The
acclaimed author and
editor
Nick Matamas has,
by his own
count,
written 6 and a half novels including Move
Under Ground
(2004), Under My
Roof
(2007), Sensation
(2011), The Damned
Highway: Fear and Loathing in Arkham
(2011 with Brian Keene), Bullettime
(2012), Love Is
the Law
(2013), The Last
Weekend
(2014), and I Am
Providence
(2016). His
short
fiction has appeared in genre publications such as Asimov’s
Science Fiction
and Tor.com,
lit journals including New
Haven Review
and subTERRAIN,
and anthologies such as Hint
Fiction
and Best American
Mystery Stories 2013.
Many
of these have been collected in 3000
MPH in Every Direction at Once
(2003), You Might
Sleep…
(2009), The
Nickronomicon
(2014), and a forthcoming Tachyon book.

He
gained a level of notoriety following the publication of his essay
“The Term Paper,” which described how
Mamatas funded
his early writing career by producing term papers for college
students. His
numerous other non-fiction works have appeared
in Razor Magazine,
The Village Voice,
BenBella Books’ Smart Pop Books anthologies, and others. Mamatas
non-fiction books include Starve
Better: Surviving the Endless Horror of the Writing Life
(2011), Insults
Every Man Should Know (2011), and
Quotes Every Man Should Know (2013).

Mamatas
has been nominated for the Bram Stoker award five times, the Hugo
Award twice, the World Fantasy Award twice, and the Shirley Jackson,
International Horror Guild, and Locus Award. He won the Bram Stoker
Award for Haunted
Legends (2010
with Ellen Datlow). His other anthologies include The
Urban Bizarre
(2004), Realms:
The First Year of Clarkesworld Magazine
(2007 with Sean Wallace),
Spicy Slipstream
Stories (2008
with Jay Lake), Realms
2: The Second Year of Clarkesworld Magazine (2010 with Sean Wallace),
Phantasm Japan: Fantasies
Light and Dark, From and About Japan (2014
with Masumi Washington), The
Battle Royale Slam Book
(2014 with Masumi Washington), Hanzai
Japan: Fantastical, Futuristic Stories of Crime From and About Japan
(2015
with Masumi Washington) and Mixed
Up: Cocktail Recipes (and Flash Fiction) for the Discerning Drinker
(and Reader) (2017
with Molly Tanzer). 

All of us at Tachyon wish the multi-talented Nick a happy birthday! Hope you enjoy your drinks with the Old Ones. But please be careful.