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Reflections on Writing Horror – As Fast As She Can Blog Tour

Reflections on Writing Horror

by E.F. Schraeder

 

Horror is a wonderfully broad genre with a scope that ranges from subtle and quiet scares to all imaginable extremes inflicted on the body, from gritty realism to every imaginable alternate world possibility. For someone starting to write a new horror project that kind of variation could be daunting. How much gore is too much? Are you going to emphasize one element like a monster; do you plan to focus on internal terror or on something happening in the external world? And if you’re sitting at the computer working on a first draft, how do you decide?

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Belinda is back with the open calls we’ve listed in the third week of July, 2022

Hello to all of our author and writer friends!
We’re in for the third week of July, and at the time of scheduling this video, we are just a few more likes away from our first 500 subscribers! Amazing how much we’ve grown in just the past few weeks!

Just as a reminder, the latest two iterations of Trembling With Fear are out! We’ll likely be including these until the end of July, and you can check them out at the two links below:

You can find Trembling With Fear: Year 5 here
and
Trembling With Fear: More Tales From The Tree: Volume 4 right here

Please, reach out if you review either of these or any of our past iterations of Trembling With Fear on your website!

The links to the calls that we’re focusing on this week can be found below!
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Flash / Magazine / Ongoing Submissions / Semipro

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Ongoing Submissions: Bourbon Penn

Payment: 3¢ / word
Theme: Highly imaginative stories with a healthy dose of the odd.
Note: We are re-listing Bourbon Penn due to the press raising their payment rates and updated guidelines

We are looking for highly imaginative stories with a healthy dose of the odd.  Odd characters, odd experiences, odd realities. We’re looking for genre / speculative stories and are quite partial to slipstream, cross-genre, magic realism, absurdist, and the surreal.

We want character.  For us, stories live and die by their characters.  We’re looking for fully drawn characters who surprise us with their honesty, complexity, and contradictions.

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Indie Bookshelf Releases 07/22/2022

Got a book to launch, an event to promote, a kickstarter or seeking extra work/support as a result of being hit economically by Covid or life in general?

Get in touch and we’ll promote you here. The post is prepared each Thursday for publication on Friday. Contact us via Horror Tree’s contact address or connect via Twitter or Facebook.

Click on the book covers for more information. Remember to scroll down to the bottom of the page – there’s all sorts lurking in the deep.

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Articles / Guest Post

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Planting Seeds and Watering Your Audience

Planting Seeds and Watering Your Audience
by: Jaymie Wagner

 

When I started writing what would become the Sing For Me stories, I had plans on where to start, a synopsis of events that should happen along the way, and a rough idea of the end. 

Of course, anyone who has ever written a story knows it’s never that easy!
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Flash / Flat Amount / Magazine / Ongoing Submissions / Online

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Ongoing Submissions: ALOCASIA

Payment: $10
Theme: A journal about plants, gardens, gardening, parks, and indoor horticulture and stories in any genre
Note: Authors who identify as queer writers

ALOCASIA accepts creative writing of all genres from queer writers on a rolling basis with no reading fee. Please send no more than 6 pieces to [email protected]. Simultaneous submissions are encouraged, and we DO accept previously-published work. Please send writing in either .docx or .pdf format.

We appreciate both traditional work, as well as the weird, erotic, explicit, anti-colonial, and whatever you can come up with.

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Articles / Reviews

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Epeolatry Book Review: Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak

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Our reviews may contain affiliate links. If you purchase something through the links in this article we may receive a small commission or referral fee. This happens without any additional cost to you.

Title: Hidden Pictures
Author: Jason Rekulak
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Genre: Horror/Ghost/Thriller
Release Date: 10th May, 2022

Synopsis: Mallory is delighted to have a new job looking after gorgeous four-year-old, Teddy. She’s been sober for a year and a half and she’s sure her new nannying role in the affluent suburbs will help keep her on the straight and narrow.

That is until Teddy starts to draw disturbing pictures of his imaginary friend, Anya. It is quite clear to Mallory and to Teddy’s parents, even in his crude childlike style, that the woman Teddy is drawing in his pictures is dead.

Teddy’s crayons are confiscated, and his paper locked away. But the drawings somehow keep coming, telling a frightening story of a woman murdered… and they’re getting more sophisticated. But if Teddy isn’t drawing the pictures anymore, who is? And what are they trying to tell Mallory about her new home?

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Anthology / Events / Flat Amount / Online / Token Payment

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Trembling With Fear – Summer Special 2022 Deadline Extended

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Deadline: August 31st, 2022
Payment: Trembling With Fear was designed as a way to give back to Horror Tree. Since it’s inception we now offer an optional $5 payment on short stories to be paid by the time our yearly anthology which contains the story will be released. At this time, drabble are still considered donations to the site. Moving forward, as our Patreon levels grow, this will change for the better in both areas.
Theme: Summer-themed horror

Who wants summer to last longer? We do at the Horror Tree! This year, we’ve extended our Summer Specials submission period by an extra month so that we can collect even more hellishly hot and campfire creepy stories. Send us your tales of horror about backpacking, road trips, glamping, beach adventures, summer camp… anything summer-related goes! You may even want to write a drabble as a summer vacation postcard as a “wish you were here” [insert evil grin].

The submission window is open until August 31st to submit drabbles of 100 words and short stories up to 2500 words.

Themed Calls

Please note in your submission if it is for a specific theme and not a standard Trembling With Fear call. As a side note, going forward these will likely be collected in a secondary collection each year.

Summer Holiday Special (to be published in August). Submit from February to end of July. Horror on the beach, at a B&B, on a cruise, backpacking, road trips, glamping, end of the pier. Why not even write a drabble as a holiday postcard: Wish you weren’t here?

For special editions, we also do take longer work and Unholy Trinities.

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