Joseph Sidari

the Bone church

Do you like to travel? Do you enjoy experiencing new things? Do you like bones?

If so, then my new story, "The Bone Church," is for you. Now available on Volume 1 of Kilter and Rammel's FUN IN THE DARK ANTHOLOGY, "Transformations."What happens when a travel blogger with a taste for the macabre goes th the Sedlec Ossuary (a real place) in Austria and decides he wants a special souvenir? Well no good, you can imagine, but to see how bad it gets, you'll have to read it!

Available to read FREE until June 30,

Or for purchase on Amazon, if you gotta have a paper copy!

How'd you like to listen to a good book?

Get to know Susan Hanfield, the voice actor who i Met at the Gala, and along with Stefan Rudnicki, brought my story to life.

CLICK HERE to visit Susan's website. THEN listen to the audiobook, which is now available on Audible, Spotify, and wherever you like to listen to a good book!

Paperback, E-book or Audiobook

ENJOY all three formats.

BUY THEM at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Audible , or wait for it at your corner bookstore or library!

WATCH THE 42ND BLACK-TIE, RED CARPET GALA

ENJOY THE SHOW!

And it is quite an extravaganza, lasting over two hours. CLICK ON THE BOX (left) to watch my speech (and Josie Moore's, the fantastic artist who illustrated my story). If you'd like to see the whole thing from the beginning CLICK HERE

NEVER LOSE THE MAGIC!

THIS IS THE FANTASTIC ILLUSTRATION FOR MY STORY. THE ARTIST IS JOSIE MOORE. JOSIE CAPTURED THE HEART, THE MAGIC AND THE WHIMSY IN THE STORY ABOUT A LITTLE GIRL NAMED STEPHAINE BURNHAM, WHO GROWS INTO A JOURNALIST, AN ACTIVIST, AND ULTIMATELY AN OUTLAW AS SHE STRUGGLES TO FREE THE LAST DRAGON IN AMERICA.

Announcements

My Winning Story in Volume 42, WOTF

“A Girl and Her Dragon: A Life in Four Parts”

Decades of letters, diary pages, and recorded conversations, reveals one woman’s enduring love for a dying dragon—a luminous portrait of courage, hope, and the magic we refuse to surrender. —Written by Joseph Sidari, Illustrated by Josie Moore

PREORDER ON AMAZON

WICKED LOCAL

FIND my article on WICKED LOCAL. For those non-Massachusetts residents, WICKED is regional slang for an extreme superlative, ie, "The traffic was wicked bad at rush hour on the Mass Pike today."

ASTRO-NERD

READ my latest MG speculative fiction appearing in the NOV 2025 online issue of EMBER: A Journal of Luminous Things. "Astro-Nerd" is the story of 13-year-old lunar refugee, Amari, whose family vacation to Earth goes very, very wrong.

The Author's Quill Podcast

WATCH my 45-minute interview with host Joe Montaldo and Publisher John Goodman on the Writers of the Future contest and my winning short story on YouTube.

About the Author

Joseph Sidari lives in the Boston suburbs with his wife and a labradoodle named Chloe, who firmly believes it is her responsibility to make sure they both get daily exercise. He is a practicing physician, which means he spends his days trying to keep real people alive and his nights finding inventive ways to endanger fictional ones. He is a member of the Grub Street Writers' Group of Boston and SFWA. He has three grown sons and a daughter-in-law in New York City.

A lifelong reader of speculative fiction, Joseph began writing it after flipping his bicycle during triathlon training and concluding that typing involved fewer emergency room visits. Thankfully, once his wrist healed, his writing habit did not. After several novels and an agent's helpful suggestion, he discovered a fondness for short fiction.

He has over twenty short stories in print and online, spanning the fantasy, science fiction, and horror genres. He is a recent winner in the Writers of the Future Contest, and his story, “A Girl and Her Dragon: A Life in Four Parts,” will be featured in Volume 42 of the Writers of the Future anthology, to be published in April 2026.

CLICK on my Amazon AUTHOR PAGE