R.J. Cavender and Bailey Hunter are now co-chairs for KillerCon 3 in Las Vegas, which will take place the September 22nd – 25th and will feature the special guests of honor, Lucky McKee, Ray Garton, Jonathan Maberry, Edward Lee, Monica S. Kuebler & Jeff Mariotte.

The event will feature panel discussions, readings, two writing contests, parties, book signings, and a very special blood spatter sample forensics seminar. Visit the site. Cutting Block Press will host the key party on Saturday night at Killercon 3, and copies of our new anthology Tattered Souls 2, as well as copies of the +Horror Library+ and Butcher Shop Quartet series will be available in the dealer's room.

Catch R.J. Cavender during his Pitch Sessions. (Less)

This was a big weekend at the end of April with crowds of industry professionals sharing and enjoying a well-organized agenda. Cutting Block Press threw the anchor party on Saturday night as a pre-launch for Tattered Souls 2, our newest long fiction anthology collected and edited by Frank J. Hutton. Publisher Boyd E. Harris, Editor R.J. Cavender, our Consummate Layout and Design specialist Bailey Hunter, and hordes of talented +Horror Library+ authors were on hand to make sure the bottomless margarita machine, two kegs of beer, 10 bottles of Dripping Springs Vodka and 50 pizzas from Austin's Pizza (thank you to Dripping Springs execs and to Austin's Pizza management for their help making this party a huge hit).

Cutting Block Press also published the WHC11 Souvenir Book, and we are pretty darn proud of the final product.

The convention itself co-chaired by Lee Thomas and Nate Southward went off very well, and Cutting Block Press thanks them for allowing Boyd to publish the souvenir book and to run the weekend's various launch parties. (Less)

• Winner: A Dark Matter by Peter Straub
• Superior Achievement in a First Novel (tie): Black and Orange by Benjamin Kane Ethridge / Castle of Los Angeles by Lisa Morton
• Superior Achievement in Long Fiction: Invisible Fences by Norman Prentiss
• Superior Achievement in Short Fiction: "The Folding Man" by Joe R. Lansdale
• Superior Achievement in an Anthology: Haunted Legends edited by Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas
• Superior Achievement in a Collection: Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
• Superior Achievement in Nonfiction: To Each Their Darkness by Gary A. Braunbeck
• Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection: Dark Matters by Bruce Boston
• HWA Specialty Press Award: Dark Regions Press
• HWA Silver Hammer Award: Angel Leigh McCoy
• HWA Richard Laymon Award: Michael Colangelo (Less)