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Paula Guran


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Paula Guran is senior editor for Prime Books. She edited the Juno fantasy imprint from its small press inception through its incarnation as an imprint of Pocket Books. She is also senior editor of Prime's soon-to-launch digital imprint Masque Books. Guran edits the annual Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror series as well as a growing number of other anthologies. In an earlier life she produced weekly email newsletter DarkEcho (winning two Stokers, an IHG award, and a World Fantasy Award nomination), edited Horror Garage (earning another IHG and a second World Fantasy nomination), and has contributed reviews, interviews, and articles to numerous professional publications. ...more

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Happy New Year Update

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Obviously, I haven’t posted anything in a while. This is totally due to having nothing to report. I’ve been very busy with developmental editing through Reedsy working with a variety of new authors and one (Chris Howard) with whom I’ve worked before. I also have done some editing outside of Reedsy.

I continue to work for Start Publishing doing, more-or-less, whatever needs to be done except editin

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“The farther we've gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we've come to need Halloween.

October Dreams: A celebration of
Halloween”
Paula Curan

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. —Oscar Wilde (1891)”
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“Success always moves on to the next thing,” Milton agreed, as Bloch trailed him up the circular stair. “But failure’s timeless, isn’t it? Failure is forever.”
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