March 26th, 2010 
Lorna D. Keach 
(Or, how to freak people out by admitting that you write in public.) It’s only recently that I’ve begun to have the courage to talk about being a writer, let alone a horror writer. Years ago, I never mentioned the W-word in polite company and rarely spoke it aloud, even when no one was listening. [...]
March 12th, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
(Or, is that a manuscript in your pocket, or are you just wasting your freakin’ life?) There is a vast difference between short story writing and novel writing. Think of it as the difference between pot and heroin—sure, it’s perfectly easy to just write a short story now and then, maybe just a bit on [...]
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5 Comments » 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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