The trends will have changed by the time you finish writing the book! Write what you love.the reader will be able to sense the passion you put into the story. TLR: What tips do you have for other writers? I’m sure that writers with children have to work especially hard to balance all their time commitments. Well, no flesh-and-blood children – only my stories, my word-children. Pretty simple, really! But then, I don’t have any children. TLR: How do you balance your creative and work time?Īt my day-job, I write for the company, and when I get home, I write my stories and books.
But hey, I figure that witches and wizards have urges, too.
Most of Lovecraft’s characters were academic bachelors who cared more for grimoires and rituals than matters of the heart. These days, when I’m writing Mythos stories, I strive to add in new cosmic monstrosities, like my monsters Kugappa and Ghattambah, and also some intimate relationships. I was intrigued by the works of Lovecraft because they were so different.so bizarre and so breathlessly exciting.
I grew up reading tales of Cthulhu, Nyarlathotep, Yog-Sothoth, and more. Fortunately, that library had plenty of Lovecraft and Arkham House books to help me pass the time. Growing up, the local library was my babysitter my folks would just drop me off there and then run errands for hours. MM: Over the years, I’ve written every type of speculative story imaginable – science-fiction, fantasy, dark fantasy, horror, Lovecraftian fiction, vampire tales – you name it. TLR: What are your areas of subject matter expertise? How did you discover these niches, and what intrigues you about them?
Those stories have been compiled in two Kindle collections currently available from Amazon: The Abominations of Nephren-Ka & Three More Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, and The Horror in the Water Tower & Five More Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. Hamogeorgakis.” Lately, I’ve been writing a lot of serious Mythos stories, many in collaboration with a new writer named Michael Sheehan, Jr. It did have a few serious Lovecraftian stories in it, like “Der Fleischbrunnen,” “The Embrace of Kugappa,” and “A Beauty Treatment for Mrs. For a long time, I wrote a lot of comedic Mythos-oriented stories, most of which were collected in the trade paperback, Best Little Witch-House in Arkham. Many of my most recent stories are Lovecraftian horror tales. Mark McLaughlin: I write horror and dark fantasy stories, articles, poems and novels. Terrie Leigh Relf: What types and forms of writing do you do?
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