Libros Prohibidos has chosen Un lugar mejor, the Spanish-language translation of my story collection, Greener Pastures, as one of the best books of 2017. Being on a list like this, anywhere in the world, is an honor that always knocks the wind out of me for a moment, so many thanks to these fine folks. […]
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One piece of genre fiction writing and submitting advice that has always annoyed me: The speculative element must be introduced right away in a story. I saw this “rule” a lot when I was starting out, and though it’s obviously not written in stone (hence the quotation marks), it usually felt pretty rigid, a semi-official […]
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Brian Lillie asked me some questions for his 31 Hath October project, and in the interest of avoiding discussing my collection, Greener Pastures, to death, we focused on the writing of my first novel. You can read my babbling here. Some light spoilers for the novel can be found, but nothing beyond what you’d find […]
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There are shadows over Main Street again. Small-town horror has long been a fascination for writers and readers. The bulk of Stephen King’s huge body of work takes place in sparsely populated places, after all. It might seem strange at first glance for Lovecraftian horrors to turn their indifferent and destructive glances on a small […]
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I was idly writing a fake blurb for my future novel (because why not?) and it sort of turned into a micro-story of its own. No spoilers for the book are here outside of the vaguest thematic sort. “I finished this Wehunt novel and took it outside and beat it to death with a shovel in […]
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I spent a large portion of my life in Buffington, a tiny non-city in North Georgia just a mile from the sign pictured in this article detailing an amateur historian’s quest. For a year, we lived in a small house directly across the street from the sign. Yes, I grew up in a place named […]
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Every author has a bucket list, whether written down or superstitiously locked in the back of their mind. The past two years have seen me cross more items off that list than I would have thought possible at this point in my career, and this week brought my metaphorical pen (yes, I’m superstitious) across one […]
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May 2 brings what will surely be one of 2017’s best anthologies to official life! Note that I didn’t qualify that with ” literary horror” or “weird fiction.” I believe Shadows & Tall Trees 7 will be one of the year’s best collections of stories, full stop. Some of the very brightest stars in dark […]
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I think I’m far enough along now to look back with a smidgen of hindsight at what type of writer I am and will be in the foreseeable future. I spend a good bit of my work fixated on the mundanely, beautifully human while the horrific pushes into its bubble from the outside. My story […]
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A story of mine from 2013 recently went out of print, so I thought I’d share it on my blog. I find that I still enjoy it, and it gives me a little window into my evolution. “Have a Blessed Day” was originally published in Diabolic Tales III. Enjoy!
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Michael Wehunt 