If you’re in the Portland, ME are tomorrow, join me (in the audience!) to celebrate the launch of my friend, Renee S. DeCamillis‘s debut novel Chisel the Bone. The event is at Novel Book Bar & Cafe at 7pm. The link to the Facebook event is https://www.facebook.com/events/1006183800803693!
I will be attending Christopher Golden’s House of Last Resort Weekend this weekend starting Friday! You can find out more at the link below!
Tina Connolly has rebuilt her Toasted Cake podcast website! Here’s her fantastic performance of Sermon from New London if you missed it the first time: https://www.toastedcake.com/home/season-6-2018-2019/198-sermon-from-new-london
It’s very sweary! (That’s on me, not Tina!)
Under Her Eye (in which I have a poem) edited by Lee Murray and Lindy Ryan is out today from Black Spot Books! Cover by Lynne Hansen and produced in partnership with The Pixel Project.
As always, the Halloween season was a busy one for me. Here’s a wrap-up of last week now I’ve had time to breathe a little.
On Saturday, I had the pleasure of being a co-panelist on the inimitable Lovecraft eZine Podcast where Mike Davis and I interviewed Matt Maxwell, the author of The Queen of No Tomorrows. We were also joined by author, Tom Lucas. Here’s the episode:
On Monday, members of my writing group, the Tuesday Mayhem Society, Peter N. Dudar, Morgan Sylvia and I, went up to Orono, Maine to do an event at the Fogler Library at the University of Maine. We had a fantastic time. We can’t thank the library staff and audience members enough for such a magical (and spooky) time. Here’s the fantastic poster that was around campus:
On the way back, we hung out outside some guy’s house (see photo below taken on night mode in the pitch dark):
On the day itself, I took part in my second Infernal Salon, hosted by the lovely C.S.E. Cooney and Carlos Hernandez, and streamed on Twitch by Arvan Eleron. For Halloween, it was suitably scary for participants, as they wrote and read pieces LIVE based on prompts from the hosts’ tabletop rpg Negocios Infernales (which you can still back on Kickstarter). Here’s the list of the intrepid Salon-ers:
You can watch the salon here:
Finally, also on Halloween, I got some very exciting news about a short fiction sale. I can’t talk about it for a long while yet, but it is a real check off the dream list!
Contributor copy day! Tried to take a fancy picture but Hamlet kept photo bombing it! Thank you to Lindy Ryan, Lee Murray, and Black Spot Books. Cover art and fantastic kimono by Lynne Hansen! This book is produced in partnership with The Pixel Project, a global non-profit organization focused on ending violence against women globally.
In two weeks, I will be at the Merrimack Valley Halloween Festival along with a whole slew of horror writers. Come at say hello!
Saturday, October 14, 2023 at Haverhill Public Library
https://www.facebook.com/MVHBF
If you’re a Horror Writers Association member, check out the new newsletter that just dropped in your email. I’m featured in The Seers Table article. Thank you so much to Linda D. Addison for recommending me!
The weekend after that, I will be at Camp Necon. Again, if you’re there, please say hello! I’m only doing one panel at this one, but I will be selling books at the meet the authors party.
Emma J. Gibbon 