Lucy A. Snyder

This page gives you a quick look at my publications highlights; the lists of my short fiction and nonfiction are considerably abbreviated. If you seek a complete publication history, please view my full bibliography.

Novels

Spellbent. Del Rey, January 2010. An urban fantasy. (forthcoming)

The Devil in Miss Shimmer. Del Rey, Summer 2010. The sequel to Spellbent. (forthcoming)

Polyandrium. Del Rey, 2010 or 2011. The third book in the Spellbent series. (forthcoming)

Collections

Chimeric Machines. CGP, March 2009. Introduction by Tom Piccirilli. A collection of 36 poems.

Installing Linux on a Dead Badger. CGP, October 2007. A trade paperback collection of 12 humor stories about computers and the forces of evil.

Sparks and Shadows. HW Press, May 2007. Introduction by Nalo Hopkinson. A trade paperback collection of 17 cross-genre stories and 7 poems. Winner of the 2008 Editors' Choice Black Quill Award for Best Dark Genre Collection

Short Fiction

"However ...." (co-written with Gary A. Braunbeck) – Hellbound Hearts, Pocket Books, September 2009.

"A Preference For Silence" – Escape Pod, March 31, 2009. First published in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Issue #5, November 1999.

"Faery Cats: The Cutest Killers" – PodCastle, March 20, 2009. First published at Strange Horizons, February 27, 2006.

"Podophyllum sidhe" – A Field Guide to Surreal Botany, Two Cranes Press, July 2008.

"The Cold Gallery" – Legends of the Mountain State 2, Woodland Press, October 2008.

"Wake Up Naked Monkey You're Going To Die" – Horror World, March 2007. Reprinted in Installing Linux on a Dead Badger. Honorable mention, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008 (#21)

"Fable Fusion" (co-written with Gary A. Braunbeck) – Doctor Who Short Trips: Destination Prague, Big Finish Productions Ltd., June 2007.

"The Great VüDü Teen Linux Zombie Massacree" – Spacesuits and Sixguns, Spring 2007.

"Sara and the Telecats" – Farthing #4, September 2006.

"The Sheets Were Clean And Dry" – Masques V, Gauntlet Press, June 2006.

"Your Corporate Network and the Forces of Darkness" – Strange Horizons, June 20, 2005. Podcast at Escape Pod November 2005.

"Installing Linux on a Dead Badger: User's Notes" – Strange Horizons, April 5, 2004. Honorable mention, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 18

"Homecoming" (co-written with Gary A. Braunbeck) – The Further Adventures of Xena: Warrior Princess, Ace Books, September 2001.

"Through Thy Bounty" – The Midnighters' Club anthology, June 2001. Reprinted in Apex Online in 2008. Honorable mention, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 15.

"Souls To Take" (co-written with Gary A. Braunbeck) – Villains Victorious, DAW Books, April 2001.

"... Next on Channel 77" – Guardian Angels, Cumberland House Publishing, November 2000.

"News From The Long Mountains" (co-written with Gary A. Braunbeck) – Civil War Fantastic, DAW Books, July 2000.

"The Still-Life Drama of Passing Cars" (co-written with Gary A. Braunbeck) – Bedtime Stories To Darken Your Dreams, IFD Publishing, May 1999. Honorable mention, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 13

Poetry

"Beggars' Night" (co-written with Gary A. Braunbeck) – Halloween Poems, Cemetery Dance Publications, 2009. (forthcoming)

"Fright-Night Triple Feature" (co-written with Gary A. Braunbeck) – Halloween Poems, Cemetery Dance Publications, 2009. (forthcoming)

"Internal Combustion" – Greatest Uncommon Denominator Magazine Issue 5, Autumn 2009. (forthcoming)

"Home for the Holidays" – Weird Tales, 2009. (forthcoming)

"Subtlety" – Greatest Uncommon Denominator Magazine, Spring 2008.

"Uncanny Valley Girl" – Raven Electrick, November 30, 2007.

"Flyboy" – Strange Horizons, April 30, 2007.

"Sympathy" – Strange Horizons, November 2006.

"Trepanation" – Strange Horizons, July 2006.

"The Monster Between The Sparks" (previously titled "Dark Matter") – Chiaroscuro, January 2002.

"White" – Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Issue #8, May 2001.

"Photograph of a Lady, Circa 1890" – Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Issue #7, October 2000.

"Permian Basin Blues" – Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Issue #7, October 2000.

Nonfiction/Essays

"Art and the Artist: An Interview With Clive Barker" – Strange Horizons, March 16, 2009.

Various articles for Electronic Products, May 2006 - October 2008.

Various columns for Horror World, May 2006 - present.

Various entries in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005: "Asia", "Future Wars", "Intelligence", "Miniaturization", "Dark Fantasy", "Birds", "Curses", "Plants"

"Finding or Creating a Writers' Workshop Group" – Brady Magazine, November/December 2003.

"California Noir: The Salton Sea" – Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, November, 2003.

"Ocean" – Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Issue #6, May 2000.

"A Chat With William Peter Blatty", Dark Planet Webzine, August 1999.

"A Conversation With Neil Gaiman", SF Site, February 1999.