For Release 08/09/2004
Unique Event: Women on Horror

On Friday, August 27, 2004 at 7:00 pm, the Barnes & Noble Booksellers in Annapolis, Maryland will be hosting a gathering of accomplished and exciting women horror writers from all around the United States.  The Women of Persephone are novelists, poets, short story and nonfiction writers who support one another year-round and who will be meeting for their first writers retreat in Maryland.  For one evening only, they will be speaking about the career of horror writing from a female perspective.  An autographing session will follow.  Come meet some of America's foremost scary ladies.  This is a free event.

Guests include:

a.. Elizabeth Massie is a two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of short stories and novels. Her books include Sineater, Welcome Back to the Night, Wire Mesh Mothers, Dark Shadows: Dreams of the Dark, Shadow Dreams, The Fear Report, and more. She has also authored numerous historical novels for young adults and is the creator of the Skeeryvilletown series of cartoon monsters.

b. Karen E. Taylor is the author of the Bram Stoker Award nominated collection, Fangs and Angel Wings, and the popular Vampire Legacy series. Her newest novel, Blood Red Dawn, is an October 2004 release from Kensington Books.

c. Laura Anne Gilman is a writer and editor of more than twenty short stories, three non-fiction books for teenagers, and four media tie-in novels, as well as a number of adult non-fiction works.  Her first original novel, the dark fantasy mystery Staying Dead, has just been published by Luna, with the sequel, Curse the Dark, to follow in July 2005.

d. Barbara J. Ferrenz is the author of the mystery novel, Worse Than Death, about an Annapolis area housewife who writes horror and encounters murder. Her short stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies for more than a decade.

e. Linda Addison received the HWA Bram Stoker award for her poetry collection, Consumed, Reduced To Beautiful Grey Ashes (Space & Time). Catch
her in the 2004 anthologies: Dark Dreams (Kensington) and Dark Thirst (Pocket Books).

f. Lisa Manetti is the author of Equality and Iran-Iraq: Nations at War, as well as the soon to be published 51 Fiendish Ways to Leave your Lover. In September 2004, her short story "Zombie Condiments" will appear in the anthology to benefit Charles L. Grant: Small Bites.

g. Tina Jens is a three time Bram Stoker award nominee as an author and editor and live show producer. Her first novel, The Blues Ain't Nothin': Tales of the Lonesome Blues Pub was named Best Novel of the Year by the National Federation of Press Women, and was a finalist for the Stoker, as well as the International Horror Guild Award.

h. Viki Rollins is a poet, author, computer network administrator, and co-producer of Twilight Tales: The Reading Series, held weekly in Chicago. Her short fiction has appeared in a number of anthologies including the upcoming Twilight Tales anthology, Spooks.

i. Liz Mandeville-Greeson is a Chicago blues singer with a short story in the upcoming Twilight Tales anthology, Spooks.

Barnes & Noble Booksellers
2558 Solomons Island Road
Annapolis, MD 21401
410-573-1115

Contact: Barbara J. Ferrenz
               
                bferrenz@comcast.net