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Category: Guest post
“Every Writer, a Writer”
Reflecting on the release of her third Alyssia novel, Storm Tree, Michigan author E.D.E. Bell shares eir thoughts…
Reviews: All About The Book-Tempting?
Matt Cavanagh– better known to most as Womble from Run Along the Shelves – tells us about…
Writing Respectfully About Colonial Horrors
A trip to Australia and an ominous street name sent Dominic Miles’s imagination aflutter. His forthcoming book…
My First Fantasycon: Why I’m So Glad I Went!
Scotland-based fantasy writer Carl Bayley let his curiosity get the better of him and grabbed a ticket to…
Tags: fantasycon
Why Would A Horror Writer Join A Fantasy Society?
Despite the declaration that the BFS is here for all of speculative fiction, a lot of the…
Tags: horror
Ask an Agent: October 2024
In this monthly column, we check in with one of our resident agent, Laura Bennett of the…
Categories: Guest post
What Lurks in That Fairytale Forest?
We all know that fairytales aren’t sweetness and light – but what if that darker side existed…
The October Challenge: What We’re Learning From Writing A Short Horror Story Every Day
Writers Kit Whitfield and Charlotte Bond have taken an October artist prompt challenge and turned it into…
A Woman’s World (Not)
Folk horror writer and poet Stephanie Ellis asks where all the older women are in fiction—especially in…
Subgenre deep dive: Possessed, Haunted, and Cursed Objects
In this latest edition of her regular column, Tiffani Angus—co-author of Spec Fic for Newbies volumes 1…