The Preliminary Stoker Ballot
To my amazement and pleasure, Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues made the preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker Award in Nonfiction. The next round of voting will determine whether it makes the actual ballot of nominees, then it goes to a vote for the award.
I'm startled to get to this point. I've been assuming the book wasn't eligible for the award because all its essays are reprints. (Last year, the fiction anthology I was part of was disqualified for not having enough material published for the first time in 2008.) Perhaps the rules have changed.
Anyway, if you are a voting member of the HWA and you'd like to consider the Morbid Curiosity book for the award, please let me know. I have some copies I can give away.
Watching the youtube videos will give you a sense of the book, too. You can find them by searching Morbid Curiosity or MorbidLoren.
Thank you!
Curiosity is the single most important attribute with which humans are born. Curiosity is a powerful tool, like a scalpel or a searchlight. It is a way to affect change -- even to initiate global change -- on a personal level.”
—Loren's introduction to Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues
About Loren
For 10 years, I edited the nonfiction magazine Morbid Curiosity. Scribner published Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues in 2009. Now I'm blogging about graveyards as travel destinations at Cemetery Travel (http://cemeterytravel.com). A collection of my cemetery...
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