Herald-Advocate covers QUALIA NOUS
In a recent edition of its entertainment section, the Park Ridge Herald Advocate and Sun-Times Media Group reported on QUALIA NOUS, the sci-fi/horror anthology from Written Backwards:
QUALIA NOUS, featuring Stephen King’s “The Jaunt”.
In good company…
Park Ridge native Christian A. Larsen, a 1993 Maine South High School graduate, is sharing space with bestselling author Stephen King; William F. Nolan, who wrote “Logan’s Run;” and Gary Braunbeck, who won the Bram Stoker Award seven times.
They all have stories in “Qualia Nous.” The science fiction-horror anthology is available at amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com. Larsen’s contribution is a short story, “Cataldo’s Copy.”
He is also the author of the novel, “Losing Touch” (Post Mortem Press).
Edited by Michael Bailey, QUALIA NOUS features pieces from thirty writers, including two poems from Marge Simon:
- “The Jaunt” by Stephen King
- “The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family” by Usman Tanveer Malik
- “The Shaking Man” by Gene O’Neill
- “Dyscrasia” by Ashlee Scheuerman
- “The Rondelium Girl of Rue Marseille” by Emily Cataneo
- “The Angel Chaser” by Erik T. Johnson
- “Psychic Shock” by Ian Shoebridge
- “Peppermint Tea in Electronic Limbo” by D.J. Cockburn
- “Second Chance” by John R. Little
- “The Effigies of Tamber Square” by Jon Michael Kelley
- “Shades of Naught” by Lori Michelle
- “The Price of Faces” by James Chambers
- “Simulacrum” by Jason V. Brock
- “Shutdown” & “Tomorrow’s Femme” (poetry) by Marge Simon
- “Lead Me to Multiplicity” by Peter Hagelslag
- “Cataldo’s Copy” by Christian A. Larsen
- “The Neighborhood Has a Barbecue” by Max Booth III
- “The Jenny Store” by Richard Thomas
- “Night Guard” by Erinn L. Kemper
- “A New Man” by William F. Nolan
- “Voyeur” by John Everson
- “Kilroy Wasn’t There” by Pat R. Steiner
- “In the Nothing-Space, I Am What You Made Me” by Paul Anderson
- “Dura Matter” by Lucy A. Snyder
- “Ruminations” by Rena Mason
- “Good and Faithful Servant” by Thomas F. Monteleone
- “Twelve Kilos” by Patrick Freivald
- “Breathe You In Me” by Mason Ian Bundschuh
- “18P37-C, After Andrea Was Arrested” by Elizabeth Massie
- “No Fixed Address” by Gary A. Braunbeck
QUALIA NOUS is available from Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble, and you can also pick up a copy signed by three of the contributors at Homegrown Horrorfest at Iannelli Studios in Park Ridge. John Everson (author of THE FAMILY TREE), Richard Thomas (editor of THE NEW BLACK), and I will be reading and signing our newest and most popular works, along with J. Michael Major (author of ONE MAN’S CASTLE) and Brian Pinkerton (KILLER’S DIARY).
The event is free, and a portion of the proceeds from each book sale will go toward supporting the Kalo Foundation, a non-profit organization founded in 2006 to safeguard the artistic legacy of of Park Ridge through education, advocacy, and preservation.
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