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Lisa

About Me



Past: Screenwriter. Present: Short fiction writer. Future: Novelist. Feature films include Meet the Hollowheads, Tornado Warning, Blood Angels. Short fiction appearances in Mondo Zombie, Dark Delicacies, The Museum of Horrors, Midnight Premiere, etc. Two books of non-fiction, The Cinema of Tsui Hark and The Halloween Encyclopedia. Have written film reviews for Horror, Dark Regions and Chizine.com (the latter with Mike Marano). Won the 2006 Stoker Award for Short Fiction ("Tested", from Cemetery Dance #55). Won HWA's President's Richard Laymon Award in both 2005 and 2006. Born and bred Southern Californian. Live with actor Richard Grove and too many cats.Check out the most recent and upcoming fiction appearances: Non-fiction books:Profile courtesy of MySpace Layouts

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Writers; horror lovers; fans of Asian cinema.

My Blog

Reconnections

If you live long enough in this world, and haven't spent all this years studying the fine art of living as a hermit in an Appalachian cave, then inevitably you'll reach a point where you'll find your ...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:14:00 GMT

2009 Stoker Awards Weekend website now live

The website for the 2009 Stoker Awards Weekend is now live and can be accessed via either of these addresses: http://ping.fm/ftW7lhttp://ping.fm/Kj8DL The website is fully functional - we can accept P...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:02:00 GMT

The Black Quill Awards

I just found out that A Hallowe'en Anthology is a non-fiction nominee in the 2nd Annual Black Quill Awards:http://ping.fm/CIYrpY'know, I'll confess that a year ago, when I saw the nominees for the fir...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:52:00 GMT

Thankful

Happy Thanksgiving! I think it's important today to take the time to give thanks for a few of the small things:- I'm thankful that the creepy looking guy who came into the store last night about 7 and...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:22:00 GMT

The Jones Affair

Steve Jones has just posted photos from his recent visit to L.A. Check out great pix of Steve and Dennis Etchison, Pete Atkins, Glen Hirshberg, Tony Richards, Nancy Holder, George Clayton Johnson, Del...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:12:00 GMT

The Best Movie of 2008

Pardon my flack-like behavior today, but I saw a movie this week that I just can't stop raving about.Remember A TALE OF TWO SISTERS? Maybe you even saw Kim Ji-Woon's earlier THE FOUL KING, or later A ...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:59:00 GMT

Back to Basics

And now that we're done with that silly election stuff, we can get back to the really important things...like Dia de los Muertos 2008 at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery!http://ping.fm/2LFpfOfrendas, da...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:13:00 GMT

A nice Halloween present!

A HALLOWE'EN ANTHOLOGY gets an extraordinarily kind review over at Fearzone.com:http://www.fearzone.comThat's two in a row (the other's in the current issue of RUE MORGUE magazine, on newstands everyw...
Posted by on Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:29:00 GMT

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bodyRelief. The frantic movie rewrite is finished, on time, and the producer is delighted with it. Which means the best part - the check, of course - follows shortly. And I get to return to AnnSavageL...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:59:00 GMT

Pingie Thingie

I'm testing this new service from ping.fm that lets you post one blog to multiple sites at once. I'm notoriously awful about updating anything that's not my LiveJournal, so I'm hoping this will let me...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:06:00 GMT