(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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘horror fiction’
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 »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 »Rock N’ Roll is Dead Anthology
June 10th, 2011 Lorna D. Keach 
Let’s be honest with ourselves; many of us do not expect great things from small press publishers. (Many of us don’t expect great things from big box publishers, but that’s an altogether different rant.) But just because we may not expect great things does not mean there’s not a ton of very talented people working [...]
Posted in Reviews Tags: anthology, horror fiction, horror writers, print anthology, readers, reading, writers, writing No Comments »Anotherealm
May 29th, 2011 Lorna D. Keach 
Website: http://anotherealm.com/ Guideline Highlights: “Full length Stories: The stories may be science fiction, fantasy or horror only. Our maximum word limit is 5,000 words. Submissions are accepted year round. However there is a “Reading Period”, see below for more information. Payment for First Worldwide Electronic Rights will be US $25. All additional rights stay with [...]
Posted in Markets, Online Zines Tags: horror fiction, horror writers, Markets, online zine, short stories, writers, writing No Comments »Heinous by Jonathan Moon
May 14th, 2011 Lorna D. Keach 
I’ll admit; the first reason I wanted to read Jonathan Moon’s novel, Heinous, was because of all the cover blurbs. I’d heard about the book through various channels and I kept seeing words like “disturbing” and “mesmerizing” associated with it—along with more than one reference to one’s inner child getting brutally pummeled by the story. [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Reviews Tags: gore, Heinous, horror fiction, horror writers, horrorcore, Jonathan Moon, more gore, novel, some gore No Comments »One Buck Horror
April 9th, 2011 Lorna D. Keach “One Buck Horror is looking for the best in horror fiction from established and up-and-coming writers. We pay professional rates for short stories of 3000 words or less. Selected stories will appear in eBook releases to be sold through Amazon.com, Google Books, and other online outlets. We are also accepting submissions for cover art to [...]
Posted in Markets, Online Zines Tags: ebook, ebooks, horror, horror fiction, horror markets, horror writing, Markets, online zine, short stories No Comments »Pulp Carnivale
April 9th, 2011 Lorna D. Keach “We are currently looking for stories in the following genres: fantasy gangster detective/mystery science fiction adventure/exotic travels westerns romance horror/occult Pulp Carnivale is publishing 3 types of short story: Flash Fiction: Stories of 1,000 words or less, published daily as a “News Flash”. Short Story: Stories of differing longer lengths, around 5,000 words or less. [...]
Posted in Markets, Online Zines Tags: horror fiction, horror markets, horror writer, horror writing, Markets, short stories No Comments »Thaumatrope
January 21st, 2011 Lorna D. Keach 
“Guidelines: Tell us a Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror story in under 140 characters. Other than that, we’re just looking for good stories. Rates: We pay $1.20 per submission entry—which equates to a minimum payment of approximately 5¢/word (considering a “word” to be 6 characters). While we technically pay professional rates for fiction we DO [...]
The Red Penny Papers
January 21st, 2011 Lorna D. Keach 
“We’re open to submissions from January 15-February 28, 2011. The Red Penny Papers publishes webfiction that celebrates the spirit of the penny dreadful, the sensationalist and gothic novel, and their more modern successor, the pulp magazine– the catch is that it must have a dark speculative bent. We want stories of the underbelly: opium dens [...]
Posted in Magazines, Markets Tags: horror, horror fiction, horror markets, horror writer, horror writers, horror writing, paying, print, short stories, writers, writing No Comments »
