(Or, you can have my auxiliary verbs when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers.) Today we’re gonna get a little English Geeky up in here. We’re gonna to use spooky words like conjugation and modality and, at the end I’m gonna make you diagram a sentence. Just kidding! I know we’d all rather claw our own [...]
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The Horror of the Passive Voice
May 19th, 2012 
Lorna D. Keach Author Spotlight – Deb Eskie
January 10th, 2012 Lorna D. Keach Deb Eskie is a resident of Massachusetts and has an M.Ed in creative arts education. With a background in women’s studies, her focus as a writer is to expose the woman’s experience through unsettling tales that highlight the dilemma of sexual repression and oppression. By combining the genres of feminist and horror/science-fiction she aims to [...]
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Tags: author, Deb Eskie, feminist horror, horror, horror fiction, horror writing, interview, Pill Hill Press, published, short stories, writer, writers, writing 
No Comments »Return of the Blogging Dead!
January 1st, 2012 Lorna D. Keach Yes, I live again! Quite an accomplishment after having a living creature wrenched from my throbbing innards. (He’s pretty cute for an innards-creature.) So, to celebrate my current not-quite-dead status, I return with a quick smattering of new good-lookin’ markets for you to peruse and enjoy. So, peruse. And enjoy! Pink Narcissus “We like strong writing, [...]
Granta 117: Horror
October 11th, 2011 Jessica Brown “Horror is not a genre, like the mystery or science fiction or the western. It is not a kind of fiction, meant to be confined to the ghetto of a special shelf in libraries or bookstores. Horror is an emotion.” — Douglas Winter, Prime Evil (introduction), 1982. Horror is, largely, an unavoidable concept. Enough time [...]
Author Spotlight: David James Keaton
August 25th, 2011 Lorna D. Keach 
David James Keaton has a new e-book that has just been released by Bunyip Books called ZEE BEE & BEE (a.k.a. Propeller Hats For The Dead) – Told from the perspective of the sluggish employee of a “Zombie Bed & Breakfast” tourist trap, this horrific love letter (and middle finger) to the zombie capital of [...]
Posted in Author Spotlight Tags: author spotlight, David James Keaton, ebook, horror, horror fiction, horror writers, Zee Bee & Bee No Comments »Author Spotlight: Nathan Robinson
July 30th, 2011 Lorna D. Keach Nathan Robinson lives in Scunthorpe, England with a patient wife/editor and adoring one year old twin boys. So far he’s had six monthly winners published on Spintinglers and five stories published by Panic Press His story, “Top of the Heap” appears on Pseudopod as episode 225, where it was adapted into a free to download [...]
New Short Story Markets!
December 3rd, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
It’s been a tad slow around here as of late, and I blame the upcoming festive holiday season trying to kill us all. (I nearly strangled to death on a cord of Jingle Bells the other day when a Menorah jumped out into my path trying to trip me so the Secular Humanist Holly Wreath [...]
The Cult – Now Accepting Novel Submissions!
November 12th, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
It’s November, and that means the hotly debated NaNoWriMo is in full swing, and–whaddya know–some pretty cool markets are currently open for novel submissions. Here’s a quick-glance list (and certainly not an exhaustive one) that is chock-full of publishers who may just want your novel right now. Y’know, if it’s finished. Holy Crapballs some Pro [...]
Posted in The Cult Tags: electronic, epublishing, horror, horror writers, Markets, novel markets, open markets, print, print publishing No Comments »Pill Hill Press
October 22nd, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
“We are a small, independent publisher specializing in horror, suspense, dark fantasy and science fiction. We bought a “haunted house” in 2007 in Western Nebraska and decided to convert part of the old, spooky Victorian into a small press that celebrates speculative fiction. We are interested in authors new and seasoned, young and old, and [...]
Posted in Anthologies, Book Publishers, Features Tags: anthology, book publisher, ebook, novel publisher, Pill Hill Press, print No Comments »The Cult – A little gore with your Linkdump?
October 15th, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
I should be writing right now, but instead I’m scouring the internet for all manner of interesting news and links that appeal to the more grisly, literary side of us all. It’s like Dark Roasted Blend! Only bloodier: UK marks its gore with it’s own official Murdermap 3D Bookjackets: coming soon to a novel near [...]
