by Lucy A. Snyder | Dec 8, 2015 | Columns, Horror World Library
Evil Girlfriend Media recently published Naughty or Nice: A Holiday Anthology edited by Jennifer Brozek; it includes my story “The Toymaker’s Joy” along with fantasy and horror tales by authors such as Maurice Broaddus, Rachel Caine, S.G. Browne, Cat...
by Lucy A. Snyder | Nov 21, 2015 | Columns
A book’s beginning is critical. A book with a lousy opening scene won’t make it past an overworked slush reader who has learned the hard way that the 100th paragraph is very seldom much better than the first. And should that book make it to print (perhaps via...
by Lucy A. Snyder | Nov 14, 2015 | Columns, Horror World Library
Raw Dog Screaming Press is publishing my new book While The Black Stars Burn this weekend! I’m very excited. This is the follow-up to my previous RDSP collection, Soft Apocalypses, which won the Bram Stoker Award. The publication date is technically tomorrow,...
by Lucy A. Snyder | Nov 7, 2015 | Columns, Horror World Library
Early on The Waste Lands by Stephen King, protagonists Roland, Eddie, and Susannah encounter Shardik, a gigantic bear who is at first portrayed as a kind of ancient wilderness deity: Once, the Old People had lived in the West Woods (it was their leavings which Roland...
by Wayne Edwards | Nov 7, 2015 | Columns
O man. Too much to cover this time – no space for the usual bitching and moaning. Maybe I will double up next time. After all, what are the chances that I can let it all go two columns in a row? Seems unlikely. High spirits for now, though, so let’s just embrace the...
by Lucy A. Snyder | Nov 7, 2015 | Columns, Horror World Library
I read Suzanne Collins’ dystopian young adult novel The Hunger Games partly because several writer friends recommended it to me as being quite good and partly because it’s been such a runaway success. As with Christa Faust’s novels, it offers a first-person narration...
