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Nov 13 2010

NEHW Members in New Anthology

NEHW members Eric Dimbleby and Stacey Longo have stories in the anthology Dark Things IV, which is published by Pill Hill Press. The anthology has just become available to buy at www.pillhillpress.com/shoppe-anthologies. In the near future, it will be available through Amazon.

Dimbleby’s story is called “The Iron Maiden” and Longo’s story is called “People Person.”

For more information about Dimbleby and Longo check out their respective websites, http://ericdimbleby.com/ and www.staceylongo.com.

Nov 10 2010

NEHW Member Makes Two Appearances this Week

NEHW member Tracy Carbone is having a busy week. Along with being at the Playa Del Carmen restaurant in Sturbridge, Massachusetts Thursday night for an “Author’s Night” to benefit the Opacum Land Trust (http://www.opacumlt.org), Carbone has another appearance this Saturday. She will be at the Borders Books in Mansfield, Massachusetts from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. to read from her middle grade paranormal suspense story The Man of Mystery Hill. The bookstore is located at 280 School Street.

For more information about Carbone, check out her websites, www.tracylcarbone.com and www.abbymcnabb.com.

Nov 7 2010

Odyssey: The Fantasy Writing Workshop Announces its Winter 2011 Online Class Line-up

Odyssey is offering three online writing classes.  Each class is focused on a particular element of fiction writing and is designed for writers at a particular skill level, from beginners to professional writers. 

The three different online courses cover some of the most critical issues for developing writers:

Three-Act Structure in Fantastic Fiction
January 5 – February 2, 2011
Instructor:  Jeanne Cavelos
Level:  Intermediate/Advanced
Application Deadline:  December 9, 2010

Worldbuilding in Fantastic Fiction
January 12 – January 26, 2011
Instructor:  Melissa Scott
Level:  Beginner/Intermediate
Application Deadline:  December 16, 2010

Writing in Scenes
February 9 – 23, 2011
Instructor:  Nancy Kress
Level:  Beginner/Intermediate
Application Deadline:  January 10, 2011

Odyssey’s Online Classes pack valuable content into each session and provide assignments that challenge students to take their writing to the next level. The classes provide the tools and techniques needed to improve a student’s writing. Students receive feedback on their work that reveals whether they are successfully using the tools and techniques being taught. Courses provide a supportive and challenging atmosphere. Class size is limited to fourteen students.  While courses are designed for adult writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror, interested writers of other genres are welcome to apply. 

Last winter, Odyssey offered its first online course, Showing versus Telling in Fantastic Fiction.  “The class was a huge success,” Odyssey Director Jeanne Cavelos says.  “Using Web conferencing software, we held live class sessions with fourteen students from the US, Japan, and Australia.  We had some great discussions, and the students proved that they could commit significant amounts of time and energy to a rigorous, demanding course despite the long distances.  They worked intensely on recognizing and manipulating showing and telling in their fiction and made exciting improvements.”

For more information about the online classes, check out www.sff.net/odyssey/online or by emailing Odyssey Director Jeanne Cavelos at jcavelos@sff.net. The Odyssey Web site, www.odysseyworkshop.org, offers many resources for writers, including free podcasts, writing and publishing tips, a weekly writing blog, and a critique service.

Nov 5 2010

Evarts’ Artwork Goes Mainstream

The book “It’s Okay to be a Zombie: An Unchildren’s Book” has spawned clothing, buttons and water bottles. The book was written by Nathaniel Lambert and illustrated by NEHW member Danny Evarts.  The items created with Evarts’ artwork can be purchased at the Café Press website, www.cafepress.com/UnchildrensZone.

The book can be purchased through Amazon (www.amazon.com/Its-Okay-Zombie-Unchildrens-Book/dp/0982727526/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1288934661&sr=8-1).

Evarts is selling clothing with his unique artwork through Café Press (www.cafepress.com/DannyEvarts).

According to the Café Press website, it offers the best selection of personalized gifts and unique t-shirts, clothing, mugs, art and posters. They have millions of designs from shopkeepers around the world that range from funny to cool to promotional.

Oct 31 2010

NEHW newsletter Halloween edition

Issue #2 (Halloween 2010)

The Epitaph

Journal of the New England Horror Writers (NEHW)

Dan Keohane – Co-Chair

Tracy L. Carbone – Co-Chair

Tim Deal – Director of Publications

Morven Westfield – Webmaster

T.J. May – Director of Events

Jason Harris – Director of Publicity

Tracy L. Carbone – Director of Social Events

 NEHW SIGNINGS AND READINGS:

NEHW member Bob Heske will be appearing with other authors at an AUTHOR’S NIGHT at the Playa Del Carmen restaurant in Sturbridge, MA. The event, which is a benefit for the Opacum Land Trust (http://www.opacumlt.org/), will be held on Thursday, November 11 from

5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Heske will be joined by several other authors, and the event features works by NEHW members Tracy Carbone and Michael Presutti.
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Tracy L. Carbone will be signing her middle grade paranormal The Man of Mystery Hill at the following locations in the month of November:

Thursday, November 11, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Playa Del Carmen, Sturbridge, MA
Authors’ benefit for Opacum Land Trust featuring several NEHW members. Saturday, November 13, from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Borders Books, Mansfield, MA.

Saturday, November 20, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Borders Books, Kingston, MA.

Saturday, November 27, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Barnes and Noble in Framingham, MA.

Please visit her website, www.abbymcnabb.com, for more details.

NEHW MEMBER NEWS:

From Tim Deal:

Shroud magazine is hosting a con, AnthoCon, next year. It will run November 11 through 13, 2011. This convention will showcase the creative brilliance of authors and artists within imaginative genres including, but not limited to, horror, mystery, noir, fantasy, science fiction, historical, steampunk, and bizzaro. It will also showcase the convergence of art and literature within these genres in graphic novels, comics, and games.

For more information about the convention and how it came about, check out the website http://shroudpublishing.blogspot.com/2010/10/anthology-2011-sneak-peak.html.

From Laura Cooney and L.L. Soares:

Cooney and Soares have a new story collection, In Sickness, out now from Skullvines Press (http://skullvines.com). The collection is available in trade paperback and as an ebook. You can find it on amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, and wherever fine books are sold.

From Kurt Newton and L.L. Soares:

Newton and Soares’ new novella, Breaking Eggs, will be released soon from Sideshow Press (http://www.horror-mall.com/BREAKING-EGGS-by-Kurt-Newton-L.L.-Soares-signed-trade-paperback-edition-p-21462.html). The signature sheets have been signed by both authors.

From Bob Heske:

Heske was a guest on two podcasts:

“Discussions with Decapitated Dan” which can be heard at http://www.horrornewsnetwork.net/ftopict-14372.html or downloaded at iTunes at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/discussions-decapitated-dan/id391093794 .

Bob was invited to be a phone-in guest on the inaugural episode of “Jeremiah Greer Live” (formerly “Shadows in the Dark” on Tenacity Radio). You can check out the episode titled “JGL Celebration” and dated 10.10.10 at http://jeremiahgreerlive.com/october-2010.

From Daniel G. Keohane:

Keohane’s short story, “Last Halloween,” will be appearing this fall in Shroud Magazine’s upcoming Halloween issue (issue #10). Click on the link www.shroudmagazine.com/shroud-magazine-issue-10-autum102010.html to order the issue.

From Paul Tremblay:

Tremblay had his short story collection, In the Mean Time, published by Chizine Publications (http://chizine.com/chizinepub/books/in-the-mean-time.php) on Oct 15.

From Raven Starr:

Starr had two horror shorts released in October. “The Record Shop” was released on October 13 and “The Drum” on October 20. Both shorts were published by Wicked Nights (http://wicked-night.co.cc/?page_id=200).

Starr also had Vampire’s Embrace released on September 1 by Damnation Books (www.damnationbooks.com). Vampire’s Embrace is also available in print through Amazon.com.

She also hosts a blogtalk radio show at www.blogtalkradio.com/oneworldonevoice.

For more information about Starr, visit her website www.ravenkstarr.com

From Trisha Wooldridge:

Trisha Wooldridge of A Novel Friend Writing & Editing (www.anovelfriend.com) hosts the ninth episode of the Broad Pod featuring Rae Lorie (www.raelori.com), Gail Z. Martin (www.chroniclesofthenecromancer.com), Roxanne Bland, and NEHW staff member Morven Westfield (www.morvenwestfield.com). Each participant gives their take on vampire mythos and the adventures or misadventures of their intriguing, undead icons. This October episode and the earlier archives are available at broadpod.posterous.com

From Stacey Longo:

Longo has a short story, “Good Night, Francine,” in the Malicious Deviance anthology coming out in November from the Library of Horror Press. The Library of Horror Press is a sister imprint of the Library of the Living Dead Press (http://www.thelibraryofthelivingdead.com).

From Kevin Lewis:

Lewis is excited to report that his short story “Get Me Out Of Here!” will be appearing in the anthology, Groanology 2: Monsters, Madness, and Mayhem. The anthology will be published by the Library of the Living Dead Press (www.thelibraryofthelivingdead.com).

From Stefan Petrucha:

Petrucha’s new novel Blood Prophecy was released on October 26 in mass paperback and as an ebook. It is available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. He made a video, which can be found at www.petrucha.com/BPmedia, promoting his novel.

For more information about Petrucha, check out his website www.petrucha.com.

From Kristi Petersen Schoonover:

Schoonover has had a busy Halloween season. Her newly-released Skeletons in the Swimmin’ Hole: Tales from Haunted Disney World which is a collection of ghost stories set in Disney theme parks. The collection has sold nearly 500 copies since it was released on September 30 which was a couple weeks earlier the original release date of October 23.

Her collection was selected as Scary Story of the Week by Paranormal, Eh?, a Canadian Paranormal Culture Group, which also interviewed her. She also discussed her book on The Invisible World with Frank Todara, a paranormal internet radio show. The episode (#33) is available at www.blogtalkradio.com/theinvisibleworld.

Her short stories: “Burning Origami” is available at 5923 Quarterly, “Camouflage” is available in Creepy Things; and “Jingle Shells” is now out in Full of Crow Fiction Quarterly.

Recently, Schoonover spent the day at Bristol Community College in Massachusetts, where she discussed her story “Doors” in depth with a Literature and Composition class. She also spoke to the Psychology Department’s Life & Death class about the nature of ghost stories.

For more information on Schoonover, check out her website www.kristipetersenschoonover.com.

WELCOME NEW MEMBERS:

Bill Gauthier (MA)

Crystal Bouffard (RI)

Lisa Jacob (RI)

Sean Thompson (MA)

Stacey Longo (CT)

Bob Bois (MA)

Raven Starr (CT)

John McIlveen (MA)

Kyle Sheldon (MA)

Editor’s Note:

Dear members, if you have information about releases, signings, appearances, etc. in between newsletters, feel free to send them. I will be able to put up the information on the NEHW blog at www.jasonharrispromotions.wordpress.com.

– Jason Harris, Editor, the Epitaph: Journal of NEHW

– Stacey Longo, Assistant Editor, the Epitaph: Journal of NEHW

Oct 20 2010

Raven Starr news

NEHW member Raven Starr has a horror short, The Drum being released today by Wicked Nights (http://wicked-night.co.cc/?page_id=200). Wicked Nights is a publisher of erotic, romantic and horror stories along with novels.

Her previous horror short, The Record Shop, was released on October 13 by the same publisher. According to the publisher’s website, they “love anything that takes [the reader] out of [their] world and into a fantasy like no other. No matter if they are to scare our readers or to bring their greatest fantasy to life.”

Wicked Nights is having a sale right now. Buy one, get $.99 off. If you buy one of the $.99 shorts, you will be getting a free book. All you have to do is use code: wickedoct.

Starr also had Vampire’s Embrace, an ebook published through Damnation Books (www.damnationbooks.com) on September 1. It is available in print through Amazon.

She also hosts a blogtalk radio show at www.blogtalkradio.com/oneworldonevoice
Check out her website www.ravenkstarr.com.

Oct 19 2010

Editor’s Note

I want to clarify the entry “A Great Weekend.” My wife, Stacey Longo, was with me at Rock and Shock this past weekend. She is a member of NEHW so I should have mentioned her. My thoughts for excluding her was that I didn’t want to be accused of favoritism since she is my wife. I have corrected my mistake of leaving her out of the entry.

For more information about Longo, check out her website http://www.staceylongo.com/.

Oct 15 2010

The Upcoming Weekend

The weekend is almost here; one more day. What are you doing this weekend? Will you go see Jackass 3D or Red? I saw Red and didn’t care for it. My review will be at www.dvdsnapshot.com sometime on Friday night.

There are a few conventions going on this weekend. One of those conventions is the Wizard World New England Comic Con 2010. NEHW member Christopher Golden will be appearing at the Cinequest booth with Buffy the Vampire Slayer cast members, James Marsters, Charisma Carpenter, Nicholas Brendon, Amber Benson, Clare Kramer, Mercedes McNab, Doug Jones and Mark Metcalf.

The New England Comic Con runs from October 15 through the 17 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. For more information, check out www.wizardworld.com.

Another convention is Rock and Shock 2010, which was mentioned in Thursday’s blog entry. Author Jack Ketchum will be there. He is the writer of Cover, The Girl Next Door and Off Season to name a few.

There will be a lot of authors at the NEHW table. Read Thursday’s entry for the names and the times they will be at the table throughout the convention. When you get done meeting the authors, you can always go and meet some Hollywood celebrities like Danny Trejo (Machete), the cast of The Human Centipede and George Romero (Land of the Dead). Even Adrienne Barbeau who starred in The Fog and Swamp Thing will be there. She is still doing horror today. She is currently making the rounds on General Hospital.

For more information on Rock and Shock 2010, check out www.rockandshock.com.

Everybody have a great weekend. I may post some items over the weekend. Be sure to check back for any new entries.

Oct 7 2010

NEHW staff on Cinema Knife Fight

Our very own Dan Keohane, Co-Chair of the NEHW, has a review of the movie, PI on http://cinemaknifefight.com. He is a frequent contributor to the site. This is a great movie site. I am not just saying that since I have written for them in the past. The movie site is run by L.L. Soares, who use to run NEHW with Keohane, and Michael Arruda. Check out the different movie reviews and columns the site has to offer.