A.P. Fuchs writes out of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. His debut novel, A Stranger Dead , was released January 2003, and his poetry collection, The Hand I've Been Dealt , in November 2003. He has written four novels and numerous short stories. Visit him online at http://www.apfuchs.com

D. Harlan Wilson has published nearly 100 stories in magazines and anthologies throughout the world.  He is the author of the books The Kafka Effekt , 4 Ellipses , Irrealities and the recently released Stranger on the Loose.  For more information on Wilson and his writing, refer to his official website at www.dharlanwilson.com.

Stephanie Simpson-Woods is an author and freelance writer who resides in the foothills of NC. She is the author of 'I.M. Internet Message', 'Gloomy' and a number of shorts floating around in print and on the Internet. In her spare time, she does book reviews for both Midwest Book Review and Camp Horror. For more info, please visit her website at www.stephaniesimpsonwoods.com.

K.K. (Ken Kupstis) is the author of Clownwhite: A Comedy of Horrors , the collection Inhuman Resources and the audio book This Won't Hurt A Bit . His fiction and essays have appeared in Camp Horror , Chic , Be Mine , The Ghostbreakers , Into the Darkness , Florida Magazine , Creatio Ex Nuhilo , Apricorn Anthology and others. As an actor, he appears in the feature films Go , Biohazard: The Alien Force , Immortal , and numerous stage productions. His other works can be viewed at www.authorsden.com/kenkupstis.

Walter T. Anderson is the author of Blood of the Wolf , Re-entry of evil , The Collection of Madness and A Season of Darkness and also the SF/Horror Crossover for which a sequel is currently being written. His next novel The Game is expected out mid 2004. Details of his books and his thoughts on writing came be found on his website along with many other resources and links. He is constantly updating it and was recently the recipient of 3 awards: Crypt Crawl, Sheer Horror award and The Ezine Writer's Web Excellence award. He is a column writer for Camp Horror. Visit his website at http://www.walteranderson.here.ws

Ray Wallace hails from Brandon, FL, a suburb of Tampa he affectionately refers to as "Satan's Spawning Ground." There he runs a record label with his brother, composes electronic music, and writes his fiction. He has published stories in The Blackest Death , Cthulhu Cultus , Erotic Fantasy: Tales of the Paranormal , Monster's Ink , Shadowland , Thirteen Stories , Welcome to Nod , Whispers from the Shattered Forum , and at Bloodfetish , Bloody Muse , Camp Horror , Dark Muse , Delirium , and Errata (a story written with Geoff Cooper and Brett Savory). A few of his other stories have appeared at The Chiaroscuro website where he took first place in a fiction contest. He also wrote a long running book review column for The Twilight Showcase webzine and now writes reviews for Chizine and SFReader.com . He is currently slaving away at his first novel, and a member of both the THWN and Underside writers groups.

Greg Lamberson is the author of PERSONAL DEMONS, winner of the first annual Anibus Award for Horror; the novel is available at www.brokenumbrellapress.com.  Greg wrote and directed the low budget horror films SLIME CITY, NEW YORK VAMPIRE, and NAKED FEAR, available from ww.alternativecinema.com. Contact him through his website, www.slimeguy.com.

 

For more information contact:

Jeff Schwaner, Publisher

Broken Umbrella Press

jeff@brokenumbrellapress.com

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Winner Announced in Anubis Award for Horror

New and Established Authors Compete for Inaugural Book Prize

 

May 3, 2004 — Broken Umbrella Press publisher Jeff Schwaner announced today the winner of the inaugural Anubis Award for Horror. Personal Demons by Gregory Lamberson was chosen by judge T.M. Wright as the winner. Personal Demons will be published as a limited edition hardcover and trade paperback by Broken Umbrella Press, with a publication date of October 31, 2004 . The author also receives a $500 cash prize.

Wright also selected The Shadow People by Esther B. Schrader and Black Magic Woman by Justin Gustainis for Honorable Mention.

Schwaner says Personal Demons is especially appropriate for Broken Umbrella Press's first Anubis Award. “The book's strong themes, and the internal conflicts of the main character, would be at home in a literary novel, a thriller, or a ghost story.”

T.M. Wright says of Lamberson's first novel, “ What sold me on Personal Demons, from its first paragraph to its concluding pages, was the author's almost uncanny ability to mix characterization, plot and atmosphere into a heady, scary brew.” 

Wright called the novel “oddly new, its voice compelling and unnerving at the same time.” While all three of the honored titles were well written, he said, Lamberson's book “so easily, almost effortlessly, dragged me into its world, made me feel as one with its people.  That's something few novels—by first-timers or otherwise—achieve.”

Lamberson said, “I'm honored to be the first winner of this award, and to have been selected by author T.M. Wright, whose work I've admired since the publication of his first novel, Strange Seed .” Lamberson writes a monthly movie preview column for the Horror Writers Association newsletter, and has sold reviews and essays to Hellnotes and H.P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror . Personal Demons is his first novel.

 

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Wright also praised the work of the two honorable mentions: “ Esther B. Schrader writes with style and wit; The Shadow People is a very mature piece of writing—quite impressive for a first novel.  It held me in its not inconsiderable grip from beginning to end.” And of Black Magic Woman's author, Wright notes, “Justin Gustainis possesses narrative powers that many seasoned writers would envy.” Gustainis's novel The Hades Project (Brighid's Fire Books, 2003) was recently given a favorable review in Cemetery Dance , where it was described as a “welcome surprise.”

“All in all, we had a great response from writers for this first Anubis Award, and the quality of the work was quite high,” says Schwaner. “Numerous finalists have been published in one form or another since entering the contest, and we hope to keep information on their work on the new Broken Umbrella Press site as they continue their careers.”

Personal Demons will be published in a limited edition signed hardcover and trade paperback. For more information, and to place pre-orders or request review copies, write to:

 

Jeff Schwaner, Publisher

Broken Umbrella Press

jeff@brokenumbrellapress.com

 

Diana Bennett currently resides in Orlando Florida, with her daughter Jaquelyn, three cats, one dog, one hamster, and a fish that just died. She is always dreaming up new ways to entertain and scare the reading population. Her first novel, His Father's Son: Dante's Rage , is now available through Publish America. The second novel will more than likely see print in 2004. She is editing two anthologies that will find their way into print 2003/2004: Raging Horrormones and Monsters Ink, writes a column for a Camp Horror , is a reviewer for Midwest Book Review , and still holds down a full time job in the medical research field.

M.K. Bowes (who also writes as Marcel K. Bromius) is an author of erotica, and horror erotica with several stories published in upcoming anthologies, Just the Sex , Raging Horrormones , New Voices in Horror , and Erotic Tales: Tales of the Paranormal .  Some more stories can be found on the Internet at Erotic Readers and Writers Association, and Blood Moon Zine .

Anthony Cain hails from the East Midlands of England, in a town that sounds more like a verb than an actual geographical location. Bitten by a radioactive horror writer at an early age, he found that he had the relative strength, hang-ups and general gloominess of that rare strain of writer. In previous slices of life, he has been a pre-pregnation laminator, a cinema cashier, video store manager, lecturer and Creative Writing teacher. He co-edited (with Diana Bennett) the Raging Horrormones and Monsters Ink Anthologies and his fiction appears in magazines and anthologies and in the US, UK, and India. A sample of his shorter fiction will be served up in Cannibal Ballrooms his first collection of stories, to be published by Publish America in the New Year.  His columns for Camp Horror are part of a deal he made with the Devil in exchange for immunity from damnation for something he did when he was seven years old. The other details of that deal are, for now, mercifully, still a secret.

Rick Mohr is quite the multifaceted individual. He is the winner of the 2003 Booksandauthors.net award for literary excellence, an author of numerous short stories, a media reviewer for Midwest Book Review and Dream Forge. COM (as well as his reviews archived here at New Camp Horror -accessed from the welcome page), Freelance Editor, owner/moderator of The Horror Writers Network , a Yahoo Group, co-owner and Editor of New Camp Horror , and a plethora of upcoming projects, as well as a lover of film, comic books, and the written word as long as he can remember.

Nancy Jackson is published in Broken Mirrors Anthology, Labor Pools Anthology, Halloween Anthology, Romancing the Soul Anthology, and Chocolate for a Teen's Spirit II. Moderator of The Horror Writers Network and book reviewer for Dream Forge.

Neal Bailey likes to think that he's a young and coming writer out of Tacoma Washington. He grew up in poverty, fought his way to college in Bellingham, then realized that poverty was more fun, so he quit school the week before he would have earned a degree and started writing full-time. Now he has a loyal following of fans at  http://www.supermanhomepage.com for his Smallville and comic reviews. He has contributed to many poetry magazines, and is now proudly at Camp Horror and submitting reviews for the Mid-West Book Review. He just sent off 18 queries to 18 Agencies, but seeing as he has sent a good 80 rejected submissions out in the past three years as postage could be afforded, he'll likely remain as he is, poor and writing for the love of it. He has a website, http://bailey_neal.tripod.com , and two vanity press poetry books for sale. Will write for food. Or correspondence.

Master Todd Dark . One of his many sobriquets, and one altogether suitable for our sites' purposes, is many things to many people; warrior, poet, manipulator, and lord conqueror. His influence stretches back throughout recorded time, as well as what came before. He shows favor to those of intelligence, and creative bent, albeit, at times, a cruel favor indeed. He weaves his will through the vast, and vibrant tapestry of literature, and popular culture, dotting its landscape like fires in the night. He governs the populace, to which he is progenitor, from the shadows, a tedious task, yet moving and shifting their fates with ease. The only escape he allows himself is the writing of an occasional movie review, toy expose', or short story of little consequence. He is fond of a deftly written riddle, and has never been hit by a truck...or has he?

Jacqueline Druga-Marchetti is a full-time freelance writer with a very strict dedication to her craft. Aside from having 12 published novels, her other work appearing in print include short stories and poems. She does artwork for an established publisher, and is a karaoke DJ as a 'day job'.

Byron Leavitt lives near Tacoma, Washington with what many have termed a poor-man's zoo.  He has been called a genius by the village idiot, unusually dull by men who dive into pits of ravenous piranhas for a living, and alarmingly active by those who have permanently rooted to their sofas.  Despite popular rumor he is not, in fact, a zebra.  He has had numerous stories published (or soon to be) in the small press, including in Gateway S-F, Anotherealm, Fools Motley, and, obviously, Camp Horror.  His poetry has appeared in four hardbound as well as several softbound anthologies, and has also been featured online and on a CD anthology.  He was named one of the best poets of 2003 by Poetry.com.  His oft-insane, occasionally crappy webpage can be found at www.freewebs.com/leavittsoddities .  And, finally, he oh so wishes you would turn around and notice the giant soul-sucking squid sneaking silently up behind you.  Oh!  Oh, dear!  Um, well, he is sure there will be another reader for his work somewhere. . .

Adrienne Jones is a freelance writer living outside Providence, Rhode Island, USA. After graduating with a B.S. in Journalism and Communication, she did script writing for a variety of commercial video and film production companies, as well as private productions. She has since branched out to writing nonfiction articles and short stories, published in magazines and fiction anthologies in the U.S. and the U.K. Though she prefers speculative fiction, she turned her humor-writing hobby into a business when she joined forces with a talented artist (Chris Cox) to form Dare Cards, an alternative greeting card and original comics company. She is currently working on getting two novels published.

Patty G. Henderson has been published since the early 1970's in fantasy and horror magazines.  Her Brenda Strange series is a supernatural murder mystery. The first book, THE BURNING OF HER SIN, was published in 2002 and the second book in the series, TANGLED AND DARK, will be out this July 2004 from Bella Books, www.bellabooks.com . BLOOD SCENT, an erotic lesbian vampire romance, was Henderson 's first published book. Patty is also the editor for FLASH FANTASTIC, a flash fiction webzine.

Jeanne Bogino lives in Western Massachusetts with her partner, dogs, and cat.  She has a BA in Literature and an MA in Library Science.  Her fiction has appeared in a variety of print and online sources.  By day, she is a reference librarian.  By night, she writes horror, reads Stephen King, and dreams about zombies.

Jennifer Lott enjoys horseback riding as much as she enjoys writing. She graduated high school early and will be attending a community college full time in the fall to take accounting courses.

Kristine Ong Muslim is twenty-three years old and has published works in several publications which include 3 A.M. Magazine, The Dream Zone, Kenoma, and the Dust Devil anthology. Some of her works will also be included in future issues of Flesh and Blood, Decompositions, Lost in the Dark, Jupiter, Electric Velocipede, Scared Naked, The Fifth Di…, SageWoman, The Horror Express, The Dark Krypt, and Trunk Stories. She can be reached at blackroom8@yahoo.com.

Kate Highfield's short story The Note, published in Issue 2, February 8 edition of Camp Horror, is her first published writing. She is therefore, grovellingly grateful to Rick Mohr, and applauds his keen intelligence and talent radar.  Kate's previous writing experience was many moons ago as a promotions writer/producer for television, before going freelance as an art department manager in the film industry. Lately she has been concentrating on getting back to writing, and is currently working on her second screenplay.  Having been closely involved in the filming of scripts over the years, she now has a new respect for the art of script writing, and will never again be disparaging at script meetings.  Aside from script and short story writing, she has been wasting her time coming up with advertising slogans on web sites, for the fun of it.  She realises she¹s quite good at it, so if anyone out there has a paying job, or wants to invest in her scripts, Kate would be very pleased to hear from them. GloriaRose50@hotmail.com.