Affiliations and Award Nominations
Wood is an Active member and President of the Horror Writers Association (HWA), serving a two-year term from 1 November 2010 (having previously served a term from 2008-10 as a Trustee). He was re-elected to a further two year term in 2012. Wood was also President of the Australian American Association (Victoria) in Australia from 2008–2010 and was elected a Life Member in September 2010; and was a member of the Australian Logistics Council from 2008 to 2012.
He was nominated for the HWA’s Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction for Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished (2006) and Stephen King: The Non-Fiction (2009). He won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction for Stephen King: A Literary Companion (2011). He is a member of the Australian Horror Writers Association. He served as Guest Judge (Edited Publications) for the Australian Shadows Award, 2010.
Wood's first mainstream fiction was the graphic novel, Horrors! Great Tales of Fear and Their Creators (McFarland, 2010), a re-imagining of events in 19th century horror, illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne. Horrors! was nominated both for a Black Quill Non-Fiction Award and a for Best Illustrated Book or Graphic Novel in the 2010 Aurealis Awards. His second graphic novel was Witch Hunts: A Graphic History of the Burning Times (McFarland, 2012), examining the witch hunting phenomenon that plagued Europe and New England. It is co-written by Lisa Morton and illustrated by Greg Chapman.
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