Greatest Uncommon Denominator magazine just posted their review of my collection
Sparks and Shadows. Overall, they seem to really like it, and I'm entirely pleased, because all this time I was pretty sure they were going to hammer me into oblivion ;-) No, really; they're a tough crowd over there, but reviewer Debbie Moorhouse sums up her review with "Dark, funny, and romantic by turns,
Sparks and Shadows is a must read. Go! Buy! Read!"
You can find the whole review here:
http://www.gudmagazine.com/review/archive/2009/1/5/sparks-and-shadows-by-lucy-snyder/... and if you scroll down to the very bottom, you'll see they're running a contest in which you can win your very own PDF copy of the book.
One of the stories in
Sparks and Shadows that the reviewer remarked upon ("this macabre tale is gripping") is "Through Thy Bounty"; the story was also recently reviewed here:
http://bestsciencefictionstories.com/2008/12/04/through-thy-bounty-by-lucy-a-snyder/If you're curious to read "Through Thy Bounty", you can find it online at the Apex site:
http://www.apexbookcompany.com/apex-online/2008/08/short-fiction-through-thy-bounty/And in more
GUD news, Kaolin Fire told me on Friday that the magazine staff nominated my poem "
Subtlety" over at the Preditors & Editors Readers' Poll:
http://www.critters.org/predpoll/poem.shtmlIf you care to cast a vote for my poem or any other poem you read in 2008 and deemed worthwhile, your vote will be most appreciated.
You can also
take a look at their full list of nominations.
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A few days ago, Woodland Press released
Legends of the Mountain State 2. It's an anthology of stories based on ghost legends from West Virginia folklore and is edited by Michael Knost.
Table of Contents:
"Dancing in Time to the Beating Heart of the World" by Mark Justice
"The Adventure of the Greenbrier Ghost" by Jonathan Maberry
"The Grim Beast of Iaeger" by Bob Freeman
"The Cold Gallery" by Lucy A. Snyder
"The Anniversary" by Nate Kenyon
"Cain Twists" by Steven L. Shrewsbury
"Occurrence at Flatwoods" by Michael Laimo
"A House is Not a Home" by Maurice Broaddus
"Dark Wisdom" by Gary A. Braunbeck
"An Angel in the Balcony" by Brian J. Hatcher
"Andi" by Mary SanGiovanni
"The Man in Ragged Blue" by Rob Darnell
"For Just One Night" by Nate Southard
My story "The Cold Gallery" and Gary Braunbeck's story "Dark Wisdom" both got nods in
Dark Scribe Magazine's review of the anthology. Of his story, they write: "Braunbeck shows admirable restraint in what could have otherwise been a heavy-handed morality tale in the hands of a lesser writer." Of my tale, they write: "Ghostly twists abound in this satisfying revenge tale ... the real props (for this book) go to Broaddus and SanGiovanni - Snyder, too, albeit to a lesser degree - who expertly recount their chosen legends by fully weaving them into the narrative fabric of their tales, without someone telling an actual story within their stories."
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