WiHM: Tune in to the GLHC’s Annual State of the Scary Ladies Round-table Chat

February 28, 2018 The Librarian 0

It may be the final day of Women in Horror Month, but here in the Library we’re not quite done yet. The Great Lakes Horror Company has just dropped its annual WiHM round-table, in which we take a serious but lively look at the state of the genre when it comes to writing while female. This year, we’re joined by horror journalist Leslie Hatton, HWA President and author Lisa Morton, and author Morgan Sylvia. Tune [READ MORE]

Sunday School: Two Lessons from Stoker Award-Winning Authors

July 2, 2017 Crystal Bourque 0

This year’s Stoker Award ceremony was held in Long Beach, California aboard the Queen Mary—one of the world’s most haunted ships. During the ceremony, horror author, Tom Deady received the Superior Achievement in a First Novel for Haven and, “word slinger”, Maria Alexander received the Superior Achievement in a Young Adult novel for, Snowed. We highly recommend that you check out both of these authors and their books! In the meantime, Tom and Maria were [READ MORE]

SUNDAY SCHOOL: Lessons Learned from Rejection

May 28, 2017 Crystal Bourque 0

On our most recent podcast episode, Sephera Giron, Andrew Robertson, Julianne Snow and Dannen Hawes sat down to chat about every writer’s worst nightmare: rejection. While the discussion revealed all kinds of great tips on how to deal with rejection, things got really interesting when the panel addressed their favourite rejection letter/experience. The consensus remained clear: getting rejected sucks, but each writer survived and even learned a thing or two (or three) from the experience [READ MORE]