The Business of Horror

I attended my first StokerCon over the weekend. StokerCon is the annual convention sponsored by the Horror Writers Association, and this year it was held in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Several fellow writers encouraged me to attend this year, so I decided to take the plunge. One thing that's consistently made me crazy over these last few years is seeing anthologies being advertised -- on Kickstarter and elsewhere -- that I would've given my left nut to have submitted a story to, but didn't hear about until they were over and done. Many of these may have been by invitation only, but it occurred to me that if I wanted this trend to stop, I needed to up my networking game.
Most of what I've had published -- both in fiction and in tabletop role-playing games -- has either...

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