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The Preliminary Stokre Ballot

This is not the final ballot so NONE of the below are "nominations"...


2009 PRELIMINARY STOKER BALLOT

Superior Achievement in a Novel

AS FATE WOULD HAVE IT by Michael Louis Calvillo (Bad Moon Books)
SACRIFICE by John Everson (Leisure)
ETERNAL VIGILANCE II: DEATH OF ILLUSIONS by Gabrielle Faust (Immanion Press)
TWISTED LADDER by Rhodi Hawk (Tor/Forge)
VORACIOUS by Alice Henderson (Jove)
THE BONE FACTORY by Nate Kenyon (Leisure)AUDREY'S DOOR by Sarah Langan (Harper)
PATIENT ZERO by Jonathan Maberry (St...

Rich Horton's summary of my 2009 anthologies

Rich Horton, who regularly reviews short fiction for Locus, does a wrap up at the beginning of the next year, covering the last year in short fiction. A couple of days ago he posted his wrap up of my anthologies on his blog The Elephant Forgets

The Locus recommended list

Here are the books/stories editing by moi that made the Locus Recommended list:

Anthologies-Original

Lovecraft Unbound (Dark Horse Books)
Poe (Solaris)
Troll's Eye View (with Terri Windling) (Viking)

Anthologies--Bests

The Best Horror of the Year: Volume One (Night Shade)

Novelettes

"Mongoose" by Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette (Lovecraft Unbound)

"Truth and Bone" by Pat Cadigan (Poe)
"Lowland Sea" by Suzy McKee Charnas (Poe)
"Technicolor" by John Langan (Poe)

Short Stories

"Strappado" by Laird Barron (P...

The Best Horror of the Year Volume Two--cover unveiled

The Best Horror of the Year Volume Three-call for submissions

I just got word from Jeremy at Night Shade that we're going to do another volume so here's my call for submissions. Please pass it around.
Thanks
Ellen
Call for Submissions

I am editing the anthology series Best Horror of the Year (Night Shade Books) and am currently reading for the third volume, which will include all material published in 2010.

I am looking for stories from all branches of horror: from the traditional-supernatural to the borderline, including high-tech sf horror, supernatural st...

Interview at Vast Horizons magazine/book review of The Best Horror of the Year volume one

A brand new interview with me by David Boyer at Vast Horizons Magazine

and a good review from : School Library Journal
Prime quotes: "This extraordinary compilation can be read as a coherent, unified text. ...not to be missed."

This and that

But first, I'm home and so happy to be here. Of course, I'm going off for the next two weekends to be Guest of Honor at Aggiecon in College Station, TX and then Radcon in Pasco Washington but still. The weather when I returned Friday afternoon was a shock, even though it was cooler than usual down in Florida.

A bit of excitement taking off from West Palm Beach airport. We were on the runway, in the process of speeding up to take off when the plane slowed down and stopped. We were told by the C...

Wifi for a couple of hours!!!

I've been on extremely sludgy dial up since Saturday but right now I'm in the "Clubhouse" while my mom watched a show and can use their free wifi (which will eventually be expanded --though not for free-throughout the whole community). So I'm taking advantage, have updated my laptop programs, and am zipping through everything else.

We've visited my dad at rehab daily and then gone out to eat. He's been doing more rehab lately and working harder (although he still gets tired, pissed off, yells ...

The Best Horror of the Year #2 TOC

YES. It's done done done. And I'm very relieved. I handed in everything but the summary before I left for Florida Saturday afternoon and then cranked out the rest of the summary (and edited it) and emailed it to Ross at Night Shade when I finished it at 2a.m.

I didn't have time to post the TOC before Ross got to it so I know it's all over the web but...here it is anyway. As usual in the past few years, there were many more stories that I'd have loved to have taken, but didn't have room.


Summati...

Off to Florida to see the parents

Leaving for the airport in 15 minutes. Will check in later.

back in less than a week.