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Shells Chats with author Jennifer Barnes

What made you want to start writing? I've always had a love for stories. When I was a child my mother would often read to me, and I learned how to read at a very early age while my father use to make up stories to tell me before bed. I always had an active imagination as well. When I was a kid all the other kids would want to play things like Tag or some sports while I wanted to comb through

Shells Chats with author Peter Clines

Since the writing arena at times can be hard, how important do you feel it is for an author to be able to have some humor in their life? Very important. Until you're up in that top 0.0001%, this is a stressful way to make a living. If you can't laugh about things--and laugh at yourself--now and then, you're just going to go nuts. I love books by

Shells Chats with author A.J. French

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Shells Chats with author Jessica Bell

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Shells Chats with author David Wellington

Monsters have been around in the Horror genre for a long time; especially now with the popularity of zombies. How do you feel the publishing market has handled this craze for monsters again and how do you feel about some of the works currently out there combining classic stories with vampires or say zombies? The zombie thing has just been nuts--it's been going on for years now. Every time I

Shells Chats with author Stephen North

What's your background with writing?I remember writing my first story in 6th grade or 7th grade. I was reading C.S. Forester's historical British Navy stories featuring Horatio Hornblower, and I wrote a story about a British ship trying to capture a Spanish ship called the Manila Galleon. Looking back now, I realize that I had no idea that 'Manila' referred to Manila in the Phillippines.A few

Shells Chats with author Brick Marlin

What's your background with writing?During the past three years I have already published over twenty-five short tales - not to mention a select few that were included in a few anthologies - and five books.Who are your inspirations/influences?Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Edgar Allen Poe, Douglas Clegg, Johnathan Maberry, Richard Matheson, Gary A.Braunbeck ,Brian Keene, and the list

Shells Chats with author Joe McKinney

What do you find most appealing as an author?It's more than the vanity of seeing one's self in print. It's more than getting paid for what you love to do. It's even more than the charge I get every time someone comes up and says how much they loved one of my books. For me, the most appealing thing is the writing itself. You have to remember, most writers - and this certainly applies to me -

Shells Chats with author John M. Whalen

What's your background with writing? I been writing stories from the time I was 10 years old. Some were Tarzan-like jungle stories. Others were private eye tales, based more on TV detectives that were popular in the fifties and sixties, than on any pulp fiction characters. I did some writing in college but after a hitch in the Army and marriage I stopped writing fiction and got a job

Shells Chats with author Piers Anthony

Has technology hindered or helped the writing community today?I think technology has helped, with pen and paper, then the typewriter, and now word processing on the computer. It makes it easier to do, and harder to lose.There is a lot of work you have done to help new authors get their footing. What is the one thing based on your experience is the most important thing authors should know?That