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Coming up soon:
May 30-June 2, 2024: I’ll be at StokerCon in San Diego this year. Come say hi in the dealers room. I’ll have all of my cemetery books — including Still Wish You Were Here!
June 22, 2024 from 4 to 8 pm: I will be selling my cemetery books at Sacramento, California’s lovely Old City Cemetery at the Mystique in Midsummer sale.
2024 Publication News:
Death’s Garden Revisited made it to the Quarter Finals of the Booklife Prize.
The judges said: “While at first glance, this may seem like a macabre topic, and some pieces certainly frame it in that light, in other hands, the perspective is legitimately and movingly life-affirming. This is a wonderfully distinctive and memorable collection that, despite its focus, contains surprisingly uplifting moments and a deep reverence for the final resting places described.”
If you’d like to join the discussion about Death’s Garden Revisited — or even if you are just cemetery curious, you can download a free copy of the Reader’s Guide from Bookfunnel.
Available now: The ebook of 99 Fleeting Fantasies just came from Pulse Publishing. Similar to last year’s 99 Tiny Terrors, this book — edited by Jennifer Brozek — will collect 99 fantasy stories that pass in a flash. My story “The Ambush Hunters,” an Alondra story set in San Francisco, is one of them.
Here’s the universal sales link: https://books2read.com/99FleetingFantasies
The ebook will be followed by a Kickstarter for the limited edition hardcover sometime in the first half of the year. I can’t wait to see it!
I have another very short Alondra story up as part of the Ladies of Horror Flash Project. You can read “Harsh to Us is Home to Them” here.
222 Cemeteries to See Before You Die, the corrected and expanded version of 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die, will be out in August 2024. It’s already up for preorder! You can find all the booksellers carrying it here. Watch this space for release events.
2023 Publication News:
I have a short Alondra story in the new Crystal Lake collection, . The pitch: Welcome to Shallow Waters, a mesmerizing horror anthology that plunges you deep into the chilling and murky depths of the human psyche. Within these pages, each flash fiction horror tale is a haunting revelation, a glimpse into the shadows that dance at the periphery of our consciousness.
The book includes stories by William Meikle, Mark Allan Gunnells, Richard Thomas, Armand Rosamilia, Red Lagoe, Chad Lutzke, Kevin Lucia, Naching T. Kassa, Kenneth W. Cain, Tom Deady, Loren Rhoads, Francesca Maria, Pedro Iniguez, and Derek Clendening, among many others.
My essay about my collection of cemetery postcards appears in The Deadlands: Year One anthology, which just came out from Psychopomp. The book collects short fiction, poetry, and nonfiction from the online magazine’s first year of existence — almost 400 pages of death-focused writing. Contributors include Alix E. Harrow, Vajra Chandrasekera, Arkady Martine, Fran Wilde, Isabel Cañas, Suzan Palumbo, Premee Mohamed, and R.B. Lemberg.
The paperback is only available from the Psychopomp store.
Manor of Frights is an ambitious anthology that combines a vertical tasting with Clue: each story takes place in a different room of the mansion and each one progresses a decade until we reach the present day. My story takes place in the boy’s room. It’s called “Nightbears.”
Other contributors include R. L. Merrill, Sumiko Saulson, Judith Pancoast, Mark Orr, and Daphne Strasert.
Earlier this year, my story “The Devil’s Debt” appeared in Occult Detective Magazine #9. It’s the first time my characters Alondra DeCourval and the succubus Lorelei cross paths. One of the reviewers thought the story owes a debt to Elmore Leonard!
“Crown Shyness,” a short Alondra story that freaked me out as I was writing it, is up on the Ladies of Horror Fiction flash project. It was published in November. You can read it for free here.
“Far from Home,” my favorite of the short stories I’ve written for the Ladies of Horror Fiction flash project, was published in June. You can read it for free here.
“Petrichor Gothic,” the shortest story I’ve written yet appeared online at Spreading the Writers Word by way of the Ladies of Horror Fiction flash project. You can read it here.
The ebook of Death’s Garden Revisited was finally published in September. It’s a fully illustrated full-color ebook for those who don’t want to pay shipping for the hardcover.
Speaking of which, the hardcover of Death’s Garden Revisited was a Finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Awards in the Travel category.
