Lawrence C. Connolly

Tag: fantasy

  • Meet the Gaslight Arcanum Authors @ Bitten By Books

      The Gaslight Arcanum party is jumping over at the Bitten By Books website. Drop in if you get a chance. It’s a great place for talking about fantasy, mystery, horror, Sherlock Holmes . . . or just reading and writing in general. The party in sponsored by the good people at Edge Science Fiction…

  • New Trailer for Gaslight Arcanum

    The good people at Edge did a terrific job on this new trailer for Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes.  The trailer features a catchy soundtrack, illustrations from the book, and photos of the authors. Great stuff! Related news, on November 30, the website Bitten By Books will be hosting a 24-hour interview session…

  • In Praise of Indie Bookstores

    You walk inside. Right away you sense you’ve arrived someplace special. Books fill the aisles, stacked on a combination of antique, handmade, and prefab shelves. And there’s art, lots of it: on the walls, tables, and even painted directly onto the chairs. But best of all, you’re greeted by someone who knows books – a…

  • Upcoming Appearances

    September 24, 3:00 PM Eljay’s Books 3233 West Liberty Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15216 I’m really looking forward to this one. It’s my penultimate event for 2011, winding down a tour of eight states that started with the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in Orlando this past spring and concluding next month with World Fantasy…

  • New Release: Gaslight Arcanum

    Sherlock Holmes plunges from Reichenbach Falls and wakes to find himself in the care of a mysterious inventor with a terrible secret in my new dark mystery story “The Executioner,” out now in Gaslight Arcanum, the third in a series of Holmes anthologies from Charles Prepolec, Jeff Campbell, and the good people at Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy.…

  • 2011 World Fantasy Awards Ballot

    The World Fantasy Convention 2011 will be held October 27-30 in San Diego, California. Judges are Andrew Hook, Sascha Mamczak, Mark Rich, Sean Wallace, and Kim Wilkins Life Achievement winner Peter S. Beagle winner Angélica Gorodischer Novel Lauren Beukes, Zoo City (Jacana (South Africa)/Angry Robot) N K Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, (Orbit) Graham Joyce,…