Lazy Lion Books Presents
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Scott Nicholson Author of The Red Church, The Harvest, The Manor and The Home |
Boone, NC, author Scott Nicholson has published novels, short stories, poetry, and non-fiction magazine articles, and has written two screenplays. He is currently working on a young adult fantasy series and some children’s books. He works as a newspaper reporter and has won three North Carolina Press Association awards.
Nicholson’s
first novel “The Red Church,” inspired by legends surrounding a haunted
Appalachian church near his home, was a Stoker Award finalist and an alternate
selection of the Mystery Guild. “The Harvest” is an alien infection tale that’s
an allegory for the development of the mountains, and “The Manor” is set at a
haunted artists’ retreat. “The Home” was inspired by the death of a child at a
nearby group home for troubled children.
Nicholson has published over 40 stories in six different countries, including
the collection “Thank You For The Flowers.” Nicholson won the grand prize in the
international Writers of the Future contest in 1999. That same year, he was
first runner-up for the Darrell Award. He studied Creative Writing at
Appalachian State University and UNC-Chapel Hill. He recently finished a term as
Secretary for the southeastern chapter of the Mystery Writers of America and is
a member of the Horror Writers Association.
All this success didn’t come easily, though: he had 105 rejections before his
first story sale and over 400 before he sold a novel. Nicholson has published
numerous articles on writing and his publishing experiences, and his website
www.hauntedcomputer.com features a number of author interviews, articles, and
fiction excerpts.
