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Lisa Mannetti
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Lisa Mannetti is the author of The Gentling Box (Dark Hart Press, October 2008) which not only received critical acclaim from masters of the horror-supernatural genre like Edward Lee, Alexandra Sokoloff, Nate Kenyon, and Robert Dunbar but was named as one of four Editors Picks on Fearzone’s Best Novels of 2008 and was chosen as one of the Top Ten novels of 2008 on Creature Feature. The Gentling Box has been nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for best first novel.
She recently served as guest editor for the Terrible Beauty, Fearful Symmetry anthology and two of her most recently published stories appear in Traps! (DarkHart Press, November 2008) and Lovestrology (Ravenous Romance, December 2008); a third, “Everybody Wins,” was translated into a short indie film by director Paul Leyden. (2009) and is making the rounds on the film festival circuit. 51 Fiendish Ways to Leave Your Lover, a macabre gag book illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne, is currently being shopped around by her agent. At present she is working on a supernatural novel-- The Everest Hauntings.
Lisa resides in New York along with her mischievous twin black kittens, Harry and Theodora Houdini, in the spooky 1918 house she grew up in.
Accomplishments: The Gentling Box won the Bram Stoker Award for best first novel, 2008.
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News
Winner of the 2008 Bram Stoker Award, best first novel by Lisa Mannetti
The Gentling Box is the winner of the 2008 Bram Stoker Award for superior achievement in the first novel category....
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Events
Bram Stoker Awards Weekend 6/12/2009
I will be at the Stoker Awards weekend from Thursday (including signing at Dark Delicacies along with many authors) til Sunday June 14th 2009....
Book Expo America in NYC 5/30/2009
I will be at the HWA table on Saturday May 30th from 12:30 to 2 PM and signing books--including The Gentling Box, which has been nominated for a Stoker Award, giving away signed freebies--including copies of the antho THESE GUNS FOR HIRE edited by JA...
On line chat at writers chat room 5/24/2009
Join me for an online chat this Sunday, May 24th at 7 pm....
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Links
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| Lisa Mannetti, Author
Official website with links to reviews,apearances and interviews, as well as other horror, supernatural and dark fantasy writers.
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You Tube - The Gentling Box
Book Trailer for The Gentling Box
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Bye-Bye Sally
A short film based on my story "Everybody Wins" directed by Paul Leyden and starring Malin Ackerman and Paolo Seganti.
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The Chancery House
My virtual haunted house which also features TarotScope, fiction, cemetery art and free e cards based on my photography.
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Additional information
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| Join me for a live chat on May 24th at 7 pm:
The Writers Chat Room. http://www.writerschatroom.com/ |
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