Shock Totem 9: Curious Tales of the Macabre and Twisted by Totem Shock & Jones Stephen Graham & Wilson F. Paul & MacLeod Bracken & Osborne Emma & Ohnaka Kathryn & Runge Karen & Mastrantone S.R. & Dicken Evan

Author:Totem, Shock & Jones, Stephen Graham & Wilson, F. Paul & MacLeod, Bracken & Osborne, Emma & Ohnaka, Kathryn & Runge, Karen & Mastrantone, S.R. & Dicken, Evan [Totem, Shock]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Shock Totem Publications
Published: 2014-10-27T16:00:00+00:00

SGJ: I feel like it gives me more places to submit, really. I mean, in the short story market. But, even within a collection, I’ll of course use different modes and styles and all that, like everybody does. To avoid being monotone, I suppose, but it’s really just to be continually setting up challenges for myself. I’m the first one who needs to not be bored, and I get bored pretty fast, so sometimes that’s a trick, staying ahead of the “nothing,” to put it in what I think as The Neverending Story terms. With novels, though, it’s a different story. Publishers often can’t figure if I’m literary or horror or just some weirdo or what. I’m completely happy just being some hard-to-market weirdo, I guess. Each book I do, it’s different than the last. Which isn’t to say I won’t finally ever settle down. Who knows? Maybe from here on out all my novels will be drive-through urinal novels. It could be a deceptively fertile field. I do know I always come back to horror, though. Or, no, that’s wrong. Horror, it always surfaces in my fiction. For me, it’s the most real of any genre, it’s the only one that can, when done well, elicit not just an involuntary visceral response, but can then change the reader’s behavior. Make them leave the lights on, like. It’s where I belong, I guess. At cons, stepping down into the lobby, that’s where I feel so at home. Just moving among people who cherish the same things I do. I used to think that didn’t matter, so much. I was wrong.