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Author:  Nanci [ Sat Apr 03, 2010 12:24 pm ]
Post subject:  Gary Braunbeck News
The name of the new episode is "April Fool." It's an homage to Orson Wells, and a tribute to all of our friends who take "April Fool's Day" too far!

I am the special guest this time around, and had a blast recording this. Please click on the link below:

http://www.dreadcentral.c...dtime-stories-april-fool

In other news I've got a new novella entitled "For My Next Trick I'll Need a Volunteer" that's appearing in the new Dark Faith anthology, edited by Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon, due out May 1st:

http://tinyurl.com/y9djl8w

Check out the names in the Table of Contents:

POEM: “The Story of Belief-Non” by Linda D. Addison
"Ghosts of New York" by Jennifer Pelland
“I Sing a New Psalm” by Brian Keene
“He Who Would Not Bow” by Wrath James White
“Zen and the Art of Gordon Dratch’s Damnation” by Douglas F. Warrick
“Go and Tell It on the Mountain” by Kyle S. Johnson
“Different from Other Nights” by Eliyanna Kaiser
POEM: “Lilith” by Rain Graves
“The Last Words of Dutch Schultz Jesus Christ” by Nick Mamatas
"To the Jerusalem Crater" by Lavie Tidhar
“Chimeras & Grotesqueries” by Matt Cardin
“You Dream” by Ekaterina Sedia
"Mother Urban's Booke of Dayes" by Jay Lake
“The Mad Eyes of the Heron King” by Richard Dansky
“Paint Box, Puzzle Box” by DT Friedman
“A Loss For Words” by John C. Hay
“Scrawl” by Tom Piccirilli
POEM: “C{her}ry Carvings” by Jennifer Baumgartner
“Good Enough” by Kelli Dunlap
“First Communion” by Geoffrey Girard
“The God of Last Moments” by Alethea Kontis
"Ring Road" by Mary Robinette Kowal
“The Unremembered” by Chesya Burke
POEM: “Desperata” by Lon Prater
“The Choir” by Lucien Soulban
“Days of Flaming Motor Cycles” by Catherynne M. Valente
“Miz Ruthie Pays Her Respects” by Lucy A. Snyder
POEM: “Paranoia” by Kurt Dinan
"Hush" by Kelly Barnhill
"Sandboys" by Richard Wright
“For My Next Trick I'll Need a Volunteer” by Gary A. Braunbeck

Next up will be the release from Peter Crowther's PS Publishing of the anthology Darkness on the Edge: http://store.pspublishing.co.uk/acatalog/info_295.html

Check out this ToC (with a brief teaser for each story, lifted directly from PSP's website):

Creativity is something like magic. One form might feed the other, providing inspiration, sparking ideas, fueling the creative juices. For the authors contained within this unique anthology, the source of inspiration was the music of Bruce Springsteen. Themes, lines, song titles . . . whatever it took to draw these stories into life.

So many of Springsteen's songs bring you close to the edge of a darkness where uncertainty reigns - a darkness not just on the edge of town but of our hearts and minds . . . the darkness between child and adulthood, perhaps; or between courage and fear; marriage and divorce; even confidence and self-doubt. These nineteen authors nudge us closer to an answer . . . and let us see what really is stirring out there in the shadows.

From "Nothing Forgiven" by Lee Thomas
(Inspired by "Something In the Night")
Long ago, you made a promise, swore you'd never return to this place. Now though, with your promise broken and the past's topography rising, they return, joining you in the car like phantom passengers.

From "Fire" by Elizabeth Massie
(Inspired by "I'm On Fire")
Mac put his hand on the wall, willing her to feel his love through the plaster.
"Lisa, let me help you."
"You? You're kidding, right? How can you help?"
Mac was taken aback. She saw him as only the cripple next door, the young man who had nothing to offer but pasta, pie, and a friendly word through the wall.

From "Atonement" by Gary A. Braunbeck
(Inspired by "My Father's House")
Don't tell me you've forgotten? Yes, that's right. Thirty years ago tonight, my father buried us under the floorboards in my bedroom after he came home early from work and caught us in my bed.

From "Kneeling in the Darkness" by Lorne Dixon
(Inspired by "Point Blank")
"Listen." Riddle said, his grip steadying Teddy's hand. A hundred invisible blades punctured his flesh at as many angles, bullets tore chunks of flesh out of his body, he felt himself crushed by stone, suffocated by linen, beaten until his skeleton was nothing but an assembly of shards. "Listen to her."

From "The Hungry Heart" by Michael A. Arnzen
(Inspired by "Hungry Heart")
A recurring snore. A blasted monitor bleep. A terrible spoon pinging porcelain.
It was an orchestra conducted by some subsonic sadist intent on keeping him awake. He clutched the heart-shaped pillow against his chest.
It was still beating.

From "Die Angle" by Lawrence C. Connolly
(Inspired by "Murder, Incorporated")
Nick took an envelope from the desk. "Call me as soon as you finish." He passed the envelope to Johnny. "I need to know the moment he's dead."

From "From the Dark Heart of a Dream" by Tom Piccirilli
(Inspired by "Adam Raised a Cain")
My father's ghost might be standing in the darkness, watching, evaluating, judging.
I bond with a man thirty-five years embalmed. It does things to a person.

From "Independence Day" by Sarah Langan
(Inspired by "Independence Day" and "The Rising')
The doctor has a Cyclops-like eye in the center of his face. It lights up white, and then red. The doctor is a five-foot wide metal box in the curved corner of the room. It's attached to the needles, and her, by worn plastic tubes that over time have turned pink from other peoples' blood.

From "Ain't No Angel Gonna Greet Me" by Guy Adams
(Inspired by "Maria's Bed")
Sitting on the back seat I scrubbed at each foot in turn before pulling on the dead man's socks and boots; a size or so too big, but nothing I couldn't walk in. Finally I popped his snake-eyes cufflinks in place, pulled on the jacket. I closed the trunk lid and got back behind the wheel. I would take the last step of the journey in my dead-man's clothes.

From "With These Hands" by Kurt Dinan
(Inspired by "Factory" and "Two Faces")
When he died three weeks later, I inherited his house, his car, and his bills. Then, like every other son in town eventually does, I took my father's place on the line, my hands continuing his work as if they'd never taken a break.

From "Wings For Wheels" by John Palisano
(Inspired by "Thunder Road")
The Angels pulled up alongside the Chevy on Mary's side. She saw Tommy behind the wheel. He turned to look at her. Mary wanted to duck down, but was so scared she couldn't move. "What are they, Johnny?"

I've also sold a poem -- that's right, a poem, me) to Christopher Conlon's forthcoming anthology, A Sea of Alone ..., a collection of poems focusing on Alfred Hitchcock's works, his life, the way his films have affected viewers over the decades, and several other unique takes on the man and his work.

Which helps me to somewhat smoothly segue into this last bit, offering my heartiest congratulations to Chris Conlon for winning the 2009 Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Anthology for his massive, excellent Richard Matheson tribute anthology, He is Legend.

2nd congrats go out to Michael knost, who took home the non-fiction Stoker for his Writers Workshop of Horror collection, a book that should be on the shelves of all horror writers.

To Norm Prentiss -- didn't I tell you that your story would win? Huh? Didn't I?

To Lisa Morton -- yeah, color me surprised -- didn't I tell you that -- oh, never mind.

Same thing goes for you, Hank.

And, finally, saving the best for last (sorry Chris and Mike, but I'm a bit biased here), I want to congratulate my wife, Lucy Snyder, for winning the Stoker Award in Poetry for her collection Chimeric Machines.

Thanks, as always, for subscribing to Braunbeck News. There's going to be a lot happening in the second half of 2010, so do please stick around -- invite your friends, even!

Gary
Author:  ttzuma [ Sat Apr 03, 2010 5:20 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Gary Braunbeck News
Shouldn't this be posted also under Gary's thread?

Good news all around!
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