I am so honored to receive the Horror Writers Association’s Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in an Anthology for DISCONTINUE IF DEATH ENSUES: TALES FROM THE TIPPING POINT (Flame Tree Publishing) along with my co-editor, Anna Taborska.

It’s an anthology that is very meaningful to me. We five authors—Carol Gyzander, Lee Murray, Cindy O’Quinn, Anna Taborska, and Kyla Lee Ward—were fellow nominees for the 2021 Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a Short Story—the first time in HWA history that all the nominees in a category were women!

We dubbed ourselves the Sisters of Foreboding since we share a similar approach to writing women’s stories, and became like sisters as we worked together to address some difficult topics in this anthology. When abuse of the environment and of women reaches a tipping point, changes and mutations occur, with a shift in the power dynamic.

Our anthology offers horror about women’s issues—written by women. Fifteen horror stories and five poems, set in our home countries all around the world: the US, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Edited by Carol Gyzander and Anna Taborska, with artwork by Lynne Hansen.

I am so grateful to Flame Tree Publishing for backing this work and making it part of the new Flame Tree Publishing Beyond & Within series. Many thanks to them and to the folks who have been so supportive!

The book is available at Flame Tree Publishing.