Jul 20
Can you tell us a little about yourself and the major influences on your writing? This is something of a big question! My major influences are pretty much my life to this point. Every place I’ve lived, every person I’ve spoken to, every conversation I’ve eavesdropped on. Every book I’ve read, good and bad. Every …
Jul 12
Can you tell us a little about yourself and the major influences on your writing? I’m an author of speculative fiction (mostly science fiction, fantasy and horror) as well as children’s books and creative non-fiction. I’ve just commenced a PhD in creative writing, which is amazing and exciting and sometimes a little mindboggling. I was …
May 25
Can you tell us a little about yourself and the major influences on your writing? I live just outside of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, raising two kids and trying to fit in all of my passions around the day job: writing, music, football, and drinking good beer and gin. Aside from the landscape of my …
Apr 28
Can you tell us a little about yourself and the major influences on your writing?I suppose that I would say I’m a horror screenwriter who dabbles in other forms and genres when I feel like it’s good for the story that needs to be told. Writing is the one thing that I’ve always done and …
Apr 20
Can you tell us a little about yourself and the major influences on your writing? I joined the AHWA in 2007. Though I was always drawn to the darker side of life, I kept such thoughts on the back burner for years. I have two university degrees in the Humanities. It took me a long …
Feb 06
Can you tell us a little about yourself and the major influences on your writing?I’m a martial arts instructor and a writer of horror mostly, usually supernatural and liberally mixed with crime. My stuff certainly edges into dark fantasy sometimes. I’m hugely influenced by Clive Barker, he’s my favourite author. Also influenced by a lot …
Jun 14
Aaron Dries may well be Australia’s most dapper man of horror. An artist and writer, his oh-so Australian novels, A Place For Sinners, The Fallen Boys, and House of Sighs, made his name in the US indie horror scene. Now he’s bringing the love back home. We caught up with Aaron to get the skinny on …
Jun 02
It’s hard to keep count of all the awards and Year’s Best spots Kaaron Warren has raked in for her unique and haunting brand of dark fiction. Writer, mentor, collector of unusual objects, if Kaaron’s not putting words on the page she’s sifting through the gewgaws in a second-hand bric-a-brac shop, inspired by the ghosts …
May 01
Alan Baxter is a multi award-winning author of supernatural thrillers and urban horror, and an international master of kung fu. He runs the Illawarra Kung Fu Academy and writes stories full of magic, monsters and, quite often, martial arts. He rides a motorcycle and loves his dogs. We caught up with Alan to get the …
Feb 20
Dan Rabarts is a writer, editor, sometime narrator of audio fiction, and serial award-winner on both sides of the Tasman Sea. After years publishing short stories in magazines such as Aurealis, Andromeda Spaceways and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, his first novel, Hounds of the Underworld (about which, more below), was released last year by Raw Dog …
