Usually, I feature an interview or some other material in Noglesque—and I'll have a new interview coming up very soon—but this time I just wanted to share a bit about my own writing, including
Bram Stoker Award® nomination for my second book, The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future
My fourth book, One Eye Opened in That Other Place, coming on March 12 and its launch Party on March 9
What I’m working on & what I just finished
The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future
My second book and first short story collection, The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future, received a Bram Stoker Award® nomination for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection. This book contains my best horror stories from 2016-2022, including previously unpublished stories and works from PseudoPod, Nightscript, Vastarien, and more. If you’re a Horror Writers Association voting member and would like an ebook copy to look at, please reach out. You can DM on social media or use https://christinogle.com/contact/ If you would like to learn more about the book, you can do so at its Flame Tree Press and Simon & Schuster pages.
Thank you to everyone who has read, reviewed, talked about, recommended, or otherwise engaged with this collection. I really appreciate you!
One Eye Opened in That Other Place & Upcoming Events
My fourth book (third short fiction collection) is coming on March 12, and I’ll have a free launch party on March 12, hosted by P.L. McMillan and with readings by myself and Erik McHatton. Here is the sign-up link. You can learn more about the book at its Simon & Schuster page. If you are a reviewer, please consider requesting from NetGalley or directly from me. I am always grateful for any reviews and word-of-mouth!
At the launch party, I will give away
a signed copy of the book
a second signed copy of the book!
a complete set of all three of my collections, signed!!
I’ll also be doing a number of Boise-area events surrounding its release:
March 16 10-2:00 Idaho Sisters in Crime, Cole & Ustick Library
April 6 11-4:00 Treasure Valley Book Fair, Nampa Library
April 13 2:00-4:00 Signing Boise Barnes and Noble
June 29 12-2:00 Signing Kuna's Book Habit
Advance Praise for One Eye Opened in That Other Place:
Christi Nogle’s One Eye Opened in That Other Place takes us on a fantastical, surreal, unflinching journey through the liminal, weird and taboo. It uncovers the desires, obsessions and thoughts we are compelled to keep hidden and serves them to the reader as an exquisite, full bodied banquet of the bizarre. This collection is brimming with the original, courageous, perspective shifting short stories we need.
- Suzan Palumbo, World Fantasy Award Finalist and Author of Skin Thief: Stories.
“An utterly mesmerizing and dreamlike collection. Christi Nogle has a gift for conjuring disquieting stories, often bite-sized, of oddities and secrets, inner selves, and lasting mysteries. In One Eye Opened in That Other Place, things are never quite what they seem. Realities transform, veils are lifted, and you are shepherded across unsettling thresholds like dreams half-remembered. Haunting long after you put the collection down. If you’re after atmospheric tales with indescribably dream-logic, you will find no better.”
—Sofia Ajram, author of COUP DE GRÂCE
Christi Nogle’s collection One Eye Opened in that Other Place slips beneath the skin of the world and taps into the birthing place of dreams. Capturing the strange in the familiar and the familiar in the strange, Nogle’s stories are perfectly tuned glimpses of nightmares and glances at otherworldly beauty, as vivid and as vibrant as beads of glass and gold.
—Gordon B. White, Shirley Jackson Award Finalist
“As each story in One Eye Opened in That Other Place unfolds, it replaces reality with a strange dreamlike locale, where characters and details are genuine and familiar, the reader feels at home, but some peculiar aspect awaits. That odd light at the corner of perception or anomalous art piece or shifting sense of self or rousing entire place has been there all along, reshaping all nearby. Christi Nogle’s fiction will entrance, frighten, and bewilder. Take up this collection and begin.”
—Andrew S. Fuller, author Constellations of Ruin, Editor Three-Lobed Burning Eye
What I’m Working on & What I Just Finished
I finished my second novel right around December 15 of 2023, and since then I have been writing a lot. I know word-count goals aren’t helpful for all writers, but for me they are very motivating. I have tracked everything and am averaging just under 1300 words a day, with a high of 5222 words on February 28 and a low of zero on just a few days.
What have I been applying all of those words to? Mainly my third novel, which is almost drafted now. I also count words from the journal I keep to record dreams, new story ideas, and such.
In March-May, I am finishing up the novel but also turning my sights to short fiction, which I haven’t been doing for a few months.
I also created a Linktree recently, where you can find links to all that is mentioned here & more.
I think that’s it. Thank you so much for reading Noglesque!!