LAUNCH PARTY: Eminence Front with Rebecca Rowland and Clay McLeod Chapman

Join us on January 15, 2026 at 6:00 PM for the EARLY unveiling of Eminence Front by Rebecca Rowland! Get your copy at The Twisted Spine before the general public!

Rebecca Rowland will be joined in conversation by author Clay McLeod Champman.

About Eminence Front:

A winter storm ravages a small community in New England, but the residents of one street are unprepared for what the snow brings: an ancient curse, an entity that knows both their sins and their regrets and will stop at nothing to consume what belongs to it.

When John Stephenson peers out of his window on a Tuesday morning, he sees nothing but clear, gray skies hovering above the houses on his staid suburban street, but the next 48 hours will prove to be a waking nightmare from which John and his neighbors cannot escape. As the first flakes fall, the whispering begins. A woman walking her dog leans into the sidewalk as though something buried beneath speaks to her. As the storm grows in ferocity, each of the residents hear the storm calling. What it says, however, few may survive to repeat.
From Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award finalist Rebecca Rowland comes a winter horror novel of cosmic proportions, one in which one neighborhood comes face to face, and ear to ear, with a malevolence as old as the world itself.

Rebecca Rowland is a Bram Stoker Award-nominated editor, a Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author, and the recipient of a Godless 666 Horror Fiction Award. She is an Active member of the Horror Writers Association, and her speculative fiction and critical essays regularly appear in a variety of online and print venues.The former acquisitions and anthology editor at AM Ink Publishing, Rebecca completed graduate degrees in English, Education, and Information Science and miraculously managed to pay off her student loans before retirement and/or death. In her spare time, she pets her cats, eats cheese, and drinks vodka, though not necessarily in that order.A firm believer in what goes around, comes around, Rebecca strives to treat the authors in her anthologies with the respect and honor they deserve. Her narrative models are Chuck Palahniuk, Joyce Carol Oates, Tom Perrotta, and A.M. Homes

Clay McLeod Chapman is the author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes, K*ll Your Darling, Stay on the Line, What Kind of Mother, Ghost Eaters, Whisper Down the Lane, The Remaking, and miss corpus, story collections nothing untoward, commencement and rest area, as well as The Tribe middlegrade series: Homeroom Headhunters, Camp Cannibal and Academic Assassins.

Event guidelines:

Each ticket includes either a copy of Eminence Front or a $15 Twisted Spine gift card.

Additional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.

A signing will follow the discussion.

If you have any questions about the guidelines or to request accessibility accommodations, please contact [email protected].

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