So I tried to post a comment here and the link icon wouldn't work.  I will take this as a sign that it's time to retire this site.  I've barely used it anyway since I finished my RoF Retrospective series, and these days I'm barely on social media at all given how busy I am.  You can find me going forward (occasionally) on Facebook and Twitter. I do ( Read more... )

So it's been some months since the last time I posted here. The last post mentioned mentioned how Christopher Golden had been nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for his story in my anthology, What the #@&% is That? So I guess it's somewhat fitting that all these months later I am posting that "Little Widow" by Maria Davhana Headley--a story she ( Read more... )

Huge congratulations go out to Christopher Golden, whose story "The Bad Hour" in the What the #@&% is That? anthology--coedited by myself and John Joseph Adams--has made the final ballot fpr Super Achievement in Short Fiction for the 2016 Bram Stoker Awards. On a personal note, this marks the first time a story from one of my anthologies has made ( Read more... )

Big congrats to Gemma Files, whose story "Ghost Pressure" in the What the #@&% is That? anthology, has made the Locus Recommended Reading List.  You can read the entire list here.

ETA: Congratulations also to Maria Davhana Headley for her story "Little Widows," which was also in the What the #@&% is That? anthology and appeared on the Locus ( Read more... )

Two stories from What the #@&% is That? have made the preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Short Fiction: "Only Unclench Your Hand" by Isabel Yap and "The Bad Hour" by Christopher Golden.  You can now read both stories for free over on the anthology's website.

So I'm extremely stoked (or should I say Stokered) to inform you all that two stories from What the #@&% is That? have landed on the 2016 Bram Stoker Preliminary Ballot for Best Short Fiction: "The Bad Hour" by Christopher Golden and "Only Unclench Your Hand" by Isabel Yap.  I couldn't be prouder of my authors, and on a personal note these are the ( Read more... )

What the #@&% is That? has received an excellent review from the New York Journal of Books.  You can read the entire review here.

I'm pleased to say that "Whose Drowned Face Sleeps" by Rachel Swirsky & An Owomoyela from the What the #@&% is That? anthology has been selected to be part of The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 17, edited by Paula Guran. Back when I worked for Realms of Fantasy, I discovered a number of stories that were selected for various Year's Best ( Read more... )

I'm pleased to say that "Whose Drowned Face Sleeps" by Rachel Swirsky & An Owomoyela from the What the #@&% is That? anthology has been selected to be part of The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 17, edited by Paula Guran. Back when I worked for Realms of Fantasy, I discovered a number of stories that were selected for various Year's Best ( Read more... )

What the #@&% is That? just got an awesome honor from Barnes and Noble, as the book has been named one of the best science fiction and fantasy anthologies of 2016.