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Shells Chats with author Nicholas Conley

How do you compare the process of being an artist to being an author?Both processes are very similar, but very different at the same time. For me, art is much more of a physical process while writing is far more emotional; when I start drawing or painting a picture, I have a basic idea of the message I want to communicate with it, but then my hand does the rest. Writing is far more about

Shells Chats with author Trent Zelazny

How do you feel music has influenced your writing?Music is essential to most everything in life. It is the most primal form of creative expression. The first form we learn as children. Without music I think few of us would survive.Songs often inspire stories and there's very little music I don't like. Most stories develop a soundtrack and sometimes music inspires a story. I can't

Shells Chats with author Benjamin Rogers

Some people feel humor should not be included with the horror genre. How do you feel about that? Humor is fine in a horror story. That isn't a problem but the story should have more than a couple good wisecracks in it. Humor needs to fit the story. While you were in the Navy you traveled a lot. How has that influenced your writing? Quite a bit actually. A lot of the people I have met and

Shells Chats with author Barbara Forte Abate

The Secret of Lies is your debut novel. What made you move forward with publishing this book?Absolute passion for certain.When I first started writing this story and for years afterward I never told anyone that I was even writing a book. I think it was because I was just insecure enough at the time to feel like my aspirations were frivolous at best. As if I was supposed to be doing other things –

Shells Chats with author Jonathan Moon

Who has influenced you the most as an author?I've been an avid reader for as long as I can remember, I was raised on Dr. Suess and comic books. I grew up with my parents reading Stephen King and Dean Koonz to each other on long car rides. So, they were probably my earliest horror influence. In high school I found Clive Barker and H.P. Lovecraft and I think both of them played a huge part in the

Shells Chats with author Jonathan Maberry

What made you want to be an author?I think I was born with a gene for it. I can't ever remember a time when I didn't want to write. Even before I could actually write I'd use toys or drawings to tell stories. What do you love most about comics and how did you get involved in writing them?I've always loved comics. I learned a lot of my values and ethics from comics like the FANTASTIC FOUR, BLACK

Shells Chats with author Jay Faulkner

What started you in writing?Reading or, more accurately I suppose, having stories read to me :) I honestly can't recall a time in my life when stories weren't a fundamental part of each and every day. My parents read to me, they bought me comics (I 'think' that this was my middle-ground between being read to and reading myself), they nurtured my reading ability by getting me my own library card

Shells Chats with author Nicholas Grabowsky

You have been interested in films, including shorts. In fact wasn't there a short you started in college?I fooled around with video cameras almost as long as I've been alive and there were video cameras. I've been writing scripts since elementary school. I'm moving towards directing an indy feature film—"Cutting Edges." But yes, there is "Muffin Man." I think it was the summer of 1985 when my

Shells Chats with author and editor Myrrym Davies

When did you start writing? I've been writing since I was a child, but to tell the truth I never actually intended to become a published writer. Up until 2006, I wrote simply for the pleasure of writing. It wasn't until a few of my blog readers urged me to submit some of my work that I seriously considered writing for publication. Halloween seems to be a big holiday for Horror authors. How

"The Bone Sword" Review on Death Head Grin

Here's another pretty darn good review from the web page "Death Head Grin."  There's nothing better than clicking open a Google Alert with your name on it only to have it go to a positive review of your book.  Bit by bit it appears I'm getting "The Bone Sword" into the hands of the type of people who want to read it.  That's awesome!  There's definitely an audience for this book and I'm psyched