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Just found out that I won my first ever writing grant! I'm one of the recipients of a 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Writers Grant! The lineup is pretty amazing and I'm thrilled to have my queer horror project selected for this. Big thank you shoutout to LOHF, the grant funders and the judges and HUGE congrats to the other winners!

What queer horror project, you ask? Lo, these many years ago, I wrote an essay on queer horror for Nightmare Magazine's Queers Destroy Horror and I've been wanting to go back and do more with it and write something a tad more comprehensive about queer horror. And now I'm motivated and funded! :-D

EDITED to add: Oh yeah, and I finally got a job offer so I start a new gig in a week and half! It is another contract, so I may be out looking in a few months, but we'll see how it goes.

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Seeing as all the cool kids are doing it.

Eligible for short fiction awards:
"Preserves" (sf/horror)
"Miss Lucy's Glass" (horror)
"Duchess" (horror)
"Cherubim" (horror), all in Unfinished Business: Tales of the Dark Fantastic

"Lost Girl" (horror) - Fireside Magazine
"Hunger" (horror) - American Monsters Part 2 edited by
Margrét Helgadóttir (Fox Spirit Books)

Horror is often eligible for fantasy awards, for what that's worth. My favorites in here are "Preserves," "Lost Girl" and "Hunger."

Queen of Swords Press:
"Wireless" by Alex Acks is eligible for novella length awards; the other stories in Wireless and More Steam-Powered Adventures are reprints and not eligible. It's already on the Nebula Reading List so if you're a SFWA member, maybe check it out?

Wireless is currently up for the Midwest Book Awards and the Colorado Book Awards.
Unfinished Business is up for the new Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards and the Midwest Book Awards.

Thanks for considering!




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Way back in October when I was Editor Guest of Honor at Arcana 45, I cranked out a brand shiny new Gothic ghost story so I'd have something to read to the nice folks who came to my reading at DreamHaven and at the con. It's called "A Splash of Crimson" and it features a governess with an active imagination and a perhaps injudicious fondness for her deceased mistress.  Today, I'm very pleased to announce that editor Kate Laity has accepted it for the Fox Spirit Books anthology Respectable Horror, thereby finally making a Respectable Horror Author of me! <g> At any rate, the line up looks great and I thrilled to be a part of it. Not sure of the release date but I'll pass it along when I find out.
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 The mostly complete TOC for Queers Destroy Horror has been released and it includes my essay, "Creatures of the Night: A Brief History of Queer Horror." πŸ˜ƒπŸ˜ƒπŸ˜ƒ
http://www.destroysf.com/queers-destroy-horror/
It will be out in October, 2015, as a special issue of Nightmare Magazine. That'll be the same month as my appearances at Sirens Con and as Editor GOH at Arcana 45, which makes it extra cool.

Queers Destroy Horror!
Preliminary Table of Contents

Original Fiction

  • Golden Hair, Red Lips — Matthew Bright
  • Dispatches from a Hole in the World — Sunny Moraine
  • The Lord of Corrosion — Lee Thomas
  • Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers — Alyssa Wong

Reprint Fiction*

  • Bayou de la Mère — Poppy Z. Brite
  • Alien Jane — Kelley Eskridge
  • Rats Live on No Evil Star — Caitlín R. Kiernan

Reprint Poetry

  • The Skin-Walker’s Wife by Lisa M. Bradley
  • No Poisoned Comb — Amal El-Mohtar
  • The Rotten Leaf Cantata — Rose Lemberg
  • On Moving Into Your New Home — Brit Mandelo
  • Flourless Devil’s Food — Shweta Narayan
  • In Memoriam — W. H. Pugmire
  • Worm and Memory — Lucy A. Snyder

Nonfiction

  • Roundtable Interview with Meghan McCarron, Brit Mandelo, Rahul Kanakia, and Carrie Cuinn — Megan Arkenberg
  • Creatures of the Night: A Short History of Queer Horror — Catherine Lundoff
  • The H Word: A Good Story — Lucy A. Snyder
  • The Language of Hate — Sigrid Ellis
  • Slush Pile Politics — Michael Matheson
  • [more forthcoming]

Author Spotlights

  • [forthcoming]

Illustrators

  • A.J. Jones (Cover**)
  • Elizabeth Leggett (Dispatches from a Hole in the World)
  • Cory Skerry (Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers)
  • Eliza Gauger (Lord of Corrosion)
  • KG Schmidt (Golden Hair, Red Lips)

* There are only three reprints listed here because late in the process we had the opportunity to include an additional original story by an author we’re pretty excited about including. But since it was very late in the process we weren’t sure if it would work out deadline-wise. So if the author is able to finish the story, we’ll include a fifth original story; otherwise, we’ll add a fourth reprint.

** Note the pre-order cover displayed here is not A.J. Jones’s cover. It’s just a placeholder while the original artwork is being created and finalized.

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