Pounding the Keys – Productivity and Writing Routines

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In the last collaborative article here on This Is Horror, we talked about book launches and all the social media, conventional marketing and other promos that go with them. The verdict across the board seemed to be that they’re a necessary evil. We just want to get on with the writing, right? Right?! Well, sometimes, …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 4 November 2024

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Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to.  Without further ado: Lit Hub look into Dracula, vampires in general and what these stories say about our latent fears The Ginger Nuts of Horror find the lurking horror in YA dystopian …

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News Round-up Week Ending 1 November 2024

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … New from author Michael Sellars, Percipience: A Cosmic Horror Novella The Observatory: A research facility in an undisclosed location. The Whitecoats: Four strangers with no scientific background. The Task: Watch. Take notes. Learn nothing. Percipience is a …

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TIH 588: Robert P. Ottone on The Vile Thing We Created, There’s Something Sinister in Center Field, and Middle Grade Books

TIH 588 Robert P. Ottone on The Vile Thing We Created, There's Something Sinister in Center Field, and Middle Grade Books

In this podcast, Robert P. Ottone talks about The Vile Thing We Created, There’s Something Sinister in Center Field, Middle Grade Books, and much more. About Robert P. Ottone Robert P. Ottone is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Triangle and is also the best-selling author of Curse of the Cob Man, The Sleepy …

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Look Out For … The Folly by Gemma Amor

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“With Amor’s latest, a woman and her father determined to escape their past realize the past refuses to let them go.” Morgan knew her father never killed her mother. She spent the last six years on a campaign for Owen’s release from prison. And now, in the middle of the pandemic, her father is free. …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 28 October 2024

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Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to.  Without further ado: Bloody Disgusting present ten children’s anthology books worth revisiting for Halloween CBC ask two Canadian horror writers about how to tell ghost stories and scare your friends Crime Reads …

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News Round-up Week Ending 25 October 2024

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Out now from author Kit Power and French Press Publishing, Millionaire’s Day On Sunday, 22nd December, 2019, everyone in the United Kingdom woke up with one million pounds in cash under their beds. The miracle – or …

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TIH 587: Robert P. Ottone on Approaching Life Fearlessly, The Triangle, and Early Life Lessons

TIH 587 Robert P. Ottone on Approaching Life Fearlessly, The Triangle, and Early Life Lessons

In this podcast, Robert P. Ottone talks about approaching life fearlessly, The Triangle, early life lessons, and much more. About Robert P. Ottone Robert P. Ottone is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Triangle and is also the best-selling author of Curse of the Cob Man, The Sleepy Hollow Gang, The Vile Thing We …

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Look Out For … The Swarm by Andy Marino

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“With his latest, Marino presents a nightmarish apocalypse, our world infested with vicious cicadas, bringing humans to the brink of extinction.” After a strange murder case hits her desk, Detective Vicky Patterson realizes her nightmare is just beginning. Her young daughter, Sadie, is attacked by a swarm of cicadas recently awakened from their seventeen-year cycle …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 21 October 2024

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Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to.  Without further ado: Night Tide Magazine discover one horror fan and writer’s first experience with Carpenter’s Halloween The Ginger Nuts of Horror present five lessons from horror on having children Bloody Disgusting …

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