Shadowed Souls

by | Oct 11, 2016 | Columns, Horror World News | 0 comments

Shadowed SoulsI’ll have a brand-new Jessie Shimmer story in the anthology Shadowed Souls, which will be released on November 1st. Co-edited by Jim Butcher and Kerrie L. Hughes, the book also features stories by Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, Rob Thurman, Tanya Huff, Kat Richardson, Jim C. Hines, Anton Strout, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and Erik Scott de Bie.

My story “What Dwells Within” takes place a couple of weeks after the events in my novel Switchblade Goddess. Jessie’s still being hunted by the Virtus Regnum, but she and her familiar Pal are back in Columbus to help her friend Kai deal with a devil who’s kidnapped his new girlfriend. This story offers readers a taste of what they’ll find in Devils’ Field, the 4th novel in the series. This next Jessie Shimmer novel will be out as soon as I’ve finished it and put it through editorial review.

My apologies to the readers who’ve been waiting with utmost patience for the book; getting my MFA degree took a whole lot more time and energy than I expected. If you’ve been considering pursuing your own Master of Fine Arts in creative writing, I’ll probably be posting more about my experiences in the Goddard program here at Horror World in coming weeks.

Pre-orders for Shadowed Souls have been brisk and reviews so have been positive. Of course, with Jim Butcher involved, it’s no surprise that urban fantasy and horror readers are excited for the book. It’s one of the most high-profile anthologies I’ve ever been in, and I’m thrilled to be a part of it.

 

About Lucy A. Snyder

Lucy A. Snyder is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of the novels Spellbent, Shotgun Sorceress, Switchblade Goddess, and the collections Soft Apocalypses, Orchid Carousals, Sparks and Shadows, Chimeric Machines, and Installing Linux on a Dead Badger. Her latest books are Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer's Survival Guide and While the Black Stars Burn. Her writing has been translated into French, Russian, and Japanese editions and has appeared in publications such as Apex Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Jamais Vu, Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, Weird Tales, Steampunk World, In the Court of the Yellow King, Qualia Nous, Chiral Mad 2, and Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 5. She lives in Columbus, Ohio with her husband and occasional co-author Gary A. Braunbeck and is a mentor in Seton Hill University's MFA program in Writing Popular Fiction. You can learn more about her at www.lucysnyder.com and you can follow her on Twitter at @LucyASnyder.

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