I will be spending the next 2 weeks looking back at 2022, both here on the blog and with my annual Year in Review program I prepare for PCI Webinars each year. (For your reference, here is a link to last year's slides for the 2021 Year in Review)
I find that taking the time to really assess what happened over the course of a year helps not only to put the year we just experienced in context, but also it makes it easier for me to move forward leading all of you. I have the time to spend combing though the information in order to see the larger picture. You are on the front lines dealing with the day to day. I know this because I did it for 15 years and it is exhausting. I am here to help fill in the gaps you do not have time to pursue; gaps that when filled will make your day to day work easier and more useful to your readers.
Here is a great example. For the last two years, I have been hired to do this look back from the Horror fiction perspective by The Lineup. Here is a link to my 2022 Horror Book Highlights. It is organized into 4 major trends with 4 books in each category. Click here for the full article with annotations for each title, but for your immediate purposes, here are the 4 trends:
- Short Scares Are Going Strong
- Retellings: Everything Old is New Again
- Verisimilitude is Terrifying
- The Most Breathtaking Debuts are By Women
For context, here is 2021's Horror Book Highlights where the trends I presented were:
- Queer Horror Moves Front and Center
- Horror Fiction Framed as True Crime
- Final Girls Fight Back
- Marginalized Voices Reclaim the Troops of Old
- Middle Grade Horror for Adult (March)
- Stoker Awards Wrap-Up (June)
- Horror Cover Artists (September)
- 2023 Horror Trends and Highlights (December)
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