March 5th, 2010 
Lorna D. Keach 
I’m going to let you in on another vast and terrible dark secret; one that humankind was not meant to know, and as soon as your eyes stumble across the words you will most likely go irrevocably mad. It is a secret that has plagued the earth for centuries, whispered of in dark necromantic writers’ [...]
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Tags: horror, horror writing, library, Ramen noodles, secret, writer's circle, Writer's Market, writers, writing, writing guides 
1 Comment » March 3rd, 2010 Jessica Brown On March 16th, 2010, the second edition of David Dunwoody’s zombie novel EMPIRE will be released as part of a co-publishing venture between Permuted Press and Simon & Schuster. Dunwoody’s debut novel from 2008, EMPIRE approaches the concept of a post-apocalyptic zombie yarn from a new angle, pitting the Grim Reaper against the living dead.
The [...]
February 26th, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
(or, Stephanie Meyer Ate My Baby.)
Listen, I’m going to confess something here that is truly, truly horrible. It is a dark secret that few souls have had the privileged terror of knowing, and one thing I don’t admit in public when I’m trying to get people to like me. It’s a monstrous secret, one I [...]
February 19th, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
Some days, a writer just needs to get their bearings.
Some days, a writer’s been locked in their room for a week and a half with no human contact save for You Tube videos and a packet of demon-possessed Skittles candy.
Some days, when the burden of the terrible task weighs down upon us too heavily, a [...]
February 12th, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
(Or, “Do you like me? Check yes, no, or go to hell.”)
There are few things more crushing than the dreaded Rejection Form.
You’ve already gone through the horror of Submitting. You’ve spent weeks editing your story, crossing your fingers and praying to your favorite dark gods that yes, finally, this time someone will say “What [...]
February 5th, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
Feeling low? Downtrodden? Weighed down by the unbearable heaviness that is the Writer’s Toil? Well, you’re not alone.
You’re really, really not alone, because there are thousands upon thousands of people out there who have taken up the masochistic banner. They’ve made it their passion to pour their soul on the page and bleed into every [...]
January 29th, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
(or, You can take your Quantum Snuffle Accelerator and shove it up your tokhes.)
There’s this lovely little term floating around out there in the publishing universe lately; Speculative Fiction. Speculative, meaning; based on intellectual speculation, theoretical, marked by questioning curiosity. It’s supposed to encompass any genre fiction that is of speculative nature, like magic [...]
January 22nd, 2010 Lorna D. Keach You gotta have guts to be a horror writer.
You gotta have warm, sticky guts; the kind that spill out on the floor, splash over the wall, drench your victims in buckets of blood…
But it helps to have the other kind of guts, too.
In this feature, we’ll be exploring some of the most harrowing experiences and [...]
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