Gratia Placenti received a glowing review from Norm Rubenstein at Horror World (about halfway down the page). About the anthology in general he says, “Some short story anthologies are rather “mixed bags” with a combination of short stories of varying degrees of worth. However and happily, this is certainly not the case with Gratia Placenti. Each and every short story contained in Gratia Placenti is, at the least, quite good, with many being truly memorable. Taken together, it is an exceedingly gratifying and entertaining anthology, and deserves, at the very least, another Stoker nomination for best anthology for 2007, if not a win this time around.”
About my story in particular he says, “Bev Vincent’s Popup Killer is another memorable and extremely well done tale that mixes classic time paradox along with equally classic ‘dealing with the Devil’ based horror to impressive effect.”
It’s nice to read something like that first thing in the morning!
In other Apex-related news, “Sufficiently Advanced” is currently hanging tough in third place at the Preditors and Editors poll.
I was somewhat surprised by the Iowa results. We’ll soon see if it was a one-off or the beginning of a trend.
