to see it--it's just a kind of "welcome" to my new regular column "The Last Ten Books I've Read" which will actually only include books I've read and liked!
Cemetery Dance