Brain Matter

Click Here to Purchase   So, here are my thoughts on the closing of Samhain Publishing. Yes, I know others have beaten me to the punch on this, but honestly, I’ve been so caught up in my writing, work, and Women in Horror Month blogs that I just didn’t have time to write anything until now. I doubt my words are going to shock anyone who knows me or who’s talked to me about this over the past few days. The closure of a small press publisher isn’t that big a deal. Click Here to Purchase Sure, it sucks for the authors who were published through them (including myself), and for the people employed by the company (some very nice, wonderful, and talented people who I’ve really loved working with the past 2 years). But, in terms of the greater publishing world, this is only going to cause a ripple, not a tsunami. Click Here to Purchase It’s a sad truth that small press publishers come and go. Some last for years, as Samhain did. Others flare and burn in onl...

Yvonne Navarro has written more than 20 novels and 100 short stories. Her novel deadrush is recognized as one of the most inventive takes on the zombie myth. She’s won more than 5 writing awards and been nominated for several others. Her short stories are frequently features in annual Year's Best Horror anthologies. She is a font of knowledge about writing, but in today’s blog she’s talking not about the craft of writing, but the life outside it. ====================================== Live in the Moment by Yvonne Navarro             So here I am, having agreed to write a blog (again) and with no concept of what to write about (again).   I’m a writer, so I should write about writing, right?   Please.   I’m one of the Old Ones.   No, I’m not ninety years old (although sometimes I feel like it) and banging this out on an antique Remington typewriter where I hear a ding! and have to use th...

Elyse Draper is a native Coloradan whose poetic, lyrical style of writing mirrors the ethereal rhythms of nature. She is the author of several short stories and the Freewill trilogy, a YA slipstream series with strong touches of science fiction, dark fantasy, and paranormal romance, which contains the novels Freewill, Consequences, and Vindication . Although Freewill and its sequels fall squarely in the urban fantasy/weird fiction arena, Elyse definitely swims in the horror pool on occasion. Her short story “I Am Morte” appeared in the anthology Ladies of Horror 2009 (for which she also did the cover art) and “Lay Me Down” appears in the Ladies of Horror 2013 . -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Who am I? Who are you? By Elyse Draper I would need to take the shoes off of a classroom full of students to count how many articles, lectures, and interviews I’ve given over the years. First, let me say, writers don’t look ...