The 2023 Bram Stoker Awards Finalists have been announced
by the Horror Writers of America. SMFS list member Lisa Morton reported that
she is a finalist in the “Superior Achievement in Long Nonfiction” category for
her book, The Art of the Zombie Movie (Applause
Books). The full list of finalists can be found at the website.
Lisa Morton also reported that the book is also nominated
for “Best Graphic Arts Presentation” in the 2023 Rondo Hatton Classic
Horror Awards.
SMFS list member Lisa Morton’s short story, What Ever
Happened to Lorna Winters?, is published in Black Cat Weekly #129. Published by
Wildside Press, the issue is available here in digital format.
Website Description:
BCW 129
is a fun issue. Courtesy of Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken, we have an
original Sherlock Holmes tale by A.L. Sirois, and courtesy of Acquiring Editor
Barb Goffman, we have a great tale by Lisa Morton. A pulp crime story by H.
Bedford Jones, a nautical mystery by Ralph Henry Barbour, and a
solve-it-yourself puzzler from Hal Charles round out the mystery half.
On
the science fiction side, we have a haunting tale by Leslie F. Stone about the
last days of the dying Sun; an alien-themed suspense tale from Clyde Mitchell;
a tale of a particle accelerator gone wrong; and art duplication (or is it forgery?)
A humorous Burroughsian tale by Robert F. Young rounds out the issue.
Here’s
the complete lineup—
Mysteries
/ Suspense / Adventure:
Science
Fiction & Fantasy:
SMFS list member Lisa Morton’s short story, The
Gardener's Mystery, appears in the recently released anthology, The
Reinvented Detective: Tales of Futuristic Crimes & Mysteries Beyond Time.
Published by CAEZIK SF & Fantasy, imprint
of Arc Manor, the book is available at Amazon
and other vendors.
Amazon Description:
The evolution of crime, punishment, and justice in the
future.
What happens when time and technology change the
definition of crime and punishment?
Science fiction often focuses on future technology
without considering the society housing it. Social norms may change as tech
changes — or not. What will criminals, investigators, judges, and juries look
like in a complicated future of clones, uploaded intelligences, artificial
brains, or body augmentation? What stories emerge when we acknowledge the
possibilities of new laws, new police methods, and the birth of sentient
Artificial Intelligence, as well as all the ways they can clash or combine?
The Reinvented Detective presents stories that
complicate law and order as well as the concept of criminals, detectives,
punishment, and justice for all by showing how shifting technology, the rise of
sentient AIs, and shifting social attitudes may affect what is not only
acceptable, but expected, within both real world and digital communities—and
everything in-between. These stories reinvent detective and true crime tropes,
recasting them for the 21st century, and above all, experimenting, astonishing,
and entertaining.