Pen Pricks Valentines Issue

"Happily Ever After" will be in the Valentine's Day Issue of Pen Pricks! As I have said before, February is so going to be my month!

Ruins Metropolis TOC Announced

Ruins Metropolis TOC

Cover Art (c) by Debbie Hughes

The stories are set in the ruins depicted in this cover art. In each story, the woman in the image is the protagonist. How similar are the stories? Ah, that was the experiment. You decide.Coming soon . . . .Ruins Metropolis

Adele Cosgrove-Bray "Old World Magic"
Ahmed A. Khan "End"
Alycia C. Cooke "Sumari's Solitude"
Anna D. Allen "Mrs. Kelly's Ghosts"
Barton Paul Levenson "City of the Dead"
Brenta Blevins "A Haunting in Giza"
C.L. Holland "In Search of Camanac"
Camille Alexa "Veilsight"
Chris Benton "For Sale: One Gold (plated) Eye Of Horus"
Christine Poulsen "The Eye of Re-Atum"
Erin M. Hartshorn "By the Pool of the Blue Lotus"
Gene Stewart "The Name and the Shadow"
Gerri Leen "Seeker of the Dead"
Gianna Robbins "Goddess Reborn"
H.F. Gibbard "Chamber of Illusions"
Heather Kuehl "The Final Goodbye"
Jacqueline Seewald "Amulet"
Jennifer Moore "The Return of the Queen"
Jonathan Shipley "When Love Dies"
Jude-Marie Green "Dancing On the Corpse of the World"
K.L. Townsend "Convergence"
Kari Livingston "Kehmet's Curse"
Kate Kelly "In the precinct of Amun-Re"
Kimberly Vandervort "The Librarian of Talimbourne"
Leslie Brown and Sarah Totton "The Amulet of Passages"
Lyn McConchie "Children of the City"
Meg Swanton "The Memory"
Megan Arkenberg "Panthanatos"
R.F. Long "Carrying Keptara"
Ransom Noble "Qui's Contract"
Rob Rosen "The Great Sleep"
Sarah Wagner "The Tomb of Setankan"
Stephen Graham King "Burning Stone"
Victoria Kennedy "The Deserted City"
Willis Couvillier "Haroeris's Favor”


The line-up looks awesome! From what I have heard, the stories are quite diverse. My story, "The Final Goodbye," is set in Egypt and discusses the one question that everyone has to the dead. What is that question? Well you are just going to have to read Ruins Metropolis to find out!

P&E poll results and Ruins update!

The final scores are tallied for the Preditors and Editors Poll and " The Wicked Deed" has placed 22nd, along with 28 other people. Not bad, seeing as someone has to vote it on in the first place. Hopefully next year goes better.

If everything goes as planned Ruins Metropolis will be out around the end of February. I've seen the TOC and it looks awesome. The full list of stories should be listed here within the next couple of days.

Preditors & Editors Poll

I just found out that someone voted my story "The Wicked Deed" onto the Preditors and Editors Poll! It's a little too late to do anything about it now, since the voting ends at midnight tonight, but it's still an honor to even be nominated.

Thank you.

Fastest Acceptances EVER!

At 7:54 I emailed two of my mirco fiction stories to MicroHorror.com.

By 7:59 I got them accepted. Wow!

"Back to the Beginning" and "The Price of Utopia" are both up on MicroHorror. It's taken me forever to find "Back to the Beginning" a home, and I am happy that it's with MicroHorror. As for "The Price of Utopia," once you read it you will see why it was a hard sell. But it does make you think.

You can either view them on the Free Fiction part of my website, or through the link below. Enjoy!

http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/category/author/heather-kuehl/