2020 Bram Stoker Awards® Preliminary Ballot Announced

And guess who's on the list for Superior Achievement in an Anthology? You guessed it...

Now keep in mind we've only made it to the prelims. There's still another round of voting to get through, and if we make it through that, then we can call ourselves nominees because we will have reached the final stages of the ballot process.

Nonetheless, I can't tell you how thrilled I am right now. A Bram Stoker nod in our direction? Are you kidding me? Granted this is just the preliminary ballot, but that in itself is a one heck of a feat for this prestigious award. This would not have happened had it not been for our incredible editor, Nicole Givens Kurtz of Mocha Memoirs Press, who gave our stories a chance to be told.

Oh, and if you haven't checked out the rest of the Mocha Memoirs Press collection, then what are you waiting for?

Props to SLAY!

I know it's been a while since my last post, but a lot has been going on in terms of my personal life. It's all good, thank goodness. Of course, when it comes to SLAY, things can only get better. In case I haven't mentioned this before, check out these two cool links below.

SLAY hits Tor Nightfire's list of This Woman's Work: 7 Works of Feminist Horrors.

SLAY is on the Horror Writers Association's list of recommended reads.

Happy NaNoWriMo Month!

I've never participated in NaNoWriMo before, so this will be a first. I will also be known as a NaNoWriMo Revision Rebel, too.

In a nutshell, the rules are you set a goal to write 50K words during the month of November, which translates to 1,667 words per day. If you want more information, then check out NaNoWriMo here. Honestly, if you're able to get through 10K words as a novelist, then you've won. I've heard many writers swear by this technique to get your butt in the chair, so I thought I would give it a shot--sort of--too. One thing I caution against and that's thinking you've written a masterpiece. If you've been at this a while, then you know that the 50K words is most likely a first draft and probably something you don't want to put out in the general public.

For me, I really need to do revisions on another trilogy I've been working on because I've FINALLY figured out how it's going to end and it's awesome!! The problem is I also want to make sure the first two books support that ending, which I'm sure 90% they do. But...I need to make sure. That's where the revisions come into play. I probably won't be writing 50K words to make NaNoWriMo, but I'm pretty sure I'll be reading over 150K for this trilogy and revising around half of that. That's where the "rebel" comes into play.

So what's this trilogy about? Here's a hint.

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