Discover a New Writer: Brett Alexander Savory

Guest Blogging and Free Stories

The Canadian Indie magazine called Broken Pencil has enlisted Stoker Award winner Brett Alexander Savory, Editor-in-Chief of ChiZine: Treatments of Light and Shade in Words to be the Indie Artist in Residence for this month's Horror issue.


During November, Mr. Savory is the guest blogger for the Broken Pencil website. The major theme of most of his posts is "Horror fiction that doesn't suck!" and he has given me a number of books I need to pick up and read. I heartily recommend you check out these posts and see if something doesn't appeal to you taste for horror, dark fantasy and excellence in writing.

The Broken Pencil Posts:

Coming soon: Horror fiction that doesn't suck!

Danielewski, O'Nan, Tremblay, Gaiman

Carroll, Davidson, Link, Barker

Savory, Kasturi, Lalumiere signing in Montreal Sadly, I am a little late with the information from this post.

Raw Dog Screaming Press, Night Shade Books, Delirium Books, and PS Publishing

And Now Free Stories:

Mr. Savory with kind permission from Shane at Delirium Books has also made his short story collection No Further Messages available as an Adobe Acrobat download on his website.

This is a rare opportunity to try out an author for free. You owe it to yourself to download No Further Messages, try a few stories and see if he doesn't click for you. Then, if he does, you can purchase the collection, his novel In and Down or one of his other books listed on his author's list.

(Originally posted on . . . With Intent to Commit Horror)

Discover a New Writer: John Everson

Discover a New Writer is a new feature where I introduce you to an author you may never have read before -- usually by way of free online short stories, essays and other writings. My hope is that by giving you a sample of an author's work, you may find that you want more.

I missed all but the last fifteen minutes of last week's chat with horror author John Everson. I didn't mean to, but I had a sick child to take care of. However, Mr. Everson impressed me with the answers to the few questions I did manage to catch.

Particularly interesting was when he mentioned that having children curtailed his writing time. All I could think was "How well I know . . ."

Anyway, he piqued my interest so I visited his website and discovered, after bouncing around a bit, that he has posted several short stories. What a great way to decide if you like an author's writing or not!

In that spirit, I am posting direct links to his stories so that you can easily sample his writing yourself. Read a little bit of background information about the story in the purple sidebar on the left hand side. Note: these links will send you to John Everson's website. You can use the back button to return here to sample the next story or go exploring on his website:

Pumpkin Head

Why Do You Stay With Him?

Hard Heart

Tomatoes

Vigilantes of Love

Only Believe

Christmas, The Hard Way

Please understand: The stories have been posted for you to read for free but Mr. Everson still holds the copyright to them. Please do not steal them. Don't repost them elsewhere without first obtaining Mr. Everson's permission. This is a kind gift and we shouldn't abuse it.

For further reading check out the John Everson Author Page.

(originally posted on . . . With Intent to Commit Horror)