By Jason Harris
On Saturday, February 25, the Ashland Public Library held a “Mini-horror Book Festival” where six authors spoke and signed their books.
The aurhors attending were Errick Nunnally, Paul Tremblay, Eric LaRocca, Kayla Cottingham, Gretchen Felker-Martin, and Christopher Golden.
Author Stacey Longo will be participating in the local Author Fair in Glastonbury, Connecticut, this coming Saturday (March 24).
This is the perfect time to meet Stacey Longo and find out about her new book, My Sister the Zombie, which was published by Storyside Press on March 23. The book takes place in Glastonbury.
The Welles-Turner Memorial Library’s Local author fair will be taking place in the Community Center’s Community Room from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m.
The Riverfront Community Center is located at 300 Welles Street in Glastonbury. The RCC has plenty of off-street parking with spaces on either side of the building.
The Em-Dashes (from left to right): authors Melissa Crandall, Stacey Longo, Terry George, John Valeri, and Dan Foley.
The Em-Dashes, a writer’s group in Connecticut, read together for the first time at the Manchester library on Oct. 28. The group’s members are Melissa Crandall, Stacey Longo, Terry George, John Valeri, and Dan Foley Most of them read from their stories that will be included in a collection to be published by Books & Boos Press next September.
Author Stacey Longo.
Author Terry George.
Author John Valeri.
Author Dan Foley.
The Em-Dashes, a Connecticut writer’s group, will be reading original stories at the Whiton Memorial Library in Manchester, Connecticut from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 28.
The members of the Em-Dashes are Stacey Longo, John Valeri, Dan Foley and Ryanne Strong (Terry George). With Halloween this weekend, it’s the perfect time to listen to four Connecticut authors read four scary stories that are perfect for this time of year.
Check out the event’s Facebook page here.
The Wilton Memorial Library is located at 100 N Main St. in Manchester, Connecticut.
Author Christopher Golden, the organizer of the event at the ACT Theatre in Andover, MA.
The Childhood Horrors panel: (from left to right) authors Thomas Sniegoski, Mallory O’Meara, Paul Tremblay, Scott Goudsward, and Holly Newstein Hautala.
The Seize the Night: New Tales of Vampiric Horror panel: (From left to right) authors Christopher Golden, Dana Cameron, Leigh Perry, Rio Youers, and John Langan.
The New England Horror Tradition panel: (left to right) authors Jason Ciaramella, Caitlin Kittredge, Jack M. Haringa, John M. Mcllveen, and Glenn Chadbourne.
The Anatomy of Horror: What is Scary? panel: (left to right) authors Errick Nunnally, Myke Cole, Sarah Langan, and Kelly Link.
We Get the Horror We Deserve panel: (left to right) authors Mary SanGiovanni, Brian Keene, Joe Hill, director/writer Izzy Lee, and Bracken MacLeod.
Writer/Director Izzy Lee holding her short film, “Innsmouth.”
Author Leigh Perry/Toni L.P. Kelner.
Me with author Joe Hill.
Authors Brian Keene and Mary SanGiovanni.
Books & Boos Press has debuted the cover for Insanity Tales II: The Sense of Fear. The cover plays off of the eye theme from the original Insanity Tales anthology cover. Both covers were created by artist Melinda Phillips.
Insanity Tales II: The Sense of Fear will debut in early October. According to Stacey Harris, co-owner of Books & Boos Press, she hopes to have copies of the new anthology to join the first one at their table at Rock & Shock. Two of the authors, Stacey Longo and Rob Smales, will be on hand during the convention to sign copies.
The collection features eleven stories from six of New England’s finest storytellers. David Daniel, Stacey Longo, Dale T. Phillips, Rob Smales, and Ursula Wong each have two short stories in the book; Vlad V. contributed a novella. Multiple Bram Stoker winner Joe McKinney (Crooked House, Plague of the Undead) wrote the foreword.
The book is a themed anthology: each author based their stories on different senses, going beyond the traditional (sight, smell, hearing, touch, and taste) to elements such as a sense of doom, of powerlessness to control the future, and a sense of false hope.
The anthology is the second installment from Books & Boos Press. Insanity Tales debuted in October 2014.
Books & Boos Press first came on the publishing scene in 2013 with the publication of Secret Things: Twelve Tales to Terrify by Stacey Longo. This collection of wickedly entertaining stories will compel you to lock the doors, keep the lights on, and ponder what it might be like to embrace the darker side of human nature. Everybody has secrets. Sometimes they can kill you. These twelve stories will have you wanting more from this author. In 2014, two of Longo’s stories were included in the anthology, Insanity Tales. This anthology also includes works by Dale T. Philips, Vlad V., and Ursula Wong.
In 2015, this Connecticut based press published My Mom has MS by Longo in February and Where Spiders Fear to Spin by Peter N. Dudar in May. Dudar is a Bram Stoker Award® Finalist. Acclaimed artist Morbideus Wolfgang Goodell illustrated the book.
These books will be available at the Books & Boos table at Connecticut Horrorfest this Saturday in Danbury, CT. Longo will also be on-hand to sign her books.
Books & Boos Press announced in June that they will be publishing works by Dan Foley and Rob Smales. This is a press to keep your eye on in the future.
Author Stacey Longo.
Great Old Ones Publishing.
Author Kevin Lucia.
Author Rob Smales.
The State of the Union for Speculative Fiction and Art Panel.
Author Kevin Lucia introducing four authors who were going to read from their work.
Author M.J. Preston.
Author Gene O’Neill’s Autobiography in Fiction panel.
Author and AnthoCon organizer Tim Deal giving the convention’s closing remarks.
Authors Peter N. Dudar and L.L. Soares.
The Business Savvy: Understanding Contracts/Preventing Exploitation panel.
AnthoCon’s Dealer Room.
The Macabre Maine, a publishing project, table.
From left to right: Artist Morbideus Wolfgang Goodell and authors Stacey Longo, Peter N. Dudar, L.L. Soares, and Kristi Petersen Schoonover at the Books & Boos table.
Carl G. and Philip Perron of Great Old Ones Publishing.
The Shock Totem table.
Author T.T. Zuma.
Author Holly Newstein.
Artist Morbideus Wolfgang Goodell and author Stacey Longo.
Author James A. Moore.
New England Horror Writers.
Books & Boos Press is proud to announce the release of Where Spiders Fear to Spin, the terrifying new novella from Bram Stoker Award® Finalist Peter N. Dudar. Acclaimed artist Morbideus Wolfgang Goodell illustrated the book.
Where Spiders Fear to Spin tells the tale of former soap opera star Sadie Mills, a woman literally haunted by her past whose final days are filled with horror. Her daughter resents taking care of her, her former lovers are dying off one by one, and her dead husband’s vengeful ghost has returned from the dead to drag her to hell.
We’ll be celebrating the release of the book at Anthocon in Portsmouth, New Hampshire (www.anthocon.com), June 5–7, 2015. Both Dudar and Goodell will be available on Saturday, June 6, at the Books & Boos’ tables to sign copies of the novella.
The book is available in paperback or e-book wherever books are sold. Visit one of these links to buy your copy today!
Amazon:
Paperback: http://tinyurl.com/spiderspaperback
Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/spidersebook
Barnes & Noble:
http://tinyurl.com/spidersbandn
Review copies are available upon request. Contact Stacey Harris at stacey@booksandboos.com.
Authors Dale T. Phillips, Vlad V., Ursula Wong, and Stacey Longo at the Books & Boos‘ tables.
Convention attendees playing video games on the big screen.
From left to right: Emily Drouin, an illustrator, comic book artist, caricaturist, and painter and Jeremy Drouin, writer.
Jason Voorhees from Jason X.
The Writing, Editing, and Collaborating on a Book Panel: authors David Daniel, Dale T. Phillips, Stacey Longo, and Vlad V., the authors in the collection, Insanity Tales, published by Books and Boos Press. Photo by Jason Rivers.
The Two Jasons. Jason Voorhees and Jason Rivers.
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