In addition to writing fiction, I work with a number of outlets to conduct interviews with authors and other creators. Check them out below!
FEATURE INTERVIEWS
These are the main events! Longer, more in-depth, research-intensive — you name it.
- Linda D. Addison (Nightmare Magazine, July 2018)
- Amber Fallon (Nightmare Magazine, October 2018)
- Nathan Ballingrud (Nightmare Magazine, August 2019)
- Nicole Cushing (Nightmare Magazine, February 2020)
DEEP CUTS ARCHIVE
“Deep Cuts” is an irregular feature at Hellnotes in which I talk to some really excellent authors about one of their free-to-read stories, getting deep into themes, influences, techniques, and – of course – spoilers.
- “The Monsters of Heaven,” with Nathan Ballingrud
- “Bookends,” with Michael Wehunt
- “Senbazuru,” by V.H. Leslie
- “Out of Skin” and “The Hole the Fox Did Make,” with Emily Carroll
- “Asking for Forgiveness,” with Richard Thomas
- “Night Dog,” with Matthew M. Bartlett
- “All the Red Apples Have Withered to Gray,” with Gwendolyn Kiste
- “20 Simple Steps to Ventriloquism,” with Jon Padgett
- “Laal Andhi,” with Usman Malik
- “Natural Skin,” with Alyssa Wong
- “Girl, I Love You,” with Nadia Bulkin
- “The Lure of Devouring Light,” with Michael Griffin
- “Fabulous Beasts,” with Priya Sharma
LIGHTSPEED AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEWS
In 2017, I began also contributing to Lightspeed’s Author Spotlight Interviews. It’s an awesome way to get to read cutting edge fiction before it hits the streets and pry into the brilliant brains behind them.
- Charlie Jane Anders re: “Cake Baby (A Kango and Sharon Adventure)”
- Sarah Pinsker re: “The Court Magician”
- Beesan Odeh re: “Al-Kahf”
- Jane Lindskold re: “A Green Moon Problem”
- James Beamon re: “A Song of Home, the Organ Grinds”
- Adam-Troy Castro re: “Greetings, Humanity! Welcome to Your Choice of Species!”
- Sarah Grey re: “A Bond as Deep as Starlit Seas”
- Vylar Kaftan re: “Her Monster, Whom She Loved”
- Theodora Goss re: “Queen Lily”
- Matthew Baker re: “Life Sentence”
- Matthew Kressel re: “Truth is Like the Sun”
- Andrew Penn Romine re: “Miles and Miles and Miles”
- Dominica Phetteplace re: “One Thousand Beetles in a Jumpsuit”
- Dominica Phetteplace re: “Her Appetite, His Heart”
OTHER INTERVIEWS
Here are other promotional interviews that I have conducted with some truly talented individuals for various outlets.
- 08.26.19 – Daniel Braum, author of The Serpent’s Shadow
- 08.23.19 – T.L. Bodine, author of River of Souls
- 08.12.19 – Eric J. Guignard, author of Doorways to the Deadeye
- 07.24.19 – S.L. Edwards, author of Whiskey and Other Unusual Ghosts
- 07.06.19 – Danger Slater, author of Impossible James
- 04.30.19 – Review/Interview for When It’s Time for Dead Things to Die by Clint Smith
- 03.29.2109 – Carrie Laben, author of A Hawk in the Woods
- 03.22.19 – Kate Jonez, author of Lady Bits
- 03.05.19 – J.S. Breukelaar, author of Collision: Stories
- 02.21.19 – Anya Martin, about The Outer Dark Symposium of the Greater Weird (2019)
- 02.21.19 – Sarah Read, author of The Bone Weaver’s Orchard
- 12.27.18 – Laurel Hightower, author of Whispers in the Dark
- 12.13.18 – John C. Foster, author of The Isle
- 12.10.18 – Gwendolyn Kiste, author of The Rust Maidens
- 12.05.18 – Mike Monello & Nick Braccia, co-creators of Video Palace
- 10.15.18 – Orrin Grey, author of Guignol & Other Sardonic Tales
- 09.27.18 – John Claude Smith, author of Occasional Beasts: Tales
- 09.04.18 – Christa Carmen, author of Something Borrowed, Something Blood-Soaked
- 08.10.18 – Mike Griffin, author of The Human Alchemy
- 07.09.18 – Greg F. Gifune, author of a whole lot!
- 05.23.18 – Jon Padgett, co-editor of Vastarien: A Literary Journal
- 05.03.18 – David Peak, author of Corpsepaint
- 04.17.18 – Josh Malerman, author of Unbury Carol
- 04.10.18 – Philip Fracassi, author of Shiloh
- 03.12.18 – Scott Gable, EIC of Broken Eye Books
- 02.14.18 – Gemma Files, author of Spectral Evidence
- 02.01.18 – Danger Slater, author of He Digs a Hole
- 10.24.17 – David Demchuk, author of The Bone Mother
- 10.09.17 – Lisa Morton, author of The Samhanach and Other Halloween Treat
- 10.09.17 – David Nickle, author of VOLK: A Novel of Radiant Abomination
- 10.02.17 – John Claude Smith, author of The Wilderness Within
- 09.22.17 – S.P. Miskowski, author of Strange is the Night
- 06.30.17 – S.P. Miskowski, author of I Wish I Was Like You
- 06.16.17 – Bracken MacLeod, author of Come to Dust
- 05.05.17 – Emily B. Cataneo, author of Speaking to Skull Kings and Other Stories
- 03.31.17 – Gwendolyn Kiste, author of And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe
- 03.02.17 – Ed Kurtz, author of Bleed
- 01.16.17 – Matthew M. Bartlett (in Turn to Ash Vol. 2)
- 10.01.15 – Nancy Kilpatrick and Caro Soles, editors of nEvermore! Tales of Murder, Mystery and the Macabre
- 05.22.15 – Angeline Trevena, author of Cutting the Bloodline
- 05.21.15 – Rob E. Boley, author of the “Scary Tales” series
- 02.02.15 – Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmeyer, writer/director team behind Starry Eyes (film)
- 01.16.15 – Sheldon Woodbury, author of The World on Fire
- 12.12.14 – Josh Malerman, author of Bird Box
- 12.10.14 – Allison M. Dickson, author of The Last Supper
- 12.06.14 – Simon Strantzas (author) and Michael Kelly (editor) of These Last Embers
- 11.21.14 – Interview with Richard Thomas, author and EIC at Dark House Press
- 11.18.14 – John F.D. Taff, author of The End in All Beginnings