{"id":3176,"date":"2019-12-20T20:37:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T01:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/?p=3176"},"modified":"2019-12-20T20:37:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T01:37:07","slug":"2019-publications-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/2019-publications-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Publications Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past year, various venues published seven of my short stories and two of my poems. I also wrote a new level for the online game <a href=\"http:\/\/fish-wrangler.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Fish Wrangler<\/em><\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/brokeneyebooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Eyedolon Magazine<\/em><\/a> published two chapters of my serialized Lovecraftian space opera novel <em>Blossoms Blackened Like Dead Stars.<\/em> (Michelle Lane at <a href=\"https:\/\/michellerlane.com\/2019\/12\/13\/fiction-fragments-lucy-a-snyder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Girl Meets Monster<\/a> recently interviewed me about my serial; the interview includes an excerpt from the novel.)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my whole list for 2019:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cA Simple Plan\u201d \u2013 <em>Eyedolon Magazine<\/em>, Broken Eye Books, November 2019.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Porcupine Boy\u201d \u2013 <em>The Porcupine Boy and Other Anthological Oddities<\/em>, Crossroad Press, October 2019.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThat Which Does Not Kill You\u201d \u2013 <em>Come Join Us By The Fire<\/em>, Tor Nightfire Books, October 2019.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cLiving Dead Space\u201d \u2013 <em>Eyedolon Magazine<\/em>, Broken Eye Books, August 2019.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMonsoon Lagoon\u201d \u2013 <em>Fish Wrangler<\/em>, July 2019.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSilences\u201d \u2013 <em>Vastarien: A Literary Journal<\/em>, Summer 2019.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAn Adventure in Badger Country\u201d \u2013 <em>Tales of Excellent Cats: A Monarchies of Mau Anthology<\/em>, Onyx Path Publishing, June 2019.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Dogs of Summer\u201d \u2013 <em>Mythical!<\/em>, Origins Game Fair, Inc., June 2019.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cApproaching Lavender\u201d\u2013 <em>American Gothic<\/em>, Flame Tree Publishing, June 2019.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cPermian Basin Blues\u201d \u2013 <em>Do Not Go Quietly<\/em>, Apex Books, May 2019.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cVisions of the Dream Witch\u201d \u2013 <em>A Secret Guide to Fighting Elder Gods<\/em>, Pulse Publishing, April 2019.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cA Noble Endeavor\u201d \u2013 <em>Weirdbook Annual #2<\/em>, February 2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>This past year, various venues published seven of my short stories and two of my poems. I also wrote a new level for the online <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/2019-publications-roundup\/\" title=\"2019 Publications Roundup\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[70,156],"tags":[130,9,154,140],"class_list":["post-3176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interview","category-my-books","tag-fantasy","tag-horror","tag-interview","tag-publishing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2019-Roundup3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qT6f-Pe","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3055,"url":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/the-porcupine-boy\/","url_meta":{"origin":3176,"position":0},"title":"The Porcupine Boy and Other Anthological Oddities","author":"Lucy A. Snyder","date":"October 24, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"I wrote the title story for The Porcupine Boy and Other Anthological Oddities, a new anthology of dark fiction that will be published by Crossroad Press on November 12. The book was edited by Christopher M. Jones and features cover art by Natasha Alterici and cover design by Deena Warner\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;My Books&quot;","block_context":{"text":"My Books","link":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/category\/my-books\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Porcupine Boy cover","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/the-porcupine-boy-e1571934156187.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5071,"url":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/halloween-season\/","url_meta":{"origin":3176,"position":1},"title":"Halloween Season","author":"Lucy A. Snyder","date":"July 23, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Halloween Season is my 4th book with Raw Dog Screaming Press, and my 10th short story collection overall. I created it for readers who told me that although they enjoy my horror stories, they really hoped I would return to writing humor, too. This collection has both! It gets progressively\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;My Books&quot;","block_context":{"text":"My Books","link":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/category\/my-books\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"trick or treat banner","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/trick-or-treat-banner1-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/trick-or-treat-banner1-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/trick-or-treat-banner1-1.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/trick-or-treat-banner1-1.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/trick-or-treat-banner1-1.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3111,"url":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/new-book-deal\/","url_meta":{"origin":3176,"position":2},"title":"New Book Deal: Halloween Season","author":"Lucy A. Snyder","date":"November 22, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm very pleased to announce that RDSP will be publishing Halloween Season, my new fiction collection, in the fall of 2020. Some of the stories are fundamentally about Halloween; others are horror or fantasy tales that take place in autumn near the holiday. Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;My Books&quot;","block_context":{"text":"My Books","link":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/category\/my-books\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"RDSP2020","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/RDSP2019-copy.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1463,"url":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/classic-horror-novels\/","url_meta":{"origin":3176,"position":3},"title":"An Overview of Classic Horror Novels Written by Women","author":"Lucy A. Snyder","date":"July 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"How does a horror novel become a classic? First of all, it has to be good, or at least unusually compelling. But quality alone doesn\u2019t ensure that a book will become a classic: it also has to be read, admired, and spread widely enough to inspire other creators. There are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;gender&quot;","block_context":{"text":"gender","link":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/category\/gender\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/shelley-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/shelley-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/shelley-1.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/shelley-1.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/shelley-1.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/shelley-1.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":574,"url":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/maureen-f-mchugh\/","url_meta":{"origin":3176,"position":4},"title":"Maureen F. McHugh","author":"Lucy A. Snyder","date":"January 22, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Maureen F. McHugh is an acclaimed science fiction writer and all-round nice person who used to live in Cleveland, OH and currently lives in Austin, TX. Her work displays a gift for language and characterization that is unusual among science fiction authors. McHugh was born in a small town in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;biography&quot;","block_context":{"text":"biography","link":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/category\/biography\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1335,"url":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/writeshortstories\/","url_meta":{"origin":3176,"position":5},"title":"Why aspiring novelists should write short stories","author":"Lucy A. Snyder","date":"April 29, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Aspiring Novelist: Sure, we all had to read \"The Lottery\" and stuff\u00a0in high school, but who really reads short fiction these days? Aren't short stories just for\u00a0literary hobbyists? Lucy-S: Oh, Aspiring. Just because you're not reading something doesn't mean that nobody reads it. Go over to Ralan.com and take a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;writing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"writing","link":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/category\/writing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Woman Writing","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1675077.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1675077.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1675077.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1675077.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1675077.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lucysnyder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1675077.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3176"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3182,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions\/3182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucysnyder.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}