An interracial couple celebrates finding one another through time.
It’s story day for me!
NOT YET, LITTLE WITCH is available today in the UK (May 12 IN THE US) as a part of the A BREATH OF TIME #romantasy anthology! Check out this time travel romance I love so dearly!
Art commissioned from the wonderful and talented @haykebyr.bsky.social!
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Thanks, Mary!
Today's the 15th, so my monthly short story has been released for patrons! You can read the first 1000 or so words for free. Check it out here!
www.conquerthyfear.com/blog/b/sacch...
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Thanks Mary! 💙
As usual all my stuff is on my Itch page. Come and have a look!
anna-verner.itch.io
It's told from the pov of a young mom who moves into the suburbs & becomes suspicious that her creepy new neighbor might be a killer. 👀 She befriends some of the other neighbors & they start snooping. The vibe is quirky & mystery. I liked it!
Thanks for another great chat! On the topic of books, check out these books by autistic authors that are available in hoopla. I only picked 1 book per author so a lot of these authors have more titles available that you may be able to read for free courtesy of your local library.
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Thank you for the fun questions!
I just released my new Runner Owen short story today, if a murder mystery set in a queer accepting gaslamp fantasy world (with vampires) sounds like your thing.
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Thanks Mary
I talked about Horror being an umbrella term for genre for me, so here my books
Check them out
They're good!
"HD Beird's use of visceral and sensual imagery is also a revelation to read and is essential to his writing style."
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www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08W9KRT1...
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Just want to highlight again that Cat Eye Press is now open for submissions for Don’t Go for the Vault: a Bank Robbery Horror Anthology! It’s a paying call, and I’d love to see some stories from yall!
Guidelines: www.cateyepress.com/submissions
Thank you for the cozy questions! I would like to share that this week, @squirmbooks.bsky.social released their debut anthology. Featuring 22 horror authors writing YA body horror, including stories from @amandamblake.bsky.social @judedeluca.bsky.social & me:
www.amazon.com/Skin-Deep-An...
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As mentioned in my non-horror works…
Kirk Sandblaster (space comedy): www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B074BRG5XB
Mr Blank (noir thriller): www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B094SPJBHX
If you take a look, I hope you enjoy…
Thank you for the cozy questions! I would like to share that this week, @squirmbooks.bsky.social released their debut anthology. Featuring 22 horror authors writing YA body horror, including stories from @amandamblake.bsky.social @judedeluca.bsky.social & me:
www.amazon.com/Skin-Deep-An...
I actually write in a lot more genres than horror! As a professional world-builder/-designer, I do this in both fantasy and sci-fi genres. I also write reviews from time to time, games and books in particular!
I can also do copy writing for marketing, if needs be!
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Since I don’t have a TARDIS, I love searching for documentaries or podcasts that focus on a specific historical event.
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@dianawallachauthor.bsky.social writes perfect YA horror
@kathleenpalm.bsky.social MG horror is fun!
Rory Powers wrote my favorite book, Wilder Girls.
@adamcesare.bsky.social Clown in a Cornfield saga is one of my favorites!
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I love retelling folktales from my childhood. I did a picture book retelling of Kaguya Hime for grad school and it was fun! One day I’ll work on a MG retelling of this favorite tale.
I journal a lot. As someone who has horrible anxiety, journaling helps me stay grounded.
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I’m Tashi, the writer of supernatural , psychological and slasher horror.
I’m watching Netflix’s The Fall of the House of Usher and loving it!
Next Saturday is my birthday, so I need to decide which horror movie to watch in theaters. They all look intriguing! 🤩
Q2. I write things and then let other people tell me what genre they are. They're all on some spectrum of spooky-speculative-literary. And I write poetry. I used to do a fair bit of journalism but not as much in the past couple years.
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Am branching out into cosy crime. Have written alt history, Norse myth retellings & I've 17thC historical fiction on the go.
I write dark poetry not nec. horror.
I write occasional book reviews at Horror Tree too.
Horror writing focuses emotion, makes you consider tension esp.
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'Ello, #HorrorWritersChat, I am a sad monster what writes weird horror and I've been watching the documentary series 'Behind the Monsters'. As for reading, I read 'Lock the Last Door' by our own @vincentlore.bsky.social, which was a delight.
So. Much. Research. I'm currently drafting a book set in the mid-90s, and while I can rely on my memory to some degree, I was five then. I've looked up fashion catalogs and information about brands and pictures of school interiors, etc. Even common TV sizes.
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I only write stories set in some kind of present or within my lifetime. If it’s the latter, I rely on memory (and a little memory-jogging) for accuracy. But actually I’m not too fussy, because most of my stories are written from a subjective first-person POV.
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As cool as time travel would be I'd probably end up setting off a cataclysmic chain of events :')
For my WIP I'm doing a ton of research. Learning about common vocabulary, reading about popular alcohol for the time... No detail is too small!
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Lots and lots of research. The Tales From The Night Garden series spans over centuries (thanks, vampires), so I literally have an encyclopedia I've compiled of research notes, lore, character details, and prominent things that are happening in history around plot points.
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Mostly it's research, as that's my main training. It feeds into just about everything I write* as I find tangible details best brings the work to life.
*this goes doubly so for when I wrote contracts; believe me, it's VERY essential...
You can't substitute research or immersing yourself in a period, or feedback from an expert.
That's why I write a lot of Catholic-relic based horror and monk-punk fantasy stories. I spent 10 years on medieval saints' lives so it's something I feel comfortable writing about.
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Definitely time travel, like I assume all of us have access to. Might explain some of the issues with our current timeline too….
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Little bit of research, little bit of playing with anachronisms. Ideally I want the details to be as right as possible, or at least believable. There will always be THAT reader who says theremins didnt exist in the Old West.
Ooh, I would research. Plus watch movies made during that time - if it's like in the 80s - or reading novels written during that time if it was farther back. I hope they included references that made more sense to them than it does to us because that's a whole vibe.
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Ooh, I would research. Plus watch movies made during that time - if it's like in the 80s - or reading novels written during that time if it was farther back. I hope they included references that made more sense to them than it does to us because that's a whole vibe.
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