Bradbury Short Inspires Amblin Series

Amblin TV, capitalizing on its success with Falling Skies, is developing another alien drama.  ABC has ordered a pilot titled The Visitors based on Ray Bradbury’s short story “Zero Hour.”

The Visitors chronicles the race against the clock to defeat an unseen alien enemy out to destroy the world using our most precious resource against us. ABC Studios is producing.  [Dawn] Olmstead and [Soo] Hugh are exec producing along with Amblin’s Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey and Steven Spielberg.

If I didn’t already know the answer I’d be tempted to wonder what aliens in 2014 think “our most precious resource” is? Kim Kardashian’s butt?

[Thanks to John King Tarpinian for the story.]

Lock Wins Start Story Contest

Start Publishing, which invited readers to vote on the top five entries in a contest to write a 500-word short story using Neal Asher’s The Departure book cover as a starting topic, has named “The Shell Game” by Bob Lock the winner. Click on the link to read the full story, which begins —

Kyle Benedict’s eyes opened and took in the scene of devastation. The colony’s control room was wrecked. A last remaining monitor flickered intermittently whilst a thin ribbon of smoke curled up from the bullet-shattered desk. The smell of burnt flesh, cordite and plasma-discharge crept its way through his ruined suit’s filters. Benedict groaned. He’d survived the Prador incursion. ‘Shit!’

Lock will receive a signed Blu-ray copy of The Europa Report produced by Start Motion Pictures (formally known as Wayfare Entertainment) and poster.

Snapshots 131 Full Reptend Prime

Here are 11 developments of interest to fans.

(1) While researching film editor Michael Kahn for my post about Norman Hollyn’s endowed chair at USC, I browsed an article that implied Steven Spielberg and Michael Kahn’s preference for using film to make their pictures was frankly quaint. I was surprised by the implication that digital was already dominant. Now Paramount has announced it will no longer release major movies on film in the United States.

The studio’s Oscar-nominated film “The Wolf of Wall Street” is the studio’s first movie in wide release to be distributed entirely in digital format, according to theater industry executives briefed on the plans who were not authorized to speak publicly.

Paramount recently notified theater owners that its Will Ferrell comedy “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues,” which opened in December, was the last movie released on 35-mm film, these people said. Previously, only small movies such as documentaries were released solely in digital format.

…Other studios were expected to jump on the digital bandwagon first. 20th Century Fox sent a letter to exhibitors in 2011 saying it would stop distributing film “within the next year or two.” Disney issued a similar warning to theater operators. And last year, many industry watchers expected Lions Gate to make history with an all-digital November release of “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.”

Paramount’s move comes nearly a decade after studios began working with exhibitors to help finance the replacement of film projectors with digital systems.

(2) We know it’s expensive to make a movie – with or without film. But check this out. Business Insider reports — at $105 million, the budget for Gravity, Hollywood’s space-themed blockbuster, is $32 million more than the total budget for India’s planned satellite mission to Mars.

(3) A remake of Barbarella is in development by the American television production arm of the French film studio Gaumont. Since it’s TV, can we assume it won’t follow Gravity’s precedent of costing more than a real space mission?

Gaumont is developing a remake of the film – about a sexy agent sent by the president of Earth to find the scientist and Positronic Ray inventor, Dr Durand Durand – for the small screen.

The project is currently on the table at Amazon Studios, an emerging online player backed by the giant online retailer Amazon. Amazon Studios is setting itself up as a rival to the major online players Netflix and Hulu.

(4) I doubt anyone wants Jane Fonda to come back and play Barbarella. But how surprised would you be to hear that financial analysts think they need to warn Disney not to put Harrison Ford in the next Indiana Jones movie?

Harrison Ford is a great actor. There’s no question about it. But his presence in a film doesn’t guarantee success; it only guarantees a big payday for Harrison Ford. Recently, my portfolio was banking on a film that was supposed to be a huge hit in part because he graced its frames with his presence.

I am, of course, talking about Lions Gate Entertainment‘s (NYSE: LGF  ) Ender’s Game. The movie grossed $112 million worldwide (at the time of this writing) against a reported budget of over $100 million (according to Box Office Mojo.) Remember the hype on that one? It was sold on its potential to be a significant cultural event at the cinema, but it fizzled instead.

“Fizzled” is a relative term. At least Ender’s Game grossed more than it cost to make.

(5) From April 1968. A photo of Star Trek’s Leonard Nimoy in recording studio.”Feelin’ Groovy!” Shot by Douglas Jones for Look magazine. View full size.

(6) A building modeled after a Star Wars “Sandcrawler” has been constructed in Singapore to house the regional headquarters of American digital animation studio Lucasfilm.

The 22,500 square meter campus, which features a Yoda fountain, a 100-seat theater and state-of-the-art digital production capabilities, was officially opened on Thursday by George Lucas, the legendary director of Star Wars and founder of California-based Lucasfilm.

Lucasfilm’s decision to cement its presence in the city-state through the construction of the “Sandcrawler”, as the building is officially called, is a reflection of Singapore’s rapid development as a digital animation hub.

(7) Stephen Colbert had Hugo-winner Michael Chabon and Mariel Hemingway in studio to chat about Papa Hemingway.

“Telegraph Avenue” author Michael Chabon discusses Hemingway’s innovative writing style and ponders the lack of sexy-time in “A Farewell to Arms.”

(8) David Lloyd, the co-creator of “V”, offers an intriguing look at digital comics and other platforms in this interview with Comics Bulletin.

CB: Like I mentioned, I work in eBooks and it’s been one of the most fascinating transitions to see how quickly eBooks in general are adopted. Amazon for an example had a smash hit with Kindle. They have reached their market saturation, but it’s only to a certain point. Even with their text-only books, let alone with their graphic novels and such. It seems that there is some way a ceiling where it’s not that much of a generational thing as much as it is the perception. I mean, comic fans tend to be a kind of conservative group anyway – you know, we only want Batman done a certain way.

Lloyd: Yes, that’s interesting. In America, some folks do appear to develop their tastes very quickly and stick to them. Whereas in England there’s a tradition of accepting anthologies and such. But there’s a strong strand of conservatism in comics in both national groups. I don’t know. Maybe it comes out of that whole “clubby” thing. Comics has always seemed like a special club and I think that “clubbiness” makes people want to stick together – to hang onto what they’ve got. They value their exclusiveness, their outsider status. Especially in the situation where we’re all – any of us reading them, in the biz, or around it – still labelled ‘ geeks ‘, really. Resisting universality gives some kind of succour. But if we can reach out to a wider audience we can spread the love and not need to keep it to ourselves!

(9) A live production of Peter Pan will be aired by NBC to capitalize on the network’s ratings success with the The Sound of Music.

Though the cast has yet to be determined, [NBC entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt] joked to reporters at the Television Critics Assocation’s winter press tour on Sunday that he wanted Miley Cyrus to play The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up. Casting a woman to be the lead is not much of a stretch. After all, Mary Martin played Peter in the original Broadway production and won a Tony Award for her portrayal.

(10) Simon & Schuster will launch a new imprint called Simon 451 dedicated to publishing literary and commercial speculative fiction.

The inaugural Simon451 list will launch in October 2014 with the first volume of the EarthEnd Saga series by actress Gillian Anderson, best known for her role on ”The X-Files,” and co-writer Jeff Rovin. Brit Hvide of Simon & Schuster acquired worldwide rights from Doug Grad at The Doug Grad Literary Agency to a trilogy of titles from Anderson and Rovin, the first of which is entitled A Vision of Fire.

…The imprint’s name, “Simon451,” pays homage to Ray Bradbury’s seminal science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451, which has influenced countless readers, writers and publishers, and which Simon & Schuster published in e-book for the first time in 2011, along with other works by Bradbury.

(11) And Bradbury would have laughed aloud if he’d seen Grant Snider’s silly homage “Fahrenheit 351” which gives the dystopian novel a technological tweak.

[Thanks for these links goes out to James H. Burns, Janice Gelb, Andrew Porter, David Klaus, Martin Morse Wooster and John King Tarpinian.]

Traumatic Tuckerizations

Tuckerization means using a person’s real name in a story.

Martin Morse Wooster and I recently compared notes and agreed it was far from tragic that two characters we’d inspired fell short of true Tuckerizations.

Fallen Angels’ “Mike Glider,” while riding with a load of fans in the back of a van, grabs a femmefan’s ass – something that I never did in my life (for all my many failings), nor did I consider riding in the back of a van as license for that kind of thing with anyone.

In Vampire Junction [PDF file] S.P. Somtow has “Morty Rooster” fart himself to death.

Larry Correia’s Vulgar Blog Post – His Word

Adam Roberts, meet Larry Correia!

Last week Larry Correia served up a whole hot fudge sundae of self-promotion, victimhood, and smof-stomping in “Sad Puppies 2: The Illustrated Edition” at Monster Hunter Nation.

Some people rejoice in sad puppies. They say that having one tiny group of fans always vote for their favorites is “tradition.” They call popular authors’ attempts to stir up their non-WorldCon attending fanbase to vote in their little popularity contest as “vulgar.” By being vulgar and super non-traditional Larry Correia’s Sad Puppies 1 campaign only missed the Best Novel cutoff by a few votes, and those brave souls who supported him last year can do so again for FREE this year. But he needs more help… Larry Correia fans are far more likely to spend $40 on ammo, or snacks for the while they watch the new season of Justified than to join WorldCon, and if they actually attended a WorldCon they would probably be very, very bored.

But if somebody like Larry Correia would be nominated for a Hugo, then puppies everywhere would rejoice.

It really gravels him, as many fans as he has, that last year he lost what everyone admits is a popularity contest. Correia’s Monster Hunter Legion missed the 2013 Hugo ballot by 17 votes.

His strategy for avoiding the same fate in 2014 involves the rhetorical sleight-of-hand of convincing his fans that voting for their favorite (him) is a virtuous act of nonconformist rebellion, while the identical behavior directed by other fans towards their favorites (not him) is hideous elitism.

Shouldn’t that work?

Along the way, Correia called on people to nominate his editor at Baen, Toni Weisskopf. Now that’s something I can agree with – Toni Weisskopf should be competing for a Hugo. She’s a terrific developer of talent.

Beneath a photo of Toni’s dog, Daphne, Correia continued –

Daphne is sad because most of her owner’s authors are despised and ridiculed by the traditional WorldCon voting crowd and the snooty literati. She knows that her owner deserves a Hugo for Best Editor because of her impressive career editing hundreds of popular works of sci-fi and fantasy and for discovering dozens of new authors who went on to be big sellers…

For all that the Hugos are a popularity contest, fans are aware a writer can sell an enormous amount of sf — stuff they like! — without moving them to give him an award. One of my personal favorites, Mack Reynolds, sold hundreds of stories in his career, only one of which garnered a Hugo nomination.

It sounds absurd to argue that Toni Weisskopf has rendered service to the field while pretending her authors – which is to say Baen-published authors – are generally despised and ridiculed.  

Begin with Larry Correia himself. Worldcon members nominated Correia for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2011. They sure didn’t despise him that year.

Lois McMaster Bujold is a 12-time Hugo nominee, 5-time winner – and 3 of her Hugo-winning novels were published by Baen.

Other current Baen authors have history with the Hugo/Campbell awards from when they were with other publishers. Timothy Zahn won a Hugo and received two other nominations for short fiction in Analog. Wen Spencer won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer when she was with Roc.

It is a little surprising that two leading alternate history authors, Robert Conroy and S. M. Stirling, who are up for the Sidewise Award almost every year, have never made the Hugo ballot. (Stirling’s Nantucket trilogy came out when he was at NAL/Roc, so as I’m suggesting, the pattern probably has nothing to do with Baen.) And there are some more Baen authors — Michael Z. Williamson, Eric Flint, David Weber, and Mercedes Lackey – who have provided so much entertainment over the course of their careers it’d be great to see them nominated someday.

Nice Is Nice

A Worldcon coming to London has prompted some of the field’s most literate voices to speak out about their Hugo preferences.

Martin Lewis, reviews editor of Vector, the critical magazine of the British Science Fiction Association, has begun to discuss his nominees online at Everything Is Nice.

His discussion of the Best Fan Writer category is articulate and well-informed, also risk-taking and edgy. I enjoyed his analysis even though the only opinion we share is that Abigail Nussbaum would make a great addition to the Hugo ballot.

Hands down the best blogger in the field. I am in awe of Nussbaum’s ability to maintain the holy trinity of blogging: writing regularly about a broad range of subjects in depth. Even her brief reading round up posts are more in-depth than a lot of online reviews but she rights at length about books, films and television (and even a bit of Shakespeare). She missed the shortlist by one nomination last year, let’s not make the same mistake in 2014.

He’s also to be commended for writing such a post without advancing his own name as a nominee. So few are able to resist the temptation.

Indeed, if you’re as tired as I am of people plugging themselves for the Hugo, check out what Adam Roberts has to say. He told readers at Sibilant Fricative that he never wants to see another self-pimping blog post

Award season is also the start of the ‘for your consideration’ blogposts, in which writers large and small draw potential voters’ attention to all the things they have published during the relevant period and try, with varying degrees of success, to find endearing or witty ways of making VOTE FOR QUIMBY sound less self-serving than it actually is. I used to find all that blather annoying and vulgar. Nowadays I find it more directly loathly, because it seems to me directly and negatively distorting of the award shortlists that follow.

I saw this paragraph quoted in an e-mail and clicked on the link supposing Roberts’ whole post would be equally earnest. I was willing to pay that price to see a leading writer decry the annual outpouring of awards-inspired narcissism. In fact, the balance of Roberts’ remarks are chatty and humorous and his survey of the pockets of the internet most infected with self-promotion is quite shrewd.

This Day In History – 1/22

January 22, 1984: Macintosh “1984” computer commercial aired during Super Bowl XVIII

As an audience of men in gray sack uniforms stare at a vast screen where Big Brother is lecturing about the “first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives,” a female athlete carrying a sledgehammer sprints down the center aisle pursued by Thought Police in riot gear. She spins three times and hurls the hammer into the screen and Big Brother’s face disintegrates into shards of glass and a blaze of lightning.

This ad for Apple’s Macintosh computer played during the 1984 Super Bowl. It has been awarded “The Best Commercial of All Time” more than once. I’m sure its legend was only enhanced by the difficulty of ever seeing it if you weren’t watching the game. The George Orwell estate considered the commercial to be a flagrant copyright infringement and had a lawyer send a cease-and-desist letter to Apple and the Chiat/Day advertising agency a couple of months later. The commercial was not televised again for years.

[Thanks to John King Tarpinian for the story.]

Hal Sutherland (1929-2014)

Hal SutherlandBy James H. Burns: Just a few months after the passing of Lou Scheimer, who founded Filmation with the late Norm Prescott, the animation studio’s other original partner Hal Sutherland has died. The fantasy and science fiction efforts Sutherland directed were amongst — and may still be — the most viewed genre television efforts in the world.

Sutherland’s first animation job was at Disney in 1954. He wrote —

I was lucky to find assignments within the studio that exposed me to many facets of the animation world, (things that) most artists who had been there many years ahead of me never viewed. I was fortunate to work on short subjects and features such as Sleeping Beauty, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, plus the very last theatrical short with Donald Duck. I spent several years absorbing that precious information and training. This training gave me a view of the technical sides of animation and later, when a very busy Walt Disney’s attention was detracted from the animation world — to creating Disneyland — the studio fell out of its production scheduling, forcing many layoffs. I was fortunate to be kept on for a good bit of time after most artists had gone to work at outlying small studios. …

After enjoying success at Filmation, he cashed out in 1974 and moved his family to Washington state where he pursued with equal success a career in fine art.

2013 Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) has announced the Preliminary Ballot for the 2013 Bram Stoker Awards. This is not the list of finalists, but the list which HWA’s 1,100 members will vote on to determine the finalists — who will be revealed on February 23.

Superior Achievement in a Novel

Michaelbrent Collings – Darkbound (Amazon Digital Services)
Michaelbrent Collings – The Colony: Genesis (Amazon Digital Services)
John Harwood – The Asylum (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Joe Hill – NOS4A2 (William Morrow)
Stephen King – Doctor Sleep (Scribner)
Lisa Morton – Malediction (Evil Jester Press)
Fuminori Nakamura – Evil and the Mask (Soho Crime)
Sarah Pinborough and F. Paul Wilson – A Necessary End (Thunderstorm/Maelstrom Press)
Christopher Rice – The Heavens Rise (Gallery Books)
Gord Rollo – Only the Thunder Knows (JournalStone)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

L.C. Barlow – Pivot (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform)
Michael Bray – Whisper (Horrific Tales Publishing)
J. Lincoln Fenn – Poe (47North)
Geoffrey Girard – Cain’s Blood (Touchstone)
Kate Jonez – Candy House (Evil Jester Press)
Christian A. Larsen – Losing Touch (Post Mortem Press)
John Mantooth – The Year of the Storm (Berkley Trade)
Rena Mason – The Evolutionist (Nightscape Press)
Jonathan Moore – Redheads (Samhain Publishing)
Royce Prouty – Stoker’s Manuscript (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

Charles Day – The Adventures of Kyle McGerrt: Hunt for the Ghoulish Bartender (Blood Bound Books)
Patrick Freivald – Special Dead (JournalStone)
Kami Garcia – Unbreakable (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Geoffrey Girard – Project Cain (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Hannah Jayne – Truly, Madly, Deadly (Sourcebooks Fire)
Tom Leveen – Sick (Harry N. Abrams)
Joe McKinney – Dog Days (JournalStone)
Cat Winters – In the Shadow of Blackbirds (Harry N. Abrams)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

Ed Brubaker – Fatale Book Three: West of Hell (Image Comics)
Caitlin R. Kiernan – Alabaster: Wolves (Dark Horse Comics)
Brandon Seifert – Witch Doctor, Vol. 2: Mal Practice (Image Comics)
Cameron Stewart – Sin Titulo (Dark Horse Comics)
Paul Tobin – Colder (Dark Horse Comics)

NOTE: As there are only five selections, the Graphic Novel category will not appear on the Preliminary Ballot but will move directly to the Final Ballot. Word of warning: these are not considered “nominees” until the Final Ballot is announced.

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

Dale Bailey – “The Bluehole” (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2013)
Gary Braunbeck – “The Great Pity” (Chiral Mad 2, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform)
James Chambers – Three Chords of Chaos (Dark Quest Books)
Benjamin K. Ethridge – “The Slaughter Man” (Limbus, Inc., JournalStone)
Gregory Frost – “No Others Are Genuine” (Asimov’s Science Fiction, Oct./Nov. 2013)
Greg F. Gifune – House of Rain (DarkFuse)
Eric J. Guignard – Baggage of Eternal Night (JournalStone)
Dustin LaValley – The Deceived (Thunderstorm Books)
Rena Mason – East End Girls (JournalStone)
S.P. Miskowski – Astoria (Omnium Gatherum)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

Colleen Anderson – “The Book With No End” (Bibliotheca Fantastica, Dagan Books)
Michael Bailey – “Primal Tongue” (Zippered Flesh 2, Smart Rhino Publications)
Max Booth III – “Flowers Blooming in the Season of Atrophy” (Chiral Mad 2, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform)
Patrick Freivald – “Snapshot” (Blood & Roses, Scarlett River Press)
David Gerrold – “Night Train to Paris” (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan./Feb. 2013)
Lisa Mannetti – “The Hunger Artist” (Zippered Flesh 2, Smart Rhino Publications)
Samuel Marolla – “Black Tea” (Black Tea and Other Tales, Mezzotints)
Helen Marshall – “The Slipway Grey” (Chilling Tales, EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing)
John Palisano – “The Geminis” (Chiral Mad 2, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform)
Michael Reaves – “Code 666” (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2013)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

Fabien Adda and Fabrice Gobert – The Returned: “The Horde” (Ramaco Media I, Castelao Pictures)
Brad Falchuk – American Horror Story: Asylum: “Spilt Milk” (Brad Falchuk Teley-Vision, Ryan Murphy Productions)
Bryan Fuller – Hannibal: “Apéritif” (Dino De Laurentiis Company, Living Dead Guy Productions, AXN: Original X Production, Gaumont International Television)
Daniel Knauf – Dracula: “A Whiff of Sulfur” (Flame Ventures, Playground, Universal Television, Carnival Films)
Glen Mazzara – The Walking Dead: “Welcome to the Tombs” (AMC TV)

NOTE: As there are only five selections, the Screenplay category will not appear on the Preliminary Ballot but will move directly to the Final Ballot. Word of warning: these are not considered “nominees” until the Final Ballot is announced.

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

R.J. Cavender and Boyd E. Harris (ed.) – Horror Library: Volume 5 (Cutting Block Press)
Marc Ciccarone (ed) – Blood Rites: An Invitation to Horror (Blood Bound Books)
Eric J. Guignard (ed.) – After Death… (Dark Moon Books)
Michael Knost and Nancy Eden Siegel (ed.) – Barbers & Beauties (Hummingbird House Press)
Ross E. Lockhart (ed.) – Tales of Jack the Ripper (Word Horde)
Lori Michelle (ed.) – Bleed (Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing)
Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. (ed.) – The Grimscribe’s Puppets (Miskatonic River Press)
Jeani Rector (ed.) – Shadow Masters: An Anthology from the Horror Zine (Imajin Books)
Anthony Rivera and Sharon Lawson (ed.) – Dark Visions: A Collection of Modern Horror, Volume One (Grey Matter Press)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

Nathan Ballingrud – North American Lake Monsters: Stories (Small Beer Press)
Laird Barron – The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories (Night Shade Books)
Max Booth III – They Might Be Demons (Dark Moon Books)
Kenneth W. Cain – Fresh Cut Tales: A Collection of Dark Fiction (Distressed Press)
James Dorr – The Tears of Isis (Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing)
K. Trap Jones – The Crossroads: A Collection of Narrative Horror (Hazardous Press)
Caitlin R. Kiernan – The Ape’s Wife and Other Stories (Subterranean)
Chantal Noordeloos – Deeply Twisted (TMH Publishing) Gene O’Neill – Dance of the Blue Lady (Bad Moon Books)
Reggie Oliver – Flowers of the Sea (Tartarus Press)
S. P. Somtow – Bible Stories for Secular Humanists (Diplodocus Press)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan (ed.) – Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic (Fairleigh Dickinson)
Gary William Crawford (ed.) – Ramsey Campbell: Critical Essays on the Modern Master of Horror (Scarecrow Press)
William F. Nolan – Nolan on Bradbury: Sixty Years of Writing about the Master of Science Fiction (Hippocampus Press)
Jarkko Toikkanen – The Intermedial Experience of Horror: Suspended Failures (Palgrave Macmillan)
Robert H. Waugh (ed.) – Lovecraft and Influence: His Predecessors and Successors (Scarecrow Press)
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (ed.) – The Works of Tim Burton: Margins to Mainstream (Palgrave Macmillan)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

Vincenzo Bilof – The Horror Show (Bizarro Pulp Press)
Bruce Boston – Dark Roads: Selected Long Poems 1971-2012 (Dark Renaissance Books)
G.O. Clark – Scenes Along the Zombie Highway (Dark Regions Press)
David C. Kopaska-Merkel – Luminous Worlds (Dark Regions Press)
Helen Marshall – The Sex Lives of Monsters (Kelp Queen Press)
Marge Simon and Sandy DeLuca – Dangerous Dreams (Elektrik Milk Bath Press)
Marge Simon, Rain Graves, Charlee Jacob, and Linda Addison – Four Elements (Bad Moon Books/Evil Jester Press)
Bryan Thao Worra – Demonstra: A Poetry Collection (Innsmouth Free Press)
Stephanie M. Wytovich – Hysteria: A Collection of Madness (Raw Dog Screaming Press)