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Lisa Mannetti


Last Updated: 3/18/2009

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Tuesday, September 01, 2009 

Current mood:  artistic
Category: Writing and Poetry
My latest short story, "It's Magic" in the anthology, BEACH BOYS edited by Sephera Giron is the book of the day at Ravenous Romance.

It's a dark piece about a magician's assistant on a cruise ship.

 
Monday, August 31, 2009 

Category: Writing and Poetry
New Online Interview (Part 1 today) at helluo librorum:

http://frohock.wordpress.com/

Sunday, July 26, 2009 

Category: Writing and Poetry
Currently reading:
Slow Death
By James Fielder
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 

Current mood:  enthralled

 

Here are the winners of this years Bram Stoker Awards, presented by the Horror Writers Association…
NOVEL: THE DUMA KEY by Stephen King
FIRST NOVEL: THE GENTLING BOX by Lisa Mannetti
LONG FICTION: MIRANDA by John R. Little
SHORT FICTION: “The Lost” by Sarah Langan
FICTION COLLECTION: JUST AFTER SUNSET by Stephen King
ANTHOLOGY: UNSPEAKABLE HORROR edited by Vince A. Liaguno and Chad Helder
NONFICTION: A HALLOWE’EN ANTHOLOGY by Lisa Morton
POETRY COLLECTION: THE NIGHTMARE COLLECTION by Bruce Boston
HWA also presented its annual Lifetime Achievement Awards to F. Paul Wilson and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
The Specialty Press Award went to Larry Roberts of Bloodletting Press.
The Silver Hammer Award, for outstanding service to HWA, was voted by the organization’s board of trustees to Sephera Giron.
The President’s Richard Laymon Service Award was given to John R. Little.


I am more honored than I can say!!
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 

Current mood:  blessed
Category: Writing and Poetry
 I did an interview with the delightful Vince Liaguno of Dark Scribe that's now online:

 

http://www.darkscribemagazine.com/drawing-first-blood/

 


Also, I hope you can join me for a a live online chat on May 24th at 7 PM:  http://www.writerschatroom.com/

 

Sign up on the site to get reminders when all your favorite authors are on tap!

 

Thursday, April 02, 2009 

Current mood:  luminous
Category: Writing and Poetry
A new review of my novel, The Gentling Box, by William Gagliani has been posted on Chizine:

 
Currently listening:
Franz Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 1 / Funérailles / Romance Oubliée / En Rêve / Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 / Liebesträume No. 3 / First Elegy / Wiegenlied / Carrousel de Madame P-N / Die Hirten an der Krippe / Scherzoso / Adeste Fideles / Consolation No. 4 in D flat major - Played on the Instruments of
Release date: 1994-04-18
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 

Current mood:  jubilant
Category: Writing and Poetry
 
Am utterly thrilled to announce that my debut novel, THE GENTLING BOX, has been nominated for a Bram Stoker Award!

 
Here is a list of this year's nominees:
 
The nominees are:

 


Superior Achievement in a Novel
Coffin Country by Gary Braunbeck (Leisure Books)
The Reach by Nate Kenyon (Leisure Books)
Duma Key by Stephen King (Scribner)
Johnny Gruesome by Gregory Lamberson (Bad Moon Books/Medallion Press)

 

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

 

Midnight on Mourn Street by Christopher Conlon (Earthling Publications)
The Gentling Box by Lisa Mannetti (Dark Hart Press)
Monster Behind the Wheel by Michael McCarty and Mark McLaughlin (Delirium Books)
The Suicide Collectors by David Oppegaard (St. Martin's Press)
Frozen Blood by Joel A. Sutherland (Lachesis Publishing)

 

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

 

The Shallow End of the Pool by Adam-Troy Castro (Creeping Hemlock Press)
Miranda by John R. Little (Bad Moon Books)
Redemption Roadshow by Weston Ochse (Burning Effigy Press)
The Confessions of St. Zach by Gene O'Neill (Bad Moon Books)

 

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

 

"Petrified" by Scott Edelman (Desolate Souls)
"The Lost" by Sarah Langan (Cemetery Dance Publications)
"The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft" by Nick Mamatas and Tim Pratt (Chizine)
"Evidence of Love in a Case of Abandonment" by M. Rickert (Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
"Turtle" by Lee Thomas (Doorways)

 

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

 

Like a Chinese Tattoo , edited by Bill Breedlove (Dark Arts Books)
Horror Library, Vol. 3, edited by R.J. Cavender (Cutting Block Press)
Beneath the Surface, edited by Tim Deal (Shroud Publishing)
Unspeakable Horror, edited by Vince A. Liaguno and Chad Helder (Dark Scribe Press)

 

Superior Achievement in a Collection

 

The Number 121 to Pennsylvania by Kealan Patrick Burke (Cemetery Dance Publications)
Mama's Boy and Other Dark Tales by Fran Friel (Apex Publications)
Just After Sunset by Stephen King (Scribner)
Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters by John Langan (Prime Books)
Gleefully Macabre Tales by Jeff Strand (Delirium Books)

 

Superior Achievement in Nonfiction

 

Cheap Scares by Gregory Lamberson (McFarland)
Zombie CSU by Jonathan Maberry (Citadel Press)
A Hallowe'en Anthology by Lisa Morton (McFarland)
The Book of Lists: Horror by Amy Wallace, Del Howison and Scott Bradley (HarperCollins)

 

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

 

The Nightmare Collection by Bruce Boston (Dark Regions Press)
The Phantom World by Gary William Crawford (Sam's Dot Publishing)
Virgin of the Apocalypse by Corrine De Winter (Sam's Dot Publishing)
Attack of the Two-Headed Poetry Monster by Mark McLaughlin and Michael McCarty (Skullvines Press)

 

Congratulations to all!!
Currently listening:
Still Crazy After All These Years
By Paul Simon
Release date: 2004-07-13
Friday, March 20, 2009 

Current mood:  pleased
Category: Writing and Poetry
Currently reading:
Dracula (Barnes & Noble Classics)
By Bram Stoker
Friday, March 13, 2009 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXbShkvkEaY

New book video for The Gentling Box.

Thursday, January 29, 2009 

Category: Writing and Poetry
Gabrielle Faust (who is also on the current round for a Stoker) wrote a wonderful review of The Gentling Box...but the kudos are for her and her poetic and generous write-up for my book.
http://www.fearzone.com/blog/gentling-review
 
I'm so touched by her kind words and I hope you'll give her well-writen review a read--as well as her book.
 
Lisa
 
Currently listening:
Red Top
By Liz Mandeville
Release date: 2008-06-17