2012-10-07 04:00:45Roy Robbins and Bad Moon Books received the 2011 HWA Specialty Press of the Year Award. 1. How would you describe Bad Moon Books? We are a bookseller and publisher who specialize in horror and dark fiction. 2. Tell us…
2012-10-07 01:39:52Hi, all!Something happened that erased our database for the blog, and so we lost a bunch of posts. I’ve managed to finagle a backup into the structure, but it was an older one. We’ll be busy reposting a bunch…
2012-10-06 04:00:16Well, our favorite holiday of the year is fast approaching, and as always my writerly mind turns to thoughts of promotion. Or at least it did, back in August, when I started looking around for themed events in the…
2012-10-05 06:00:33Being the sort of person who never did care much for sweets, Halloween has always been about the surprise for myself. This is the one day when being weird is fully accepted, when wreaking havoc is only kids being…
2012-10-05 04:00:10Halloween was always a wonderful time when I was growing up. Though, as an adult, it really stopped being much of a holiday. As time went by, I sometimes was in Arizona, where my dad lives, and sometimes not…
2012-10-04 04:00:45Allyson Bird is the recipient of the Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a First Novel for her book Isis Unbound. 1. Tell us about what inspired you to write Isis Unbound? I’ve always been interested in Ancient…
2012-10-03 04:00:58Halloween. It’s trite that this holiday would be the favorite of a horror writer, but there it is. Halloween is my favorite holiday, better than that blissed-out full feeling at Thanksgiving. Better than a pile of presents at Christmas…
2012-10-02 06:00:21We had a marvelously terrifying basement in our house in Western Virginia, a perfect setting for a Halloween party. The room at the bottom of the kitchen stairs was unsettling enough: a blocked-off fireplace, peeling vinyl flooring with a…
2012-10-02 04:00:26“What is that monstrosity in the driveway?” I knew those would be my wife’s first words when she got home. I went to kiss her hello. Her eyes burned through me. I paused at a safe distance. “It’s a…
2012-10-01 04:00:27I’m certain I’m not the only horror writer who’s ever wondered what they would do if they found themselves in the real-life equivalent of a chainsaw slasher flick. I’d venture, in fact, that this is something horror writers spend…