Kenneth

E-Mail at :   KGOL991920@aol.com

 

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To :      Man’s Story 2 :  The Cure,  c/o Hortencia, Editor
Re :      “Videodeath”  (Approx. 3853 words/Rich Text File/MS Word attached)

 

 

 

Dear  H,

 

Thank you for letting me know of your need for submissions for The Cure.  I’ve had two tales published in Man’s Story editions,  “Made For Each Other” in Androids 2 and “Ashes to Ashes”  in Vampires 2. Having read your guidelines  I am offering the following tale for consideration in your publication. If you would prefer a hard copy instead of this e-mail please notify me and I will post it to you instead. For your convenience I have included “Videodeath” as a Rich Text File/MS Word attachment as requested in your GLs.

 

“Videodeath”  appeared in   Aberations #13  (spring  1993), Bloodsongs  #4/Bambada Press (Australia : April 1995), and Unhinged ‘Sex issue‘ #6 (UK : fall 2000). It is offered to Man’s Story 2/The Cure  with One-Time/Reprint Rights.

 

BIOGRAPHY :

 

Previous high school English and Film Studies teacher (Horror and Science Fiction in Film and Literature) at George Washington High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Member of the former GWA, the Genre Writers Association.
Affiliate Member of HWA, the Horror Writers Association.

 

WRITING CREDITS 2006-2008 :

 

Over 475 published stories in the small/independent  press since 1993 :

 

Short Story Collection (Paperback)

 

 You Had Me At ARRGH! : Five Uneasy Pieces by Ken Goldman (Sam’s Dot                    
         Publishing/October 2007)

 

Novelette/Horror Imprint

 

“POE 103” in Barley Books’ Little Horrors series, UK (October 2000)

 

 

 

Print Magazines 2006-2008

 

The American publications Tales of The Talisman, Ambitions, Sinisteria, Champagne Shivers, The Shantytown Anomaly, Sinister Tales, Switchblade, Ethereal Gazette, Trail of Indiscretion,  Dark Discoveries, Lorelei Signal,  Horror Garage, Out Of The Gutter,  7th Dimension, and Glutonlump‘s Chilling Tales; the Canadian publications Storyteller Magazine, Revelation,  Meat Grinder Press,  Spinning Whorl, and Backroads; the United Kingdom Publications SciFantastic, Midnight Street, and The Willows. A complete list including issues and dates is available on request.

 

Online (web zine, e-anthology, CD, PDF, PodCast) Publications 2005-2007

 

Whispers of Wickedness, Bewildering Stories, Vampires 2, Dark Recesses, Simulacrum, Tapestry, Hell Inside, Afterburn, Susurrus,  Neometropolis,  MicroHorror, HorrorD‘Ouervres,  From The Asylum,  Chaos Theory, Expressions,  Demon Minds,  HUB, 7th Dimension; and the PodCasts PseudoPod and  Well Told Tales. 

 

 

Anthologies

 

The 1995 Small Press Genre Association Showcase (Orinda Press, Orinda, CA)
Nasty Snips (MT Publishing, UK)
The Darkest Hour : An Anthology of Short Thrillers (Telltale Press, Boston, MA.)
The World’s Shortest Stories of Love and Death [paperback and audiotape] (Running
Press Book Publishers, Philadelphia, PA)
The Witching Hour Volumes 1 and 2 [e-book, CD, and hard copy] (Silver Lake Publishing)
New Traditions in Terror (Writers Club Press)
MOTA 2002 Anthology : Truth (Triple Tree Publishing)
A Search for Monsters e-anthology (Cyber-Pulp Houston/USA)
Freaks, Geeks, & Sideshow Floozies (Twilight Tales)
Darkness Rising 5 : Black Shroud of Fear (UK Anthology/ Prime Books USA)
The Fear Within (3F Publications)
Justus Roux Erotic Tales Anthology (Booksurge)
The Blackest Death Anthology Vol. 1 and 2 (Black Death Publications)
Chimeraworld 1, 2, and 4 (Cyber Pulp/Chimericana Books)
Tales From The Asylum Year 1 (The Asylum Books and Press)
Spooks Anthology (Twilight Tales)
Vicious Shivers (Undaunted Press)
Raging Horrormones (Oxcart Press)
Potter’s Field (Sam’s Dot Publishing)
Dream The Dark Majestic (Rage Machine Books)
Trip The Light Horrific (Rage Machine Books)
Tabloid Purposes II (Lake Fossil Press)
Revelation Volumes I, II, and III (Fourth Horseman Press)
Goremet Cuisine (Rage Machine Books)
Project Contagion Vol. 1 (3 Pitt Productions)
The Star Spangled Zombie (Maniac Press)
Evermore (Arkham House)
 A Time To . . . The Best of The Lorelie Signal 2006 (Wolfsinger
     Publications)
Echoes of Terror (Lachesis Publishing)
Horror Library Vol. II (Cutting Block Press)
Read By Dawn Volume 2 (UK/Bloody Books, an imprint of Beautiful Books Limited)
Book of Dead Things (Twilight Tales)
Heavy Glow : Two Years Burning Brightly, Book One
Damned in Dixie (Tenoka Press)

 

Coming in 2008-2009 : Filming to begin at Precision Studios (Australia) on a full length 
                                     movie  based upon my short story, “The Keeper.”

 

Our Shadows Speak 2 Anthology (Steel Moon Publications)
HELP Anthology (Lulu)

 

 

 

CONTESTS AND AWARDS :

 

Second place cash prize in The Rod Serling Memorial Foundation's 2nd Annual Writing  
      Contest, 1992.
First place cash prize for short fiction in The Ebbing Tide Magazine literary contests,
      1994, and 1996 (issues #5 and #13), and third place cash prize 1994 and 1995 (issues
        #3 and #7).
First place cash prize for short fiction in Beyond the Moon #1, 1993
Honorable mention for “A Head Full of Pigs” in Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling’s The  
       Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Seventh Annual Collection : 1993
The SPGA Small Press Service Awards nomination for Best New Fiction Writer 1994.
The Genre Writers Association nomination for Best New Writer 1995.
Honorable mention for “The Snow Angel” in Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling’s The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Ninth Annual Collection : 1995
First Place Winner of The Preditors and Editors ‘The Best Poem in The Universe On The Internet Contest 1997.’
Honorable mention in Eternity Online’s Top 25 Stories (1999).
Second Place ‘Silver’ prize in The Salivan Short Horror Story Contest (October 1999).
Second Place Runner-Up Cash Prize in The Horizon Literature Awards Contest c/o Dark Moon Publications (May 2000)
Third Place prize in The Rose & Thorn Writer’s Contest (July 2000)
Honorable Mention in the Dark Moon Rising Halloween Dark Fiction Contest (October
       2000)
Finalist in the Ninth Annual Calliope Fiction Contest, Special Interest Group of American
       Mensa, Ltd. (December 2000)
First Place Cash Winner in the Red Writer Hood Contest (Summer 2001)
Second Place Cash Winner in the Harrow Murder Contest (Fall 2001)
Twilight Tales Author of The Month (Domestic) March/April 2002
Honorable mention for “The Boardwalk Cats” in Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling’s The
     Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Sixteenth Annual Collection (2002)
Champagne Shivers Editors First Choice Award (February 2003)
Nomination For The 2003 James B. Baker Award (December 2003)
Honorable Mention in Futures Magazine’s Fire to Fly Contest (2003)
Second Place in Short Story Horror in Preditors & Editors Readers Poll Contest (2003)
Honorable Mention for “Young Girls Are Coming to Ajo” in Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link   
     & Gavin J. Grant’s The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Seventeenth Annual
     Collection (2003)
Runner up in The Dead in Th13teen Flashes e-Anthology Contest (2004)
Finalist in The Cracked Lenses Short Fiction Contest (2005)
First Place in The Gryphonwood Short Story Editor‘s Choice "Magic" Contest (2005)
First Place cash prize in the UK’s Titty Biscuits Literary Competition (2005)
First Place cash prize in the SpecFicWorld.com 2005 Fiction Contest (2005)
Nomination for The 2005 James B. Baker Award (January 2006)
Honorable mention in Dark Intentions’ To Die For Mystery Contest (June 2006)
Honorable mention in SpecFicWorld.com  2006 Fiction Contest (2006)
Honorable Mention for “POE 103” in Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link   
     & Gavin J. Grant’s The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Twentieth Annual
     Collection (2007)
2008 Eppie Award Finalist as part of The Best of Lorelie Signal’s 2006 anthology “A
     Time To . . .”

 

Thank you for considering “Videodeath.” You may contact me at my e-mail address : KGOL991920@aol.com

 

Sincerely,
Kenneth