{"id":2340,"date":"2017-01-22T17:43:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T17:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/?p=2340"},"modified":"2017-01-22T17:43:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T17:43:27","slug":"reasons-i-hate-my-big-sister-is-on-the-preliminary-bram-stoker-awards-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/reasons-i-hate-my-big-sister-is-on-the-preliminary-bram-stoker-awards-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Reasons I Hate My Big Sister&#8221; is on the Preliminary Bram Stoker Awards Ballot!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So January ushered in a seriously wonderful surprise: my <em>Nightscript, Volume 2<\/em> story, &#8220;Reasons I Hate My Big Sister,&#8221; made it onto the <a href=\"http:\/\/horror.org\/2016-bram-stoker-awards-preliminary-ballot-announced\/\" target=\"_blank\">2016 Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Nightscript.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1115\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Nightscript-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"Nightscript\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Nightscript-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Nightscript.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a>Now it&#8217;s important to note that appearance on the preliminary ballot is <strong>not<\/strong> a nomination. The official nominations will be coming in February! But even making it this far and sharing the company of such fantastic authors are truly the biggest honors I&#8217;ve had in my writing career.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you&#8217;re an Active or Lifetime Member of Horror Writers Association and would like to read &#8220;Reasons I Hate My Big Sister,&#8221; please email me at gwendolyn@gwendolynkiste.com, and I will be thrilled to send you an electronic copy of the story!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re not an HWA member (and really, you should be!), then consider picking up a copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Nightscript-2-C-M-Muller\/dp\/153747216X\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Nightscript, Volume 2<\/em><\/a>. The anthology &#8220;of strange and darksome tales&#8221; includes so many amazing stories from the brilliant likes of Kristi DeMeester, Michael Griffin, Rebecca J. Allred, Ralph Robert Moore, Malcolm Devlin, Matthew M. Bartlett, Jose Cruz, and many more.<\/p>\n<p>Happy reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So January ushered in a seriously wonderful surprise: my Nightscript, Volume 2 story, &#8220;Reasons I Hate My Big Sister,&#8221; made it onto the 2016 Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot! Now it&#8217;s important to note that appearance on the preliminary ballot is not a nomination. The official nominations will be coming in February! But even making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2372,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions\/2372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}