Permuted Press Authors Rhiannon Frater and Emily Goodwin sweep the Contagious Reads Horror Con Awards!

Contagious Reads Horror Con Awards

This past week Permuted Press’s very own Emily Goodwin and Rhiannon Frater took the Contagious Reads Horror Con Awards by storm! Emily took home the “Best Female Horror Author”, “Best Heroine”, “Best Couple/Team”, “Best Gore”, “Best Horror Novel”, “Best Zombies”, and “Best Horror Series” for her THE CONTAGIUM series! Rhiannon was the winner of the categories “Best Standalone” for LAST BASTION OF THE LIVING and “Best Vampires” for her novel PRETTY WHEN SHE DIES.

The Contagious Reads Horror Con was a weeklong event that spotlighted female authors who write in the horror genre. The online con took place on facebook from July 13th to July 18th. It included author features, Q&A, and panels. The event wrapped up on the 18th with the first ever Contagious Reads Horror Con awards. The award categories were picked by me, and fans were allowed to nominate their favorites. The only restriction was that the book had to have been published prior to nominations. So books that had been pulled to publish were still eligible. After the nominations voting was again opened to the public. There were twelve categories, with over 390 votes before the polls closed.

Best Female Horror Author
Nominees:
Emily Goodwin
Rhiannon Frater
Claire C. Riley
Karina Halle
WINNER: Emily Goodwin

Best Heroine
Nominees: 
Orissa, The Contagium Series by Emily Goodwin
Jenni, As the World Dies Rhiannon Frater
Nina, The Dead Saga Claire C. Riley
Perry, Experiment in Terror Karina Halle
WINNER: Orissa The Contagium Series by Emily Goodwin

Best Couple/Team
Nominees:
Orissa and Hayden, The Contagium Series by Emily Goodwin
Jenni & Katie, As the World Dies by Rhiannon Frater
Nina & Mikey, The Dead Saga by Claire C. Riley
Perry & Dex, Experiment in Terror by Karina Halle
WINNER: Orissa and Hayden, The Contagium Series by Emily Goodwin

Best Action
Nominees:
The First Days, Rhiannon Frater
Contagious, Emily Goodwin
Odium, Claire C. Riley
The Harvesting, Melanie Karsak
WINNER: Odium, Claire C. Riley

Best Gore
Nominees: 
Odium, Claire C. Riley
Taking on the Dead, Annie Walls
Contagious, Emily Goodwin
The First Days, Rhiannon Frater
Donners of the Dead, Karina Halle
WINNER: Contagious by Emily Goodwin

Best Plot Twist
Nominees: 
Revenge, Gabrielle Faust
Limerence, Claire C. Riley
The Harvesting, Melanie Karsak
The Haunting Season, Michelle Muto
WINNER: The Harvesting, Melanie Karsak

Best Horror Novel (Written by a Female Author)
Nominees: 
Odium, Claire C. Riley
Siege, Rhiannon Frater
Last Bastion of the Living, Rhiannon Frater
Contagious, Emily Goodwin
WINNER: Contagious, Emily Goodwin

Best Zombies 
Nominees:
Girl Z: My life as a Teenage Zombie, C.A. Verstraete
Odium, Claire C. Riley
Fatal, T.A. Brock
Contagious, Emily Goodwin
The First Days, Rhiannon Frater
WINNER: Contagious by Emily Goodwin

Best Vampires
Nominees: 
Limerence, Claire C. Riley
The King, J.R. Ward
The Harvesting, Melanie Karsak
Pretty When She Dies, Rhiannon Frater
WINNER: Pretty When She Dies, Rhiannon Frater

Best Horror Series
Nominees:
As the World Dies, Rhiannon Frater
The Dead Saga, Claire C. Riley
The Famished Trilogy, Annie Walls
Experiment in Terror, Karina Halle
The Contagium Series, Emily Goodwin
WINNER: The Contagium Series, Emily Goodwin

Best Standalone
Nominees:
Last Bastion of the Living, Rhiannon Frater
Waking up Dead, Margo Bond Collins
Girl Z: My Life as a Teenage Zombie, C.A. Verstraete
Donners of the Dead, Karina Halle
The Harvesting, Melanie Karsak
When the Dead, Michelle Kilmer
This is Not a Test, Courtney Summers
WINNER: Last Bastion of the Living, Rhiannon Frater

Best Blog
Nominees:
My Book Addiction
Bex n Books
Contagious Reads
GirlZombiesAuthors
A Book Lovers’ Review
WINNER: Contagious Reads