I dig pulp fiction. Not just the hard-boiled detective paperbacks of the 1950s, or even the pulp magazines like “Weird Tales,” which published Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft back in the day. I even love the old old school Victorian “chapbooks,” like “Springheeled Jack” and “Varney the Vampire.” The plan to release ”The Elect Stories” as a monthly serial was inspired by those pulps, which delivered fantastic tales of adventure with suspenseful, cliffhanger endings.
Fantasy stories transport us to other worlds with the power of words. It is the nature of the genre...
A LOT of Fantasy stories have settings that are a version of feudal Europe, a remix of the more...
The first chapter of “The Elect Stories” has been available for just a couple of days, but already I...
I like to listen to music when I write. I think I may have started the habit when my...
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I love talking about the stories and answering reader questions. There’s one question that my beta readers asked that...
I enjoy working with other writers as a coach, editor or general sounding board. It’s something that I do...
I asked the first beta readers of “The Elect Stories,” a handful of questions about themes that stood out...
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