HELLNOTES: First of all, congratulations on your first collection! While having a collection (your first of many, we’re sure) is a new experience, you’ve written and published a lot of short fiction over the years. When did the idea for this collection start coming...
Today’s Deep Cuts is “All the Red Apples Have Withered to Gray” (via Shimmer) by Gwendolyn Kiste. Kiste is a prolific and highly esteemed author of all flavors of dark speculative fiction, and this story is a real treat. Although “All the Red Apples” is tale of an...
Welcome to the re-launch of Deep Cuts! In this column, we take a close look at free-to-read stories by some of the best authors working in horror, the Weird, and other dark realms of speculative fiction. We then talk directly with those authors, picking their brains...
HELLNOTES: Let’s start, as most stories do, with the beginning. BLEED was originally published back in 2011, so what was the inspiration behind this novel? How was the process of writing it? ED KURTZ: Bleed was the fourth novel I wrote, right after The Forty-Two. By...
Interview conducted by M.G. Allen L. Andrew Cooper is the author of the recent collection Leaping at Thorns (Blackwyrm 2015) (reviewed here), as well as two previous novels. In addition to the discussion below, we have a longer discussion with him available...
