Hilarity, Heartbreak, and Writing with Constraints
Award-winning author Julie Schumacher answers a few Q’s about her new novel, The English Experience, in which a curmudgeonly professor is tasked with bringing a dozen undergrads to the UK.
Complexity, Darkness, and a Strange Sense of Fun: an Interview with Colin Winnette
Fiction writer Colin Winnette generously shares his thoughts on horror, speculative sci-fi, protagonistic (im)purity, and AI as a great motivator for creativity.
Gothic Hustle: the Samara Breger Interview
Samara shares her thoughts on book bans, literary inspiration, defying and defining genres, and why romance runs deep in America’s legal ranks.
Stories Never Die: an Interview with Horror Writer Clay McLeod Chapman
Clay McLeod Chapman is a renowned author, filmmaker, performer, storyteller, and comic-book writer. His new gothic-horror novel, WHAT KIND OF MOTHER, comes out September 12, 2023 (Quirk Books). We chatted with Clay about horror and his place in it—and much more.
At The Heart of It: Local Author Stacey Agdern on Romance
Despite its undeniable popularity, with annual sales exceeding $1bn in 2022, romantic fiction remains a widely misunderstood genre. To get to the heart of it, we chatted with veteran romance writer Stacey Agdern about the past, present, and future of the genre.