TIH 018: Ray Cluley on Water For Drowning, What Makes A Good Short Story and The Joy Of Writing

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Michael David Wilson, This Is Horror Founder and Editor in Chief; Dan Howarth, This Is Horror Deputy Editor

TIH 018: Ray Cluley on Water For Drowning, What Makes A Good Short Story and The Joy Of Writing

Michael David Wilson, This Is Horror Founder and Editor in Chief; Dan Howarth, This Is Horror Deputy Editor         Michael David Wilson, This Is Horror Founder and Editor in Chief; Dan Howarth, This Is Horror Deputy Editor        
TIH 018: Ray Cluley on Water For Drowning, What Makes A Good Short Story and The Joy Of Writing           TIH 018: Ray Cluley on Water For Drowning, What Makes A Good Short Story and The Joy Of Writing          
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    In this podcast we talk to the award-winning author Ray Cluley about his forthcoming This Is Horror release, Water For Drowning, the award-winning ‘Shark! Shark!’, the short story form, mermaids and much more.

    Topics

    [00:46] Ray Cluley biography

    [03:27] Water For Drowning 

    [06:00] Dan asks the important Mermaid questions

    [10:45] Short stories

    [16:40] Different markets and genres

    [24:35] Writing full-time

    [29:05] Moving to a Greek Island

    [31:45] What makes for a good short story

    [34:44] New story from Spectral Press

    [44:20] Sending stories to new homes

    [51:15] Favourite stories read this year

    [01:02:00] The joy of writing

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    Resources and recommendations

    Pre-order Water For Drowning by Ray Cluley

    Buy Ray Cluley fiction (UK)

    Buy Ray Cluley fiction (US)

    Visit Ray Cluley’s website

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