Cthulhu's Dark Cults in Preliminary Bram Stoker Award Ballot

Fantastic news, Cthulhu's Dark Cults has just made the preliminary ballot for the 2010 Bram Stoker Awards in Superior Achievement in an Anthology. Not only that, Shane Jiraiya Cumming's "Requiem for the Burning God" included in Cthulhu's Dark Cults made it in the ballot for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction.

Also shortlisted for Superior Achievement in an Anthology is Scenes from the Second Storey edited by Amanda Pillar and Pete Kempshall (Morrigan Books). My openning story "Dream Machine" appeared in that fine collection.

The list of Australian nominations can be found here.

Stoker Nomination

Well I've been nominated for a Stoker Award in the short story category for my tale "Six-Legged Shadows". The story appeared in Monstrous earlier this year, which was edited by Ryan C. Thomas and published by Permuted Press.

For the record, the story is a collaboration with Brian M. Sammons, who is not an Australian author as many people think, but rather he is from Michigan, USA. Brian and I got to know each other working with the Book of Dark Wisdom and the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game. To date we have collaborated on three short stories, which is more than I've collaborated with anyone. Brian's a damn fine author too.

Getting back to the Bram Stoker nomination, this means that Brian and I have at least one vote from a member of the USA Horror Writers Association who thought our story was worthy enough to be judged. Whoever has voted for me, thank you. I believe now I need five votes to get through to the next round. Here's hoping. More news later if I hear any.

Lastly, I wanted to thank Juliet Bathory and everyone at the Australian Horror Writers Association for promoting all Australian authors nominated for a Stoker Award this year.