Creep This Way: How to Become a Horror Writer With 24 Tips to Get You Ghouling

by Cuthbert, Christopher Ryan (Editor)

Overview

Want to be a horror writer but don't know where to start? Try Creep This Way! Fun and pressure-free, it's a guide to the business of boo! In a voice that sounds like a longtime friend, Rebecca Cuthbert offers clear advice you can immediately apply to your writing aspirations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781732535572
Publisher:	Seamus and Nunzio Productions, LLC
Publication date:	01/22/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	102
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Rebecca Cuthbert is a dark fiction and poetry writer. She loves folklore, witchy women, and anything that involves nature getting revenge. Her debut poetry collection, IN MEMORY OF EXOSKELETONS, is available through Alien Buddha Press. Additional titles are scheduled for release in 2024 and 2025, including the hybrid collection SELF-MADE MONSTERS (ABP, Oct. 2024). Rebecca's stories and poems can be found in Shakespeare Unleashed (Monstrous Books and Crystal Lake Publishing), We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2022 (Neon Hemlock Press), DREAD (Cemetery Dance Publications), SoulScream Antholozine (Seamus & Nunzio Productions), and in other magazines and anthologies. She serves as the editor-in-chief of PsychoToxin PINK, the feminist horror imprint of PsychoToxin Press, and teaches creative writing classes at SUNY Fredonia.Rebecca lives in Western New York with her husband Joel, their menagerie of pets, and a garden full of demanding plants.Visit rebeccacuthbert.com for publications, events, news, and more.
Christopher Ryan has earned recognition and awards as a community journalist, teacher, actor, independent filmmaker, and sketch comedy writer, but mostly he writes fast-paced stories with humor and heart. He has independently published four novels including two Mallory and Gunner supernatural police procedurals getting rebooted in 2024. His short stories have been published in several horror, mystery, crime and pop culture anthologies. Additionally, he's written many tales featuring Alex Simmons' famed Blackjack adventurer. Ryan is also the founder and publisher at Seamus and Nunzio Productions, LLC. Soul Scream Antholozine is his current fiction project, an experiment in form combining horror anthology and magazine elements with a serialized arc threaded throughout the six-volume set celebrating hybrid horror. Rebecca Cuthbert's Creep Like This: How to Become a Horror Writer is his first non-fiction publishing project. Additionally, he serves as the secretary of the Horror Writers Association's New York Chapter and is a member of the Mystery Writers of America. Find him on social media as thischrisryan.

Table of Contents

Foreword

1. Make A Start
2. Get Back to Learning
3. Set Up an Author Website
4. Dress The Part
5. Find Your Tribe
6. Bet On Yourself
7. Believe Beyond the Doubts
8. Get In the Habit
9. Trust the Process
10. Do the Research, Part 1: Stories
11. Do the Research, Part 2: Submissions Opportunities
12. Make Friends Online
13. Embrace the Rejections
14. Dump the Negative Nellies
15. Dare to Write in Other Genres
16. Consider a Writing Group
17. Be Grateful, Not Satisfied
18. Watch Your Spending
19. Find Your Way Back to Your Writing Desk
20. Pay It Forward
21. Set Boundaries
22. Collaborate With Editors
23. Go After Book Reviews
24. Move Forward

About The Author

Acknowledgements

Also By Rebecca Cuthbert

Also By Seamus and Nunzio Productions