It’s been a long time coming, but Not Just a Pretty Face is out today from Dead Light Publishing. All women, all horror.
My story “Fitting Room for Two” follows a strange discovery in a Manhattan clothing boutique in the 1930s. It was written around the time of An Invitation to Darkness, when I tried to match style to time period, so it may seem odd from my usual, but the horror is fresh meat.
Flash fiction Friday!
Over at The Arcanist, “Jormungandr’s Dance” tells of a city under attack and a man eager to save his girlfriend, but … it’s complicated.
In a rare instance of punctuality this year, I’m posting about a release on release day. Can you imagine?
Today Red Room Press releases The Year’s Best Hardcore Horror, Volume 5: Going Global, a stunning anthology of 2019’s hardest hitting, most gruesome, and darkest horror short stories. My flash fiction “Feast for Small Pieces” is the first story you’ll see inside, followed by a host of wonderful horror.
This is the first time one of my works has been included in any Best of anthology, so it’s extra special to me for that. Available in ebook and paperback, with an audiobook on the way!
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had the great pleasure of appearing on This Is Horror Award-winning podcast Ladies of the Fright for their 54th episode. We talked early days of writing, Rewind or Die, storytelling, nostalgia, and much more!
We also spoil the hell out of The Possession of Natalie Glasgow from 46:00 to 58:00. This is territory I haven’t crossed anywhere else, so if you’ve read it, don’t hesitate.
(I had some technical difficulties, so I apologize that my voice sounds muffled, distant, and overall not great, but Lisa and McKenzie made it all work!)
Time is so strange that months ahead of the standard edition, a special edition of Not All Monsters has released from Rooster Republic via Strangehouse Books!
Get the special illustrated edition in paperback or hardcover here!
My story of a school reunion gone wrong, “Without a Face,” joins stories by some of horror’s fiercest women writing today, an anthology of the monstrous feminine edited by the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Devil’s Dreamland, Sara Tantlinger.
A standard, non-illustrated edition will release in October, but this version is out now.
Welcome to April, our latest geological era of 2020, and I have a new story out! A flash fiction of post-apocalyptic folk horror, “Endless Parade,” is up on Flash Fiction Online.
In less new news, but still new-ish, my LGBT Gothic horror story An Invitation to Darkness, published as a standalone novelette in digital form by Demain Publishing in September 2019, is now in paperback! With the worldwide paper/publishing situation as it is, I’m not sure how availability will be, but it is there. It exists!
I have a new horror flash fic over at Dream of Shadows. You can read “All the Hated Creatures” right now, and then imagine what it’s like to be loved by beautiful, prismatic Aartaan of the Nine Sky-Worms.
I am once more a little late on the update. I was fortunate to be interviewed twice more for Women in Horror Month.
First, Sonora Taylor interviewed me for her blog! We talked The Possession of Natalie Glasgow, LGBTQ+ horror, and more!
Then Brennan LaFaro interviewed me at Dead Head Reviews! We talked novella reinvention, cinematic horror, and more!
Bronzeville Books has released a new anthology, Twisted Love, stuffed with tales of affection gone wrong. Plenty of fantastic authors on this TOC!
My story tackles glamor, ambition, and puts a critical eye to how adolescent girls are cast in ominous shadows. Check out “Candyland” in Twisted Love.
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Small update, for those who want to support indie bookstores, here are links to my available novellas on Bookshop.org: The Possession of Natalie Glasgow and Benny Rose, the Cannibal King.
Curious about Benny Rose, the Cannibal King? My writing process? The ghosts of my hometown? Hints of what’s to come in The Verses of Aeg?
I talk these topics and many more with Shane, Laurel, and Rich on the Ink Heist Podcast Episode 2.07 – Journey to the Weird Places with Hailey Piper. You can listen their web site, or click the link on their page that’ll take you to Spotify.