DECEMBER 2024 THEME ANNOUNCEMENT: WINTER FRIGHTMARE ‼
💥Preorders began FRIDAY, NOV 1ST at 8am PST The December 2024 Night Worms Book Box includes both COLD SNAP and THE DARKEST NIGHT as options. COLD SNAP is hardcover, with a signed bookplate. THE DARKEST NIGHT is paperback. Quantities are limited. Order here.
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FIRST NOVEL
Bless Your Heart by Lindy Ryan Published 9 April 2024 Minotaur Books (St Martin's Group) Approx. ~98k words A crackling mystery-horror novel with big-hearted characters and Southern charm with a bite, Bless Your Heart is a gasp-worthy delight from start to finish from debut author Lindy Ryan. LONG FICTION Cold Snap by Lindy Ryan Published 15 October 2024 Titan Books Approx. ~26k words A grieving mother and son hope to survive Christmas in a remote mountain cabin in Pennsylvania, in this chilling novella of dread, isolation and sinister spirits lurking in the frozen woods. Perfect for fans of The Only Good Indians, The Shining and The Babadook. ANTHOLOGY Mother Knows Best: A Women-in-Horror Anthology Edited by Lindy Ryan Published 7 May 2024 Black Spot Books Approx. ~60k words New and exclusive short stories and poems inspired by bad mothers from some of today’s fiercest women in horror. Featuring Rachel Harrison, Gwendolyn Kiste, Kristi DeMeester, and Kelsea Yu, edited by Lindy Ryan with a foreword by Sadie “Mother Horror” Hartmann. ANTHOLOGY The Darkest Night Edited by Lindy Ryan Published 25 September 2024 Crooked Lane Books Approx. ~90k words From some of the biggest names in horror comes an Advent calendar of short holiday horror stories perfect for the darkest nights of the year. Edited by award-winning author and anthologist Lindy Ryan and with contributions from masters of horror like Josh Malerman, Eric LaRocca, and Clay McLeod Chapman, this horrific anthology will chill you to the bone. SHORT FICTION "Feast of Gray" By Lindy Ryan & Christopher Brooks Published 15 October 2024 in THE DARKEST NIGHT Titan Books Approx. ~2k words The lines between the living and the departed are blurred when a man visiting his mother's grave gets a visit from an unexpected ghost of his past. EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Rain and Boilermaker Entertainment have acquired the rights to Lindy Ryan’s anticipated horror-mystery novel, Bless Your Heart, which will be published by St. Martin’s Press/Minotaur Books on April 9. Rain and Boilermaker are packaging the project for television and are starting writer meetings immediately.
Read more at Deadline. Read the full list on Esquire.
EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Rain and Boilermaker Entertainment have acquired the rights to Lindy Ryan’s anticipated horror-mystery novel, Bless Your Heart, which will be published by St. Martin’s Press/Minotaur Books on April 9. Rain and Boilermaker are packaging the project for television and are starting writer meetings immediately.
Read more at Deadline. AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR/EDITOR LINDY RYAN TO KICK OFF HORROR AND SPECULATIVE FICTION COLUMN AT BOOKTRIB2/8/2024 UNITED STATES, February 8, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- BookTrib.com, a leading source of book news, reviews, and author discovery, has partnered with Lindy Ryan by launching a new column geared toward horror and speculative fiction fans.
Read the full press release. Solaris has bagged Bless Your Heart, a vampire horror story set in south-east Texas, by Lindy Ryan.
Editor Amanda Rutter acquired UK and British Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, from Kerry Nordling, vice-president and director of sub-rights at Minotaur Books. The book will be published in July 2024. Read the full article at The Bookseller. Titan Books has snapped up Lindy Ryan’s "chilling" novella, Cold Snap.
Managing editor George Sandison bought world all-language rights from Italia Gandolfo at Gandolfo Helin & Fountain Literary Management. The novella will be published in October 2024. "The bleak, shadowy days of winter serve as an ideal inspiration for delving into the more sombre aspects of human emotion," said Gandolfo. "In Cold Snap, Lindy navigates the desolate landscape of despair and the unquenchable thirst of guilt, framed against the backdrop of a quintessential winter setting. This chilling narrative spirals into the hidden depths of your psyche – and nothing is more haunting than that." Read the full announcement at The Bookseller. |