tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16768651761219353522024-03-13T04:49:14.613-07:00Another Slightly Scary StoryInterviews, book reviews, guest blogs, tips, links and the occasional Slightly Scary Story. WARNING: Some cursing and adult content found in the short stories.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563209830154165271noreply@blogger.comBlogger182125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676865176121935352.post-42328136452015503452018-02-08T12:27:00.001-08:002018-02-08T12:27:40.226-08:00Interview with Josh Malerman, Author of Bird Box
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This is an interview with Josh Malerman, mostly covering his novel, Bird Box. The story, soon to be a movie starring Sandra Bullcok, follows Malorie as her turns upside down. Something is outside her door; if she looks (or allows her children to look), she will die.
Ames: You have said you got the idea for Bird Box from the concept thatAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563209830154165271noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676865176121935352.post-169778569431750342018-01-30T10:24:00.000-08:002018-01-30T10:27:39.401-08:00Richard Chizmar Interview - Co-Author of the Upcoming Novel, Widow's Point
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563209830154165271noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676865176121935352.post-71955543237641738582018-01-11T11:23:00.001-08:002018-01-11T11:31:07.019-08:00Billy Chizmar Interview - Co-Author of the Upcoming Novel, Widow's Point
The following is
an interview with Billy Chizmar:
AMES: Billy, thank you for your time today, and for granting my readers a
chance to learn more about you. Would you mind telling readers a little about
yourself and Widow’s Point?
BILLY CHIZMAR: Thank you so much for having me! It’s an honor and a pleasure.
Widow’s Point originated as a short story my dad and I️ co-authored forAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563209830154165271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676865176121935352.post-62283208491058004932017-12-18T10:04:00.002-08:002017-12-18T10:04:57.545-08:00Widow's Point - A Review - Richard and Billy Chizmar
Widow's Point is a fast-paced, edge-of-your-seat ghost story. Billy
Chizmar and Richard Chizmar take you through one man's psychological
torment as he locks himself inside a lighthouse with a tragic, horrific,
evil past. Accidents while building the lighthouse were mysterious.
Murders happened on the grounds. A family has been slaughtered within
the walls. Ships have broken upon its shores Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563209830154165271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676865176121935352.post-59935722369127155902017-12-14T11:27:00.003-08:002017-12-14T11:28:39.742-08:00A Long December, by Richard Chizmar - A Review
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563209830154165271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676865176121935352.post-42424261986947729692017-12-05T02:02:00.000-08:002017-12-05T09:59:53.873-08:00Short Interview with Crystal Lake CEO, Joe Mynhardt
Interview with
Crystal Lake CEO, Joe Mynhardt, publisher of such titles as Where Nightmares
Come From, the Tales from the Lake series, Pretty Little Dead Girls, Cracked
Sky, and so many more, all of which I would recommend. If you are looking for a
new publisher of some of today’s best horror, look no further.
AMES: Tales from the Lake Vol. 4 was
superb, with every haunting story Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563209830154165271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676865176121935352.post-86218127862724104992017-11-22T09:40:00.001-08:002017-11-22T09:42:13.824-08:00Interview with Ben Eads, Editor of Tales from the Lake Vol. 4 (He's Also a Writer)
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563209830154165271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676865176121935352.post-77441721577335221072017-11-21T01:13:00.002-08:002017-11-21T01:13:58.372-08:00Review of Where Nightmares Come From: The Art of Storytelling in the Horror Genre - Crystal Lake Publishing
I just finished this collection of essays and interviews on writing, and it did not disappoint. There are essays on writing method, what makes horror, deciding the format that best fits your story, using language to bring stories alive, where ideas come from, and so much more. There are interviews with top authors in our genre which serve to shed light on the process of collaboration, and Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563209830154165271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676865176121935352.post-30294463461922730862017-11-02T23:14:00.001-07:002017-11-02T23:14:28.242-07:00
Interview – Mike Duke – Author AMES: Hey Mike, thanks for joining. Let me start off by saying I loved reading Low. Books about religion, man’s sins, our souls, and our struggle to find meaning in life really intrigue me, so this was a perfect book for me. If you don’t mind me asking, how much of your own inner struggle was part of this story? Duke: A good part. There is a lot of me in Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563209830154165271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676865176121935352.post-57948147079141328822017-10-26T06:31:00.002-07:002017-10-26T06:32:35.602-07:00Review - Dead-end Demons - Jeffrey Beesler
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563209830154165271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676865176121935352.post-23474564147843143432017-06-02T02:37:00.003-07:002017-06-02T02:37:30.313-07:00Interview with Max Booth III, Author of The Nightly Disease, Editor-in-Chief of Perpetual Motion Machine, and Managing Editor of Dark Moon Digest
Ames: You put a lot of yourself into your novel, The Nightly Disease.
Not everyone knows that your novel is about someone who has your job
outside of writing, working at a hotel. What would you say is the
scariest experience you have ever had while on the job?
Booth: A
few months ago I walked into the hotel and the 3-11 shift employee told
me he'd spotted a snake out through the foyer's Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563209830154165271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676865176121935352.post-6525743182106630992015-05-07T11:29:00.002-07:002015-05-07T11:32:49.079-07:00Biggest 'Ah-ha!' Moments in Writing Web Ring
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Thank you to all the authors, editors, and magazines that made this web
series about writing possible. I was only able to put this
giant ring of essays together, each detailing an author's biggest 'Ah-ha!' moment in
writing, because of all of you.
For those who haven't heard of this
web series: What
is the Biggest 'Ah-Ha!' Moments in Writing Web-SeriesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563209830154165271noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676865176121935352.post-85306410008507670152015-05-06T16:14:00.001-07:002015-05-06T16:14:03.211-07:00What We've Learned in 25 Years of Publishing Aurealis - Aurealis and Michael Pryor
Aurealis is Australia’s premier magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Now in its twenty-fifth year, we began – naturally – as a print magazine and now we electronically deliver the best speculative fiction in the land. Over the years we’ve discovered, fostered and featured many, many writers and illustrators and acted as a showcase for the finest in the field.
The article below is a Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563209830154165271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676865176121935352.post-22399590091613816872015-05-06T15:32:00.000-07:002015-05-06T15:32:04.304-07:00Career Counseling - Joe McKinney - Biggest Aha! Moments in Writing
Great Ah-ha! Moments in Writing: Career Counseling
By Joe McKinney
I’ll let you in on a little secret. When I got started, I had no idea I was a writer. None. I wrote a novel called Dead City, about a young patrolman trying to get home to his family on the first night of the zombie apocalypse, because at the time I was a young patrolman dealing with the stress and Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563209830154165271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676865176121935352.post-13861263717177694502015-05-06T14:53:00.002-07:002015-05-06T14:53:32.136-07:00Change in Direction - Norman Prentiss - Biggest Aha! Moments in Writing
Change in Direction
A couple years ago, I was asked to submit a story to an anthology called Commutability: Stories about the Journey from Here to There. The editor, David Bell, was asking some horror authors to sub, but the anthology would include mainstream stories as well. Since the broad theme of the book was travel, I looked through my idea file for anything that might fit. I had one Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563209830154165271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676865176121935352.post-75031163658005454292015-04-28T15:33:00.001-07:002015-04-28T15:34:24.258-07:00On Editing - Nancy Kilpatrick - Biggest Aha! Moments in Writing
As every publisher will tell you, "Anthologies don't sell." They do, of course, but what is required to garner sales is "names", well-known and best-selling authors, with a following. Not only are such people necessary to sell to the public, but they are also crucial in terms of an editor selling the anthology idea to a publisher.
When David Morrell Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563209830154165271noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676865176121935352.post-51122214732006699662015-04-28T15:30:00.001-07:002015-04-28T15:30:40.580-07:00Strangle Your Inner Critic - John Everson - Biggest Aha! Moments in Writing
The biggest barrier to writing a novel is…yourself.
I learned that when I wrote my first novel, Covenant. I started writing the book sometime in 1994-95, but I didn’t end up with a first draft until 2000. And even then, it was only a 75,000-word novel. Obviously, I wasn’t writing the book that whole time. For most of that five-year period, it sat in the figurative drawer, because after Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563209830154165271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676865176121935352.post-47490992530062287532015-04-28T15:22:00.001-07:002015-04-28T15:23:21.267-07:00Be a Brave New Voice - Frank Hutton - Biggest Aha! Moments in Writing!
I wrote my first narrative fiction in 1969 during the 8th
grade, a short tale of star-crossed lovers reunited in a deserted school
lunchroom as nuclear Armageddon descends. A year later the piece ran in my high
school’s prestigious annual literary magazine.
For a freshman to get published was quite the coup. How did I manage
it?
By tapping into my anxieties, I reflected the anxiety of Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563209830154165271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676865176121935352.post-83780508056165002422015-04-28T15:16:00.003-07:002015-04-28T15:16:57.285-07:00Two Big Moments - Lucy Snyder - Biggest Aha! Moments in Writing
My first really big "Ah-Ha!" moment happened at the Clarion Science
Fiction and Fantasy Workshop, which I attended when I was finishing up
college. Before that workshop, I'd been writing short stories and had
sold one, but I had no clear idea of why my other stories weren't
selling.
I'd taken a couple of creative writing courses in
college, and the instruction there had focused Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563209830154165271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676865176121935352.post-82735676622404566112015-04-28T15:03:00.000-07:002015-04-28T15:17:58.982-07:00Great Ah-ha! Moments in Writing - Career Counseling - Joe McKinney - Biggest Aha! Moments in Writing
Great Ah-ha! Moments in Writing: Career Counseling
By Joe McKinney
I’ll let you in on a little secret. When I got started, I had no idea I was a writer. None. I wrote a novel called Dead City, about a young patrolman trying to get home to his family on the first night of the zombie apocalypse, because at the time I was a young patrolman dealing with the stress and Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563209830154165271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676865176121935352.post-71180339991896679422015-04-28T14:46:00.000-07:002015-04-28T14:48:38.326-07:00Listen... - Jack Dann - Biggest Aha! Moments in Writing
Like
a lot of writers, my first and biggest “Ah-Ha!” moment occurred on the
day I opened the envelope that contained my first acceptance letter and
contracts for my first professionally-sold, professionally-accepted,
professionally paid-for and –published short story. I stood there alone
in the living room of my parents’ home (where I was still living at the
time – don’t ask, it Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563209830154165271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676865176121935352.post-86738652231407779292015-04-28T14:38:00.000-07:002015-04-28T14:39:33.700-07:00The Day My First Professional Sale Almost Got Me Arrested - Gary A. Braunbeck - Biggest Aha! Moments in Writing
Like
a lot of writers, my first and biggest “Ah-Ha!” moment occurred on the
day I opened the envelope that contained my first acceptance letter and
contracts for my first professionally-sold, professionally-accepted,
professionally paid-for and –published short story. I stood there alone
in the living room of my parents’ home (where I was still living at the
time – don’t ask, it Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563209830154165271noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676865176121935352.post-57537904970625066612015-04-28T14:30:00.001-07:002015-04-28T14:31:14.233-07:00Hey, This Writing Thing Doesn't Have To Kill Me After All - Brian Hodge - Biggest Aha! Moments in Writing
Hey, This Writing Thing Doesn’t Have To Kill Me After All
by Brian Hodge
There was a time when I could conceive of a novel that I wouldn’t survive. I either wouldn’t be around to finish it, or around to see it published.
I know, this sounds insufferably drama-queeny. “Oooo, look at the tortured artist, doing what he loves, and the jagoff still isn’t happy!” Be that as it may, the one Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563209830154165271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676865176121935352.post-4005064728293992442015-04-28T14:24:00.001-07:002015-04-28T14:24:51.235-07:00
LISTEN TO YOUR AGENT!
by
JOE BUFF
At the very start of my professional writing career back in 1998, my brand new literary agent gave me some advice I was very, very reluctant to follow. He told me to abandon my aspirations to write military science fiction novels in favor of doing straight technothrillers. I had just spent a couple years, off and on, writing Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563209830154165271noreply@blogger.com0