PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Richard Thomas is the award-winning author of seven books: three novels, three short story collections, and one novella. He has won contests at ChiZine and One Buck Horror, has received five Pushcart Prize nominations, and has been long-listed for Best Horror of the Year six times. He was also the editor of four anthologies: The New Black and Exigencies (Dark House Press), The Lineup: 20 Provocative Women Writers (Black Lawrence Press) and Burnt Tongues with Chuck Palahniuk. He has been nominated for the Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, and Thriller awards. He was the Editor-in-Chief at Dark House Press and Gamut Magazine. Dennis Widmyer is the co-founder of ChuckPalahniuk.net, the official web site of Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, Choke, Doomed), as well as LitReactor.com, an online magazine, workshop and education classes program. He is also a Los Angeles-based filmmaker with three feature films to his name and a number of shorts, videos and festival bumpers. For more information visit www.denniswidmyer.com. Chuck Palahniuk's novels are the bestselling Fight Club, which was made into a film by director David Fincher, Diary, Lullaby, Survivor, Haunted, and Invisible Monsters. Portions of Choke have appeared in Playboy, and Palahniuk's nonfiction work has been published by Gear, Black Book, The Stranger, and the Los Angeles Times. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.
Burnt Tongues is a solid collection of new voices in transgressive fiction. It goes without saying that it's not for those with weak stomachs, but those who like their fiction edgy and dark will love this book. -Rain Taxi Review of Books
