Member News: Spring 2020

Even though the world has been at a standstill for the past few months, our members kept busy writing and publishing exciting new work!

Here’s the latest from HWA-NY members…

Marc Abbott and Steven Van Patten explore the black-hand side of nerd culture with co-hosts Kirk Johnson and Taran Lopez in their new podcast Beef, Wine, & Shenanigans. From their Facebook page:

“Award-winning horror writers Marc Abbott and Steven Van Patten, fantasy maven Kirk Johnson and science fiction guru Taran Lopez explore and break down the horror, science fiction and comic book culture in all its written, small and big screen forms in a hilarious one-hour bull session.”

Listen to new and previous episodes on SoundCloud!

Marc Abbott also performed in the Queens Storytellers Online show, presented by Queens Theatre, earlier in May; and he was recently nominated for Best Actor in the Scene Festival for his performance in the short film Identity Check. Voting is open now!

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Oliver Baer‘s poem “Untitled #50” is in the Spring/Summer 2020 issue of Infernal Ink Magazine. One of his poems is the basis for a new song, “Shattered Mirror World” by the band Psych-O-Positive, which can be found on Spotify. The band also created a video to go with the song on YouTube. In April, Baer featured live readings of his poetry for National Poetry Month on his Facebook page, where the recordings are still available for your enjoyment.

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James Chambers is pleased to announce the return to print of the third volume in his Corpse Fauna novella series, The Dead in Their Masses, with the all-new bonus short story, “Passengers,” from eSpec Books.

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JG Faherty is happy to announce that he’s just signed a contract with Flame Tree Press for his next novel, tentatively titled The Awakening, which involves demonic possession and poltergeists in a small New York town. This will be his third novel with Flame Tree Press (Sins of the Father comes out this summer) and his 8th novel overall.

Also, for the duration of the COVID-19 shutdowns, Faherty’s new novel, The Changeling, is available for only $0.99 on Kindle. This sci-fi superhero thriller, with cover art by Lynne Hansen, was released to give people something exciting, but inexpensive, to read while stuck at home.

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Teel James Glenn is proud to announce the publication of his novel, Gaslight Magick, available now from Wild Wolf Publishing. A thrilling adventure in the world of the Pendragon Empire, Gaslight Magick asks, Would you go to hell to save the one you love? 

Glenn also has a bounty of short fiction news! He has two stories–both dark fantasies of love and sacrifice–in the new anthologies, Hearts’ Enchantment and No Greater Love: Martyrs of Earth and Elsewhere. Also, be on the lookout for “The Phantom Fear” in The Magic of Murder anthology, and “The Occurrence of the Kali Curse,” in Pulp Adventures Magazine, Issue #35.

Looking ahead, Glenn’s collection, Semper Occultus, is forthcoming from Pro Se Productions and his novel The Last Escape will be published by Airship 27.

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Hungry? Check out Amy Grech’s “Perishables” on Medium.com!

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N.R. Lambert‘s new story, “Do Not Write to Wrong,” is included in Atthis Arts’ latest anthology, Community of Magic Pens, available wherever books are sold. Her story, “The Half-Life of a Broken Heart,” originally published by Factor Four Magazine, was featured in a new episode of Cast of Wonders, a speculative fiction podcast.

Lambert’s recently published ghost story, “The Words I Starved For,” is now available to read for free at Fireside Fiction. “It’s powerful, and wrenching, and beautiful.” —Charles Payseur, Quick Sip Reviews

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Steven Van Patten penned “BANDMATES” for an episode of Viral Vignettes, starring Maxwell Gail Jr. and John Schneider. The Viral Vignettes series is raising money for The Actor’s Fund. SVP has also been writing scripts for the animated series, Extra Credits, check out Patten’s episode, “The Rusalka,” and all the series episodes, on YouTube.

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HWA-NY READINGS: Due to the global pandemic and related shutdowns/restrictions, HWA-NY’s planned readings (Night Terrors and Summer Dark) are shifting into a new, terrifying form. Ignore any howling and keep an eye out for updates here, on Facebook, and on Twitter.

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HWA-NY Members, submit your news and events using the following forms:

Member News (for new publications, interviews, awards, etc.)

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Deadline is 11:59 p.m. EST on the 7th of every month.

 

 

 

 

HWA-NY Presents: Women in Horror Month at KGB Bar

On February 12, 2020, the New York Chapter of the Horror Writers Association hosted an evening of dark fiction and horror readings in celebration of Women in Horror Month. Emceed by Carol Gyzander and James Chambers, the evening featured readings from (in order) N.R. Lambert, Amy Grech, K.E. Scheiner, Carol Gyzander, Randee Dawn, and Barbara Krasnoff.

HWA-NY’s WiHM readers, left to right: Barbara Krasnoff, K.E. Scheiner, Randee Dawn, Carol Gyzander, N.R. Lambert, and Amy Grech. Photo credit: Jim Freund.

Photo credit: Lorraine M. Escoto

N.R. Lambert kicked off the evening with a nature horror story, “Shhhh. Shhhh. Shhhh.”

N.R. Lambert reading “Shhhh. Shhhh. Shhhh.” Photo credit: Jim Freund.

Amy Grech debuted a new work-in-progress, reading a chilling excerpt from “Skin in the Game.”

Amy Grech reading from “Skin in the Game.” Photo credit: James Chambers.

K.E. Scheiner read a visceral selection from her novel-in-progress, BLOOD MASQUE.

K.E. Scheiner reads an excerpt from BLOOD MASQUE. Photo credit: James Chambers.

After the raffle, which included stickers by artist Lynne Hansen, the reading continued with James Chambers introducing the second half.

James Chambers talks about the HWA. Photo credit: Jim Freund.

Carol Gyzander read an excerpt from “Deal with the Devil,” which appears in Across the Universe: Tales of Alternate Beatles, edited by Michael A. Ventrella and Randee Dawn (Fantastic Books), a new Beatles-themed anthology that Library Journal raved “will move and surprise you” in its recent starred review.

Carol Gyzander reading an excerpt from “Deal with the Devil” and sporting a shirt by artist Cat Scully. Photo credit: Jim Freund.

Randee Dawn read “Cat Person,” a short story from the forthcoming anthology, Horror for the Throne: One-Sitting Reads, edited by James D. Macdonald, Judith K. Dial, and Tom Easton, which will be published by Fantastic Books later this year.

Randee Dawn reading “Cat Person.” Photo credit: Jim Freund.

Barbara Krasnoff closed out the evening with a haunting story, “Rosemary, That’s For Remembrance,” which originally appeared in Clockwork Phoenix 2 (edited by Mike Allen, Mythic Delirium Books), and is also included in her recent mosaic novel, The History of Soul 2065 (Mythic Delirium Books), which Publishers Weekly recently praised in a starred review: “Powerful and dreamlike, this intergenerational meditation on family, mortality, and hope is far more than the sum of its parts.”

Barbara Krasnoff reading “Rosemary, That’s For Remembrance.” Photo credit: Jim Freund.

Special thanks the sound team, Gordon Linzer and Vincent Collins who both recorded the reading. When selections from this reading are made available online, we’ll be sure to post an update here.

Gordon Linzner (r.) recorded the sessions, as did Vincent Collins (l). Photo credit: James Chambers.

A huge thanks to the KGB Bar team, to Teel James Glenn (who manned the door and the raffle sales), and to artist Kristine Scheiner, who sketched all the readers (and our emcees) during the event. (Be sure to check out Kristine’s shop on etsy.)

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Women in Horror reading @kgbbar tonight w/ readings from Nancy Lambert, Amy Grech, Kathleen Scheiner, Carol Gyzander, Randee Dawn, and Barbara Krasnoff! Special shoutouts to artistes Lynne Hansen & Cat Scully! @catmscully And Jim! Woohooo!!! #wihm11 #wihm2020 #horrorwritersassociation

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The biggest thank you of all to everyone who came out to the reading and helped us celebrate Women in Horror Month!

The crowd gathers for WiHM at KGB Bar. Photo credit: James Chambers.

 

 

 

Member News: February 2020

Here’s the latest from HWA-NY members…

Oliver Baer and The Skeleton Rep invite one and all to celebrate the release of Baer’s new book, Letters to the Editor of Cthulhu Sex Magazine, on February 25, 2020 at Otto’s Shrunken Head! From Baer’s invitation for this book launch event:

Letters to the Editor of Cthulhu Sex Magazine (Macabre Ink) is a Lovecraftian tale about the sacrifices needed to create and maintain a cult following. You can try to stave off the madness by buying drinks (we recommend at least one). There will also be books to buy, a performance of excerpts and possibly a visit from Cthulhu itself. Step up, go through the curtain into the back and join the cult.

RSVP and share on Facebook!

Additionally, Baer’s poem “Untitled #x” was recently published in the February 2020 issue of The Brooklyn Rail. Also, after accepting Baer’s story “To Chael” for Hell’s Highway: Terrifying Tales of Tormented Travels, editor April Grey picked his brain as to how the shoggoths have guided his writing. Read the full interview here!

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Check out Amy Grech‘s new essay celebrating Women in Horror Month, “Watch Out for the Quiet Ones,” on Horror Tree.

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N.R. Lambert‘s new story, “Do Not Write to Wrong,” will be included in Atthis Arts’ forthcoming anthology, Community of Magic Pens, available for preorder now.

 

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HWA-NY Members, submit your news and events using the following forms:

Member News (for new publications, interviews, awards, etc.)

Member Events (for book launches, readings, signings, convention appearances, etc.)

Deadline is 11:59 p.m. EST on the 7th of every month.

 

 

 

 

Member News: January 2020

Happy 2020! Here’s the latest from HWA-NY members…

Oliver Baer‘s story “Family Fugue” was published in the anthology, Goodreads: Best Short Stories 2019. Baer notes, “It’s a dark, sexy cyberpunk story with a different sort of tentacle. It can be read in the 21st century manner by getting the book on Amazon.”

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Amy Grech is the featured author on the latest edition of Monique Snyman’s new author interview series, Wrong Answers Only. Read the full interview here!

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N.R. Lambert‘s story, “The Words I Starved For,” recently published in Fireside Quarterly’s Winter 2020 issue. There’s still time to subscribe and get your copy of the print edition! (Also available in ebook format!)

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Coming in February…Save the Date!

HWA-NY Presents: Women in Horror Month Reading
February 11, 2020 • 7:00 p.m. • KGB Bar
In celebration of Women in Horror Month, join us for an evening of great horror readings from some of the HWA-NY chapter’s fantastic women writers.
Additional details coming soon!

*Free admission, two drink minimum (including soda). No tickets necessary, but feel free to RSVP and share on Facebook.

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HWA-NY Members, submit your news and events using the following forms:

Member News (for new publications, interviews, awards, etc.)

Member Events (for book launches, readings, signings, convention appearances, etc.)

Deadline is 11:59 p.m. EST on the 7th of every month.

 

 

 

 

Member News: November + December 2019

The latest from HWA-NY members…

Oliver Baer‘s new book, Letters to the Editor of Cthulhu Sex Magazine, was released by Crossroad Press at the beginning of October. Baer notes it is available on Amazon and all those other places that one buys books in this virtual realm.

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James Chambers has several new books out (or forthcoming), including
On the Night Border from Raw Dog Screaming Press (September 2019), which Booklist called, “…a haunting exploration of the space where the real world and nightmares collide.”

Also, don’t miss Chambers’s Corpse Fauna series, published by eSpec Books, beginning with The Dead Bear Witness (Corpse Fauna, Volume 1), available now, and Tears of Blood (Corpse Fauna, Volume 2), which will release on January 2, 2020.

“James Chambers breathes new life into the zombie genre with the riveting THE DEAD BEAR WITNESS! Weird, heartbreaking, funny, and exciting! Two decaying thumbs up!” – Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Patient Zero and Rot & Ruin

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Randee Dawn and Michael A. Ventrella are the co-editors of Across the Universe, a new speculative fiction anthology published by Fantastic Books in early December 2019. The book tells SF/F and horror stories that ask the question, “What if The Beatles had been …?” and features 25 stories from authors including Jody Lynn Nye, Spider Robinson, Cat Rambo, Pat Cadigan, David Gerrold, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Gregory Frost, Carol Gyzander, and Gregory Benford, and features an introduction by Nancy Holder.

Early reviews have been fab, with The Bangles guitarist Vicki Peterson calling it, “A Magical Mystery Tour through alternate universes where the familiar narrative of The Beatles is turned on its head. Or ear. Or ass. It’s funny, irreverent, sexy, and twisted – just like the Fab Four!”

Learn more at RandeeDawn.com.

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Amy Grech‘s short story, “Winter Wonderland,” will appear in the forthcoming anthology, Hell’s Highway, from Lafcadio Press.

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Lafcadio Press is proud to release its sixth Hell’s anthology, Hell’s Highway: Terrifying Tales of Tormented Travel edited by April Grey. Would you stop for a hitchhiking clown? Go to a diner where the coffee is literally endless? Sled with Mother Nature? Then you’re in for a wild ride with these sixteen terrifying tales of travel from: Oliver Baer, AJ Bartholomew, Edward P. Cardillo, Mark Cassell, V Peter Collins, Tom Connair, Teel James Glenn, Amy Grech, Carol Gyzander, Rayne Hall, Joe R. Kennedy, Phillip T. Stephens, Pamela Turner, Steven Van Patten, and Jake T.S. Wryte.

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The first horror novel from award-winning author HP Newquist, Behemoth, has just been published by Bloodshot Books (November 2019). Newquist’s previous nonfiction books (This Will Kill You, Here There Be Monsters, The Book Of Blood) have explored the reality underlying the things that scare us.

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HWA-NY Members, submit your news and events using the following forms:

Member News (for new publications, interviews, awards, etc.)

Member Events (for book launches, readings, signings, convention appearances, etc.)

Deadline is 11:59 p.m. EST on the 7th of every month.

 

 

 

 

Member News: October 2019

The latest from HWA-NY members…

Randee Dawn is delighted to announce that her new story, “Cat Person,” will be included in the forthcoming Horror for the Throne: One-Sitting Reads, edited by Tom Easton and Judith K. Dial. Randee will also be appearing at Philcon in November, and Arisia in January 2020.

Teel James Glenn’s Holmes pastiche, ”The Case of the Final Interview,” appears in the October 2019 Sherlock Holmes Double Issue of Mystery Weekly. Glenn also has several other exciting publications coming soon: “Pursuit of the Moor” will be in Issue #33 of Pulp Adventures Magazine; “Thumbin’ it,” has been accepted for the forthcoming anthology, Hell’s Highways, from Lafcadio Press; “Incident at the Gold Coast Bridge” will appear in the Monster Party anthology from Deadman’s Tome Publishing; and “Dream Rebel” will be published in the Alban Lake Press anthology, Catacombs: Martyrs of Earth and Elsewhere.

Carol Gyzander is delighted to have a short story in Stories We Tell After Midnight from Crone Girls Press, released October 21, 2019. She has a second story, “Sucker,” coming in Hell’s Highways from Lafcadio Press, and a third, “Deal with the Devil,” in Across the Universe, an alternate universe “what if” Beatles anthology edited by Michael A. Ventrella & Randee Dawn, coming from Fantastic Books in December 2019.

 

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HWA-NY Members, submit your news and events using the following forms:

Member News (for new publications, interviews, awards, etc.)

Member Events (for book launches, readings, signings, convention appearances, etc.)

Deadline is 11:59 p.m. EST on the 7th of every month.

 

 

 

 

HWANY Presents: NIGHT TERRORS at OTTO’s SHRUNKEN HEAD

Come out to Otto’s Shrunken Head for a night of horror readings with the New York Chapter of the Horror Writers Association!

On October 15, at 8 p.m., local horror authors will read chilling excerpts from their books! The event will include book signings, trivia questions, and book giveaways. There will also be a special presentation of a brand-new horror subscription game, The Haunted Box, with the game-makers giving demos to all who attend. Join us if you dare!

Location: 538 East 14th St., NYC 10009.

SET I
Carol Gyzander
Oliver Baer
Steven Van Patten

SET II
Meghan Arcuri
Laura K. Curtis
Teel James Glenn

 

Carol Gyzander. Photo by James Chambers.

CAROL GYZANDER writes and edits for Writerpunk Press, which creates anthologies of various genres of ’punk stories based upon classics. Her stories include a cyberpunk Macbeth, a clockpunk “The Raven” and a cyberpunk Lovecraft story inspired by “The Colour Out of Space.” Her latest short story sale is “Deal with the Devil” to Across the Universe, the alternate Beatles anthology edited by Michael Ventrella and Randee Dawn, coming out in December from Fantastic Books. Find her at CarolGyzander.com or follow her on Twitter @CarolGyzander

OLIVER BAER was the editor of Cthulhu Sex Magazine and Two Backed Books. His writings have been included in Cthulhu Sex Magazine, Dream People, Bare Bone, Infernal Ink Magazine, Horror Between the Sheets, Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase Vol. II, Hell’s Bells: Wicked Tunes, Mad Musicians and Cursed Instruments, Hell’s Heart: 15 Tales of Love Run Amok, and Writing in Darkness. His book of poetry, Baer Soul came out in 2011. Recently, he has been appearing in other media such as film and radio. He is visible using the virtual spectrum of social media by following him on Twitter @obaer and/or Facebook.

STEVEN VAN PATTEN‘s Brookwater’s Curse trilogy features an 1860s Georgia plantation slave who becomes law enforcement within the vampire community. His Killer Genius series is about a hyper-intelligent black woman who uses high-end technology as a socially conscious serial killer. His short fiction includes contributions to horror anthologies like Hell’s Kitties and the Stoker Award nominated New York State of Fright. A collection of short horror and dark fiction stories entitled Hell At The Way Station, published by Laughing Black Vampire Productions and co-authored by acclaimed storyteller, Marc Abbott hit shelves in 2019. He has been nominated for four African-American Literary Awards. His website is www.laughingblackvampire.com.

MEGHAN ARCURI writes fiction. Her short stories can be found in various anthologies, including Chiral Mad (Written Backwards), Chiral Mad 3, and Madhouse (both from Dark Regions Press). She also has a story in the forthcoming Borderlands 7 (Borderlands Press). She is currently serving as the Vice President for the Horror Writers Association. She lives with her family in New York’s Hudson Valley. Please visit her at meghanarcuri.com, facebook.com/meg.arcuri, or on Twitter.

LAURA K. CURTIS gave up a life writing dry academic papers for writing decidedly less dry genre fiction. A member of RNA, MWA, ITW, and HWA, she has trouble settling into one lane. While she is best known as a writer of romantic suspense, she has also written contemporary romance novels and short crime fiction. A DARKER SHADE is her seventh novel, her first gothic and her first suitable for YA as well as adult audiences. Laura lives in Westchester, NY with her husband and a pack of wild Irish Terriers.

TEEL JAMES GLENN is the winner of the 2012 Pulp Ark ‘Best Author of the Year.’ Epic ebook award finalist. P&E winner ‘Best Thriller Novel’,”Best Steampunk Short”, Multiple finalist “Best Fantasy short stories,” Collection” Author of bestselling Exceptionals Series, The Maxi/Moxie Series, The Dr. Shadows Series, The Renfairies series and others. Visit him at Theurbanswashbuckler.com