QUALIA NOUS adds Stoker® nominee, winner to lineup
Newly-minted 2013 Bram Stoker Award®-winner Rena Mason and 2013 Bram Stoker Award®-nominee Patrick Freivald have each contributed stories to QUALIA NOUS, which will also feature my short story, “Cataldo’s Copy”.
Mason, who wrote “Ruminations” for the upcoming sci-fi/horror anthology from Written Backwards, won the Stoker® on Saturday in Portland for superior achievement in a first novel (THE EVOLUTIONIST).
Freivald’s SPECIAL DEAD was a finalist for superior achievement in a young adult novel, a field which included UNBREAKABLE by Kami Garcia, PROJECT CAIN by Geoffrey Girard, IN THE SHADOW OF BLACKBIRDS by Cat Winters, and Saturday’s winner, DOG DAYS by Joe McKinney. Freivald’s short story, “Twelve Kilos” will now appear in QUALIA NOUS.
Here is the current table of contents, ordered by alpha:
- “In the Nothing-Space, I Am What You Made Me” by Paul Anderson
- “The Rondelium Girl of Rue Marseilles” by Emily Cataneo
- “Twelve Kilos” by Patrick Freivald
- “Lead Me to Multiplicity” by Peter Hagelslag
- “Night Guard” by Erinn Kemper
- “Cataldo’s Copy” by Christian A. Larsen
- “Second Chance” by John R. Little
- “The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family” by Usman Tanveer Malik
- “Ruminations” by Rena Mason
- “18P37-C, After Andrea Was Arrested” by Elizabeth Massie
- “Good and Faithful Servant” by Thomas F. Monteleone
- “The Shaking Man” by Gene O’Neill
- “Dyscrasia” by Ashlee Scheuerman
- “Psychic Shock” by Ian Shoebridge
- “Shutdown” & “Tomorrow’s Femme” by Marge Simon
- “Kilroy Wasn’t There” by Pat R. Steiner
Edited by Bram Stoker Award®-nominee Michael Bailey, QUALIA NOUS will be available later this year in paperback from Written Backwards.
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