Organic Writing Insights by Jacob Butlett

Enjoy an exclusive guest post from Jacob Butlett, author of “The Eastern Lights,” featured in our upcoming anthology ON TIME.   Along with my family, I boarded the bus heading to Adventureland one early summer morning. As a Creative Writing junior in college at the time, I craved new information about how to write more instinctively…

Giving Your Story Roots by Phillip T. Stephens

Enjoy an exclusive guest post from Phillip T. Stephens, author of “Aims True” and “Coincidence and Correspondence,” featured in our upcoming anthology ON TIME.   Using metaphors and motifs to nourish your prose My college writing teachers treated metaphors as useful decorations for writing.  My philosophy teachers called them “poetry and nonsense.” In the forty years…

Genre Specific by Lori M. Myers

I was leading a workshop where my writing background was known by participants beforehand. To wrap up the session, I took questions, and one student asked this:  Isn’t it better to be known for being a horror writer, or a science fiction writer, or a writer of women’s fiction rather than being published in multiple…

DJ Tyrer, an IN THE AIR Author Interview

On the verge of a new anthology, we are celebrating IN THE AIR with a behind the scenes view of authors and their stories. Here’s a look at DJ Tyrer and his story “Dark Air.”   ABOUT THE STORY Tell me a little about your story and the world you’ve created. The world is the mundane…

Jean Roberta, an IN THE AIR Author Interview

On the verge of a new anthology, we are celebrating IN THE AIR with a behind the scenes view of authors and their stories. Here’s a look at Jean Roberta and her story “Carried Away”   ABOUT THE STORY Tell me a little about your story and the world you’ve created. Many fantasy stories are set…

Alisha Costanzo, an IN THE AIR Author Interview

On the verge of a new anthology, we are celebrating IN THE AIR with a behind the scenes view of authors and their stories. Here’s a look at Alisha Costanzo and her story “Yellow Skies.”   ABOUT THE STORY Tell me a little about your story and the world you’ve created. “Yellow Skies” is a bit…

Brendan Foley, an IN THE AIR Author Interview

On the verge of a new anthology, we are celebrating IN THE AIR with a behind the scenes view of authors and their stories. Here’s a look at Brendan Foley and his story “And Then You May Hear My Whisper.”   ABOUT THE STORY Tell me a little about your story and the world you’ve created….

Bryan Dyke, an IN THE AIR Author Interview

On the verge of a new anthology, we are celebrating IN THE AIR with a behind the scenes view of authors and their stories. Here’s a look at Bryan Dyke and his story “The Treasure of the Wind-Walker.”   ABOUT THE STORY Tell me a little about your story and the world you’ve created. The Treasure…

Bill Davidson, an IN THE AIR Author Interview

On the verge of a new anthology, we are celebrating IN THE AIR with a behind the scenes view of authors and their stories. Here’s a look at Bill Davidson and his story “Easy as the Wind.”   ABOUT THE STORY Tell me a little about your story and the world you’ve created. The world is…

What You Know by Arlen Feldman

“Write what you know” is both the best and worst advice that is ever given to aspiring writers. It has spawned a million “I was staring at a blank screen” stories, and before that, “The blank page in the typewriter was glaring back at me,” stories and, for all I know, “The wax tablet was…

Our TRANSCENDENT Authors: a Featured Interview with Bekki Pate

In our new author series, we’ll be offering a clairvoyant peek behind the veil of who and what makes up TRANSCENDENT. Here’s a glimpse at Bekki Pate and her story “Skrik.”   ABOUT THE STORY What inspired your story? I love writing stories about paintings, especially if they are particularly haunting or eerie. My story…

Anthony S. Buoni, a Featured Interview

If you haven’t heard of our new project, the On Fire anthology, this interview series will showcase our authors lives beyond their ignited tales. In Anthony S. Buoni’s “Dancing Lilly,” two cats are caught up in a job for the rat mob and find that being curious has deadly consequences. How long have you been writing? I traded…