Secrets and successes of an award winning monster writer with Owl Goingback

Owl Goingback coyote rage

Secrets and successes of an award winning monster writer with Owl Goingback

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Interview Timeline

Owl Goingback has been writing for over thirty years and has released many types of fiction including numerous horror short stories and novels. He won the Bram Stoker award for best first novel and most recently the Bram Stoker Award for the best novel of 2019, Coyote Rage. We spoke about the novel, his writing process, and some of the things that led him into writing horror. Coyote Rage, Independent Legions Publishing, 2019

0:39 – Owl talks about why he wrote Coyote Rage.

2:26 – Owl talks about the Native American traditions he’s familiar with.

4:11 – Owl talks about Coyote Rage.

5:51 – Owl talks about the genre of his novel and the stories he heard growing up.

6:42 – Owl talks about traditional tales and storytelling.

8:30 – Owl talks about his writing process and what he writes about. He talks about the importance of books to him.

9:39 – Owl talks about how he got books when he was young.

12:07 – Owl talks about wanting to find Bigfoot and UFOs. He talks about an event that partially inspired his novel Crota.

13:39 – Owl talks about when he started writing fiction and what kept him writing fiction.

15:31 – Owl talks how he learned writing.

16:13 – Owl talks about all the pop shows that he likes.

18:26 – Owl talks about the music that goes with Coyote Rage.

19:12 – Owl talks about his writing process.

20:35 – Owl talks about whether his writing has changed after winning awards.

22:21 – Owl talks about horror ideas that might have been over the line.

24:17 – Owl talks about the classic monsters he loves the most.

25:58 – Owl talks about his time in the Air Force and also being a historic cemetery caretaker.

27:37 – Owl talks about Poe and Lovecraft.

29:18 – Owl talks about the the things he liked when he was young such as lost civilizations.

32:08 – Owl talks about Aztecs and Native Americans.

33:19 – Owl talks about his new monster anthology.

40:29 – Owl can be found at owlgoingback.com, @ogoingback on twitter, and on facebook.

Links of interest

https://amzn.to/2MdOm72

https://www.independentlegions.com/store/p148/coyoterage.html

https://www.owlgoingback.com/

https://twitter.com/OGoingback

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100014562218135

Contact Information

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Guests: Owl Goingback

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: Books, audio interviews, author, podcast, Independent Legions, horror, fiction, Stoker award,

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Melanie R. Anderson and Lisa Kroger discuss Horror and Speculative Fiction

I interviewed Melanie R. Anderson and Lisa Kroger interview about Horror and Speculative Fiction and their Locis Award winning book “Monster She Wrote” (Quirk Books, 2019). This is the youtube version.

Melanie R. Anderson and Lisa Kroger interview about Horror and Speculative Fiction – “Monster She Wrote” (Quirk Books, 2019)

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Melanie R. Anderson and Lisa Kroger discuss Horror and Speculative Fiction

Interview Summary

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Melanie R. Anderson and Lisa Kroger have both extensively studied speculative and horror fiction. They’ve written a few books together on the subject and they recently won the 2020 Locus Award for non-fiction for Monster She Wrote which explores female authors of horror and speculative fiction. They also won a Bram Stoker award for the book. We spoke about the subject and the book writing process.

0:41 – Lisa talks about how she and Melanie wrote a book on female horror writers.

2:02 – Melanie talks about previous projects they did together on ghosts and spectrality.

3:48 – Melanie talks about they structured the book.

6:36 – Lisa talks about their struggle to cover a broad scope of literary history.

8:48 – Melanie talks about female use of pseudonyms in horror fiction.

11:48 – Lisa talks about women not having to hide their identities.

14:51 – Lisa and Melanie talk about the nationalities of the women they included in the book.

16: 45 – Lisa talks about 19th century female horror literature.

19:11 – Melanie talks about 19th century ghost stories and why so many female writers wrote horror.

24:00 – Lisa talks about female writers mixing violence, gore, and sex

27:45 – Melanie talks about gore in horror.

32:47 – Lisa talks about a scandalous Margaret Cavendish story she really likes.

35:30 – Melanie talks about author Dion Fortune.

37:28 – Melanie talks about how religion affected the writing these women did. Lisa talks more about Manfrone.

41:39 – Melanie talks about she did the research for the work.

44:55 – Lisa talks about how she added to her horror reading list and how some writers seem to have disappeared completely.

48:28 – Lisa talks about horror comic books.

49:47 – Melanie talks about the joy these authors took in their work.

53:36 – Lisa talks about the writers who she felt touched by.

56:26 – Melanie talks about Gertrude Barrows Bennett and Jewelle Gomez.

58:59 – Lisa talks about the Gilda stories.

1:01:20 – Lisa and Melanie talk about writing the book and getting it published.

1:07:48 – Lisa is at lisakroger.com and on twitter @lbkroger and on instagram @lisa_kroger. Their podcast is knowfearcast and monster she wrote podcast and @monsterwrote on social media.

1:09:25 – Melnaie is at melanieranderson.com and on instagram @melanieranderson7.