LAURA
COONEY
ONLINE
FICTION BY LAURA COONEY:
NEWSPAPER
GIRLS (at the webzine BLOODLUST UK. You may have to scroll
down a bit).
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NEWS
UPDATE
ON IN
SICKNESS
The wait
it over! IN SICKNESS has arrived. Laura's
first short story collection (along with her husband, L.L. Soares) is
now everywhere, including Amazon.com
and Barnesandnoble.com.
It is available in a reasonably priced trade paperback, as well as in
eBook
version and Kindle.
You can also order
it directly from the publisher, Skullvines
Press, (also, from Camelot
Books).
Get it
while it's hot!
10/19/2010
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LAURA
IS ONE OF THE DARK JESTERS!
Laura's story, "Bless
the Beastly Children" can be found in the new humorous horror story
anthology DARK JESTERS, from Novello
Publishers.
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"PINK"
IN BANDERSNATCH
Laura's story, "Pink,"
is available now in the Prime Books surreal fiction anthology BANDERSNATCH,
edited by Paul Tremblay and Sean Wallace. This cool little hardcover book
features a wrap-around cover by Danny Malboeuf. Available on all the usual
places like Amazon and Barnes and Noble.com
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"THE
RUBEE" IS NOW ONLINE!
Laura's brand new
story, "The Rubee" is now online. You can check it out on the
webzine THREE-LOBED BURNING EYE. This is a particularly dark little tale
about love and torture and blood. Some people have already written to
say it gave them nightmares. Wanna see if it has the same effect on you?
You can check the story out here.
But don't say we didn't warn you...
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LAURA
RECEIVES HONORABLE MENTION IN YEAR'S BEST!
Laura's story "Number
808," which originally appeared in LULLABY HEARSE # 5, received an
Honorable Mention in new edition (the 18th) of THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY
& HORROR, edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant.
This is the second
time Laura has received an Honorable Mention in YEAR'S BEST. The first
time was for her story, "Wasps" in the Sixteenth Edition.
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CONFESSIONS
OF A POTENTIAL MILLIONAIRE CONTESTANT
Laura
auditioned for the TV game show WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE. For a behind-the-scenes
look at what this entailed, and to find out if she succeeded, check out
her blog, Sentry 152, where
she tells the whole sordid story.
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LULLABY
HEARSE # 5 !
Lullaby
Hears # 5 is still
available from such sellers as Shocklines
and Project
Pulp. This issue features the stories "Number 808"
by Laura, and "Animal Biographies"by L. L. Soares. This
very cool issue also features stories by John Dixon and Michael
Kelly.
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NEWSPAPER
GIRLS IS UP!
Laura's new story,
"Newspaper Girls" is now up on the British webzine, BLOODLUST
UK. Just click here.
Once you get to the site, use the scroller on the right hand side of the
site to go down a little until you see "Newspaper Girls"
by Laura Cooney. (7/3/04)
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"WASPS"
RECEIVED AN HONORABLE MENTION IN YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR!
Laura's story,
"Wasps," which first appeared on Horrorfind last year, has received
an Honorable Mention in the Sixteenth Annual edition of THE
YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling.
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LUCK
WAS A STRANGER
This memoir by William
R. Cooney, is currently available from its publisher, iUniverse, as well
as online bookstores such as Amazon.com
and Barnesandnoble.com.
Mr. Cooney is Laura's
father, and she contributed the "Foreward" to the book, as well
as the jacket copy, which is as follows:
"Who is Bill
Cooney? Is he a poet, a madman, a former candidate for the priesthood,
a son of one of the most prosperous and well-liked men in the tiny town
of Kilbeggan, Ireland, an apple thief, a man spared three times from certain
death, a gadfly, a fearless Saxon warrior, a student of medicine at Trinity
College, a truck driver, a store clerk, an insurance inspector, a night
watchman, a businessman, a writer of hundreds of unpublished puns, a husband,
a father, a grandfather, an animal lover? Yes, and he’s also the
author of this memoir.
"Born into a
prosperous Irish family, Bill Cooney had his life planned out for him
before it even began. His mother told him he was destined for the priesthood.
His father wanted him to be a doctor. But what he wanted most was to be
free. He got out from under the controlling forces of his parents and
the Church, to make his own way, leaving for the frontier land of Canada,
a journey that took him from prosperity to poverty, and finally, to America,
the promised land, where he found that dreams do come true, and nightmares
as well."
You can also read
an excerpt of the book at iUniverse.com
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