NonFiction

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…
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 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…
Ai Jiang on Toni Morrison

Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: Ai Jiang on Toni Morrison

Patrick Barb
The family tree of literature, especially speculative fiction, is a vast and many-branched one. With this interview series, I hope to speak with some of the top names—both established and upcoming—in the speculative fiction genres about the authors who have made an impact on them, whether as readers, writers, or both…
Ask an Author - Alex Ebenstein

Ask an Author: Alex Ebenstein

Nicole Dieker
The Melon Head Mayhem author tells us why he decided to become a writer, what happened after he started reading Stephen King, and why expanding a short story into a Killer VHS novella was one of the best decisions he ever made…
How to Judge a Book by Its First Three Paragraphs

How to Judge a Book by Its First Three Paragraphs

Nicole Dieker
Some people judge books by their covers. I like to judge a book by its first three paragraphs. The opening sentences of a story tell you a lot about the experience you’re likely to have with the book—and since many readers turn to books to find specific experiences, skillful writers often use their first paragraphs to let their readers know exactly what kind of experience to expect…
How to Interact with Other Writers - A Guide by Nicole Dieker

How to Interact with Other Writers

Nicole Dieker
I email other writers a lot—and, believe it or not, most of them write back. I could drop some of the names that are now saved in my contacts list, many of which you may have heard of, but that would be both inappropriate and indiscreet…
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