Others have posted the Stoker nominee list, so I’ll just provide a link. The Stephen King Illustrated Companion was nominated for Superior Achievement in Non-fiction. My wife suggested that I take inspiration from the book’s two major award nominations and adopt the pen name Edgar Stoker. I countered with Bram Poe, which sounds a little like Rambo. This is my second Stoker nomination. The awards will be given out at the Stoker banquet, which is being held in conjunction with the World Horror Convention in Brighton, England, in just over a month. I’d already made plans to attend WHC and the Stoker banquet. Now I guess I’ll have to dress up!
This morning, I proofed the final text for “Zombies on a Plane,” my short story in Dead Set: A Zombie Anthology. Found only one glitch that was created during the editing process. I haven’t read the story in a while and I think it holds up very well. I’m currently making a final editing pass on the 5000-word caper prior to shipping it out the door. After that I have a Cemetery Dance column to start preparing (due at the end of the month) and the MWA short story I’ve been cogitating over but haven’t actually started yet.
Last night I watched curling (US and Canadian women both won), part of the Latvia hockey game, and caught up on Burn Notice from Thursday night. Got a big kick out of Sam pretending to be a crime scene investigator and whipping out his sunglasses at the end of each scene, putting them on in David Caruso fashion and uttering a horrible pun based on the current scenario. I’m also thinking about going to see Shutter Island this afternoon. It’s not my favorite of Lehane’s novels by far, and the reviews I’ve seen thus far haven’t been terrific, but I still think it will be worth seeing.
I finished Black Hills by Dan Simmons last night. Next up: The Inheritence by Simon Tolkien. I got the ARC through Amazon’s Vine program and picked it based on the synopsis without realizing the author is JRR Tolkien’s grandson. It’s a courtroom drama and historical thriller and, so far as I can tell, features no talking trees, elves or sorcerors.
