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Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: Pedro Iniguez on Ray Bradbury

Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: Pedro Iniguez on Ray Bradbury

Patrick Barb
This month, I had the chance to chat with the incredibly talented Pedro Iniguez about a favorite author that’s shared between the two of us: Ray Bradbury. Throughout this conversation, I found myself considering and re-considering Bradbury and his oeuvre as a result of the different perspective that Pedro provided…
Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: Kristina Ten on Mariana Enriquez

Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: Kristina Ten on Mariana Enriquez

Patrick Barb
In writing this column, I get to learn about new-to-me authors and I get a chance to see some familiar favorites through the eyes of others whose writing I admire. Additionally, this column and the immensely positive response it’s received has allowed me to connect with newer authors who’ve reached out to share their kind words about this project. Kristina Ten is one such author…
YFAFA Tanya Pell Christopher Golden

Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: Tanya Pell on Christopher Golden

Patrick Barb
As an author, I am incredibly fortunate to have the opportunity to travel to conventions, signings, and other events where I have the chance to meet fellow scribes up and down the ladders of success in their careers. One author who I met both online and then later in-person, who has always impressed me with her passion, sense of fun, and supportive nature for all her fellow writers is this week’s interviewee: Tanya Pell…
Your Favorite Author’s Favorite Author: Donyae Coles on Francesca Lia Block

Your Favorite Author’s Favorite Author: Donyae Coles on Francesca Lia Block

Patrick Barb
Donyae Coles is the author of Bram Stoker nominated novel, Midnight Rooms. She is currently working on her sophomore Gothic horror, The Sunken, The Adored. Her short work has been published in a variety of places and she can be found on Blue Sky and Instagram. She is also a recent-ish transplant to my neck of the woods in the Midwest, making the ranks of the weird and creative just that much stronger out here in the middle of the States…
YFAFA Rachel Harrison on Paul Tremblay

Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: Rachel Harrison on Paul Tremblay

Patrick Barb
Rachel Harrison is one of the most prolific authors currently working in horror fiction. Having established a niche all her own in the genre, she is one creator who never fails to pair big ideas and beloved tropes with fresh approaches informed by character and the realities of modern life. The accolades and her catalog almost speak for themselves.
YFAFA Christi Nogle Stephen King

Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: Christi Nogle on Stephen King

Patrick Barb
When I first turned my attention to writing short fiction and found myself in the submissions trenches, there was one name that came up again and again. One author who was selling stories at a rapid clip—quite often to markets that I wanted to crack but hadn’t yet…
Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: Richard Thomas on Stephen Graham Jones

Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: Richard Thomas on Stephen Graham Jones

Patrick Barb
Here are at Your Favorite Author’s Favorite Author, I’m always thrilled whenever a new conversation opens up exciting firsts for myself and you, dear readers. Somehow, some way, this seems to happen with every column though! This month’s conversation is no exception…
YFAFA Laird Barron Roger Zelazny

Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: Laird Barron on Roger Zelazny

Patrick Barb
Barron is an expat Alaskan and the author of several books including The Imago Sequence and Other Stories, Swift to Chase, and Not a Speck of Light. Currently, he lives in the Rondout Valley of New York State…
Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: Hailey Piper on Carmen Maria Machado

Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: Hailey Piper on Carmen Maria Machado

Patrick Barb
Hailey Piper is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth, All the Hearts You Eat, The Worm and His Kings series, and other books of horror. She’s also the author of…
Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: Maxwell I Gold on Dante

Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: Maxwell I. Gold on Dante

Patrick Barb
And now for something…slightly different. Speculative literature comes in many varieties. Questions of “what if?”, “what was that?”, and “how could this be?” are posed and answered across varying mediums and forms…
A Nightmare on Elm Street 40th Anniversary Hailey Piper

I'm Just a (Freddy) Girl

Hailey Piper
Forty years ago, Craven introduced the world to Freddy Krueger with the original A Nightmare on Elm Street. You probably know the gist of it, whether you’ve seen it or not. Freddy Krueger (played by now-horror legend Robert Englund)…
Your Author's Favorite Author: Nat Cassidy on William Shakespeare

Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: Nat Cassidy on William Shakespeare

Patrick Barb
Well, someone had to do it eventually. Some author featured in this column Your Favorite Author’s Favorite Author had to go and pick one of the biggest (if not THE biggest names in literature) as the author they wanted to chat with me about at length. But who would be mad enough to do such a thing?
Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: L. Marie Wood on Ira Levin

Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: L. Marie Wood on Ira Levin

Patrick Barb
L. Marie Wood is a Golden Stake Award- and two-time Bookfest Award-winning, Ignyte Award and two-time Bram Stoker Award® nominated author.  She is also a MICO Award-winning screenwriter, a Rhysling nominated poet, and accomplished essayist. She is also the Vice President of the Horror Writers Association, founder of the Speculative Fiction Academy, an English/Creative Writing professor, and a horror scholar…
Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: Stephen Graham Jones on Philip K. Dick

Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: Stephen Graham Jones on Philip K. Dick

Patrick Barb
This month, it was my absolute pleasure to speak with author Stephen Graham Jones. He’s the New York Times bestselling author of some thirty novels and collections…
Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: Paula D. Ashe on Clive Barker

Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: Paula D. Ashe on Clive Barker

Patrick Barb
This month’s “Your Favorite Author’s Favorite Author” is the first time one of my interviewees has selected a still-living author as their favorite. It was an absolute honor to chat with Paula D. Ashe about one of horror’s living legends, a master of many forms of media, Clive Barker…
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