The Horror Zine has once again won several categories in the Critters annual poll. I am proud to have had my work published by them more than once over the years and look forward to working with them in the near future.
Showing posts with label Jeani Rector. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jeani Rector. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
Saturday, July 25, 2020
That Time I Didn't Know I had a Story Republished.
In 2019, I submitted a story that was originally written for and rejected by a different anthology to Jeani Rector's print version of The Horror Zine. It was accepted and published in the Spring 2019 issue (pictured below).
However, while being a bad boy and Googling myself with the word "terrible" in a vain effort to locate some funny negative criticisms about my work, I instead ran across the following search result at the top of the screen:
The way that reads, I thought somebody was talking about me! Excited to see what terrible thing somebody thought I had done, I instead happened upon an issue of the online version of the Horror Zine, which I'd always thought was a whole separate thing. Yet, there I was for the third time as featured writer without even knowing it. It turns out the verbiage was an excerpt from my own story.
Click the link below to read "The Time of Expansion," one of my favorite stories even though I didn't remember it when I read it :)
Story link
However, while being a bad boy and Googling myself with the word "terrible" in a vain effort to locate some funny negative criticisms about my work, I instead ran across the following search result at the top of the screen:
Search Results
Web results
The May Selected Writer is Christopher Nadeau ... more, informing him his behavior was outrageous, unprofessional, classless and, worst of all, pissing me off.
The way that reads, I thought somebody was talking about me! Excited to see what terrible thing somebody thought I had done, I instead happened upon an issue of the online version of the Horror Zine, which I'd always thought was a whole separate thing. Yet, there I was for the third time as featured writer without even knowing it. It turns out the verbiage was an excerpt from my own story.
Click the link below to read "The Time of Expansion," one of my favorite stories even though I didn't remember it when I read it :)
Story link
Saturday, April 6, 2019
Check out the Horror Zine Magazine Cover!
Horror Zine Publisher and Editor Jeani Rector decided the previous cover she was going to use was "too intense" and went with the one pictured below:
I love it but I can't stop chuckling. Only in the realm of horror fiction would this cover not be considered too intense!
The Spring 2019 issue will feature my new short story, "The Time of Expansion," an odd one even coming from me. It really shows how influential Lovecraft was on the field; no matter how much of a bastard he was in real life or how purple was his prose, the man's flawed brilliance bleeds over into modern work even when the author isn't consciously channeling him. Maybe I was channeling him, considering how ineffectual and uptight the protagonist is. He's a perfect symbol of Lovecraft's obsession with the English gentleman cliche.
It will be out soon!
I love it but I can't stop chuckling. Only in the realm of horror fiction would this cover not be considered too intense!
The Spring 2019 issue will feature my new short story, "The Time of Expansion," an odd one even coming from me. It really shows how influential Lovecraft was on the field; no matter how much of a bastard he was in real life or how purple was his prose, the man's flawed brilliance bleeds over into modern work even when the author isn't consciously channeling him. Maybe I was channeling him, considering how ineffectual and uptight the protagonist is. He's a perfect symbol of Lovecraft's obsession with the English gentleman cliche.
It will be out soon!
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