Lawrence C. Connolly

Tag: Horror Writers Association

  • Communing with the Masters

    It’s about community, not competition. A number of people have submitted emails in response to the news post I put up yesterday, and some have asked about the meaning of the Dante quote: e più d’onore ancora assai mi fenno, ch’e’ sì mi fecer de la loro schiera . . . The lines are from…

  • Beyond the Walls of Horror

    Horror isn’t a genre. It’s an ingredient. A seasoning. Such things have been pointed out before, most notably by Douglas Winter in Revelations (1997), but a quick look at this year’s Bram Stoker Award™ Preliminary Ballot shows that it bears repeating. This year the short-fiction jury has selected three strong works from mainstream publications, Ramona…

  • HWA Announces 2011 Bram Stoker Award™ Preliminary Ballot

    NOVEL: RECS: ◦Lamberson, Greg — Cosmic Forces ◦Longfellow, Ki — Houdini Heart ◦Malfi, Ronald — Floating Staircase ◦O’Neill, Gene — Not Fade Away ◦Warner, Matthew — Blood Born JURY: ◦Conlon, Christopher — A Matrix Of Angels ◦Dunbar, Robert — Willy ◦McKinney, Joe — Flesh Eaters ◦Oliver, Reggie — Dracula Papers, Book 1: The Scholar’s Tale…

  • The Writer & Social Media

      Virtual Panel: Robert, J. Sawyer, Jonathan Maberry, Heidi Ruby Miller, Matt Schwartz, S. J. Browne, Jon Sprunk This summer I’ve moderated two panels on social media. The first was at last month’s Bram Stoker Weekend in New York. The second was this month at Confluence in Pittsburgh. Both panels considered how social media can…

  • Book Miles

    So here’s a question: how important are live events in the marketing of books? I trust everyone reading this blog is a book reader and buyer, and many of you are writers as well. So what do you think? Do the wonders of Social Media make is possible for a writer to rely on virtual…