On Mentoring, with LINDA ADDISON

December 17, 2017 The Librarian 0

Can you believe we’ve reached the end of the year already? Nope, we can’t either. But here we are, at episode 33 of the Great Lakes Horror Company podcast, our last one of the year. Thanks to everyone who has tuned in over the past twelve months, I hope our show has both taught you something (about genre writing or the biz of genre writing) and entertained you. You may have noticed we’ve been toying [READ MORE]

2016 Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot Announced

January 20, 2017 The Librarian 2

The Horror Writers Association has announced the Preliminary Ballot for the 2016 Bram Stoker Awards, which will be handed out at this year’s StokerCon (April 27-30 in Long Beach, California). Even if you are not a voting member of the HWA, this list is always interesting because it allows one to seek out horror stories from the previous calendar year that they might have missed. So without further delay, the list: Superior Achievement in a Novel Fenn, [READ MORE]

Great Lakes Horror Company in conversation with LISA MORTON

November 2, 2016 The Librarian 0

Did you know that the earliest Jack-O-Lanterns were actually turnips? Or that the love affair between horror and Hallowe’en is a recent invention? Or that the cult classic 1978 film that made masked killer Michael Myers into a legend of horror was originally called The Babysitter Murders? On this special edition of the Great Lakes Horror Company (“where we believe every day is Hallowe’en”), HWA President, author and Hallowe’en expert Lisa Morton speaks about her areas [READ MORE]