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Sandhya Falls, The Horror Zine's 2010 February Featured Writer, has begun an organization titled SOS: Sisterhood of Strength. The SOS aims to empower women with mental illness to express themselves through art and writing. The SOS publishes anything creative; there are no limits. All contributors are entered into a monthly giveaway, and an anthology book will be coming out in late 2010. Contributors can choose to remain anonymous, or give their names; whatever they decide, the SOS respects.
Information about the Sisterhood of Strength: The web address is: http://sisterhoodofstrength.wordpress.com WHO IS THIS MAN? AND WHY DOES SIMON CARE ABOUT THIS MAN? FIND OUT HERE. Michigan horror author and The Horror Zine's September 2009 Selected Writer Rick McQuiston offers three of his terrifying novellas in this frightening collection. Whether it's about vampires, murderous houses, or horror of biblical proportions, McQuiston does it in dark style and with skin-crawling results. Find Rick's book HERE. News from Gary William Crawfords' GOTHIC PRESS
Gothic Press has recently brought out Charlie Bondhus's chapbook novella Monsters and Victims and Phillip Challinor's critical essay collection Akin to Poetry: Observations on Some Strange Tales of Robert Aickman. Visit the Gothic Press website at www.gothicpress.com.
An email to The Horror Zine from Anne Rice
With all the attention to vampires of late, I've done a lot of thinking about my series, The Vampire Chronicles. Actually, it was never a true series, but a string of eccentric independent books involving many of the same vampire characters. My love for my hero, Lestat, drove the series, but I also delighted in creating other vampiric heroes, especially Marius and Armand. Since I finished the Chronicles in 2003, I'm feeling very free to enjoy all the inventive new material being written by Charlaine Harris, and I've become a real fan of her Sookie Stackhouse, both in print, and on HBO. But for me, the challenge today is to create a new hero, Toby O'Dare, and an angel, Malchiah, who guides Toby on new adventures as he seeks to interfere for good in various situations to which Malchiah assigns him. I'm finding angels as compelling as vampires, and my new book, Angel Time, will indeed be the first of a true series. The possibilities for Toby and Malchiah are wonderful fun. But there is a dark side to these books as well, the under current of evil that Toby must resist, and Toby's own evil past, which at times comes to threaten him. Will readers like this new series as much as they liked the Vampire Chronicles? I don't know. I know that I am enjoying writing it just as much, and perhaps that counts for something. Therefore, my new book, Angel Time, is a metaphysical thriller that was released in October of 2009. I suppose I'm out to prove that seraphim can be as interesting as vampires, though they have distinctly different intentions. Thanks for the space on your News Page, Anne Rice. http://annerice.com/ TAKE THE BLACK DEATH QUIZ: http://historymedren.about.com/library/bd/blbdq01.htm
WE ALL FALL DOWN by Jeani Rector: A gripping novel, set in 1348 England, which follows a young woman as she goes from a structured, sheltered life into one where normalcy falls by the wayside as the deadly bubonic plague invades the land. http://www.amazon.com/All-Fall-Down-Jeani-Rector/dp/1588518728
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