So. It’s out! Poiesis is now available worldwide on Amazon (exclusively, for now), and this means Symbiosis has begun. Which is pretty bad, for me, I guess, because now I have to continue with this thing, and it will finally consume what little sanity was left. Well. That happens. Luckily, I’m not alone in this one (and that’s the main reason I finally managed to face it, as the project has been there, waiting, since 2016): Symbiosis is another double-headed project I’m tackling together with my wife, Valentina Kay. Also, you may have seen that Peter Watts has penned the intro — so you can imagine stoke levels around here.…

My novelette Game got a shortlist Honorable Mention in Ellen Datlow’s The Best Horror of the Year, vol.9. The anthology including the story, The Beauty of Death — featuring many of the top names of today’s horror — is also mentioned in the Summation 2016, and colleagues Daniel Braum and Thersa Matsuura got Honorable Mentions as well.

The Beauty of Death, including my novelette “Game” and featuring stories by Peter Straub, Ramsey Campbell, John Skipp and many others, is on the shortlist of the five 2016 Bram Stoker Award Nominees, Anthology category.