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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Eddie Generous at Unnerving Magazine recently called me up to grill me with excellent questions for their podcast. You can listen to it over at their site and hear me use my real voice in real time. Sadie AKA Mother Horror asked me some questions for her blog, covering everything from what scares me to what […]
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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 not-quite-finished novel The Lighted Hand (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 […]
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Yesterday the UK newspaper The Guardian published an article titled “How post-horror movies are taking over cinema.” I recommend reading it, not only for context but for writer Steve Rose’s thoughts on recent horror films vs. the history of horror cinema. Don’t expect to give it an A+, though. But I enjoyed the article and […]
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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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