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The Horror of the Horror Shelf

(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 [...]

The Horror of the Form Rejection

(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 [...]

The Horror of Speculative Fiction

(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 [...]

Welcome to The Horrors of Horror Writing.

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 [...]