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... )

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... )

If there is a work of fiction you'd like to recommend to me for the Hugo nomination period, please feel free to do so here.  If there is an online link to the story, please provide it.  Authors should not be shy in recommending their own work, but please, if you have multiple publications, just direct me to the stories you feel represent your ( Read more... )