My year in 2022! (I’ll gently add that all the new works are eligible for Bram Stoker Award consideration)
I co-edited two anthologies:
– EVEN IN THE GRAVE with James Chambers – terrific ghost stories from a variety of places and times.
– A WOMAN UNBECOMING with Rachel A. Brune – a charity anthology containing horror and dark tales of women’s rage, power, and agency to benefit reproductive healthcare rights, assembled in two months after Roe v. Wade was reversed.
New stories:
– Sold two new stories & a poem, to be announced & published 2023
– FORGET ME NOT cryptid novella published in April – A monster is said to lurk beneath the waters of Lake Erie. Jane and her twin brother Rob are haunted by just that – as children, they lost half their family to a terrible boating accident. They haven’t left dry land since. Only, at the age of sixteen, they allow friends to lure them onto the lake.
But should they have held their ground? When something nearly swamps their boat, years of secrecy are swept away, and the children’s father shares their family history with the supposed Monster of Lake Erie.
Will the tale bring closure or just more tragedy?
– “The Tapping” – chosen by my co-editor to be in A WOMAN UNBECOMING – a domineering man and his wife move in with her aunt. He investigates the strange tapping sound he hears in the house, but the house is judging him at the same time.
Sold three reprints, two of which published this year:
– “Freshest Catch” in Weird House Magazine Volume 1
– “Under the Mistletoe” in Soul Scream Christmas Sneak-peek
– “AutomaTom” will appear next year in Soul Scream antholozine
And, I’ve almost finished a collection of stories to be completed next year. I mean, THIS YEAR! Wait, I mean this month!!
All in all, a good year of words!
