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Real writers don’t write about the supernatural

July 3, 2013
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This month’s column topic readily sprang to mind as soon as I heard about it: one of my online author friends (who shall remain nameless) had received an email from some wag who said “I’ve never read your work and I never shall, because you are not a real writer. Real writers don’t write about …

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Interview: Joolz Denby, Part II

July 3, 2013
1 min to read

Poet, novelist, spoken-word performer, artist (most famously for the albums and singles of rock band New Model Army) and tattooist, Joolz Denby has been producing a powerful and varied body of work since the 1980s, much of it gorgeously dark and unsettling. Keep on reading…

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Interview: Peter Tennant, Part V

July 2, 2013
1 min to read

This is the final part of what we think has been a fantastic insight into Peter Tennant and genre fiction. Keep on reading…

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The Seasoning House

July 1, 2013
1 min to read

Paul Hyett’s debut as both a writer and director is set in a brothel house amidst the bloody Balkan warzone. Given Hyett’s special effects background one may have expected him to opt for a monster movie in his premiere directorial outing but instead he has delivered a deftly serious film where authenticity and sensitivity to …