This is Writers on Writing – An Author’s Guide where your favorite authors share their ultimate secrets in becoming and being an author. 

Learn the craft of writing from those who know it best. 

This is Writers On Writing – An Author’s Guide Vol.2, where professional authors share their secrets in the ultimate guide to becoming – and being – an author. 

In this volume you’ll find the following in-depth On Writing essays:

• The Infrastructure of the Gods: 11 Signposts for Going all the Way by Brian Hodge
• Embracing Your Inner Shitness by James Everington
• The Forgotten Art of Short Story by Mark Allan Gunnells
• Well, That Escalated Quickly: Adventures in Teaching Creative Writing by Lucy A. Snyder
• Submit (to psychology) for Acceptance by Daniel I. Russell
• Character Building: How Not to be a Stalker by Theresa Derwin
• Heroes and Villains by Paul Kane
• Do Your Worst by Jonathan Winn

Writers On Writing gives young authors the guidance they need, but also has advice for all authors, from the interested newbie to the seasoned veteran.

The Writers on Writing series carries on the proud tradition of Stephen King's On Writing.

Are you ready to unleash the author in you?

Proudly brought to you by Crystal Lake Publishing – Tales from the Darkest Depths.

Interview with one of the authors:

So what makes Writers on Writing so special?

Mark Allan Gunnells: When I was growing up as an aspiring writer, I would have given anything for this kind of advice from authors actually publishing. I think writers will find the essays interesting and helpful.

Tell us more about you essay in Writers on Writing.

Mark Allan Gunnells: I am passionate about short fiction, and was happy to provide an essay about how to create effective short stories, the unique pleasures of the form, and to encourage writers who enjoy short fiction not to be dissuaded from writing it.

Why should authors read Writers on Writing?

Mark Allan Gunnells: There's something for everyone. Many topics of writing and promotion and publishing from people who have experience with these things. 

Do you have other non-fiction books authors should try out?

Mark Allan Gunnells: I have written non-fiction articles for Apex Magazine, and I have nonfiction essays on horror films in the books HORROR 101 and HIDDEN HORROR, both edited by Aaron Christensen.

Writers on Writing eBook categories:

• Authorship
• Publishing and Books
• Writing Reference
• Writing Skills
• Education & Reference

There was once a play with the power to drive you mad... or to transport you into the bizarre world of Carcosa, and the King in Yellow. Banned, burned, yet never totally destroyed, the play lives on, eating away the fabric of society and rotting the veneer of civilization...

Come and enjoy new visions of the King, expanding and deepening the fragments glimpsed in the award-winning True Detective television series, penned for your delight by a host of master scribes eager to guide you to a new world of delirium, despair, and madness.

Featuring stories by:

Glynn Owen Barrass

Tim Curran

Cody Goodfellow

T.E. Grau

Laurel Halbany

C.J. Henderson

Gary McMahon

William Meikle

Christine Morgan

Edward Morris

Robert M. Price

W.H. Pugmire

Stephen Mark Rainey

Pete Rawlik

Brian M. Sammons

Lucy Snyder

Greg Stolze

Jeffrey Thomas

and a stunning cover by Daniele Serra!

Tales Of The Lost Volume II: A Covid-19 Charity Anthology 

Edited by Bram Stoker Award Winner Eugene Johnson and Steve Dillon 

We lose many things during our time in this universe. From the moment we are born we start losing time, and loss becomes a part of our life from the beginning. We lose friends (both imaginary and real), loved ones, pets, and family. We gain stuff and lose stuff, from our socks to our money. We can lose our hope, sanity, passions, our mind, and perhaps even our soul! In the end when death finds us, we end up losing everything... Don't we?

Loss is part of who we are. We can't escape it. We learn from it, grow from it, and so much more. Some of the greatest stories ever forged come from loss. Within this book is some of those stories.

Featuring stories and poetry by an amazing lineup including: 

Tim Waggoner * Lisa Morton * Neil Gaiman * Joe Hill * Heather Graham *  Christopher Golden * Tim Lebbon *  Christina Sng * Vince Liaguno * John Palisano * Kaaron Warren * Chris Mason * Greg Chapman * Tracy Cross * Stephanie W. Wytovich * Alexis Kirkpatrick * Ben Monroe * Lucy A. Snyder and Matthew R. Davis.

Edited by Bram Stoker Award Winner Eugene Johnson and Shirley Jackson award nominated author Steve Dillon. Coming in 2020 from Plaid Dragon Publishing in association with Things in The Well. With cover art by the brilliant Francois Vaillancourt, and interior art by the amazing Luke Spooner. 

Money raised by the anthology will go to benefit the Save the Children Coronavirus response. 

"Tales of the Lost 2 could be called "Tales of the Dark Heart!" From a coming home story that ends in a not-so-typical cemetery scene to a couple of ultimate sacrifices driven by love, this is a book filled with stories to tear at your heart while making you shiver. There are macabre jack-in-the-boxes and soul-stealing virtual reality games and an apocalypse vision of a mother's love the likes of which I've never read before. These are stories of love and longing and selfless giving and aching loss ... with frequent visits from the monstrous things that inhabit the night. This is a volume of horrific heart and chilling beauty."

- John Everson, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Covenant and Voodoo Heart

"Comprising unnerving tales of loss from horror's best-loved writers, LOST 2 is haunting, uncanny, and deeply disquieting. Prepare to lose sleep while reading this one." - Lee Murray, award-winning author of INTO THE ASHES.

Copyright Plaid Dragon Publishing © 2020 

Published by Plaid Dragon Publishing in association with Things in The Well.

"Thou Shalt Not Suffer," by Matt Neil Hill

"No Holds Bard," by Adrian Cole

"Laying the Hairy Book," by Josh Reynolds

"Here Is Where Your Proud Waves Halt," by Erica Ruppert

"Vicious Circles," by Paul Dale Anderson

"Assorted Shades of Red," by Franklyn Searight

"Strange Days in Old Yandrissa," by John R. Fultz

"Fertility Rites," by Glynn Owen Barrass

"The Witch’s Heart," by Rachel Bolton

"Hag Race," by Andre E. Harewood

"Best Friend Becky," by Wayne Faust

"The Rat in the Rabbit Cage," by Ashley Dioses

"Two Spells," by Neva Bryan

"Pulled Over," by Paul Spears

"The Witch of Skur," by L.F. Falconer

"Cat and Mouse," by Duane Pesice

"Last of the Ashiptu," by Paul Lubaczewski

"Firestorm," by Richard H. Durisen

"The Witch of Pender," by John Linwood Grant

"The Nora Witch," by Brandon Jimison

"The Broken Witch," by Scott Hutchison

Plus poetry by Maurits Zwankhuizen, Lucy A. Snyder, David F. Daumit, S.L. Edwards, Lori R. Lopez, Frederick J. Mayer, K.A. Opperman, Clay F. Johnson, Vonnie Winslow Crist, Oliver Smith, Darla Klein

If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

Looming Low Volume I is the first anthology from Dim Shores. 26 brand-new stories in different shades of weird, all with a dark soul.

Table of Contents:

Kurt Fawver — “The Convexity of Our Youth”

A.C. Wise — “The Stories We Tell About Ghosts”

Michael Wehunt — “In Canada”

Brian Evenson — “The Second Door”

Daniel Mills — “The Christiansen Deaths”

Betty Rocksteady — “Dusk Urchin”

Livia Llewellyn — “The Gin House, 1935”

Damien Angelica Walters — “This Unquiet Space”

Sunny Moraine — “We Grope Together, and Avoid Speech”

Brooke Warra — “Heirloom”

Lucy A. Snyder — “That Which Does Not Kill You”

Simon Strantzas — “Doused by Night”

Kaaron Warren — “We Are All Bone Inside”

Lisa L. Hannett — “Outside, a Drifter”

Kristi DeMeester — “The Small Deaths of Skin and Plastic”

Scott Nicolay — “When the Blue Sky Breaks”

Craig Laurance Gidney — “Mirror Bias”

Anya Martin — “Boisea trivittata”

Michael Cisco — “Rock n’ Roll Death Squad”

S.P. Miskowski — “Alligator Point”

Jeffrey Thomas — “Stranger in the House”

Christopher Slatsky — “SPARAGMOS”

Richard Gavin — “Banishments”

Michael Griffin — “The Sound of Black Dissects the Sun”

Nadia Bulkin — “Live Through This”

Gemma Files — “Distant Dark Places”

Edited by Justin Steele and Sam Cowan. Trade paperback art by Yves Tourigny.

***Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in the Anthology category***
Want to see something weird?
Embrace the odd? Satisfy your curiosity? Surrender to wonder?
From Crystal Lake Publishing and the Bram Stoker Award-winning co-editor of the smash hit Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories comes Behold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders.

Sixteen stories and two poems take you into the spaces between the ordinary—and the imaginations of some of today's masters of dark and thrilling fiction.

• A travel writer learns the terrible secrets at a hotel that's not at all as it seems.
• A disfigured woman and her daughter explore methods of weaponizing beauty.
• An amateur beekeeper acquires an object that shows her the true
  danger of the hive-mind.
• Drifters ride the rails seeking something wondrous that could change their fates forever.
• A strange creature that holds our very existence in its hands shapes the lives of two lovers to touching and devastating effect.
• A young man helps his grandfather—and something much more monstrous—atone for bargains made during wartime.
• And much, much more…

Featuring Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Ramsey Campbell, Lisa Morton, Brian Kirk, Hal Bodner, Stephanie M. Wytovich, John Langan, Erinn L. Kemper, John F.D. Taff, Patrick Freivald, Lucy A. Snyder, Brian Hodge, Kristi DeMeester, Christopher Coake, Sarah Read and Richard Thomas. Foreword by Josh Malerman. Illustrations by Luke Spooner. Cover art by John Coulthart. Brought to you by Bram Stoker Award-nominated editor Doug Murano and Crystal Lake Publishing—Tales from the Darkest Depths.

Interview with the editor:

What kinds of short stories will readers find in this anthology?

Doug Murano: I wanted this book to encompass a lot of the things I love about weird fiction, fantasy and horror—as well as give a tip of my cap to some of the things I loved growing up. So, it’s not exclusively a horror anthology, though you’ll find there’s plenty of darkness and dread throughout the book.

It was important to me that the stories throughout the anthology embraced and celebrated the odd—so you're not going to find stories of big-top exploitation or carnival freak shows here. The closest, perhaps, you'll find to this angle is in Lisa Morton's story—but that piece turns the freak-show trope on its head and aspires to something much more daring, interesting, and, ultimately, haunting.

Some tonal touch-points for much of the book are actually Jim Henson's work — like Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal — particularly in the Undefinable Wonders section. I also drew tonal influences from Guillermo del Toro’s filmography, especially his Spanish-language films like Pan’s Labyrinth and The Devil’s Backbone. As in those films, there’s terror and darkness here, but there’s beauty, wonder, and magic, as well. In other words, the book is willfully bizarre, wide-ranging, and beautifully strange.