“It’s about my own roots,” an interview with NIGHTLIGHT podcast’s Tonia Ransom
Tonia Ransom, creator of the NIGHTLIGHT podcast and Afflicted: A Horror Thriller Audio Drama, talks about the importance of showcasing Black horror authors and their work, and explains her own personal connection to her passion projects. Q: How did you get started in podcasting, and what led to NIGHTLIGHT? A: I’ve known since the early 2000s…
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“Dear Editor, thank you for considering…”
(Image: http://www.freepik.com) I have 42 submissions out. I want to say something about Schrodinger’s cat here, but I’m shit at anything to do with math or science, and would probably screw it up. My point is that I have 42 unknowns floating in the universe. They could get accepted, rejected, or languish in an abandoned…
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On Becoming a Writer and Learning To Be Vulnerable: Guest post by Carol Weis
Guest post from author Carol Weis on writing her memoir STUMBLING HOME: Life Before and After That Last Drink, and what it means (and feels like) to be vulnerable and open as a writer.
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“[B]e surprised by the process,” an interview with Jessica McHugh
Jessica McHugh is a novelist, a 2x Bram Stoker Award®-nominated poet, and an internationally-produced playwright running amok in the fields of horror, sci-fi, young adult, and wherever else her peculiar mind leads. She’s had twenty-five books published in thirteen years, including her bizarro romp, The Green Kangaroos, her YA series, The Darla Decker Diaries, and her…
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Writing Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops: Guest Post from Allison Hong Merrill
The blog took a spring break, but is back with Allison Hong Merrill, author of the bestselling and award-winning memoir Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops. Here, Allison tells us about the process of rebuilding and restructuring her memoir after receiving beta reader feedback, and shares some of her best writing tips. Thank you, Allison! When reading a…
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Juggling WIPs
The view from my office window. This is not trying to be instructional. This is more or less a rambling cry for help. How do you decide what to work on and when, if you have lots of writing projects started? Especially if demands in your life are all grabbing at your legs like toddlers?…
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“We don’t create feminist horror; it imposes itself upon us,” an interview with Lindsay Merbaum
Lindsay Merbaum is a queer feminist author, workshop leader, high priestess of home mixology, editor, and more. Her debut novel, The Gold Persimmon, is available now. Q: Feminist Horror is not new, but it does seem to be experiencing a bit of a renaissance. Can you tell us a little about the genre and its unique…
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“I look at everything as a story,” an interview with Christina Consolino
Christina Consolino, senior editor at Literary Mama, freelance writer and editor, and author of the award-winning novel Rewrite the Stars, shares what it was like to launch her first book during the pandemic, what she’s working on now, and why writers should always, always pay attention to the world around them. Thanks, Christina! Q: Happy…
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A Toast to Music and History: Guest post from Melanie Gall
Melanie Gall is a woman of many talents. She is an author, an editor, a historian, a musician, a performer, and more. She tours within and outside of the U.S., putting on shows full of razzle and dazzle and all that jazz: A Toast to Prohibition and A Talent to Amuse: The Noel Coward Story…
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Should you create an author website? Yes.
I’ll keep this one short. Recently, I stopped waffling about whether or not I should create a website and did it. Or, rather, I paid someone else to do it, because I’m from that in-between generation that didn’t grow up with computers but now we’re forced to use them for everything and to be honest,…
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