Houarner is a smart, intelligent
talent who has a gift for writing with serene beauty
about the most atrocious things.
Ed Bryant, Locus |
"...a writer
to keep an eye on."
Ellen Datlow, ed., 10th Annual Year's Best Fantasy
and Horror "One
thing is clear -- reading one Houarner story does not,
necessarily, prepare you for the next."
Algis Budrys, editor of Tomorrow SF, author of Rogue
Moon, Hard Landing, Who?
"...the raw power and depth
of his imagination combine to give him the ability to
truly transform the reader."
Darkecho
"...Houarner is
a gifted writer with a facility for fine characterization..."
Hellnotes
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NEWS...
Hi everybody, and welcome to the new site.
Created by Natalia
Lincoln, the original site was launched in 2000 and has
basically remained the same since except for news updates.
With Natalia busy with her new novel, The
Mirror, day job, travels and music career (Odalisque
in Ashes) there just hasn't been enough time to get together
for the necessary revisions that come with 8 years of life
and writing.
So with Natalia preparing to go off to foreign lands and
semi-permanent touring, I began looking for someone to take
over. Fortunately, Nick Kaufmann, man about town and 2007
Stoker nominee, (www.nicholaskaufmann.com)
did all of the leg work when he had Marcy Italiano (www.theweblizard.com)
revise his website to great effect.
So Marcy's gone to work on a new design and tightened the
ship a bit. I've updated my bio to include little things like,
well, let's see, oh yeah, getting married and such, as well
as the bibliography, Max and Dead Cat pages. There's also
a flckr photo site attached with covers and other pictures
which will be fun to add to over time. (By the way, Brian
Addison took the picture featured above, and you should check
out his work on his flckr
site!)
Marcy is also revising 2007 Stoker nominee Linda Addison's
site, now at www.lindaaddisonpoet.com
GO MARCY!
In other news, Cemetery Dance #58, the Charlie Grant tribute
issue, is out and about and includes a story from me, “In
the Faith of Our Fathers,” as well as stories from,
of course, Charles Grant, and Sarah Monette, Karen Heuler,
Ian Rogers, JG Faherty, Dena Martin, Stephen Graham Jones,
and an excerpt from Scavenger by David Morrell. The Usual
Suspects make their appearances. Pick it up at Horrormall
or the Cemetery Dance site, or wherever leading horror magazines
are sold.
By the way, in case I haven't mentioned it, yet, my wife
Linda Addison's poetry collection, Being Full of Light, Insubstantial,
from Space and Time, was nominated for a Stoker Award in the
poetry category. It is, of course, still available from Space
and Time as well as amazon.com
I've been blogging as usual at www.Storytellersunplugged.com,
which was also nominated for a Stoker for 2007. There are
some new bloggers which you might want to check out like the
legendary Wayne Allen Sallee, and Alexandra Sokoloff's entries
on the 24th should be required reading for anyone thinking
about the film industry. Favorites like Brian Hodge, Jim Moore,
Beth Massey, and that shy fellow John Skipp, are still contributing,
as well.
In January, I wrote about handling good and bad reactions
to writing in Rejections, Reviews and Other Dubious Reactions:
http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/2008/01/page/3
February, I talked about some of my experiences returning
to service as Space and Time's (http://www.spaceandtimemagazine.com)
Fiction Editor under new publisher Hildy Silverman in The
Slushiness of Slush http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/2008/02/page/3
And for March 4th entry, I talked about The Business of Writing.
In other news.....
A very kind thread/review of Road From Hell appeared on the
Dorchester
forums.
For some reason, I find myself inhabiting yet another niche
in the virtual universe. Find me, link to me, or do what you
will with: http://www.linkedin.com/GerardHouarner
I don't know what it means, but according to fantasybookspot.com,
my story, They Play In The Palace of My Dreaming, was one
of the two top viewed on the Heliotrope site. http://www.heliotropemag.com/Issue02/palace.html
I've been studied – “She'd Make a Dead Man Crawl”
from the anthology Mojo: Conjure Stories was discussed as
part of an article on transcendent zombie love written by
Frances Auld, Ph.D. (Visit
Dissections) I must say, I feel much more intelligent
by having one of my stories considered worthy to be written
about by a Ph.D.
Gabrielle Faust was kind enough to interview me for her blog,
and you can see the results at: http://www.gabriellefaust.com/archives/345
Linda and I will be at the World Horror Convention in Salt
Lake City, Utah, March 27-30.
I'm scheduled for the following:
Horrific Folklore panel, Thursday, 3/27 at 9PM
Urban Legends as Fodder for Horror Stories, Thursday, 3/27
at 10PM
Making Lovecraft Accessible to the 21st Century, Friday, 3/28
at 12 noon
Mass autograph signing, Friday 8-10
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