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February 25, 2014
60 Black Women in Horror now on Smashwords (Free)
February is African American History Month here in the United States. It is also Women in Horror Month (WiHM). In 2013, as an Ambassador for Women in Horror Month. This list of black women who write horror was compiled at the intersection of the two. The booklet also includes interviews with six of the women, two short stories, and an essay.
The eBook includes:
You can pick it up on Smashwords here
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/412513
I am working on a near-cost paperback book. By “near-cost” I mean that I will round it up to the nearest 50 cents. The goal is to have it come in at $4.00 or less. I’m aiming for $3.50. I am going to have omit some of the content from the paperback to keep the cost down, so the paperback will only include the list and the interviews. I’ll post when it is available.
The eBook contains the following:
60 Black Women in Horror (the list)
Interview with Linda Addison
Interview with Darlene Black
Interview with Jemiah Jefferson
Interview with Nnedi Okorafor
Interview with A.L. Peck
Interview with Sumiko Saulson
Interview with L. Marie Wood
Plus, additional bonus materials that will not appear in the print edition.
Short Story by Crystal Connor, “Amber’s New Friend”
Short Story by Sumiko Saulson, “The Last”
Essay by David Watson, “On L.A. Banks and Octavia Butler”
February 24, 2014
The Moon Cried Blood project update
Let me begin by saying that Sunday, I was very fortunate to have had The Moon Cried Blood project discussed at length on The Dinner Party Show. You can hear the show right here:
You’re the Guest Episode – The Dinner Party Show
In light of this, I wanted to post an update on the progress with regards to the project:
First of all, we have an editor connected to the project now. Michael Reikowsky. Like most of my Beta Reading team, Michael is someone I met through The Dinner Party Show. He is a very detail oriented reader with a wonderful understanding of plot consistency and language, and I have every confidence in him. He is not afraid to be honest in his assessment or offer constructive criticism and he doesn’t pull any punches, exactly what I would want in a editor. One of the functions of a good editor is to point out any blind spots I may have in relation to my own project.
In his words:
“I will say this. We have a process in place. All hail and bow down to “the process”. Seriously though. This is going to be fun kids, in a slightly masochistic way. Ongoing input from the other beta readers will be critical. I’m very much looking forward to this project.”
We also have a team of beta readers, many of whom are also friends from the Dinner Party Show. Phillip Cohen, Greg Wilkey, Taletha Wagoner, and Buffie Peterson are all from the Dinner Party Show. You can see their bios in my previous post. My friends from elsewhere who are beta reading are Kymberly Rico-Ward, Natalya Fay, and James P Anderson. My friend Tinkerbell is going to ask her teenage kid to beta read because hey, it’s a young adult title.
I also can thank Beth Johnson and M Blau Bockstiegel for helping me to get the Spanish language into the story in appropriate spots.
Pick up some Solitude
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https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/326403
To what extent does the presence of others affect our thoughts and actions? What do we believe when we are truly alone? Solitude is the riveting tale of diverse individuals isolated in a San Francisco seemingly void of all other human life. In the absence of others, each journeys into personal web of beliefs and perceptions as they try to determine what happened to them, and the world around them. Each of them view events differently. One suspects aliens have invaded, another believes it’s a sign of Revelation and end times, some don’t know what to think, and others find their minds unraveling as they struggle to cope with unimaginable events. Soon, threats both natural and supernatural leave them too busy fighting to survive in a world of strange and unpredictable events where all of the luxuries of civilization are being slowly eroded to even stop to wonder. And unless they can find each other, they will have to face it all alone, in the dark.
February 21, 2014
Why these writers love listening to “The Dinner Party Show”
Party People Sumiko Saulson and Buffie Peterson
Having been informed by party people John Mattson and Jesse Colton that the upcoming episode of the Dinner Party Show is all about us (the listeners), I have decided that the least I can do is return the favor and write a blog post that is all about The Dinner Party Show. It is an internet radio show hosted bestselling authors Christopher Rice and Eric Shaw Quinn, both of whom are hysterically funny.
Much of the show is in a talk show/interview type format, and guests are not always, but quite frequently successful authors such as Armistead Maupin, Patricia Cornwell, Caprice Crane, Anne Rice, Dr. Joe Wenke, Adam Fitzgerald, Marcia Clark, Dan Savage, Paul Vitagliano, Janet Fitch, Leslie S. Klinger, Tim Federle, Jeffery Self, Patricia Nell Warren, Jan Burke, and Gregg Hurwitz.
It’s no surprise that with this kind of line-up, the show’s regular audience includes a number of writers and aspiring writers who are just as excited about the opportunity to ask questions of successful people in our field as we are to listen to the outrageously funny sketch comedy Eric Shaw Quinn and Christopher Rice deliver on a weekly basis, including original characters known as special correspondents like fan favorite meth-addicted entertainment reporting ditz Jordan Ampersand and cuckolded beard and love advice columnist JoNell Simms, as well as the endlessly amusing series of fake commercials for things like Find-A-Troll.
Of course, a big part of the reason guests of the live show love it so much is because we get to interact with so many other fun people from around the world, the show’s fans, dubbed by Anne Rice as the “Party People.” Occasionally, there is a “You’re the Guest” episode of the Dinner Party Show, which highlights this aspect of the program.
Sometimes we, the Party People, joke with each other about becoming successful enough to one day get invited to appear on the show. In the meantime, the hosts include us every week with live chat on their Facebook page and Twitter feed, and a new call in hotline. Another way they interact with the fans is though the “You’re The Guest” episodes, such as the one coming up on Sunday, February 23, 2014 at 8 pm EST/5pm PST.
In honor of it, I am profiling just some of the interesting people who regularly attend the online, live chats and are proud to call themselves Party People. I wish I could profile everyone, but my fingers would cramp up from all of the typing. Hopefully I can profile ten more the next time we have a “You’re The Guest” episode.
In line with my theme for this blog post, “why writers love The Dinner Party Show,” I have profiled several writers in this installment. Not of the people I have profiled are writers, but you will be surprised to see how many are. The Party People also include creative types who work in other media such as painters and jewelry makers, as you will see here. Others are simply down to earth, funny people who just love comedy.
Jesse Colton
Jesse Colton is an author of fantasy, piano player, and lover of weird singer-songwriters and even weirder video games. His hobbies include squealing and running when seeing snakes and complaining about being outdoors when camping. He once kissed a girl, and despite being gay as the day is long, he did in fact like it. He is known for his contributions to the world of fantasy writing, with his first novel winning every award available in the US, and his debut album peaked at #1 on the billboard hot 100 charts. He is also happily married but employs Ryan Reynolds as a houseboy. Oh wait, none of that is true and he’s fantasizing again.
www.onestreetlevelmiracle.wordpress.com
John Mattson
John is an interesting combination of individuals, fiercely loyal, but opinionated. John was a native of Southern California, but in 1999 he met he future partner Wayne and it became apparent that his country would not accept Wayne as his partner and his only choice was to move to Australia where his partner lives. That is not a terrible thing, as John has been in love with Australia since he was six, so technically two dreams came together at once. He met the man of his dreams, and got to become a permanent legal resident of Oz (cue Judy Garland).
Taletha Wagoner
Taletha Wagoner AKA: Tally was born in Vancouver, Wa or what they call Vantucky, Wa. As a child she was a tom boy who loved to play and fight with boys around the neighborhood. As a teenager she was a model and professional inline racer for five years until retiring at the age of twenty. She is mom to a wonderful son now eighteen. Her new fur baby Bun E Carlos works to keep her very busy. Her motto is this; “Every day you wake up is the first day for the rest of your life, so make every day count.” Her best attribute is her laughter and black sense of humor. Make her laugh and you will have an instant friend.
Amy Bellino
She is married, mother to two step sons and a regal black cat named Arista, of four grandchildren, and lives in Miami Beach, FL. She makes and sells jewelry on Etsy at SouthBeachTreasures. She is writing a book about undercover aliens and considers herself “grammar phobic”. She is collaborating with fellow Party Person Buffie Peterson on her Etsy shop AkashasKreations. Buffie inspired her to create her own shop and helped her with getting started. Amy created a one of kind Hello Kitty themed choker set for Party Person Sumiko Saulson. She says her two most cherished possessions are her framed Restless Leg Dancers painting by Sumiko and her signed excerpt of The Heavens Rise by Christopher Rice.
www.etsy.com/shop/SouthBeachTreasures
Buffie Peterson
“November 17, 2011, Buffie sat down with her youngest son to listen to the brand new TDPS. Now thoroughly scarred, she has never been the same. But she continues, along with her 3 boys Alex, Kaleb and Sean, and her husband Stu, to be an avid listener. TDPS has now become one of their Sunday evening rituals. Buffie enjoys being an entrepreneur. She started her own jewelry shop, Akasha’s Kreations, back in 2013. When she is not beading, she is writing her current novel.
www.etsy.com/shop/AkashasKreations
Sharon Hass
Sharon lives in the small town of Mint Hill, North Carolina with her cat Gracie Lu. She has been interested in writing since she was sixteen. Her dad was into amateur (‘ham’) radio and spoke to people all over the world, which inspired Sharon to start writing letters to people from everywhere. Later she started writing poems to include in her letters. She graduated to writing children’s short stories. In 1991, Sharon and her ex-husband John Hass had an infant daughter, Anna, who was lost to SIDS. The tragedy inspired Sharon to write more, and she began to write poems for her daughter. In 1994 they had a son, Allen. Sharon now writes longer fiction and non-fiction. She can be found at her desk writing, or jotting notes in her journal for a story idea. She loves comedy such as The Three Stooges and Marx Brothers. She also enjoys anything to with pirates, vampires, history or horror. She enjoys reading a good book by Anne Rice or Christopher Rice. She also has a long list of other books she wants to read.
Justin Simpson
Justin Simpson is a writer/artist currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He currently has written two novels that have yet to be published, but as an artist is finally going public. He has had his artwork displayed in coffee shops and bakeries, to the mayor’s office in Sunnyvale, California. Five of his paintings are currently on permanent display at the world famous Nob Hill Theatre in San Francisco, California and as of this writing has one piece of artwork in consideration for the Art for AIDS art auction to benefit the UCSF health alliance which helps over 7,000 people living with HIV/AIDS in the Bay Area.
Follow Justin on Twitter @ComicJustin
Greg Wilkey
Greg Wilkey is an author and professional educator. He is the creator of the popular Mortimer Drake Series of YA books. Greg was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1971. He developed a love of stories and adventure at an early age and he has always loved to read and write. Greg graduated from college with a degree in education and began a career in teaching world languages in 1993. He spent the next 15 years as a classroom teacher of Spanish until moving into school administration in 2007. He has been married for 20 years to his wife, Alicyn. He lives and works in his lovely Chattanooga where he and his wife are the proud pet parents of three spoiled cats.
Phillip Cohen
Philip Cohen a decorative painter in the Los Angeles area working in many beautiful and historic homes including Descanso Gardens, Boddy House and the Robinson Gardens Museum. He is currently working on a forty foot mural of Blue Bell Forest in the Pasadena Showcase (http://pasadenashowcase.org/), opening April 15. His imaginative works infuse elements of the natural world onto the inside of buildings, and frequently pay homage to specific movements in art and architecture. The gothic ceiling he painted at the Latigo Canyons mini-Hearst Castle in Malibu is a fine example, with its gargoyle panels and fleurs de lis.
Sumiko Saulson
Sumiko Saulson is a poet, and a sci-fi and horror novelist. Her titles include “Solitude,” “Warmth,” and “The Moon Cried Blood.” She also published a collection of short stories, “Things That Go Bump in My Head,” and a comic book, which she illustrated, “Agrippa.” She illustrated the comic “Living a Lie,” (written by Carolyn Saulson.) Her horror blog was selected as an ambassador for Women in Horror Month in 2013, and she compiled a list of 60 Black Women in Horror Writing for the occasion. She was once profiled in the San Francisco Chronicle as an up and coming poet in the beatnik tradition. She is also a painter, whose works are exhibited locally in galleries, coffee shops, and community centers. She is part of the current exhibit at Expressions Gallery in Berkeley, “Homelessness,” running through mid April. She is a member of the band Stagefright. She reports on the Oakland Art Scene for the Examiner.com.
Women in Horror – Spotlight: Caryn Studham Sutorus
More reblogging for WiHM…
Originally posted on Word Blurb:
My spotlight rests on another new entry to horror with the short story
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Extinguished
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February 19, 2014
GUEST: Mercedes M. Yardley on Women in Horror
A thought provoking post on Women in Horror (reblogged for Women in Horror Month).
Originally posted on Melanie R. Meadors:
Women in Horror, by Mercedes M. Yardley
February is Women in Horror month. Did you know this? Does it surprise you? Were you aware of this at all? Forget hearts and Valentines. It’s time for guillotines and battle axes, as well as a trace of lipstick on the poison vial.
It’s interesting at the general reaction when a woman says she writes horror.
Nineteen More Black Women in Horror Writing (List 3)
February is here in the United States. It is also Women in Horror Month (WiHM). In 2013, I put together two lists of Black Women in Horor Writing, and published them on this blog. This year I am following up with a list of 19 more women, for a total of 60. I am working on a free eBook, 60 Black Women in Horror Writing, which will combine the three lists. and include my interviews with some of the women on these lists.
Every February, Women in Horror Recognition Month (WiHM) assists underrepresented female genre artists 
in gaining opportunities, exposure, and education through altruistic events, printed material, articles, interviews, and online support. You can find out more about WiHM here: http://www.womeninhorrormonth.com/
Here are some the two previous lists:
Twenty Women in Black Horror Writing (List One)
Twenty One More Women in Black Horror Writing (List Two)
Paula D. Ashe
Dark fiction writer Paula D. Ashe writes about vampires, zombies, and a girl who finds out she is the embodiment of the apocalypse. She has three novels to her credit, “Silore’s Story,” “Through Silver in Blood,” and “Positions of Trust.” She is also the creator of the graphic novels “The Children of Gods and Other Miscreants,” and “Chalice.”
Dicey Grenor
The author of the “Narcoleptic Vampire Series”, novellas with darkly twisted, sexy stories of vampires, werewolves, and supernatural fetish clubs. Don’t let the erotic content fool you: Dicey isn’t hold backing when it comes to the gore, violence, and disturbing content horror fans tend to expect, and love stories may be present but aren’t the core of her stories.
http://www.diceygrenorbooks.com/
Anna Sanders
Dark fantasy writer Anna Sanders published by Red Iris Books, is the author of the“Befallen Tides” series, which follows Winx, a type of demon called a daevor. It contains titles such as “Darkness Uprising” and “Challenged by Darkness.” She wrote “Fire Licked,” about an affair between a shape-shifter and a demon. She was in the dark fantasy anthology “Blood Iris 2012.”
http://redirisbooks.com/category/authors/anna-sanders/
Eden Royce
Paranormal fiction author Eden Royce has contributed short stories to over a dozen horror publications, and is the author of two novellas. “Containment,” her dark fantasy novella, is the compelling story of a power plant run by a quarter-demon named Feast that operates on energy supplied by the spirits of the dead.
Janiera Eldridge
One of the newest additions to the world of black women writing horror, Eldridge writes horror, thriller, dark paranormal, and mystery novels and released her first novel, “Soul Sisters” in 2012. Since, she has written “Dark Expectations,” and “Good Ghost Gone Bad,” and “Soul Sisters,” has gone on to become a vampire fiction trilogy.
http://janieraeldridge.blogspot.com/
Pheare Alexander
The author of “Str8 Laced” and “Lot 9,” Ms. Alexander boldly occupies a niche within the horror genre that is traditionally both extremely male dominated and written for male audiences, that gory sub-genre filled with brutal dismemberments, slashers and serial killers known as “extreme horror.” Her theatrical internet presence reflects her image, complete with a frightening backstory for her pen-name and a bloody-handed demon-eyed self-portrait as her Twitter avatar for the cleverly-named account @doyouknowpheare? As her website tagline warns audiences, “I do not write horror. I write fear.”
Allison Hobbs
Best known for her works of erotic fiction, Allison Hobbs has written two adult horror novels, “The Sorceress” and “The Enchantress,” in addition to her recent release of a young adult paranormal trilogy under the pen name Joelle Sterling. The tale of Jonas, an undead teenager who immigrates from Haiti to the United States, where he finds love, romance, and wars between vampires, witches, and zombies, is told in the novels “Midnight Cravings,” “The Dark Hunger,” and “Forbidden Feast.”
Faye McCray
McCray is author of a series of short horror stories on Kindle, “Dani’s Belts,” about a college student surviving the zombie apocalypse, and a novel “Boyfriend.” She has contributed to Madame Noire, Black Girl Nerds, Black and Married with Kids and Rachel in the OC. She is working on her second novel, “her second, Six Ways to Die”
Virginia Hamilton
She received the Edgar Alan Poe Award for “The House of Dies Drear,” a ghost story that took place in a house that was a stop on the Underground Railroad. Her paranormal romance “Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush” about a fourteen year old girl who embarks on a journey of self-discovery after meeting a handsome ghost won the Coretta Scott King Award. The wildly prolific author of juvenile fiction published more than forty books multiple genres and won every major award in children’s literature.
http://www.virginiahamilton.com/
Donna Monday
The author of the adult vampire romance series “Best Black Vampire Story,” consisting of two books, “The Best Black Vampire Story You’ve Ever Read,” and “Best Black Vampire Story – Bloodlust, Dangerous Secrets and Fatal Attraction.” The first title is also available as an audio book.
Valjeanne Jeffers
Author of the “Immortal” erotic horror series, which includes Immortal, Immortal 2: The Time of Legend, Immortal 3: Stealer of Souls, and Immortal IV: Collision of Worlds. She is also the author of The Story of Eve (nonfiction), The Switch II: Clockwork, Grandmere’s Secret and Colony.
http://www.vjeffersandqveal.com/
Melinda Michelle
A writer of religiously inspired supernatural fiction, she is the author of a series of novels called “Chronicles of Warfare,” depicting the ages old battle between good and evil, and individuals who fight to survive against demonic influences with the help of angels. She also wrote the short horror story “You Can Never Leave,” available electronically on Amazon.
http://www.melindamichelle21.com/
Claudia Mair Burney
the author of “The Exorsistah” series, following the trials and travails of Emme Vaughn, a young black exorcist who must face demons of both the literal and metaphysical sort and is being haunted by a mysterious ghost. She is also author of the Amanda Bell Brown mystery series, and has written romances and religious inspirational stories.
http://ragamuffindiva.blogspot.com/
A.D. Koboah
British novelist A.D. Kobah is of Ghanaian descent. She is the author of “The Darkling Trilogy,” whose protagonist Luna was a slave in Mississippi in the early 1800s when she attracted the attention of an evil bloodsucking entity. She also wrote “Peace,” about a heroin addict struggling with self-destructive urges and demons from the past.
Ann Fields
The author of “Fuller’s Curse,” about an African American family with a terrible legacy; the legend of BlackHeart, and a curse that is causing members of this family to die horrible deaths, one by one. She is also the author of several romance titles on Arabesque under the pen name Anna Larence.
Robin Green
The author of the psychological horror series “Terror Text,” two novellas about a serial killer who uses cellphone text messages to harass his teenage victims before forcing them to watch one another’s suffering, and “The Day after Yesterday,” a sci-fi thriller about three boys who find marbles that grant them visions and may have greater powers still.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1436633.Robin_Green
L.M. Davis
An author of young adult paranormal fiction, science fiction and dark fantasy, Ms. Davis successfully applies a horror overlay to her young adult science-fiction series “Skinless,” where a teenage alien finds her mother abducted by intergalactic bogeymen. “Shifters” is another series that deals with paranormal topics.
http://lmdaviswrites.wordpress.com/
Arielle Crowell
The author of “Deadly Magnolia,” the story of Nicodemus LaCroix, a serial killer who may have met his match. After his wife’s sudden death, he finds out the hard way that her family has deep ties to the Haitian voodoo community. She also wrote “Monster,” which is about more human horrors, and “Mr. Undesirable.”
http://www.ariellecrowell.com/
Crystal Connor
Sci-Fi and horror writer Crystal Connor began writing tales of the things that strike fear in the hearts of men during her time serving overseas in the US Navy. Travel to Africa, Asia and the Middle East while in the service helped her to learn of creatures from other countries that sparked her imagination. Her first novel is “The Darkness.”
http://www.wordsmithcrystalconnor.blogspot.com/
HONORABLE MENTION:
Ashlee Blackwell is not a horror writer as far as I know, but she is a socio-cultural media writer who blogs about black women in horror and runs a site galled Graveyard Shift Sisters that is about black women in all aspects of the horror genre, not just writing. She’s also the founder of Philly Loves Women in Horror, a film screening event that showcases films by women horror filmmakers. Check out her website!
http://www.graveyardshiftsisters.com/
Coming Soon: 60 Black Women in Horror Writing
I am working on a complied eBook of the three lists, and the interviews I have done with women on the list on this blog. It will be available before the end of this month. It will be in alphabetical order. I’ll make the eBook available via Smashwords.com first. The eBook will be free.
February 15, 2014
WiHM interviews with local San Francisco Bay Area Authors
I am working on a series of Women in Horror Month interviews for the Examiner.com with a more local focus. Here is my interview with Bay Area horror writer Emerian Rich (pictured at right)
http://www.examiner.com/article/interview-with-local-horror-author-emerian-rich
Here is my interview with Oakland horror writer Linda Kay Silva
http://www.examiner.com/article/interview-with-local-horror-writer-linda-kay-silva-author-of-maneaters
February 14, 2014
Anne Rice regarding the Amazon Review
Seeing this on another website “Anne Rice Owns the Bullies” reminded me of the time a year and a half ago when I interviewed Ms. Rice regarding bullying in the user review processes on this very site:
Anne Rice regarding the Amazon Review.
Killer Romance
“Killer Romance” is from my short story anthology “Things that Go Bump In My Head,” which also includes a bit of poetry.
Killer Romance
Spoken Word Poetry
By Sumiko Saulson
People love, you know…
We do love, untrue love,
and there are puppies and kittens,
chubby babies who don’t
have bows…
and arrows…
All trivialized in February
(that was my grandpa’s birthday)
Because they are now
Iconic representations
of an infatuation
More impure than
The sweet-smelling rose
We chose
To kill, to represent…
Incense, sickly sweet
I have allergies
It makes me sick
It reeks…
like a grape-favored cigarillo
And I know that you know
When it lies…
I like the natural
look of love
You know, the way it is.
I said I was tired
And you didn’t keep me
Up all night…
Almost like you recognized
I was a human being
With needs
Like sleep
To me, that is love.
But I am not
Romant-ick…
It makes me sick
Like if sex is good
You don’t always have to
Talk about it
You’re too busy
Doing it…
And love is like that
If you do love
True love
Not just constantly hot
New love…
It’s real.
Like a kitten, not a card
Like a baby, not a cupid
Like a grandpa, not a holiday
Like a real, live, rosebush
It lives because
You tend it
Like a garden
I water my garden
I don’t just
Write poems to it
Happy Valentine’s Day
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February 10, 2014
GREAT BLACK AUTHORS OF SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY: Past & Present
As I research my 2014 list of black women in horror, I think I’ll share some related lists,like this one of black sci-fi and fantasy writers.
Originally posted on chronicles of harriet:
GREAT BLACK AUTHORS OF SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY: Past & Present
Ask people to name Black authors of science fiction and fantasy and only a few names will be repeated, if any names are known at all: Octavia Butler?Tananarive Due?L. A. Banks…Walter Mosley. While, most certainly, these brilliant authors should be in everyone?s library, you are cheating yourself if you do not know of ? or explore ? the many other great Black authors of speculative fiction.
The Black presence and impact on the world of speculative fiction is a vast and powerful one. Some of these authors you may have heard of; some you may not have. Some will absolutely surprise you. All of them tell Blacknificent stories.
