A few hours ago, the Horror Writer’s Association released this year’s Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot for the Bram Stoker Awards, and I am pleased to announce that THE NIGHT WEAVER is nominated for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel!
Look! I get to put a pretty medal on my cover now. ^_^ Yay me!
This is a surreal moment for me. I mean, the words simply aren’t coming … I feel like I’m in a Twilight Zone episode where someone’s about to tell me there’s been a mistake.
Just being nominated for this award has been on my bucket list since I was a kid. What happens now? Do I sit? Stand? What do I do now?
To all the other Bram Stoker Award nominees, congratulations! It is a well-deserved achievement, one that will hopefully be as memorable to you as it is to me. I mean, wow. Just look at all those names! I’m starstruck to be mentioned among you.
To those who didn’t make it onto the final ballot–I reiterate: Don’t ever stop reaching for your dreams. You are rock stars just for putting yourself out there.
The 2018 Bram Stoker Award® Nominees:
Superior Achievement in a Novel
The Hunger – Alma Katsu
Glimpse – Jonathan Maberry
Unbury Carol – Josh Malerman
Dracul – Dacre Stoker and J.D. Barker
The Cabin at the End of the World – Paul Tremblay
Superior Achievement in a First Novel
What Should Be Wild – Julia Fine
I Am the River – T.E. Grau
The Rust Maidens – Gwendolyn Kiste
Baby Teeth – Zoje Stage
The Moore House – Tony Tremblay
Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel
Dread Nation – Justina Ireland
Sawkill Girls – Claire Legrand
Broken Lands – Jonathan Maberry
The Night Weaver – Monique Snyman
The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein – Kiersten White
Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel
Abbott – Saladin Ahmed
Moonshine Vol. 2: Misery Train – Brian Azzarello
Bone Parish – Cullen Bunn
Destroyer – Victor LaValle
Monstress Volume 3: Haven – Marjorie Liu
Superior Achievement in Long Fiction
Our Children, Our Teachers – Michael Bailey
You Are Released – Joe Hill
Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung – Usman T. Malik
The Devil’s Throat – Rena Mason
Bitter Suites – Angela Yuriko Smith
Superior Achievement in Short Fiction
“Mutter” – Jess Landry
“Dead End Town” – Lee Murray
“Glove Box” – Annie Neugebauer
“A Winter’s Tale” – John F.D. Taff
“And in Her Eyes the City Drowned” – Kyla Lee Ward
Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection
Spectral Evidence – Gemma Files
That Which Grows Wild – Eric J. Guignard
Coyote Songs – Gabino Iglesias
Garden of Eldritch Delights – Lucy A. Snyder
Dark and Distant Voices: A Story Collection – Tim Waggoner
Superior Achievement in a Screenplay
Hereditary – Ari Aster
The Haunting of Hill House: The Bent-Neck Lady, Episode 01:05 – Meredith Averill
Annihilation – Alex Garland
Bird Box – Eric Heisserer
A Quiet Place – Bryan Woods, Scott Beck and John Krasinski
Superior Achievement in an Anthology
A New York State of Fright: Horror Stories from the Empire State – James Chambers, April Grey and Robert Masterson
The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea – Ellen Datlow
A World of Horror – Eric J. Guignard
Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror – Lee Murray
Lost Highways: Dark Fictions from the Road – Alexander D. Ward
Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction
Horror Express – John Connolly
The Howling: Studies in the Horror Film – Lee Gambin
We Don’t Go Back: A Watcher’s Guide to Folk Horror – Howard David Ingham
It’s Alive: Bringing Your Nightmares to Life – Joe Mynhardt and Eugene Johnson
Uncovering Stranger Things: Essays on Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and Innocence in the Series – Kevin J. Wetmore Jr.
Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection
Artifacts – Bruce Boston
Bleeding Saffron – David E. Cowen
Witches – Donna Lynch
War – Marge Simon and Alessandro Manzetti
The Devil’s Dreamland – Sara Tantlinger
