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Author Spotlight: Nicole M. Wolverton

Meet @nicolewolverton, our #AuthorSpotlight interview this week, and her new book, A MISFORTUNE OF LAKE MONSTERS - YA cozy horrormance out this month! #authorinterview #booksbooksbooks #YAbooks #YAHorror #CozyHorror #readmorebooks

Nicole M. Wolverton is a fear enthusiast who grew up in rural Pennsylvania, wondering what lurked in the cornfields outside her bedroom window. Today, Nicole is a Pushcart-nominated writer of (mostly) speculative and horror fiction for adults and young adults. She is the author of A MISFORTUNE OF LAKE MONSTERS, a young adult speculative novel (CamCat Books, July 2024), and THE TRAJECTORY OF…

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New Book Release: A Misfortune of Lake Monsters by Nicole M. Wolverton

    Blurb: When legends bite back… Lemon Ziegler wants to escape rural Devil’s Elbow, Pennsylvania to attend college―but that’s impossible now that she’s expected to impersonate the town’s lake monster for the rest of her life. Her family has been secretly keeping the tradition of Old Lucy, the famed (and very fake) monster of Lake Lokakoma, alive for generations, all to keep the tourists…

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🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in February 2024

🌈 Good afternoon, my bookish bats! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!

❤️ We Ate the Dark by Mallory Pearson 🧡 The Paper Boys by D.P. Clarence 💛 Skater Boy by Anthony Nerada 💚 Your Shadow Half Remains by Sunny Moraine 💙 A Vicious Game by Melissa Blair 💜 Clarion Call by Cayla Fay ❤️ Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories edited by Sandra Proudman 🧡 The Absinthe Underground by Jamie Pacton 💛 Truthfully, Yours by Caden Armstrong 💙 Outsider by Jade du Preez 💜 Cross My Candy Heart by A.C. Thomas 🌈 The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

❤️ An Education in Malice by S. T. Gibson 🧡 The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Ann Older 💛 Never a Bridesmaid by Spencer Greene 💚 The Rewind by Nicole Stiling 💙 Good Christian Girls by Elizabeth Bradshaw 💜 The Fox Maidens by Robin Ha ❤️ The Terrible by Tessa Crowley 🧡 Blood Rage by Ileandra Young 💛 Call of the Sea by Emily B. Rose 💙 Sign Me Up by C.H. Williams 💜 Ways and Means by Daniel Lefferts 🌈 Peaceful in the Dark by A.A. Fairview

❤️ We Are Only Ghosts by Jeffrey L. Richards 🧡 Dead Ringer by Robyn Nyx 💛 Somacultural Liberation by Dr. Roger Kuhn 💚 Stormbringer by Erinn Harper 💙 A Saga of Shields & Shadows by A.J. Shirley 💜 Ghost Town by R.E. Ward ❤️ I Heard Her Call My Name by Lucy Sante 🧡 The Night Alphabet by Joelle Taylor 💛 Remedial Magic by Melissa Marr 💙 Bloom by N.R. Walker 💜 Entwined by Alex Alberto 🌈 Queer Newark edited by Whitney Strub

❤️ Tristan by Jesse Roman 🧡 How to Live Free in a Dangerous World by Shayla Lawson 💛 Daniel, Deconstructed by James Ramos 💚 Of Socialites & Prizefights by Arden Powell 💙 Lost Harbor by Kimberly Cooper Griffin 💜 Hannah Tate, Beyond Repair by Laura Piper Lee ❤️ Bunt! Striking Out on Financial Aid by Ngozi Ukazu & Mad Rupert 🧡 How You Get the Girl by Anita Kelly 💛 Blackmailer’s Delight by David Lawrence 💙 Tile M for Murder by Felicia Carparelli 💜 Impulse Buy by Jae 🌈 Live for You, Die With You by Kalob Dàniel

❤️ Fairest of All by A.D. Ellis 🧡 Goddess of the Sea by Britney Jackson 💛 A Taste of Earth by Nico Silver 💚 The Moorings of Mackerel Sky by M.Z. Emily Zack 💙 How the Boogeyman Became a Poet by Tony Keith 💜 V is for Valentine by Thomas Grant Bruso ❤️ Crushed Ice by Ashlyn Kane & Morgan James 🧡 When Tomorrow Comes by D. Jackson Leigh 💛 Bugsy & Other Stories by Rafael Frumkin 💙 The White and Blue Between Us by Kiyuhiko 💜 Guide Us Home by CF Frizzell & Jesse J. Thoma 🌈 The Friendship Study by Ruby Barrett

❤️ Infinity Alchemist by Kacen Callender 🧡 Heart2Heart edited by Annabeth Albert 💛 No Time Like Now by Naz Kutub 💚 Bless the Blood by Walela Nehanda 💙 Vengeance Planning for Amateurs by Lee Winter 💜 Who We Are in Real Life by Victoria Koops ❤️ Prove It by Stephanie Hoyt 🧡 Mewing by Chloe Spencer 💛 Awakenings by Claudie Arseneault 💙 Born of Scourge by S. Jean 💜 Disciples of Chaos by M.K. Lobb 🌈 To Cage a God by Elizabeth May

❤️ Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly 🧡 What Feasts At Night by T. Kingfisher 💛 You Had Me at Merlot by Melissa Brayden 💚 Turning Point by Cathy Dunnell 💙 For the Stolen Fates by Gwendolyn Clare 💜 Season of Eclipse by Terry Wolverton ❤️ These Haunted Hills by Jana Denardo 🧡 Samson & Domingo by Gume Laurel III 💛 Lies that Bind by Rae Knowles & April Yates 💙 We Got the Beat by Jenna Miller 💜 The Diablo's Curse by Gabe Cole Novoa 🌈 Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh

❤️ Out There by Iris Eliot 🧡 At Her Service by Amy Spalding 💛 Green Dot by Madeleine Gray

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Cat plumbs the depths of summer cryptid horror in her review of A Misfortune of Lake Monsters, out July 2nd from Nicole M. Wolverton and Cam Cat Books.

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There's a story in this collection that connects menstruation and lycanthropy, plus a whole other bunch of menopause/horror stories.

not enough stories go for the lycanthropy-as-menstruation angle tbh. sure I see plenty of "time of the month" jokes but there's so much unexplored potential. scatterbrained werewolf feeling cranky and exhausted for no discernible reason before checking their phone and seeing the "your transformation is in two days" notification like "oohh right. the horrors." werewolf girl losing her whole mind trying to excuse herself from a function so she can go transform but noooo she can't just say that's what she has to do because it's "impolite" or whatever and she has to keep making vague excuses with weird euphemisms. werewolf guy having an awkward conversation with an acquaintance who keeps talking about the divine lycanthropic and the mystic properties of the wolf and moon, and like, he's not going to tell them that their relationship with their own transformations is wrong, but for him it's just this kind of annoying kind of painful thing he needs to deal with sometimes? and it feels weird elevating this basic bodily function of his to something quasi religious?

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COVER REVEAL - A Misfortune of Lake Monsters by Nicole M. Wolverton

A Misfortune of Lake MonstersNicole M. WolvertonPublication date: July 2nd 2024Genres: Horror, Young AdultWhen Legends Bite Back . . . Lemon Ziegler wants to escape rural Devil’s Elbow, Pennsylvania to attend college–but that’s impossible now that she’s expected to impersonate the town’s lake monster for the rest of her life. Her family has been secretly keeping the legend of Old Lucy, the famed…

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WIHM 2022: An Interview With Editor Nicole M. Wolverton

In celebration of Women in Horror Month, we are continuing to highlight some of the amazing work that women have been doing compiling and editing magazines and anthologies in the horror industry. We’re continuing our Women Who Edit Interview series with Nicole M. Wolverton.   Could you introduce yourself, and tell us a little about you? I’m Nicole M. Wolverton, a (mostly) horror novelist and…

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Bodies Full of Burning by Nicole M. Wolverton My rating: 4 of 5 stars *disclaimer* I received an ARC of this anthology in exchange for an honest review. Also, this is a spoiler free review. In her introduction, editor Nicole M. Wolverton makes an astute observation: There is much horror that deals with the onset of a woman's menstruation, and puberty in general, and precious little - if any - that deals with the end of our menses. So much of the horror canon revolves around periods and pubescent changes and then desire/sexuality, followed by motherhood. Then literature and pop culture seem to skip over our middling years and jump right into cronehood. To be sure, it's not a sexy time in a woman's life. It's fraught with physical and emotional demands the likes of which can only be understood through experience. But it's also a time when many women - myself included - come into their own. So when I first heard of this anthology I was immediately excited. I knew it would pose a unique challenge to writers and I was keen to see what they would come up with. I did have some concerns early on about the breadth of experience that may, or may not, be included in such a particular anthology. Would there be trans inclusive stories? And what about stories from non-white people? I am pleased to report that this anthology comes with an array of experiences and I applaud both Nicole and Sliced Up Press on their efforts. As with every anthology there were hits and misses. I won't specifically call out the misses but I will say there were a couple of stories I did not finish reading. That does not mean that they were bad stories. Every reading experience is subjective. Something I find lacking might be exactly your cup of tea. My absolute favorites were as follows: Here There Are Dragons by Megan M. Davies-Ostrom: This was one of the few stories in the anthology that treated menopause as something empowering and that also had absolutely nothing to do with men. I will touch more on this later. For now I just want to say that I really appreciated the atmosphere in this story, the build up, and the final positive message that there is a freedom and strength in becoming something new. Four Acres and a Shovel by Carman Webb: This story really brings the horror. I could easily see this piece listed in any of the more prominent Year's Best Of horror collections. It takes a common trope - a husband no longer interested in his aging wife - and subverts it through the lens of monstrosity. I felt the terror the woman in the story felt and I thought her creature was an intriguing invention. I thought back to this story frequently after reading it. Nobody Warns You by D.A. Jobe: This one is easily my favorite in the bunch. I felt like this was the most unique interpretation of menopause throughout the anthology. Instead of focusing on one woman's experience with menopause it presented the idea of menopause from a societal perspective and the tragedy that followed because of the pressure on women to transition peacefully and quietly. Again, I felt real terror reading this and eagerly flipped each page wanting more. This is another I could see collected in a Best Of anthology. The only nitpick I have is that I wish it had ended a page earlier. Again, this is all so subjective but I personally prefer a bit of mystery. The explanatory last page dulled the magic of the story. But overall it was an A+ piece. In Bloom by Dr. Bunny McFadden: This is another unique entry. I was not expecting a story that utilized the ocean and sea creatures for something about menopause. But it worked and was an interesting read. Trouble in Room Eight by E.F. Schraeder: Wolf metaphors aren't exactly unique in female centric horror but I appreciated the bucolic setting of the story and the mystery that played out. The characters were interesting and the plot was engaging and the author never fell back on any of the more cliché tropes you typically see in wolf/girl stories. All around a good read. As for the drawbacks, they are as follows: A fair number of the stories were about women losing the interest of their husbands, or of men in general, because of going through the change. While I do understand that this is a deep seated fear for many women it mostly made me feel pity. There is such strength and independence to be found during this stage in our life and I wish more of the pieces had reflected that. Also, a number of the stories really took the "Bodies Full of Burning" to heart. Many of the pieces focused on hot flashes and I wish there had been more variety in regards to the myriad of symptoms that can plague a woman during this time of life. At certain points things felt a bit repetitive. That being said, this was a worthy collection and I do not feel my time was wasted at all. I highly recommend this anthology to anyone that loves horror and I truly hope we see more collections like this in the future. View all my reviews

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Weekly Wrap-Up: Week of July 5, 2021

Weekly Wrap-Up: Week of July 5, 2021

Is it really Saturday without an LSQ blog roundup? Take a look at all the good stuff we have for you this week! On Monday, we took note of all the LSQ happenings for the month; On Tuesday, Issue 046 author Nicole M. Wolverton took us behind the scenes of her story “Them Oranges“; On Wednesday, Shawna Bethell reviewed Claire North’s The End of the Day; On Thursday, D. M. Domosea interviewed…

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Issue 046 Author Interview: Nicole M. Wolverton and "Them Oranges"

Issue 046 Author Interview: Nicole M. Wolverton and “Them Oranges”

Our Issue 046 authors have been sharing their inspiration over the past few weeks, but we bet you’ll never guess how Nicole M. Wolverton got the idea for “Them Oranges“! Read on to find out: LSQ: I just loved this, it goes from whimsical to so wonderfully dark in a flash. I love the hints of danger you seed in before we realize where things are going, like her being careful to bring a knife…

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Taking Submissions: Bodies Full of Burning: An Anthology of Menopause-Themed Horror

Deadline: June 1st, 2021 Payment: $0.01 per word and a contributor’s copy Theme: Stories must include menopause as the main plot point Sliced Up Press is looking for short stories involving menopause for its latest horror fiction anthology, Bodies Full of Burning: An Anthology of Menopause-Themed Horror, edited by Nicole M. Wolverton. Menopause can be hell – so show us your demons, your darkest…