Author Spotlight: Cory Skerry
People who try and protect their children from the world by enforced ignorance strike me as blinding themselves in the most tragic of ways.
T.J. McIntyre
T.J. McIntyre writes from a busy household in rural Alabama. His poems and short stories have been featured in numerous publications including recent appearances in Moon Milk Review, M-Brane SF, The Red Penny Papers, and Tales of the Talisman. His debut poetry collection, Isotropes: A Collection of Speculative Haibun, was released in 2010 by Philistine Press. In addition to writing poetry and short fiction, he writes a monthly column for the Apex Books Blog and regularly contributes to Skull Salad Reviews.
Author Spotlight: M. Rickert
I suppose there are people who live completely productive, happy, generous lives without even considering the ugliness of humanity.
Author Spotlight: Jeremiah Tolbert
For me, scary stuff is like, “Will I be able to pay my rent this month?” I don’t get disturbed by the idea of the living dead, or unknowable cosmic horror.
Author Spotlight: Alaya Dawn Johnson
One of the things I love about the Bordertown setting is both the fickleness and possibility of magic. The fact that it works sometimes—producing wonders or disasters or nothing at all.
Author Spotlight: Sarah Monette
Morgan and Francis actually come from a couple of dreams I had about a Slayer-like girl and her sidekick in a post-apocalyptic world.
Author Spotlight: Jeffrey Ford
You have to know the characters, or at least believe that you do. The moments that make up family life are primarily quiet ones, in and of themselves seemingly insignificant.
Author Spotlight: Peter S. Beagle
Connor Cochran asked me to do a book for Conlan Press that would be a set of Schmendrick stories set before The Last Unicorn. I’d never gone back there, so I thought it would be interesting.
Author Spotlight: Tanith Lee
Fantasy should be as ”real” and lifelike as a contemporary novel or story. In some respects, possibly, a little more so.
Author Spotlight: Holly Black
We have all had the experience of being so angry that we say something or do something that hurts the people that we love. I think the idea that we have the potential for a monstrous self is very compelling.