Silvia Moreno-Garcia

In 2011 I won an award (Carter V. Cooper Memorial Prize, sponsored by Gloria Vanderbilt and Exile Quarterly) and was a finalist for another (Manchester Fiction Prize). I got to see Toronto thanks to Exile, so that was pretty awesome.

After a couple of false starts, I finished a novel. Sound Fidelity is done! Yes, it needs to be revised but it exists and will go out to meet the world and its literary agents in 2012.

I co-edited three anthologies with Paula R. Stiles and released them through my micro-publishing business, Innsmouth Free Press. The most successful one, for a number of reasons is Future Lovecraft. Historical Lovecraft did OK and Gothic is not hot, as proven by Candle in the Attic Window. I had fun with all of them and next year I’m working on Fungi with Orrin Grey.

I also published a number of stories:

• Flash Frame (December 2010. Reprinted in The Book of Cthulhu, September 2011. Originally in Cthulhurotica)
• At the Edge (Space and Time, January 2011)
• The Death Collector (AE – The Canadian Science Fiction Review, February 2011)
• Shade of the Ceibra Tree (Kaleidotrope, May 2011)
• Scales As Pale as Moonlight (Carter V.Cooper Anthology and the Canadian literary journal Exile Quarterly, May 2011)
• A Handful of Earth (Expanded Horizons, July 2011)
• This Strange Way of Dying (GigaNotoSaurus, August 2011. Audio recording from Podcastle, November 2011)
• A Puddle of Blood (EVOLVE Two: Vampire Stories of the Future Undead, August 2011)
• The English Cemetery (Coffinmouth, September 2011)
• The Gan Wait (AE – The Canadian Science Fiction Review, November 2011)
• Memory (Expanded Horizons, December 2011)

That’s about it! For 2012 I hope to write more non-fiction, work on more short stories, release the mushroom anthology and actually sell a novel. Unless the world ends tonight. In which case, we had a good run.