For your consideration: the prolific multi-genre author Elyse Salpeter. And when I say “multi-genre,” I mean it. Her Kelsey Porter series is listed as paranormal suspense, but it also can be described as a thriller; the “Flying” series of Flying to the Light and Flying to the Fire are thrillers but also touch on paranormal […]
COVID. War. Totalitarianism. Pandemic. Climate change. Terrorism. Nuclear war. Judging from hyperbole in social media, we are out-and-out terrified of these things. Just consider the rhetoric around the use of “tactical” nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Will he? Won’t he? Should we? The job of writers of fantasy and speculative fiction is to reflect our audience’s fears back […]
The latest editing project of The Written Word has hit the retailers: Gateway, the latest release by the master of horror, David C. Cassidy. This is the second David C. Cassidy work edited by The Written Word, following The Dark, published in 2014. “A perfectly creepy story that will keep you up at night … […]
As a Hallowe’en treat, I’m reprising here a little story I wrote as an entry in a writing competition about four years ago. The idea was to start with “Shadows crept across the wall.” Extra points were awarded for ending with “everything faded,” and using the word “orange.” This vignette follows the action in Dark […]
It’s the last Sunday before Hallowe’en, so I thought I’d share a scary episode from my first novel, The Bones of the Earth. Here, the protagonist, Javor, is riding with a column of Roman Legionnaires because … well, you’ll just have to read the book for the “because” part. The column is riding two wide along […]
The multi-talented author David C. Cassidy has completed his third book. He’s releasing The Dark, a very creepy, scary and riveting tale on December 15. It’s available for pre-order on Amazon right now. What’s it about? It knows what you want. It knows what you need. In denial over his father’s death in a horrific […]
By Rosa Storm What does choosing your own name say about you? What about when the chosen name is a mirror of the given name? One of my favourite indie authors is Cinta Garcia de la Rosa, who wrote The Funny Adventures of LittleNani for children. She has a distinct voice and style, and […]