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Women in the Horror Small Press 2013
Three years ago, I looked at how female authors were faring in the world of small press horror ( click here for that original entry). The results were, to put it mildly, dismal, with an average of 7.07% of the authors being female.
Since I'm about to participate in an HWA Roundtable on Sexism in Horror (and since - if anything - it seems to be an ( Read more... ) -
The Secret History of Los Angeles
Back in 2012 (August 16th, to be precise) I wrote an essay about finding the original Rancho Los Feliz adobe house in Griffith Park, where it's now used as a ranger station. This quaint little adobe (which is a reconstruction and may even have been moved north from its original location closer to the Mulholland Fountain) was the end of a treasure ( Read more... ) -
SMOG Blog #5 - The Other Half
And now, to wrap up my series of "SMOG Blogs", here's a look at the other novella that comes with Smog in JournalStone's Double Down #2. Eric Guignard's Baggage of Eternal Night is a fantastic piece of dark fiction set in 1950s Detroit; it interweaves the odd practice of "baggage auctions", a cursed antique phonograph, and the infamous Russian ( Read more... ) -
SMOG Blog #4 - A Reading
The fourth entry in my five-part series of "SMOG Blogs" is an audio presentation: Me reading the prologue and first chapter of Smog.
http://lisamorton.com/podcast/?p=episode&name=2013-09-13_se_lisa_final.mp3
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SMOG Blog #3 - 1960s pop culture
Here, as promised, is a look at a few of the pop culture references scattered throughout my novella Smog.
Spies. My twelve-year-old protagonist Joey is obsessed with spy stuff. She watches The Man from U.N.C.L.E., loves James Bond, and reads Nancy Drew books (and yes, I know they're not exactly spies, but they were the closest we came in terms of ( Read more... ) -
SMOG Blog 2
As promised...this week's blog is really video.
If you didn't get enough of my past from that, click the link below to see a few extra photos on Flickr. Behold the Arcadia Public Library! The school! The bowling alley of doom!
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WITCH HUNTS banned from Facebook
And now a few words from my co-author on Witch Hunts: A Graphic History of the Burning Times:
Adventures in Censorship
A blog post by Rocky Wood, 29 May 2013 ( Read more... ) -
WITCH HUNTS banned from Facebook
And now a few words from my co-author on Witch Hunts: A Graphic History of the Burning TimesAdventures in Censorship ( Read more... )
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