{"id":531,"date":"2016-09-29T06:47:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T06:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/?p=531"},"modified":"2019-07-07T00:22:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T00:22:51","slug":"malediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/malediction\/","title":{"rendered":"MALEDICTION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/malediction300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1743\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><em>Malediction<\/em>, my second novel, was released in print and e-book by Evil Jester Press in October 2013 and in various e-book formats by Cemetery Dance in September 2016. <em>Malediction<\/em> is about the cursed history of Los Angeles; a natural healer named Gwen who will have the limits of her abilities tested by May Blanco, a teenaged psychotic who possesses destructive supernatural abilities; a disgraced folklore professor who is himself the victim of a historic curse; and the ghost of Petra de Feliz, a nineteenth-century <em>Californio<\/em> who now haunts the rich land that should have been hers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a class=\"maxbutton-9 maxbutton maxbutton-malediction-ebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B01LYMZHAB\/?tag=052379122979-20\"><span class='mb-text'>Buy Now for Kindle<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a class=\"maxbutton-10 maxbutton maxbutton-malediction-epub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mystgalaxy.com\/ebook\/9781587675737\"><span class='mb-text'>Buy Now as Epub<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"342\" height=\"342\" src=\"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/maledictionaudiobook.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/maledictionaudiobook.jpg 342w, https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/maledictionaudiobook-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/maledictionaudiobook-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"> <strong><a class=\"maxbutton-8 maxbutton maxbutton-malediction-audiobook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Malediction\/dp\/B00OMFJZGE\/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=\"><span class='mb-text'>Buy Now as Audiobook<\/span><\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"151\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/bsafinalist.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-978\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/bsafinalist.png 151w, https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/bsafinalist-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/bsafinalist-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/bsafinalist-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 151px) 100vw, 151px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Malediction<\/em>&nbsp;was nominated for the <a href=\"http:\/\/horror.org\/?p=5964\">Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here I am <a href=\"http:\/\/horror.org\/?p=6392\">talking about <em>Malediction<\/em><\/a> as part of HWA&#8217;s &#8220;Know a Nominee&#8221; series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Lower Animals<\/em>, a prequel novelette involving folklore professor Sam West and his soon-to-be wife Gil, is now available in a Kindle e-book from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Lower-Animals-Lisa-Morton-ebook\/dp\/B00GX4TOKE\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1385946366&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=the+lower+animals\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"658\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/maledictioncover-658x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/maledictioncover-658x1024.jpg 658w, https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/maledictioncover-600x933.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/maledictioncover-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/maledictioncover.jpg 1125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 658px) 100vw, 658px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>This is the cover of the print edition released by Evil Jester Press (now out of print)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malediction, my second novel, was released in print and e-book by Evil Jester Press in October 2013 and in various e-book formats by Cemetery Dance in September 2016. Malediction is about the cursed history of Los Angeles; a natural healer named Gwen who will have the limits of her abilities tested by May Blanco, a<a href=\"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/malediction\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;[ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2118,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/2118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}