“Hirshberg excels at slowly building an atmosphere of dread and foreboding, and…creating gritty, violent, and mesmerizing characters…”
— Booklist (see Nothing to Devour page for more of the review)
Category: News
Motherless Child ebook on sale NOW!
As part of the run-up to the publication of Nothing to Devour on November 6th, the digital edition of Motherless Child, the first book in the Motherless Children trilogy, is on sale this month only for $2.99. Details here.
Happy Publication Day to The Best of the Best Horror of the Year
The Best of the Best Horror of the Year, Ellen Datlow’s selection of her favorite stories from a decade of her acclaimed series of year-end anthologies, is officially available. Included here is Glen’s Aurora Borealis story, “The Nimble Men”. Full details here.
Starred PUBLISHERS’ WEEKLY Review for NOTHING TO DEVOUR
It’s a hat trick! Publishers’ Weekly has just issued a starred review for Nothing to Devour, which means that all three books of the Motherless Children trilogy have achieved that coveted distinction.
LOCUS Raves About The Ones Who Are Waving
The redoubtable John Langan offers an expansive and enthusiastic review of The Ones Who Are Waving in the September, 2018 issue of Locus, calling it “…the kind of literary high-wire act that makes you want to stand up and applaud.” For more extensive excerpts from the review, check the Ones Who Are Waving page in the Books drop-down menu. Better still, pick up a copy of the magazine…
Nothing to Devour tabbed as one of Library Journal’s hotly anticipated Fall books
In its inaugural horror genre spotlight, Library Journal mentions the inevitable “requests for more terrifying vampire novels” that inevitably accompany the release of a new Anne Rice title, then suggests this solution: “Thankfully, the conclusion of Glen Hirshberg’s ‘Motherless Children Trilogy,’ Nothing To Devour (Tor, Nov.), follows quickly on its heels.”
“The Nimble Men” in Best of the Best Horror of the Year
Ellen Datlow has collected her favorite pieces from ten years of her Best Horror of the Year anthologies, and Glen’s eerie Northern Lights-infused “The Nimble Men” is among them. Publishers’ Weekly just gave the set a starred review.
Live Podcast Interview Sunday, 8/12/2018
Glen will be the featured guest on the Lovecraft ezine podcast this Sunday, August 12th. The show will be live at 3 pm Pacific, and then permanently available in the archives. Compete details here.
Review of THE ONES WHO ARE WAVING in BLACK STATIC
A great review for The Ones Who Are Waving, can be found in the newest edition (64) of Black Static. A few highlights: “Keenly felt and characterised…filled with little touches of detail that give the events a mythic and archetypal feel;” “…it is a story that ultimately asks questions about the nature of fiction, showing how it can transform lives, with the writers themselves becoming the ghosts of their own work. It’s a strong end to a collection that is gratifyingly offbeat, aptly fitting the bill as regards the book’s subtitle or tagline, ‘Tales of the Strange, Sad, and Wondrous’.”
GOOD GIRLS Reviewed in LOCUS
From the Locus review: “…there is enough material in Good Girls for a novel twice its length. But the economy and grace of Hirshberg’s style allow him to fit this plenitude into a more modest number of pages, while maintaining its full emotional and thematic resonance. The novel continually returns to its title, interrogating notions of goodness. What, it asks, might the phrase ‘good girls’ mean for a mother or a young woman or a monster?… Is it possible for a monster to demonstrate goodness? It does all this while hurtling toward a climax that is heartbreaking, horrifying, and riveting.
“With Motherless Child, Glen Hirshberg embarked on a new phase of a career whose accomplishments were already many and considerable…. [Good Girls] fulfills the promise of its predecessor, and promises more to come. A third novel in the series has been announced; It cannot arrive soon enough.” –John Langan, Locus Magazine (Get the May 2016 edition–or a full year’s subscription–of Locus Magazine here.)