Interviews

Welcome back to “Know a Nominee,” the interview series that puts you squarely between the ears of this year’s Bram Stoker Award nominees. Today’s second update features Hal Bodner, nominated in the category of Superior Achievement in Short Fiction for “Hot Tub." DM: Please describe the genesis for the idea that eventually became the work(s) for which you’ve been nominated. What attracted you most to the project? If nominated in multiple categories, please touch briefly on each. HB: “Hot Tub” is based, as many people already know, on a true incident that happened when I first moved to Hollywood roughly 30 years ago. At…

Welcome back to “Know a Nominee,” the interview series that puts you squarely between the ears of this year’s Bram Stoker Award nominees. Today’s first update features Joe R. Lansdale, nominated in the categories of Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel for I TELL YOU IT'S LOVE and Superior Achievement in Long Fiction for FISHING FOR DINOSAURS.  DM: Please describe the genesis for the idea that eventually became the work(s) for which you’ve been nominated. What attracted you most to the project? If nominated in multiple categories, please touch briefly on each. JRL: FISHING FOR DINOSAURS was inspired by the old…

Welcome back to “Know a Nominee,” the interview series that puts you squarely between the ears of this year’s Bram Stoker Award nominees. Today’s update features Eric J. Grignard, nominated in the category of Superior Achievement in Long Fiction for "Dreams of a Little Suicide." DM: Please describe the genesis for the idea that eventually became the work(s) for which you’ve been nominated. What attracted you most to the project? If nominated in multiple categories, please touch briefly on each. EG: First, I love writing in historic settings, 1890s to 1950s range stuff. I wanted to do a historic piece in…

Welcome back to “Know a Nominee,” the interview series that puts you squarely between the ears of this year’s Bram Stoker Award nominees. Today’s update features Brett J. Talley, nominated in the category of Superior Achievement in an Anthology for Limbus, Inc. II. DM: Please describe the genesis for the idea that eventually became the work(s) for which you’ve been nominated. What attracted you most to the project? If nominated in multiple categories, please touch briefly on each. BT: Anne C. Petty originally came up with the idea that forms the genesis of the Limbus universe. We lost her a couple years…

Welcome back to “Know a Nominee,” the interview series that puts you squarely between the ears of this year’s Bram Stoker Award nominees. Today’s update features John Palisano, nominated in the category of Superior Achievement in Short Fiction for "Splinterette." DM: Please describe the genesis for the idea that eventually became the work(s) for which you’ve been nominated. What attracted you most to the project? If nominated in multiple categories, please touch briefly on each. JP: The short story "Splinterette" came to me while staying in Cupertino, California. We were in a slightly woodsy area and my room looked out into…

Welcome back to “Know a Nominee,” the interview series that puts you squarely between the ears of this year’s Bram Stoker Award nominees. Today’s update features Stephanie M. Wytovich, nominated in the category of Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection for Mourning Jewelry. DM: Please describe the genesis for the idea that eventually became the work(s) for which you’ve been nominated. What attracted you most to the project? If nominated in multiple categories, please touch briefly on each. SMW: I first heard the term “mourning jewelry” while I was watching an episode of Haunted Collector one afternoon. The team had found…

Welcome back to “Know a Nominee,” the interview series that puts you squarely between the ears of this year’s Bram Stoker Award nominees. Today’s update features Rena Mason, nominated in the category of Superior Achievement in a Short Fiction for "Ruminations." DM: Please describe the genesis for the idea that eventually became the work(s) for which you’ve been nominated. RM: Two strangers separated by universes, bonded by loves and losses, that are able to fill the needs of the other through "cracks" that came by chance. (In short, Multiverse Theory and Singularity slips caused by intense emotional linkage.) DM: What…

Welcome back to “Know a Nominee,” the interview series that puts you squarely between the ears of this year’s Bram Stoker Award nominees. Today’s update features Steve Rasnic Tem, nominated in the category of Superior Achievement in a Novel for Blood Kin. DM: Please describe the genesis for the idea that eventually became the work(s) for which you’ve been nominated. What attracted you most to the project? SRT: Blood Kin is the novel I always knew I was going to write. It’s a project  I’ve been contemplating since high school (which, in my case, was a very long time ago). I grew…

Welcome back to "Know a Nominee," the interview series that puts you squarely between the ears of this year’s Bram Stoker Award nominees. Today’s update features Craig DiLouie, nominated in the category of Superior Achievement in a Novel for Suffer the Children. DM: Please describe the genesis for the idea that eventually became the work(s) for which you’ve been nominated. What attracted you most to the project? If nominated in multiple categories, please touch briefly on each. CD: Many parents have said at some point, "I'd put my arm in a shredder for my kids." They'd make any sacrifice to protect…

Bram Stoker Award (R) nominee James Dorr talks about successes networking at World Horror Convention, the Horror Writers Association, being a poet, author and sculptor, and his work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4QhV-j9_QI James Dorr is a short story writer and poet with three primarily prose collections, STRANGE MISTRESSES: TALES OF WONDER AND ROMANCE and DARKER LOVES: TALES OF MYSTERY AND REGRET published by Dark Regions Press and THE TEARS OF ISIS from Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing, and an illustrated all-poetry collection, VAMPS (A RETROSPECTIVE), from Sam's Dot Publishing/White Cat Publications. He also has a novelette, THE GARDEN, available in electronic and print chapbook…

Lisa Mannetti on first con experiences, the value of networking and being an HWA member, learning and mentoring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoFzyVtFUbo Lisa Mannetti's debut novel, The Gentling Box, garnered a Bram Stoker Award. Her latest books include Deathwatch, a collection of two thematically linked novellas, including the Bram-Stoker nominated "Dissolution," and "The New Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn." She has authored a macabre gag book, 51 Fiendish Ways to Leave your Lover, as well as non-fiction books, and numerous articles and short stories in newspapers, magazines, and anthologies. Recent and upcoming works (2010) include “Resurgam” in Dead Set: A Zombie…