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Joe McKinney's Stoker-nominated "Quarantined" We recently told you about San Antonio’s JOE MCKINNEY landing two works on the Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot. Now, after a preliminary vote by members of the HORROR WRITERS ASSOCIATION, the SAPD detective-turned-scare scribe has even more reason to celebrate. His second novel, QUARANTINED, was selected as one of the final four [Read it all...] Joe McKinney This year’s Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot was released last week, celebrating the best of 2009 in horror literature as recognized by the Horror Writers Association. Congrats to San Antonio’s own Joe McKinney who has two of his works on the list. QUARANTINED is a preliminary selection in the category of Superior Achievement [Read it all...] Author David Liss Fans of fantasy and horror lit, mark this one on your calendar. San Antonio authors DAVID LISS and JOE MCKINNEY will hold a joint reading Thursday, Jan. 7, at the MAIN LIBRARY, 600 Soledad St.. The event starts at 6:30 p.m. David will likely be reading from his forthcoming and almost-finished novel, The Darkening Green, which he [Read it all...] We started Missions Unknown on May 24th, 2009, looking to delve into the SF/F/H happenings in the Alamo City. Frankly, we’ve been amazed at some of the killer things we’ve seen this year. Once again we weigh in with the best of San Antonio’s SF scene and we even solicited some other opinions as well. [Read it all...] Merry Christmas, Holidays, Hannukah, Festivus, Kwaanza, Saturnalia, Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, Brumalia or whatever it is you’re celebrating this time of year. ‘Tis the season you may find yourself looking for the perfect gift for the SF/Fantasy/Horror fan on your list. Take a look at some of these local offerings: JASON LIMON Original Artwork & Prints [Read it all...] Joe McKinney Aspiring horror writers take note. San Antonio zombie maestro JOE MCKINNEY will be teaching a one-day seminar at GEMINI INK on writing modern horror. The session is Saturday, April 10, noon to 5 p.m., and registration deadline is Wednesday, April 7. We know the deadline’s a few months away, but it doesn’t hurt to register early since the class is [Read it all...] McKinney signs on the dotted line. More big news on the zombie front! SAPD Detective and zombie-fiction writer JOE MCKINNEY has scored a three-book deal with Kensington’s PINNACLE BOOKS line, bringing his trilogy about the zombie takeover of the Alamo City to bookstores everywhere. Pinnacle will rerelease Joe’s first novel, Dead City, in September 2010 with new cover art [Read it all...] Hats off to horror homeboy JOE MCKINNEY. His new book Quarantined (Lachesis Publishing, 2009), is now on sale at Amazon and Lachesis. In the book, a deadly flu outbreak threatens to wipe out the populace of San Antonio. The military quarantines the Alamo City to halt the spread of the disease. Amid the chaos, homicide detective [Read it all...] Joe McKinney San Antonio-based writer JOE McKINNEY hit the literary scene in 2006 with DEAD CITY (Kensington, 2006), a zombie tale that moves with the speed of the super-fast reanimated corpses in the recent DAWN OF THE DEAD remake. His latest book, QUARANTINED (Lachesis Publishing, 2009), ventures into apocalyptic sf, and he’s also published about [Read it all...] |
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