TOD 021 The Glow in the Case of Selena Chambers

Scott Nicolay and Selena Chambers

Scott Nicolay and Selena Chambers Scott Nicolay and Selena Chambers

TOD 021 The Glow in the Case of Selena Chambers TOD 021 The Glow in the Case of Selena Chambers

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In this podcast Scott Nicolay interviews Selena Chambers, author of Calls for Submission and Wandering Spirits: Traveling Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Also solve a literary mystery to win two signed Calls for Submission ARCs and an all-new News from the Weird featuring co-host Justin Steele!

Show Notes

Author/editor Selena Chambers joins Scott to talk about her debut collection Calls for Submission (Pelekinesis) and Wandering Spirits: Traveling Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, including romanticism and meta-sublimity, literary pilgrimages, the incredible talent of artist Yves Tourigny, Selena’s Dunhams Manor Press chapbooks ‘Of Parallel and Parcel’ and ‘The Last Session’ and her ‘Poe Bug’ column in Xnoybis Journal, exposing misconceptions about Poe, Poe’s women as lady alchemists, some props to Molly Tanzer, a reading assignment and a literary mystery contest to win two Calls to Submission ARCs, the Bas Bleu Sisterhood and the joy of time-traveling through fiction, a reading from her World Fantasy Award-nominated story ‘The Neurastheniac’ (00:41:20-00:49:57), disillusionment and suicide among writers, why it’s a good time to be a Weird writer, surrealism and deconstruction and doing ‘the cut-up’, co-writing ‘Dive In Me’ with Jesse Bullington, air-bass-ing, Steampunk and its connection to Weird/New Weird, writing to market as learning process, decadence and the Poe vibe in Selena’s work, feeling the glow, upcoming projects including editing Mechanical Animals (Hex Publishers) with Jason Heller (Strange Stars), a cocktail-inspired submission, and her recommended writers including Orrin Grey, Nadia Bulkin, and Molly Tanzer’s new novel, Creatures of Will and Temper.