(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’
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 »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 [...]
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 »Open Magazine
February 19th, 2011 Lorna D. Keach “Science Ficiton, Horror, Fantasy, Weird, Bizarro, Cyber Punk 25,000 words or less – Reprints ok, Simultaneous submissions – ok Multiple submissions accepted - Yes Pays $10 plus 3 Contributors Copies Open Magazine owns one time print and digital rights. One month after publication all rights go back to the writer.” First issue out in March, [...]
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 »Horror Garage
January 21st, 2011 Lorna D. Keach 
“HORROR GARAGE combines the best in original dark fiction with the finest in horrific rock n’ roll. Think HORROR OF PARTY BEACH, PSYCHOMANIA, and DEATH RACE 2000: B-movie babes, screamin’ skulls, bug-eyed creeps, and gallons of blood. 1. DO NOT submit to HORROR GARAGE (or any similar venue) without being completely familiar with it. Take [...]
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