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Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2014 to Include “The Box Wife”!

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Apparently, this is the little story that could.

I’m very excited to announce that “The Box Wife” which originally appeared in Shock Totem issue #9 will also be included in the Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2014!

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The full TOC is as follows:

  1. “Shadows of the Lonely Dead” by Alan Baxter [Suspended in Dusk]
  2. “The Changeling” by James Bradley [Fearsome Magics]
  3. “Soul Partner” by Imogen Cassidy [Aurealis 74]
  4. “The Bullet & The Flesh” by David Conyers & David Kernot [World War Cthulhu]
  5. “The Corpse Rose” by Terry Dowling [Nightmare Carnival]
  6. “The Oud” by Thoraiya Dyer [Long Hidden Anthology]
  7. “Metempsychosis” by Jason Franks [SQ Magazine]
  8. “Of Gold and Dust” by Michelle Goldsmith [Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 60]
  9. “1884” by Michael Grey [Cthulhu Lives: An Eldrich Tribute to H.P.Lovecraft]
  10. “Escapement” by Stephanie Gunn [Kisses by Clockwork]
  11. “Vox” by Lisa L. Hannett & Angela Slatter [The Female Factory]
  12. “Of The Colour Tumeric, Climbing on Fingertips” by Gerry Huntman [Night Terrors III]
  13. “Dolls for Another Day” by Rick Kennett [The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows: Vol 2]
  14. “Chiaroscuro” by Charlotte Kieft [Disquiet]
  15. “Kneaded” by SG Larner [Phantazein]
  16. “Yard” by Claire McKenna [Use Only As Directed]
  17. “A Prayer for Lazarus” by Andrew J. McKiernan [Last Year, When We Were Young]
  18. “Signature” by Faith Mudge [Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fi]
  19. “The Preservation Society” by Jason Nahrung [Dimension6]
  20. “The Box Wife” by Emma Osborne [Shock Totem: Curious Tales of the Macabre & Twisted #9]
  21. “Shedding Skin” by Angela Rega [Crossed Genres]
  22. “The Love Letters of Swans” by Tansy Rayner Roberts [Phantazein]
  23. “The Badger Bride” by Angela Slatter [Strange Tales IV]
  24. “New Chronicles of Andras Thorn” by Cat Sparks [Dimension6 Annual Collection 2014]
  25. “The Walking-stick Forest” by Anna Tambour [Tor.com]
  26. “Necromancy” by Kyla Ward [Spectral Realms #1]
  27. “Bridge of Sighs” by Kaaron Warren [Fearful Symmetries: An Anthology of Horror]
  28. “Lady of the Swamp” by Janeen Webb [Death at the Blue Elephant]

I’m thrilled to be included in such a great issue. If you’re inclined to do so, you can preorder the issue at Indiebooksonline.

“The Box Wife” is also slated to appear in PseudoPod in the near future.

Award Season!

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I thought I’d do a round-up post on the work of mine that is eligible for awards this year. It’s nice to see a whole lot more runs on the board than in 2013 (I think it was just some flash?).

So! I’m eligible for the Campbell Award for Best New Writer, as well as the Hugos and Nebulas (ahahaha, yeah. If that happens, I’ll eat my hat.) In terms of local stuff, my stories are eligible for the Ditmar and Chronos awards, too.

My poem ‘Crashdown’ that appeared in Apex 60 is also eligible for the Rhysling award for poetry for 2015. Hurrah!

Stories are as follows:

– The Box Wife – Horror short story at Shock Totem: Curious Tales of the Macabre and Twisted

– Zip – SF short story at Bastion Science Fiction Magazine

– Clean Hands, Dirty Hands – Historical fantasy short story at Aurealis Science Fiction and Fantasy. This story was given a three star rating on the Tangent Recommended Reading list!

Please feel free to mention your eligible work in the comments! I will also post some of my favourites of the year very shortly.

Good luck to everyone!

The Box Wife Now Available

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I’m very happy to announce that my horror short story “The Box Wife” is now available in Shock Totem #9! You can grab it on Kindle here, or pre-order a print edition (yes! It is in actual print! Swoon!) here.

Here’s what editor K. Allen Wood has to say about it:

With a touch of SF, Emma Osborne’s “The Box Wife” is sure to leave you uncomfortable. The box wife is one and many, but you’ll recognize all.

Yep. Spooky.

There are also some really wonderful stories in the issue, including the following:

* Unacceptable Content, by Catherine Grant (Editorial)
* Buddy, by Kathryn Ohnaka
* Saturday, by Evan Dicken
* Morning Books and Evening Books: A Conversation with F. Paul Wilson, by Barry Lee Dejasu
* Thirteen Views of the Suicide Woods, by Bracken MacLeod
* Anteroom, by Peter Gutiérrez (Poetry)
* Strange Goods and Other Oddities (Reviews)
* Hey Man, by Tim Lieder
* The Nightmare Rolls On: A Conversation with Stephen Graham Jones, by Zachary C. Parker
* You Are Here, by Stephen Graham Jones
* Good Help, by Karen Runge
* Alan Roscoe’s Change of Heart, by S.R. Mastrantone

I hope that you enjoy, if you’re inclined to have a read.

Cover Art for Shock Totem #9 Featuring The Box Wife

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I mentioned Shock Totem in my last post, and happily, I now have something to show off!

Behold, the absolutely GORGEOUS art for Shock Totem #9!

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I have been completely spoiled with my covers from this year’s publications. Part of me wants to get this one (and hey, the delightful August Bastion SF cover) framed so that I can put it up in my house to swoon over.

My story in Shock Totem is called The Box Wife and it’s definitely the most disturbing thing I’ve ever written. I tend to write more fantasy and SF than horror, but this one came out of nowhere with an incredibly insistent voice that could not be ignored. Weirdly enough, when I made some edits (I ended up using this as a Clarion submission story for this year) I found that I could click into the voice pretty much at will. That’s never happened to me before, and it was rather disconcerting to have it happen with such difficult and challenging subject matter.

Shock Totem will be out shortly and when it is, I’ll trumpet the issue to the sky. I’m very excited and proud to share this story and I can’t wait to see what y’all think!