Dead Head Reviews was kind enough to host an article I’ve written for Pride Month, “The Animals Are Coming Out: Internal Queerness vs External Monsters.”
If you would like to read or listen to the story that the article discusses, “The Animals Are Becoming” by Chantal Beaulne, find it here at Pseudopod. I highly recommend it!
Happy Pride Month! I delayed updating for what I feel should be obvious reasons. The first Pride was a riot though and no change comes without fighting for it.
New stories:
Dream of Shadows has released their second issue, inside which you’ll find my post-apocalyptic fantastical horror flash fic, “Forgive the Adoring Beast” alongside lots of other cool stories.
Over in the UK, The Haunted Bouncy Castle has released their first anthology, Neon Horror, which is all queer horror creators. My flash fic “There Is an Old Lady Who Swallows the Stars” appears inside.
Next, Stephanie Evelyn has been running a terrific series of interviews, Women Thought Leaders in Horror, over at her blog and was kind enough to invite me to be part of it. She posed interesting questions that I was all too happy to answer. You can check that interview here.
More to come soon!
The Ghastling #11 has released with a bang! Fully illustrated, beautiful artwork surrounds each story, one of them being “What the Girls Are Doing.” Some moms can be smothering, even beyond the grave
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Check it out in The Ghastling #11.
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Coming this summer to an audio book store near you: The Possession of Natalie Glasgow, narrated by the multi-talent Gemma Amor, beloved author, artist, and voice actor. I’ll post about it again closer to release, but late July looks likely, near the one-year anniversary of the paperback’s release. It’s going to be an exciting summer!
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.