This week I’m sharing my conversation with Angela Sylvaine! She is a self-proclaimed cheerful goth who still believes in monsters. Her debut novel, Frostbite, and her debut short story collection, The Dead Spot: Stories of Lost Girls, are both available from Dark Matter INK. Her short fiction and poetry have been appeared in over 50 magazines, anthologies, and podcasts, including Apex Magazine, Southwest Review, and The No Sleep Podcast.
These 45 minutes I spend chatting with Angela are some of the most fun I’ve had interviewing. We cover a lot of topics, but here are the highlights: favorite stories from The Dead Spot, reading and writing authentic female characters in horror, approaching writing short fiction vs. long fiction, enjoying the fun in horror, deciding what to read, our love of slashers (talking about you Stephen Graham Jones and Brian McAuley), the dreaded DNF, the art of blurbing, what we love about the horror community, and of, course, the dreaded cicada season that is upon us this summer. I can’t state how much fun this conversation is (something I think is very apparent in the last ten minutes or so of this video), and I’m incredibly thankful for Angela’s time.
I’ll be taking a bit of break from interviewing due to the summer holidays and upcoming vacations. However, I do have some wonderful folks I’m planning to chat with in the coming weeks that I am immensely excited about. As always, thanks so much for watching and following along! Until next time!
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