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7 Deadly Questions with author Richard Jay Parker

by R.A. Evans: 1. Ever since I finished your chilling thriller STOP ME I’ve been afraid to open my email. Please share the basics of your plot and the inspiration for your dark and twisted tale. Thanks. So glad it made [...]

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“I think the best stories are stories of characters. Characters create conflict both within themselves and with each other, and conflict drives the story.” -Jeannie Holmes

DarkMedia Interviews Jeannie Holmes: Jeannie Holmes is the author of the Alexandra Sabian series, and fears spiders, large bodies of water, and bad weather. She moved from the backwoods of southwestern Mississippi to the Alabama Gulf Coast where she now [...]

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Ten Easy Steps to Strengthen Your Story Using Joseph Campbell’s “The Hero’s Journey”

by R. A. Evans I was a sophomore in college when I first discovered Joseph Campbell’s non-fiction classic THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES. Campbell was an expert in mythology and used his extensive knowledge of the subject to create the [...]

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“I admire visionaries in all fields who pursue their truth and allow the creative force to flow through them no matter what.” -Rosemary Ellen Guiley

DarkMedia Interviews Rosemary Ellen Guiley: Rosemary Ellen Guiley is a leading expert on the paranormal and supernatural. She conducts  original field investigations of haunted and mysterious sites. She has written more than 40 books – including 9 encyclopedias – and [...]

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Love Bleeds

by Temoc Delgado: Being almost 500 years old, I can be quite set in my ways. When it comes to books, I am no exception. But, this year, I gave in to my Gemini tendencies and purchased an Amazon Kindle. And, [...]

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Vampires in My World

by Mari Miniatt: Some of you, okay very few of you, will recognize my name. I wrote a couple of vampire books, that are not even blipping on the radar, but when people find them, they love them. So that [...]

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“Stoker’s Dracula is the embodiment of evil. Consistently throughout the book, the Count acts without remorse.” -Dr. Elizabeth Miller

DarkMedia Interviews Dr. Elizabeth Miller: Elizabeth Miller is recognized internationally for her expertise on Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula – its origins in folklore, literature and history, as well as its influence on the culture of the twentieth and twenty-first [...]

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“I need characters that feel real and I can relate to them. Then I need break-neck pace to the plot. I want to keep turning pages, not get bogged down in descriptions.” -Lisa Kessler

DarkMedia Interviews Lisa Kessler: “I have always loved to make up stories. My first published work was The Wonders of Unicorn Creek in 6th grade. The 9 page epic was published by my tiny elementary school. Since then I’ve published [...]

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“…I see dreams and delusions, writings and rituals as aspects of reality; they’re aspects of us.” -Hal Duncan

DarkMedia Interviews Hal Duncan: Author Hal Duncan was born in 1971, brought up in a small town in Ayrshire, and now lives in the West End of Glasgow. A member of the Glasgow SF Writers Circle, his first novel, VELLUM, [...]

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