Interview ★ Midniyte Gregg

1. When did you start writing? Have you always loved writing? What made you start writing horror?

I had speaking, reading and writing disabilities when young. Communicating stories, I started with art. As I learned to communicate better with years of art, I wrote poetry. 

My first novel, “Transient State,” was originally only a long, extra credit poetry I wrote during my senior year in high school. It took me a long time to learn how to write beyond short stories, due to my writing and reading disabilities before I completed the first draft of my novel. 

A screenwriting workshop taught me how my brain communicated, so after writing my first script, (which was a musical), I began my first novel. It took a month to write that first draft and 10 years and 10 drafts to learn how to be a novelist, to finally query it. 

Interview ☆ Yorgos KC

Today we’ll be talking with Yorgos KC, one of my favorite people on Twitter. Not only is he a great writer, he has wonderful habit of encouraging others and offering constant moral support for both writers and non-writers alike. I’m happy to have Yorgos here on Wicked Shorts where he’s allowed me to pick his brain about his writing life.

Interview ★ Thierry Adler

1. What’s your favorite color?

T: I thought we were here to talk about magic.

Me: Just answer the question, Thierry. Damn.

T: Fuck, I dunno. Blue or something? Who cares?

Me: *sighs*

2. What weapons do you carry on you at all times?

T: A hunting knife. It’s spelled.

Me: Oh yeah? What’s it do?

T: Finds its way back to me. No matter what.

Me: That’s it?

T: It also self sharpens.

Me: Oh. I guess that’s handy.

T: What’s really handy is when I took a plane back home. I threw the knife in the trash at the airport, and wouldn’t you know, when I got to the hotel in Galway, it was already in my bag. It can’t be lost. 

Me: Damn. That’s pretty cool.

T: Yup.

Interview with Manuel Arbanassi

Today’s post is an interview with one of my favorite authors on Twitter. Not only is he a really nice guy, Manuel Arbanassi is one hell of a writer.

His debut novel Elemental: The Calling, garnered some very passionate attention from fans, and I see that he is already being asked by many about a sequel.

So today, he’s agreed to sit down and let me pick his brain.

Glass Witch ★ Yawatta Hosby (Interview)

The dark, three story house loomed overhead as I stood in the property’s driveway. Droplets of water fell from above, threatening to undo the curls in my hair and the makeup on my face.

I propelled myself out of the rain and up the steps. The old wood creaked under my heels as I glided to the tall front door and unlocked the house.

Today was a huge day.

I couldn’t believe my good luck.

It was my very first interview for Wicked Shorts: a blog I hosted about speculative fiction, weird fiction and horror and the person I was interviewing was quickly becoming a personal hero of mine.

Yawatta Hosby was a strong, impeccably well written author of thriller and suspense novels. She was the real deal, and she’d be here in less than ten minutes.