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Rebecca Rowland

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http://www.rowlandbooks.com

Genre

Horror, Suspense, Nonfiction

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September 2018

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Rebecca Rowland is a Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author, a Bram Stoker Award-nominated editor, and the recipient of a Godless 666 Horror Fiction Award. She is an Active member of the Horror Writers Association and International Thriller Writers, and having lived in Massachusetts for most of her life, she chooses to set most of her fiction there.
Despite earning graduate degrees in English, Education, and Information Science, she miraculously managed to pay off her student loans before retirement and/or death.
In her spare time, she pets her cats, eats cheese, and drinks vodka, though not necessarily in that order.
She is represented by Becky LeJeune of Bond Literary Agency.

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Average rating: 4.03 · 2,909 ratings · 873 reviews · 50 distinct works • Similar authors

	Eminence Front 3.53 avg rating — 221 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Cannibal by Rebecca Rowland (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jeff Strand (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Holly Rae Garcia (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.22 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 2023 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White Trash and Recycled Nightmares by Rebecca Rowland (Goodreads Author), Mary SanGiovanni (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 3.96 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Optic Nerve 4.12 avg rating — 92 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shagging the Boss 4.25 avg rating — 69 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The View Master by Rebecca Rowland (Goodreads Author), Michael Aloisi (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unburied: A Collection of Queer Dark Fiction by Rebecca Rowland (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Felice Picano (contributor), Greg Herren (contributor) 4.14 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Horrors Hiding in Plain Sight 3.94 avg rating — 50 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ghosts, Goblins, Murder, & Madness: Twenty Tales of Halloween by Rebecca Rowland (Goodreads Author) (Editor), J.R. Pepper (Contributor), George Plank (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadowy Natures by Rebecca Rowland (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lee Rozelle (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), C.W. Blackwell (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.57 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Rebecca rated a book it was amazing In These Gilded, Ghostly Hearts by Gwendolyn Kiste (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
“What is the weight of the past? And how much of it should each of us be expected to carry?” It’s no secret that I am a Kiste superfan: she is an automatic buy for me, and her stories are the first ones I read in any anthology in which she appears. If ...more
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Rebecca and 21 other people liked Laurie (barksbooks)'s review of The Unworthy: "This is a short book and I'm rather glad for that fact because I did not enjoy it very much. It takes place in a world ravaged by climate change and plagued by illness and religious zealots. This story focuses on a violent religious cult-like group t" Read more of this review »
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Rebecca is starting Tender Is the Flesh: I had forgotten how brilliant this book is. One of my students is reading it in Spanish and wanted to talk about it, so I’m rereading. It’s horrifying and amazing. Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica progress:	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Rebecca and 5 other people liked Matt M's review of Look What You Made Me Do: "Thanks so much to Sobelo Books for an eARC for review! Confession time: Prior to reading this book I had not intentionally listened to a Taylor Swift song. I knew all the huge hits of course, those ubiquitous pop songs that are impossible to avoid unl" Read more of this review »
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Rebecca and 1 other person liked L. Stephenson's review of Look What You Made Me Do: "Sobelo Books brings us Look What You Made Me Do: Horror Stories Inspired by the Music of Taylor Swift. The highlights for me were Grace R. Reynolds’ “Sweet Nothing”, Gemma Amor’s “Picture to Burn”, Todd Keisling’s “I Look in People’s Windows”, and las" Read more of this review »
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“Every time I think about it, it makes me happy. Do you think I’m a monster?”
― Rebecca Rowland, White Trash and Recycled Nightmares

tags: feel-good-about-yourself, feelings-quotes, monster, monstrous-self, monstrousness

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“Human bodies wear down," he continued . "They give out. No one is immortal, not without help. All writers wish to live forever, don't they? Even if they won't admit it. They vomit up these sacred parts of themselves, wrap those shards in paper, and pray the remnants will exist long after they are decomposing in the grave.”
― Rebecca Rowland, Shagging the Boss

tags: death, publisher, publishing, remembered, writer, writing

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“That afternoon, she thought momentarily of those 1950s B-movies with alien invaders who inhabited unsuspecting human hosts.”
― Rebecca Rowland, White Trash and Recycled Nightmares

tags: alien-invaders, aliens, b-movies, body-snatching, pod-people

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Rebecca’s Quotes

“If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.”
― David Bowie

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