Showing posts with label horror authors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label horror authors. Show all posts

Friday, February 16, 2018

Sephera Giron at Toronto Comicon March 16 - 18, 2018


Sèphera Girón chillin' with Kylo Ren at Toronto Comicon 2017

Once again, the Horror Writers Association will have a booth at Toronto Comicon!

This year, the dates for Toronto Comicon are March 16 - 18!

Come by our booths to meet horror authors such as:

Sèphera Girón
Monica S. Kuebler
Stephanie Bedwell-Grime
Julianne Snow

We'll announce more authors soon! Watch this page!



Kylo Ren torturing Sephera Giron while Han Solo in carbonite watches. Toronto Comicon 2017








Meet members of the Great Lakes Horror Company at the Horror Writers Association booth!


As always, you can get an autograph or take a photo with horror writers and Great Lakes Horror Company podcast peeps!



In other news, Crossroad Press has released the PRINT version of Eternal Sunset!
You can grab your copy of this book at most platforms including Crossroad Press website and Amazon!

You can order your copy of Eternal Sunset TODAY and have it arrive in time to bring to Toronto Comicon to get it autographed!


 Buy Now!

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Captured Souls - Samhain Publishing is Almost Here!

Captured Souls

Captured Souls is available right now as a pre-order! Be ready to read when it comes out on February 4!

After you've read Captured Souls, please be certain to leave me reviews on  your favourite sites such as Samhain, Amazon, or Goodreads. Reviews are the best feedback for an author to see what the readers like and don't like about a work. Whenever you have a minute, whip up a little review for books you've read and enjoyed or even not enjoyed by your favourite author.

One of the benefits of the new way of publishing is the ability to interact with your authors. We can't write what you like if you don't tell us!

Captured Souls is a mad scientist tale that explores themes of control, lust, and obsession in a modern setting.

"In Captured Souls--her latest erotic thrill ride, Sèphera Girón has created a terrifying new character: a female rendition of Dr. Frankenstein given to detailed scientific human experimentation combined with the sexually predatory and obsessive nature of Nabokov's Humbert Humbert. Horrific and unforgettable."
 --Lisa Mannetti, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Gentling Box and Deathwatch

A queasily beguiling blend of erotica and body horror, Sèphera Girón's Captured Souls pits a sexy female mad scientist with a literal fetish for fleshy modification against the self-set challenge of not just finding the perfect lover, but making one. Think Frankenstein in a bustier, with a cool, sleek, Cronenbergian edge. The result is an imaginative Grand Guignol freakout with porno flair, pumped full of dry black humor and nasty surprises, explicit in every way possible--overall, quite disgustingly entertaining.
--Gemma Files, Hexslinger Series

Sèphera Girón knocks that stereotypical male sexual predator on his head.  You won't find another book like this one out there.  If you want lust, insanity and horror plaited together into one easy and fun-to-read diabolical story, Captured Souls is for you! 

--Nancy Kilpatrick, Writer - Power of the Blood, Editor - Expiration Date

Tiny clip from Captured Souls

Captured Souls - Samhain Publishing

Friday, August 2, 2013

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Telling Tales of Terrors can be a great gift!

 
 
 
 
Table of Contents


Introduction: Why Horror?

by James S. Dorr 1

What Scares You?

by Paula Johanson 5

Beyond Blood, Guts, and Gore

by Bob Nailor 14

Building the Invisible Bridge: Suspension of Disbelief

by Carol Hightshoe 24

Putting the Occult into Your Fiction

by Kathryn Meyer Griffith 33

Characters and Character Development

by Cinsearae Santiago 46

Adding A Sex Scene To Your Horror Fiction

by Mitchel Whitington 62

Dialogue

by Ivy Reisner 72

Don’t Lose Your Head: Maintaining Point of View in Your Writing

by Carol Hightshoe 87

Sticks and Stones: Accurately Portraying Action and Violence

by Kim Richards 93

“The End” Is Just the Beginning: Promoting Your Way to the Best Seller List
 
by Danielle Ackley-McPhail 99

Sisters are Killin’ it for Themselves: Women in Horror

by Lisa Morton 116

Setting and Mood

by Sèphera Girón 125

Creating Monsters: Breathing Life into Evil

by Cinsearae Santiago 133

Blood in the Water: An Essay on Publishing a Novel

by Jason Gehlert 138

The Publisher’s Panel 145

Contributor Biographies

Additional Resources


Telling Tales of Terror has hit the electronic stands with the print version due out any day now from Damnation Books.

As you can see, authors speak from the trenches about the various componants that shape a horror writers' career. From conception of an idea to landing that idea into other people's hands is a long, sometimes treacherous path that can be as scary as the book you're breathing into life.



 

Thursday, November 29, 2012

What Scares You?

Everyone has basic fears.

Some are ingrained into our survival code.

Others stem from experiences we've had.

Some become phobias.

I'M NOT AFRAID
The person who declares he's not afraid of anything is likely one of the biggest cowards in the room.

There are fears of poverty, of homelessness, of our children going hungry.

There are fears of bugs or birds or cats or sharks.

There are fears of ghosts, spirits, monsters.

There are fears of what another human will do to us.

BE AFRAID
Fears seem to be categorized into different sections.

As a writer, I enjoy exploring fears from every level.

Sometimes I find writing about what scares me helps me understand why I'm scared.

When you're writing about scary things, you have to have a basis about WHY it's scary.

You also have to walk that fine line about what is scary to one and may not be to another.

In fact, some people find some fears utterly ridiculous yet another person would actually die of a heart attack if they were in the same situation.

SCARY PRANKS
Did you see that Youtube video that's making the rounds about the scary pranks on people trapped in the elevator?

I was watching that thinking that at first, I'd be scared then I'd realize that it has to be people fooling around since I know so many people who work in Halloween Scream Houses.

However, even though I'm a big fraidy cat, once my initial fear is gone, I start to analyze what is going on. If I was in that situation, it wouldn't take me more than the initial jolt to realize it's a trick. No way would I believe that it's really a ghost. I'd instantly know there's a trap door. All those years of theatre, ya know!

But I was thinking about some people might freak right out, perhaps even have a heart attack.

MIND FREAK
That video is an interesting experiment in discovering what truly scares us.

We are afraid, watching the video while thinking "what if it ISN'T a fake?"

What if that really happened to me but it wasn't a cheesy haunted house trap door creepy kid prank?

What if it really WAS A GHOST?

I would freak out, you betcha.

VIDEO KILLED THE ELEVATOR RIDE
But this particular video set-up would have the average person be initially startled and frightened and then laugh and realize it's a joke.

What do you think about this prank?

Is it scary?

Is it mean?

Is it dangerous?

Is it dumb?

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Borrowed Flesh by Sephera Giron is now available!

 
Borrowed Flesh is hot off the press from Necon Ebooks
 
Borrowed Flesh is the story of an aging witch, Vanessa, who has eternal life.
 
She is the local tarot reader in a small New England town.
 
She is very vain and bathes in blood to keep her looks.
 
Vanessa hangs around the local high school looking for virgins.
 
 
Ashley is a budding hip hop artist. Her idol is TnT and she raps about everything.
 
When her friend, Alex goes missing, Ashley suspects the witch.
 
 
 
 

Sunday, October 7, 2012

The Black Mass Room 2012

 
 
After two long finger-clenching, nightmarish sweat soaked years, I finally returned to it. That place that had finally faded into a dull memory.
 
The bedroom where Rainy and I had stayed two years ago and where freaky things had happened to us in the night. DVRs on the Ghostgirls site have further proof about unexplanable voices in our room while we slept. 

 

When I entered the room, it was unnerving but not terrifying. I sat on "my" bed and surveyed the room. I remembered the nights and feared staying in there for the impending weekend.



 
 
The mansion had been renovated since our last stay and there were more rooms open on the second floor. Loren and I put out the nametags on various beds. Some of the rooms I was glad I didn't have to stay in. Sure they were big and gorgeous with huge beds but something didn't "feel" right in them.


 
Not that the Black Mass room felt any better. But in the end, Rainy and I stayed in a suite of rooms on the main floor. Of course, we chose beds next to each other, no way anyone slept alone in that mansion. Well, a couple of people did, but they were braver than I.

One of the DVRs from 2010 had a noise that sounded like a child saying, "Hi." With that in mind, I went into the Black Mass room at one point and invited the children to play with me. I pointed out the various equipment they could play with and I don't know if they did when I left the room.  The Lizzie Borden house has a room where children play and I wonder if they played in here too. Apparently this part of the house was built where a gym used to be. So it would make sense that children ghosts could play here.




The idea that ghost children would play with the blinking lights, k2 meters, recorders, propeller and other instruments was more appealing than the idea of encounter some angry Black Mass that oozes in and out of the room.

 
I don't think anything happened.
 
Funny, though, that no one wanted to stay in the room, even for one night to see if what Rainy and I spoke of was true....
 
Interesting....
 

One of the nights, a few of us went into the room while the GhostGirls were rolling cameras and dvrs after we'd been drinking various concoctions of wine, rum and absinthe all night. I turned on the laser light grid and we broke out into "Boogie Oogie Oogie Dancing Shoes" to celebrate the disco era.



The room seemed sad when I said good-bye to it on the last day. It was disappointed I was too chicken to sleep over. Oh, well. I wasn't the only one who was too chicken, that's for sure. Over twenty people in that house all over the place, but no one dared to sleep in The Black Mass Room.

I am curious to see if anything showed up on any of the cameras or digital recorders left in the room for 24 hours!

Friday, September 21, 2012

California Here I Come!







At long last, the wait is over!

Nearly two dozen horror authors and artists are spending four days at a beautiful retreat in California. Nestled in the mountains, this mansion provides a scenic historical refuge for those wishing to tap into the creative muse.

Perhaps because so much "consciousness" is floating around, poking around, exploring concepts and pleasures, there is an odd energy to the house.

The weekend will comprise of writers writing, artists arting and live blogging as it happens to record the more interesting to the outsider aspects of this retreat: paranormal investigation.

A professional ghost hunting team will be investigating with the standard gear.

Be certain to watch the blog as it happens!

Haunted Mansion Writers Retreat

Friday, May 25, 2012

Haunted Mansion Project





I took this from Rain Graves' Page:


The Haunted Mansion Project Year One, Presented by Rain Graves and Edited by E.S. Magill

The book contains a fantastic set of factual and fictional information--from a scientific perspective of data gathered at the site and analyzed by our professional investigative team, Ghost-Girls, essays and journal notes from attendees and their paranormal experiences or skepticism, to stories and poems inspired by the time spent there.

For your perusal, here is the Table of Contents:

Forward by E.S. Magill
Introduction by Rain Graves

THE FINDINGS
Investigative Narrative by Nichole Boscia

THE FACTS
The Haunted Mansion Rules and the Writers Who Mock Them by S.G. Browne
Touched by Loren Rhoads
Journal of a Paranormal Mind by Rain Graves
Notes from the Haunted Mansion by Sephera Giron
Sounds Like Faith to Me by Kim Richards
Coming Home: Some Thoughts on Haunted Houses by E.S. Magill

PHOTOGRAPHS
Taken by Attendees

THE FICTION AND POETRY
Depictions by Yvonne Navarro
Red Road to Spirit Mansion by Rain Graves
And Not a Drop to Drink by E.S. Magill
Ghost Meter Blues by Weston Ochse
He Journeyed Through Midgard by Christian Colvin
The Journal by Kim Richards
Insane Cinquains by Dan Weidman
In the Night, In the Dark by S.G. Browne
The Old House (At 324 Oak Street) by Rain Graves
The Third Room by Sephera Giron
A Curiosity of Shadows by Loren Rhoads

Haunted Mansion Project Book