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2006
DECEMBER 2006
Carol MacAllister placed three submissions in Humorpress.com's contest. The titles are "Cash-less Finances", "Car Techy", and "Engagement Clam." Every so often, according to Carol, Humorpress.com produces a book with the winners.
John Platt, who recently relocated to Maine, sold "Wrong Place, Wrong Time" to Cemetery Dance Publications's Grave Tales comic book series. John says, "No word yet on what issue the story will appear in, or who will be illustrating it, but that information will come soon enough."
NOVEMBER 2006
Harrison Howe has a new poetry collection -- The Voice of Your Brother's Blood: Crying -- now available at http://www.etreasurespublishing.com/. From Harrison: "Click on the site, go to Enter Here, then click on the Search by Author Here on the left side column, then click on the book cover, and you can purchase it there. Merely $4.00!!
Ummm...makes a great stocking stuffer, ha ha." And, "
If I sell a hundred of these, they'll print it as a POD. So I know I can count on the GSHW folks to buy a few!"
AUGUST 2006
John R. Platt earned five more marketing awards for his work over the last last year. One of them is a Pewter Award from the Gold Ink awards. The other four are from the Jersey Shore Public Relations and Advertising Association, which he has won several awards from before.
Danielle Ackley-McPhail's novel, Yesterday's Dreams, will be released
at the end of August.
JUNE 2006
Harrison Howe sold his humor novel, As a Matter of Fact...and Fun! to Renaissance ebooks.
MAY 2006
Carol MacAllister won the 2006 CNW/FFWA Florida State Writing Competition for Previously Published Non-fiction Article, 5 HM for "Molly Pitcher", 7 HM for "Stroll The Graveyard"
Bill Mingin had his 1,000 word short-story "The Little Men," accepted by Trunk Stories.
APRIL 2006
Bill Mingin sold a 2,000 word story, "Which Leads to What Comes Next", to Tales of the Unanticipated for a future issue, possibly early 2007, otherwise late 2007 or early 2008.
MARCH 2006
Brian Pederson's story "Alive and Squriming" will be published in Cthulhu Sex Magazine, Issue 24.
JANUARY 2006
John R. Platt is the featured author for January at HorrorWorld, where his story "A Group of Doctors is Called a Murder" is now available.
2005
DECEMBER 2005
Danielle Ackley-McPhail has placed "Purgatory" in the Hear Her Roar anthology, to be published by Wilder Press (The Fantastic Book Club) in time for Ubercon in February 2006.
NOVEMBER 2005
Michael De Kler sold "Feed the Machine" to the Chimeraworld #3 anthology, edited by Mike Philbin, and due to be released January, 2006.
OCTOBER 2005
GSHW and Dark Notes from NJ made the news recently at nj.com with this piece. GSHW appeared in the NJ supplement of the NY TIMES on October 30. Click HERE to see a JPG of the article in a new window.
Jonathan Maberry sold a new nonfiction book of monster folklore, Vampires and Other Supernatural Predators to Pinnacle Books, for a Halloween 2006 release.
Eileen F. Watkins had some good news from her publisher, Amber Quill Press. Both Paragon and Dance With the Dragon made Amber Quill's Top Ten Best-Seller list in paperback for the July-September quarter.
SEPTEMBER 2005
Danielle Ackley-McPhail has had "Dawn
of Timelessness"
accepted for on-line publication starting 9/15/2005
by Nth Degree, at http://www.nthzine.com/fiction_online.html
AUGUST 2005
Eileen Watkins' new novel, Paragon, is now available in eBook and trade paperback editions from Amber Quill Press.
JULY 2005
Noreen Braman sold her poem, "Real Estate", for publication in US 1 Summer Fiction, and sold another poem, "Minetta Women", to the Streets of New York anthology.
Danielle Ackley-McPhail sold "The Kindly One" to the Dark Furies anthology to be published by Die! Monster! Die! Books. Dark Furies should be available in August.
MAY 2005
Pat Lundrigan's story, "F-Plus" was a Finalist in the Writers of the Future Contest. Pat thanks GSHW critique group C for helping him improve his story. Out of 1500-1800 stories received per quarter, "F-Plus" made the top 10!
Jonathan Maberry signed a three-book deal with Kensington Books for a series of horror novels, the first of which, Ghost Road Blues, will be published mid-2006.
Jack Passarella sold "Undead Air" (a fictional zombie story featuring real-life Philadelphia DJs Preston and Steve based on the David Seidman painting Zombie Riot) to Fantasist Enterprise's Modern Magic: Tales of Fantasy and Horror anthology, scheduled for Jan/Feb 2006 (revised) publication. Fantasist Enterprises is a publisher of illustrated fantasy books.
Jonathan Maberry is the new Executive Director of the Writer's Room of Bucks County in Doylestown, PA.
APRIL 2005
William Mingin sold a story to Tales of the Unexpected.
MARCH 2005
Eileen F. Watkins has signed a contract with Amber Quill Press to publish her fourth novel, PARAGON.
FEBRUARY 2005
Jack Passarella posted the Italian language cover of Wither on his website's gallery page. The Italian hardcover Wither has a pub date of April 2005.
JANUARY 2005
Brian Pederson's article on the new exercise equipment at the Summit YMCA got posted on their web site (January newsletter), as it appeared in his newspaper, the Summit Observer.
2004
DECEMBER 2004
Noreen Braman's perennial holiday column "Here We Come A'Caroling" won second place in WriterOnline's Ho Ho Humbug Contest.
NOVEMBER 2004
Jack Fisher sold an erotic short story (written with Monica O'Rourke) to Ruthie's Club, an erotica ezine.
Deborah LeBlanc's novel, Grave Intent, is scheduled for a July 2005 release from Dorchester/Leisure.
OCTOBER 2004
John "Jack" Passarella reports that Pocket Books sold foreign language rights for the three books in the Wendy Ward series, i.e., Wither, Wither's Rain, and Wither's Legacy to new horror Italian publisher Gargoyle Books. All three books are scheduled to be published in Italian hardcover editions within the next three years.
Jack Fisher sold his story "Boogedy" to THE BOOK OF DARK WISDOM (JAN 2005 issue).
John R. Platt received four Gold and two Silver awards, including honors in three "Excellence in Writing" categories, from the Jersey Shore Public Relations and Advertising Association at their 30th annual Jasper Awards.
JULY 2004
Jack Fisher sold "Dust Boy" to Surreal magazine.
Carol MacAllister sold a poem to Justus Roux's Erotic Tales.
Harrison Howe sold a reprint, "Drowning Sorrows", which appeared
in a now-defunct
magazine called "flicker" back in '99, to Whispering Spirits.
Elaine Tognieri's story "Jake's Place" appears in the US1 Summer Fiction Issue
JUNE 2004
John "Jack" Passarella was interviewed by CityofAngel.com about his newest novel, Angel: Monolith, which is reviewed there as well. In an unrelated matter, John reports that preparations are under way for the 2nd Annual Matthew's Miles walkathon, all proceeds of which benefit the American Brain Tumor Association. Last year's inaugural walkathon raised over $20,000 for brain tumor research.
APRIL 2004
Eileen F. Watkins was interviewed by Gotta Write Network. Go to http://www.gottawritenetwork.com/Watkinsint.htm to read the interview.
Noreen Braman has an essay published at http://www.absolutewrite.com/freelance_writing/sunflower_stories.htm.
MARCH 2004
Jack Passarella received an updated cover design for Wither's Legacy (OCT 2004), his stand-alone sequel to Wither and Wither's Rain.
Eileen F. Watkins has won an Eppie Award for Best Horror Novel for her first novel, Dance With the Dragon. Find out more about Eileen's award-winning novel at: www.efwatkins.com
Harrison Howe has a poem, "The Run of
Dead
Dogs", up now at Aoife's Kiss: http://www.samsdotpublishing.com/aoife
JANUARY 2004
Eileen F. Watkins has signed a contract to publish her novel BLACK FLOWERS through Amber Quill Press. Suspense with a dash of science fiction, BLACK FLOWERS focuses on a woman who discovers that her husband's successful genetic engineering firm is up to no good, and the threat may extend to their own children. This will be Eileen's third book through Amber Quill; her second, the mystery RIDE A DANCING HORSE, is due out in April 2004.
Meanwhile, Eileen's first novel, DANCE WITH THE DRAGON has been nominated for an award in the Preditors and Editors poll for electronic publishing. You can cast a vote at http://www.critters.org/predpoll/novelh.shtml.
2003
DECEMBER 2003
Jack Passarella has redesigned his Website, creating an interactive, virtual bookshelf on the home page, which now features the the cover proof for his next novel, Angel: Monolith, available from Simon Spotlight (a Simon & Schuster imprint) in June 2004.
John Platt's story "Alone" is at The-Phone-Book.com in text and audio (Real Audio) formats. John announced that he is now a "dot-com". His Website can now be found at: http://www.johnrplatt.com.
Eileen F. Watkins has also joined the "dot-com" crowd. Her site, www.efwatkins.com, recently launched, and was designed by Jack Passarella of AuthorPromo.com.
Mary SanGiovanni has a "dot-com" address as well, at www.marysangiovanni.com.
NOVEMBER 2003
Shikhar Dixit's story "Fishing the River Lethe" is up at Naked Snake Press.
Elaine Togneri's story "Klutzy Cousin" is up at Shred of Evidence.
OCTOBER 2003
John Platt has an article up at www.reallyscary.com entitled, "Why Horror?"
Jonathan Maberry, writing as Shane MacDougall, appeared on Your Morning Show on CN8 on October 28 to promote his nonfiction book, The Vampire Slayers' Field Guide to the Undead. (Jonathan/"Shane" will be the GSHW's November 8th guest speaker.)
Jonathan Maberry's publisher, Strider Nolan, hosted a First Annual Vampires Fete book signing party Oct 22nd at the Sabine Rose Gallery in Doylestown, PA for The Vampire Slayers' Guide to the Undead. The GSHW's E.F. Watkins was also on the author panel with Jonathan and P.D. Cacek.
Jack Fisher reports that Flesh & Blood magazine will now be carried by INGRAM PERIODICALS, making F&B available to all chain bookstores in the US and Canada.
SEPTEMBER 2003
Eileen Watkins has a new interview up at: http://writersroom21.tripod.com/revieweileenfwatkins.htm
Jack Passarella sold Angel: Monolith, an original novel based on the Angel television series to Simon & Schuster, for June 2004 publication under the Simon Pulse imprint.
Mary SanGiovanni sold "The Eleventh Hour Syndrome" to Space & Time Magazine; the story should appear in issue #101.
AUGUST 2003
Shikhar Dixit will be the September 2003 author of the month at Twilight Tales. Shikhar's story "What Would You Do If I Followed You" is now [September 10, 2003] up at Twilight Tales.
Josephine Piraneo (aka Angelique Armae) won the Dream Realms Award for best cover art for her book McNamara's Ghost, a cover she designed herself. You can view the award here.
Eileen Watkins has a new interview up at British Website Eternal Night: http://www.eternalnight.co.uk/chronicle/c27/watkinsef.html
Jack Passarella's On Sale Date for WITHER'S LEGACY is October 26, 2004.
JULY 2003
Noreen Braman ("My Mother's Table"), Carol McAllister ("FrogaMorphosis"), John Platt ("Visiting Hours") and Elaine Togneri ("My Mind.com") all placed stories in this year's US1 Summer Fiction Issue.
Shikhar Dixit's story "Lost Places" will appear in the January 2004 issue of Cthulhu Sex magazine.
Carol MacAllister was the only US winner in a 24-hour UK writing contest.
Jack Fisher sold "Under the Stairs" to the Asylum 3 anthology, scheduled for release at Horrorfind Weekend 2003.
Jack Passarella sold WITHER'S LEGACY: A Wendy Ward Novel and an untitled novel to Pocket Books in a two book deal. (WITHER'S LEGACY will be a stand-alone sequel to WITHER and WITHER'S RAIN.)
Harrison Howe reports: "I've
made four sales in the past ten days or so! Three short stories and
one
poem... The stories are going to Nevermore, A
Different Path, and Planet Relish, and
the poem to Decompositions.
All
are scheduled to appear in July and August issues."
JUNE 2003
Karen Carpenter sold an article to Strange Horizons.
Mike Penncavage sold a story to Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. Details to follow.
John Platt had his story "All Hands" accepted to the Borderlands 5 anthology, to be published later this year.
Mary SanGiovanni is the featured author at www.themurderhole.com, complete with pic, bio, story and (soon) an interview.
Carol MacAllister (writing under an undisclosed pen name) has a story accepted for the UK erotic horror antho Peep Show, Volume 1.
MAY 2003
John R. Platt has three book reviews up at Joe Bob Briggs Book Club. You'll find them here: http://www.joebobbriggs.com.
Carol MacAllister reports: "If you care to read my winning short
story in The Harrow Winter
Contest, the link is below. Please note: although it is dark humor,
you might be grossed out.
http://www.theharrow.com/2003/fiction/livinglikepig.html
In addition, Carol has an article up at WriteLink titled "Whodunit?"
Jack Passarella sold "Debts Long Due" to Best of Horrorfind 2 (reprint antho from Horrorfind.com online fiction); Best of Horrorfind 2 will be released during Horrorfind Weekend, August 15-17, 2003, during which there will be a group signing.
Josephine Piraneo learned that the cover art for her novel, McNamara's Ghost, is a finalist in the DREAM REALM AWARDS. She designed the cover art herself so, in her own words, she's "so psyched!"
Eileen Watkins signed a contract with Amber Quill Press to publish her second novel, Ride A Dancing Horse, a mystery set on a California horse farm.
Elaine Togneri sold her story "Klutzy Cousin" to Shred of Evidence. It will appear in either the August or November issue. Check the website: http://www.shredofevidence.com Also, the MWA Anthology Blood on Their Hands that includes Elaine's story "Guardian Angel" will be released by Berkeley on July 1, 2003.
Jack Passarella has a review of Xenofex
2 in the May
issue (PDF) of webzine WindoWatch.com.
The review is also posted online at: http://www.windowatch.com/2003/may/xenofex9_5.html
JANUARY 2003
Jack Fisher has sold fiction to Horror Garage #7 and the anthology Vicious Shivers (Undaunted Press).
Bill Mingin's 6,800 word fantasy "From Sunset to the White Sea, by Way of Twilight", is a due to appear in the Spring 2003 issue of Talebones. It's his 9th fiction sale and approximately his 80th publication, all told (including book reviews, essays, and articles.)
Karen Carpenter's short story "The Other Side of Darkness" will be appear in the upcoming GSHW anthology, Tales From a Darker State.
Carol MacAllister is publishing a collection of local writers' works, Writers On the Water's Edge, a diverse compilation of reprints from writers that live along the ocean from Asbury Park to Avon-by-the-Sea.
Shikhar Dixit has placed his story "The New Master" in the June 2003 issue of Scared Naked Magazine.
2002 - 2001
DECEMBER 2002
Eileen
Watkins' horror novel Dance With The Dragon is set to
be released next spring in both e-book and paperback format from Amber
Quill Press.
Shikhar Dixit and S. L. Robinson's short story "The Celestial Eye" is available in the first issue of Underworlds Magazine. Shikhar also has two illustrations therein. And if he may say so, Shikhar's story "Hearts" has been accepted for the GSHW Anthology Tales From A Darker State.
Jack Fisher reports that his story "In the Belly of a Demon" has sold to new pro anthology The Night Has Teeth, to be released at Horrorfind 2003.
Josephine Piraneo aka Angelique Armae's award winning vampire novel Come The Night is now available in trade paperback!! The book is on sale at Amberquill Press.
Mike Penncavage had three stories appear during the same week at: JUDAS EZINE , Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine (available at Borders), and Crime Factory (available in Australia.)
Meghan Fatras's story "The Barmaid's Tale" is up at HORRORFIND.COM. Meghan's erotic horror story "Jaded" was accepted to be in the debut issue of Scared Naked magazine, due out in December, edited by the talented Anthony Beal.
Carol MacAllister's story, "Watcher" is included in the Halloween issue of Mausoleum Mortises Veritus.
Karen Carpenter's column SHROUDED KINGDOM
(Glimpses of the Nether Worlds) will be a regular feature at Underworlds
Magazine.
NOVEMBER 2002
Josephine
Piraneo (writing as Angelique Armae) reports
that McNamara's
Ghost, her new ghost/Irish Witch novella, is a November Recommended
Read at LoveRomances.com!!! "5 Stars - Very Highly Recommended!" - LoveRomances.comJosephine's
award winning vampire novel Come
the Night is now available in trade paperback!
Karen Carpenter's non-fiction piece "Eloise," about the history of a Detroit mental hospital, will be in the debut issue of Underworlds.
Jack
Passarella's novel Wither's Rain, (a sequel to Wither)
is due out Feb. 4, 2003. [Pocket Star Books / ISBN: 0-671- 02482-5/$6.99
US]
As a pre-Halloween treat, Jack posted the Prologue (excerpt) and Chapter
One from Wither s Rain at his web
site. He may pull this without notice after Halloween. Anyone
who pre-orders Wither's Rain online gets a special gift from
Jack. E-mail him for details.
Jack has a review of IMAGE DOCTOR (a PhotoShop Plug-In Photo "repair" filter from Alien Skin Software) up at WindoWatch.com. Or download the entire OCTOBER issue of WindoWatch.
Meanwhile, Jack reports the following praise quote from none other than The #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of The Hunger, Whitley Strieber: "Wither's Rain crept up on me like an eerie mist. I've been reading and writing horror too long to expect to be scared. But I was very scared. Delightful!"
OCTOBER 2002
Maghen Fatras' erotic short story "Jaded" has been accepted for the first issue (Dec. 2002) of Scared Naked magazine.
Carol MacAllister has three Halloween Stories and a poem on the Larry Sells' Enter the Realm e-zine that has many subdivisions. She continues to write for local newspapers and also the Atlantic Herald, NJ's first totally on-line newspaper. Carol is also publishing a collection of local writers' works, "Writers On the Water's Edge," a diverse compilation of reprints from writers that live along the ocean from Asbury Park to Avon-by-the-Sea. Pieces range from sermons, speeches, plays, all types of mainstream works, non-fiction articles to even a recipe. She is also working with a British poet producing a text book for school children in the UK based on different forms of poetry. Many of her poems will be included as examples.
Noreen Braman has a poem in a new anthology Christmas Blessings and she will be joining other writers with Christmas gift-type books at a book signing and holiday event at the Barnes & Noble on Route I in North Brunswick, NJ on December 14, 2002.
Josephine Piraneo has a short story entitled "The Tangled Web" available as a free download at: http://www.amberquill.com.
Eileen Watkins sold her horror novel Dance With The Dragon to Amber Quill Press. It is due out next spring in both e-book and paperback format.
Jack Passarella's novel Withers Rain, (a sequel to Wither) is due out Feb. 4,2003 from Pocket Star Books. Further news is available on the Wither's Rain Web page.
John Platt's Book Tour Continues: "The first Die Laughing book signing went so well, I thought I'd do a few more before my turn as the guest speaker at November's GSHW meeting. First up, Tuesday, October 15, at 7:30 pm is a book signing & reading at Borders Books in Livingston,NJ (973-535- 9001). After that, there's one more set for Saturday, October 26 at 2 pm, again at Borders, this time the store in Ramsey, NJ (201-700-1967). Die Laughing is available from Medium Rare Books at http://www.mediumrarebooks.com.
John also has two stories available online in text and in Real Audio at Phonebook.com.
Mary
SanGiovanni's short story collection Under Cover of Night,
has been accepted for publication by Flesh
& Blood Press. This trade paperback volume will feature
cover artwork by Alan M. Clark and will be available through amazon.com,
b&n.com, and borders.com, as well as other booksellers, in October-November
2002.
SEPTEMBER 2002
J.D. Beebe has an interview with Owl Goingback in Space & Time Magazine #96.
Noreen Braman's story "Treading Water," will be part of the Edinburough International Arts Festival Web Page as part of a big arts festival in Scotland that starts August 10 and runs through September 30.
Jack Fisher has sold fiction to Vivisections 2. His short story will be available in Cemetery Dance #40 later this month.
Jack Passerella now has a few extra Advanced Reader Copies (ARCs) of Wither's Rain for "super fans" to win by helping spread the word about its impending release. Details on how to win an ARC (along with final and alternate book cover concepts) are available on his Web site.
John R. Platt's first Die Laughing book signing will take place Tuesday, September 10th, at the Borders
Books store in East Brunswick, NJ. The event starts at 7:30. Come
on out and have a blast! He'll be reading from the book as well as
signing copies.
AUGUST 2002
Elaine Togneri has a story in US 1 Newspaper's Summer Fiction Issue for the third year running. Her story "Perdition" is horror, of course.
J. D. Beebe sold
his short story "The Clinic" to the Decadence 3 anthology available
in hardcover from Flesh & Blood Press early 2003. He also currently
has one of his "James Mendham" stories, "X914," up at Horrorfind.com.
JULY 2002
Mary SanGiovanni's story "Dust
Shadows of the Dead" will finally see print in Black October's
July issue. The cover has some great art by Marcel de Jong.
Also, she has an article on the World Horror Convention coming out in the June issue of the HWA newsletter. An honorable mention
for her long story,"Skincatchers," will appear in Year's
Best Fantasy & Horror 15th Annual Edition, available
July 17, 2002. Lastly, Mary's story, "The Amazing
Morpheus," is now available in Twilight Tales' Anthology, Freaks,
Geeks, and Sideshow Floozies.
Elaine Togneri's flash story "The Food Critic" has been accepted for the Short Mystery Society's anthology Bullet Points. Wildside Press will put out the anthology and all proceeds will fund subscriptions to small press mystery magazines for needy writers.
Jack Fisher sold a story to The Urbanite. It will be out in August. The "All Horror" issue, of course.
John
R. Platt will take part in the Bram Stoker Awards Weekend book
signing, at the Citicorp Barnes and Noble, located on 53rd Street
and Lexington Avenue in New York City. Also appearing will be Doug
Clegg, Ellen Datlow, Linda Addison, Michael Laimo, Gordon Linzner,
Harry Shannon and others. The signing begins at 4:30pm on Friday,
June 7th. Also, Medium Rare Books has published a mini-interviewwith
John in preparation for the release of his book Die Laughing.
John announced that Medium Rare Books will be releasing his short story and poetry collection, Die Laughing June 15th. The final cover art for Die Laughing is in, and posted on the Medium Rare Books website.
Karen Carpenter sold her short story "Victims" to Whispers from the Shattered Forum. It will be published in Issue Number 12, due out in December 02/January 03.
JackPassarella received preliminary catalog copy for Wither's Rain to review/correct; nothing too exciting about the catalog copy, other than Pocket using "J.G. Passarella" where they should be using "John Passarella."
Jack also has two new articles online at WindoWatch.com. (These are online at the sight, and available as part of the downloadable PDF issue.) MICROSOFT OFFICE XP PRO: SORO JOURNAL, PART ONE and VIZROS (SHAREWARE PHOTO-SHOP PLUG- IN REVIEWED.) >The PDF ISSUE DOWNLOAD PAGE (1.4MB)
Shikhar Dixit received contract for
his story "Home," to appear in Catalyst Books' Songs
From Dead Singers, edited by Michael Kelly.
JUNE 2002
Carol MacAllister had some recent sales: A story to Chicken Soup For the Romantic Soul trade paperback. A horror poem chosen for The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, Ellen Datlow editor. A short story on the current issue of ETOU, titled "B-Mary Drone." She continues to write non-fiction articles for the local newspapers and has recently joined the Nashville Song Writers Association. She has written several songs and lyrics for professional evaluation.
Scott Nicholoson's novel, The Red Church, is now available in all major booksellers and online.
Shikhar Dixit's short story, "Asian
Gothic," is now available in the ROC Horror paperback anthology, The
Darker Side: Generations of Horror, edited by John Pelan.
MAY 2002
Meghan Fatras has a short story, "Curiosity Doesn't Always Kill The Cat," currently up at Horrorfind.com. She also sold a poem to Sinisteria, which will be appearing in their August issue.
John R. Platt has been invited to teach several classes at the New Jersey Teen Arts Festival in Trenton, May 22 & 23. He'll teach two classes on horror writing, and two more on mixing genres in fiction. John will also take part in a mass book signing June 7 in New York City, in conjunction with the HWA's Bram Stoker Awards.
One of John's copywriting projects from his
day job recently earned a Certificate of Achievement in the Art Directors
of New Jersey annual competition. And finally, work from John R. Platt's
day job recently received another award, an Award of Distinction from
The Communicator Awards 2002 Print Media competition.
APRIL 2002
John R. Platt announced that Medium Rare Books has put up a message board for his book, Die Laughing.
R G Evans's poem "Cinema Verite" appears in the current issue of Chiaroscuro.
J.D. Beebe sold his interview with Owl Goingback to Space & Time Magazine. It will appear either in issue #96 (this spring) or in issue #97 (this fall).
Jack Passarella has two articles online
(and available as part of a download) at Windo
Watch.com, "The
Hunt for Health Insurance" and "Alien
Skin Software's SPLAT! -
Reviewed"
MARCH 2002
R.G. Evans was a featured reader in New York City at the launch reading for Touched by Eros, an anthology of erotic poetry that includes his poem "Family Album with Nude and Chimpanzee."
Monica 0' Rourke has a story up at Fangoria Frightful Fiction.
UK's Terror Tales accepted 10 stories for their upcoming anthology, Who Killed The Easter Bunny. Carol MacAllister's story, "Bobby's Bunny" will be included, as was her story, "Melody In White," in their award- winning anthology, I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas. Both pieces are dark humor. She also won the "Laughter Loaf Contest" for a kid's poem. Locally, she has placed over ten articles in The Coaster and Two River Times newspapers on a variety of issues including, Punxsutawney Phil's appearance on February 2nd. She finds writing for the paper is rewarding: on a visit to a local museum she saw two of her articles, one on Dan Rice, (The other Uncle Sam) and one about the shipwreck of the New Era laminated and set on the shelf along side of the displays. Her piece on the Groundhog will go in the town's scrapbook.
Jack Passarella sold "Debts Long Due" to Horrorfind.com. "'Debts...' is a 4,000 word ghost story that has 'haunted' me for several years. Over that time I've tinkered with it, front and back, and changed the title a couple times, but this is the first time it's seeing print anywhere."
Jack wrote an article about his foreign translation
experience (Angel: Avatar in French) for WindoWatch.
FEBRUARY 2002
Shikhar Dixit's story "Harsh Geometries" is now up at Gothic.Net. His story "The Three Things," is now available in Dark Testamant, a new anthology from Delirium Books. Here is the SNAIL MAIL ORDER FORM. His artwork can also be found in Space & Time #95.
Sara Lessley's (aka S.L. Robinson) short story "The Celestial Eye," co-authored with Shikhar Dixit, will appear in the October 2002 issue of Underworlds. It's their first collaborative effort to be accepted, with hopefully more to come! Her poem "Understudy" was selected by DNA Publications for inclusion in an anthology tentatively entitled The Best of Dreams of Decadence, to be published by ROC Books. This poem appeared with two others in the Spring 1998 issue of Dreams of Decadence as part of their Featured Poet section.
Mike Penncavage sold a crime story to the current issue of Hand Held Crime Magazine.
R.G. Evans' poem "More Life" appears in the January issue of Pif Magazine . His poems "The Shapeshifter's Wife" and "The Dawn of Man" are available on the Rough Beasts multi-media CD from Lone Wolf Publications. His story "La Llorona" is forthcoming in the GSHW's In a Fearful State CD anthology. His story "Deadline" appears (in translation) in the current issue of Tenebres (France).
Elaine Togneri sold her short mystery,
"Dream Vacation," to Futures Magazine. It will appear in the
April/May/June 2002 issue. She also is proud to announce that she
sold her story "Guardian Angel", to the MWA anthology, Blood on
their Hands. The MW A anthology will be published by Berkley and
edited by Lawrence Block.
JANUARY 2002
R. G. Evans has
a poem ("More Life") in the January issue of Pif
Magazine Online. He will be the featured reader Saturday,
January 12 at Brenner's Brew, 21 E Commerce Street, Bridgeton (Cumberland
County), NJ (856-451-5885).
DECEMBER 2001
Shikhar Dixit's short story "Harsh Geometries" will go live on January 21st, 2002 on Gothic.net. Also, he has sold two stories, "What Would You Do If I Followed You?" and "Celestial Eye," (co-written with S. L. Robinson) to Underworlds Magazine.
John Picinich was invited by Black Petals to participate in a round robin and write the middle of a five-part story titled "The Invasion" which appears in the current issue of the zine.
R.G. Evans’ story "Deadline" has been published in France in the current issue of Tenebres magazine. Also, his story "La Llorona" was bought by the GSHW anthology In a Fearful State." and "The Man Who Holds Your Hand Beneath the Pale Moonlight" will appear in the debut issue of Wicked Hollow. And lastly, four of his poems including "Family Album with Nude and Chimpanzee" will appear online in the next issue of Verse Libre.
Monica J. O’Rourke sold a story to the Reckless Abandon antho and to the Octoberland antho.
Meghan Fatras sold her poem "Drip" to Tapestry.
Carol MacAllister placed in the Laughter Loaf contest. Three stories were accepted by Fading Shadows publication - Alien Worlds: "Keeping Up Appearances," "Berrymen of the 4th Quadrangle," and "The Edge" which will also be used on their website as a free download story. Four poems accepted by Penny Dreadful for their next issue. "Tuxedo Escape" accepted for multi-media on-line publication, The Wildclown Chronicles. Seven articles have recently appeared in The Coaster Newspaper on various topics, Uncle Sam, The New Era Shipwreck, Harry Potter, Spy House, Graveyard Artwork, Pearl Harbor, and the WTC atrocity.
Carol has also completed a 12 week session at the Citizens Police Academy sponsored by the Monmouth County Sheriff's office. It accepts 50 Monmouth County residents a year for a comprehensive course on police issues. The courses are taught at the Monmouth Police Academy by academy instructors and professionals in the field. At graduation she received a diploma from Sheriff Oxley and the Academy.
Richard Geyer has just published the first issue of a new pocket-sized poetry journal,
Yellow Bat Review. Contributors' copies were mailed out last Wednesday.
The journal is being edited by Craig Sernotti. The debut issue contains
dark poetry by such smallpress
luminaries as John Grey, Kurt Newton and the
GSHW's own Karen Porter. Future issues will include both mainstream
and genre poetry, including horror. We're also publishing vignettes
(which many people refer to as prose poems) and short fiction up to
500 words, but this is a poetry journal and the prose will be in a
support role only.
Subscriptions are $8/year (4 issues), with single
issues at $2.50. Make checks payable to Richard Geyer, and send them
to:
Richard Geyer, Publisher
1338 West Maumee
Idlewilde Manor #129
Adrian, MI 49221
Submissions are now being accepted for #2.
We have already accepted work for this issue by such award-winning
poets as Lyn Lifshin, Duane Locke and Ann K. Schwader.
IMPORTANT: we are considering email submissions
only, and text must be in the body of the message. Payment is 1 contributor's
copy. Requests for guidelines and submissions should not be sent to
me personally. This correspondence should go to Mr. Sernotti
at ybreview@yahoo.com.
NOVEMBER 2001
J. D. Beebereports that DENIZENS
OF THE DARK, An anthology of ‘classic monsters’
Edited by Ev Bell and including a foreword by George Romero, has bought
his story, “Mishcief Night”, a major rewrite of “The Egg”. It will
be a print anthology and from what he’s seen so far, it looks VERY
good. Also of note are contributions from Gord Rollo, Monica J. O’Rourke
and Jason M. Light
Karen Carpenter has had her short story "Must Be True Love" accepted for the anthology In a Fearful State, and her short story "Survival" will be appearing in the October 31 issue of Apocalypse Fiction.
Shikhar Dixit's story, "Places of Slaughter," was up at Horrorfind.
Nicholas Dollak sold two articles on writing tips to the Institute for Children's Literature. Also, his story "Mischief" was selected for Honorable Mention in Morbid Musings as well as for the GSHW CD-ROM anthology In a Fearful State. A picture he drew, called "Artifact," was also accepted for the anthology.
Jack Fisher’s Flesh & Blood Issue 8 is out now. Price $4, payable to Jack Fisher
121 Joseph St. Bayville, NJ 08721. Email: HorrorJack@aol.com
Morbid Musings is a free webzine dedicated to horror and dark fantasy. The first issue is scheduled to be posted on August 1st. This will be a monthly webzine, posted on the 1st of every month. E-mail subs only for now. You can contact her at submissions@meghansmusings.com.
John Picinich’s poems "A Pharaoh's Treasure" and "In Wellesley Wood" will be appearing in the next issue of Penny Dreadful, and "Rioja 1809" and "Blue Onion Skins" will run in the next issue of Songs of Innocence, both publications are slated for release later this year, and his "Cemetery Correspondents" is in the just published issue of MOOREEFFOC magazine.
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OCTOBER
2001
Nicholas Dollak recently sold two articles on
writing tips to the Institute for Children's Literature. Also,
his story "Mischief" was selected for Honorable Mention in "Morbid
Musings," as well as for the GSHW CD-ROM anthology In a Fearful
State, along with a personally drawn picture.
JUNE 2001
Mike Penncavage sold his story "The Horror in the Valley" to the ETOU Ezine. "Set-Up" will be appearing in a future issue of Nefarious, Tales of Mystery Magazine.
Jack Passarella’s third novel, ANGEL: AVATAR, an original novel based on the ANGEL television series, is now available from Pocket Books
John R. Platt sold his short story "Waiting" to Strange Horizons. John also sold a micro-short, "Jarring," to the-phone-book.com, where it was scheduled to go live on June 1. The story will be available to read on the site, to down-load, to listen to as an audio file, or to access via WAP-enabled mobile phones. His short story "That Old Black Magic" from the Bell Book & Beyond anthology was just positively reviewed in Rue Morgue magazine.
Ann Gerfin’s story, "The Power Of Hymn" (Jobs In Hell Contest--second place) is now up at Feo Amante.Com.
Elaine Togneri has sold her story "Punkin Head" to Demontia for their Jan/April, 2002 issue.
Karen R. Porter currently has work in LIQUID OHIO, FRISSON, and the Haworth Society’s (a New Jersey writers group based in Absecon) latest an-thology BEYOND THE SEVEN BRIDGES. She has work accepted by POTPOURRI, SOUTHERN GOTHIC and STAPLEGUN PRESS.
GSHW welcomes new members Brian Pedersen of Clifton, NJ and Meghan Fatras of Chatham, NJ. Welcome to the fold!
ShadowKeep internet magazine has accepted Rob Miller’s story, "A Mother's Instinct," for publication by ShadowKeep. It is his first published story! Congratulations Rob!
The dynamic-duo, Michelle Giles and Carol MacAllister did it again. They won the CNW/FFWA Florida State Writing Contest for the umpteenth time in a row. Michelle's short story, "Whispers of Love" placed 2nd in the Short Story section and Carol's poem, "Subway Grate" placed 1st HM.
MAY 2001
Richard Geyer has a new chapbook out, The Phantasm of Despair. Details are available at his web site.
Ann Gerfin has added an excerpt from her "Wizard's Wanring".
Jack Fisher sold work to Speculon, Horrorfind, and the Fractured Reality anthology.
Michelle Giles sold a story, "Ex-Husbands, New Headaches," to Mystery Time for the Autumn issue; a story, "A Half-Baked Plan," to Mysterybooks@about.com for the June 25th issue; and a story, "Second Honeymoon," to Romantic Ink for the September issue.
Elaine Togneri sold her story "Hungry for Love" to Romantic Ink Magazine for their first in-print edition in September, 2001.
Jack Passarella’s third novel, ANGEL: AVATAR, an original novel based on the ANGEL television series, is now available from Pocket Books.
R.G. Evans’ poem "Sweetbread" appears online in the current issue of Chiaroscuro. He will also be the featured poet at Barnes & Noble in Livingston, NJ at 3:00 pm on Sunday, May 13 (Mother’s Day). Come on out and show your support for him.
The 14th Street Y of the Educational AllianceThe Department of Cultural and Performing Arts, Wendy Sabin-Lasker, Director Why Women Poetry Series, Veronica Golos, Artistic Coordinator for Literary Programs presents: WRITING TO THE BONE: NEW WORK BY WOMEN THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 7PM, $7 344 East 14th St. 212-780-0800 x255 for reservations. Featuring: Linda Addison, Michael Carman, Amanda Blair-Ellis, Laura E. Johnston, Ritu Kalra, Jennifer McDermott, Jelayne Miles, Terri Muuss, Beatrice Nava, Lee Schwartz with Veronica Golos Music by Mudhmita Chakrabartti Directed by Kim Reed.
"A deeply felt, and well crafted montage of poetry, prose, journalism, fiction, memoir, performance pieces and music." Veronica Golos, poet-in-residence. Karen R. Porter has a poem in the current issue of STAPLEGUN PRESS, four in the U.K. publication FREEHAND and an article in FACES OF THE GODDESS. She also has work accepted by FRISSON, MUSHROOM DREAMS, NUTHOUSE, MOOREEFFOC, CARRIAGE HOUSE REVIEW and NOT DEAD, BUT DREAMING....
APRIL 2001
Mary SanGiovanni sold her story, "Who Wants to be a Survivor" to Twilight Tales. She is the featured author for the month of March there. Her story, "Pandora's Music Box" is also up at Dark Planet.
Shikhar Dixit sold his story "Puppet" to DarkMuse.com. Also, his story "Spontaneous Generation" appears at StrangeHorizons.com and his story "The Three Things" will be appearing in the Delirium Books Anthology, DARK TESTAMENT.
Sandy DeLuca's poem "Sarah" from her chapbook Burial Plot in Sagittarius was nominated for a Rhysling Award in the short poetry category. The Rhysling is given annually by the Science Fiction Poetry Association.
Gabriele A. Rolle sold her poem "Sunshine" to the special Autumn issue of frisson: disconcerting verse.
Jack Passarella's third novel, ANGEL: AVATAR, an original novel based on the ANGEL television series is now available from Pocket Books.
Ann Gerfin's bio page is now up at Chiaroscuro. Drop in to visit Ann and Tiger!
Anna Lascurian took third place in the Futures 2nd Annual Kathey Clarey "Fire to Fly" Mystery Writer Memorial Awards for her novel, POST MORTEM BLUES.
Mike Penncavage placed 5th in the 2000 Science Fiction Writers of the Earth Contest for his short story, "The Corn Bear". Another of his, "Masquerade" was a runner up in the 2000 Orchard Press Mystery Contest. "The Third Act" was picked up by Murder Hole Magazine and "It's Better in Brooklyn" was chosen to be in the Fantastical Visions Anthology.
Karen R. Porter has two poems in the current issue of BLACK PETALS, two more in ROMANTICS QUARTERLY and one each in NOT ONE OF US, IODINE, and LIQUID OHIO. She also has five poems accepted by VORTEX OF THE MACABRE.
Drew Beebe's web site is up and running. Download his two entries into the 8th Annual GSHW Short Story Contest here.
The GSHW welcomes Gerri Mahn to the group! Gerri works "as a piddling secretary for a pharmaceutical company, a part time librarian/archiver for the Princeton Historical Society, and I go to night school. I am currently writing for a web-zine, and am working with a graphic artist to illustrate one of my short stories. I will lie cheat and steal when it comes to books, so don't lend me anything."
Jack Fisher's Flesh & Blood Issue 7 is out now, with fiction by Jeff Vandemeer and D.F. Lewis, among others, and poetry by Wendy Rathbone, Carol MacAllister and John Picinich, among others. Price $4, payable to Jack Fisher 121 Joseph St. Bayville, NJ 08721 or email to HorrorJack@aol.com.
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