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Interview with Author Alex Wolfgang

Welcome back, dearest reader! This is the second interview in my special series foccussing on the upcoming collection of familial horror, Bloodlines, coming out January 11th, 2022. This series will include an interview with each of the four authors involved, culminating in my overall review of Bloodlines itself.

If you missed it, be sure to check out my interview yesterday with Carson Winter, author of “I Am Not to be Replaced” in Bloodlines.

These interviews dive into each author’s exper...

Interview with Author Carson Winter

Hello dear readers and welcome to the first interviews in my five part series around the upcoming collection, Bloodlines, which is due to release Jan 11th.

This series will include an interview with each of the four authors involved, culminating in my overall review of Bloodlines itself. In these videos, I ask my fellow authors for their inspirations, writing advice, and words of encouragement to other writers so be sure to give these interviews a watch!

Bloodlines

If you’ve ever dread...

Moving House: An Update

Big news!

I haven’t mentioned it much, but WordPress has become a bit of a pain to blog on. A while back they brought an update which introduced a “block” system, and it’s a little annoying to use. Sometimes it will stop allowing me to add blocks and I have to save, then refresh to be able to add a new block. I was willing to push past that but now, I don’t know what they changed, but their formatting doesn’t work half the time. I am sure you’ve noticed, I like to colour my hyperlinks purple...

Stolen Tongues: Novel Review

Hello reader and hello 2022! I hope you had a lovely New Year’s! I stayed in and made scallops for dinner and watched the 1999 classic, The Mummy — so, all in all, a great night!

This week I’ll be hosting a special series of interviews with some talented authors, so make sure to keep an eye out for those, starting on Thursday!

This review has some serious spoilers, I can’t really write my review correctly without explaining some things so you have been warned!

The Author

I tried ...

The Boatman’s Daughter: Novel Review

Whew, well lookie here. If it ain’t a book review. How long has it been?

The Author

Andy Davidson is a Bram Stoker Award nominated author of horror. His works include In the Valley of the Sun and The Boatman’s Daughter. The Boatman’s Daughter has been listed among NPR’s Best Books of 2020, the New York Public Library’s Best Adult Books of the Year, and Library Journal‘s Best Horror of 2020. His upcoming novel, The Hollow Kind, is set to release in October of 2022.

The Book

Ever ...

The Advent Calendar: Movie Review

Welcome back, lovely reader!

Now that I’ve finished my first one-shot Call of Cthulhu adventure, I have the time to resume blogging! If you haven’t checked it out, you should definitely read my post about my experience writing that adventure and participating in the Storytelling Collective’s workshop. Click here to read it!

But, without further ado, onto my review!

The Movie

The Advent Calendar (original title Le Calendrier) is a 2020 French horror film written and directed b...

I Survived the Storytelling Collective’s November Workshop!

Goodness! Long time no see, dearest reader!

Whew! That was a busy month for me in November. I mentioned in a previous post that I was participating in the November Write Your First Adventure workshop being run by the Storytelling Collective so I wanted to talk about my experience with the workshop and how I feel about my finished product.

My Final Product

Let’s start at the end — that is, my Call of Cthulhu one-shot adventure. For anyone who doesn’t know, the Call of Cthulhu tablet...

Humans are the Problem: Anthology Review

Welcome back to my regularly scheduled review!

As I mentioned in my little update post last Thursday, I might not be able to post two reviews every week for a but, but as soon as I am able, I’ll try!

Also, if you haven’t yet, be sure to check out the stories I wrote in October for a writing challenge I did!

Now to start, I did receive a free copy of Humans are the Problem to review, but all opinions in this blog post are my own. Onwards!

The Editors

Michael Cluff, Editor-in...

What’s Going On In The Life of PLM

Hello everyone!

You may have noticed that I have been a bit absent here after my writing challenge. The main reason was to recharge, but I have also been really busy with other projects.

Howls from the Dark Ages

I mentioned a while ago that I was invited to be a co-editor for an anthology — Howls from the Dark Ages — being produced by the HOWL Society. You may remember that I had a story featured in their first anthology, as well as designed the cover.

The past few weeks were ...

Writing Challenge Wrap-Up

Whew. That writing challenge was a blast!

I want to thank everyone who sent me prompts and who read my stories. For those who may have missed one, you can find them all here:

Monday: The Best Way
Tuesday: Whirlpool
Wednesday: Buzzkill
Thursday: The Hungry Visitor
Friday: Well
Saturday: Unseen Cost
Sunday: Affirmations

Doing a challenge like this is helpful to writers, in my opinion. Foremost, it forces you to churn out a story a day, which takes discipline. Add to that the guideline of using...