Rescuing Pirated Stories

by Guy Anthony De Marco As authors, piracy is a constant threat to our income and property. Some don’t mind having their works available for download, while others are adamant that their work should be purchased. Should you find your works posted on a pirate website—or worse, plagiarized with someone else's name as the author—you can take action to remove the infringing material using the legal tools provided by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA. Please note that sending false claims can get you into legal trouble, so don't use the DMCA tools to play a practical joke. These…

HWA Sponsoring 5 Members to Attend Mort Castle’s Workshop at 2012 World Horror Convention

Mort Castle, editor of the acclaimed On Writing Horror, will be conducting writing workshops at the 2012 World Horror Convention in Salt Lake City , March 29 - April 1, 2012. The cost of the four-hour workshop is $50.00. The HWA Board is giving away five of these workshops at our cost. If you are interested, and we get more than five applications, they will given away in a random drawing. To qualify, you need to have registered for the WHC before 29 February, and of course, you need to be a member of the HWA. To register your interest…

Dark Whispers Watercooler: The Genre That Devoured Itself?

Rose Fox over at her Publishers Weekly blog offers up The Genre Formerly Known as Horror, and Other Stories. Horror as an effect versus genuine genre? Horror as a fluke - one named Stephen King? Did the horror genre devour itself? "Horror, swept away while this has gone on, has re-emerged as a component underneath the "thriller" umbrella, probably coming in through the serial-killer side door. I've been told that Scott Smith's superb The Ruins was to have ushered in a category dubbed "literary horror," although I'm almost certain that Thomas Harris would argue he's been delivering that for a…