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Welcome to Fall Into Horror with Mocha Memoirs Press!
Writing horror is about exploring the visceral as opposed to the
ephemeral. I really enjoy writing fantasy and Steampunk, but writing
horror gives you the chance to explore a completely different set of
parameters. What lies beneath the conventions of society and
humanity, the underbelly of the world. There is something satisfying
about looking beneath the expected societal norms, and it is more
politically correct to do it on paper. In horror, you can be a serial
killer, you can plan a murder, you can be a vampire or a zombie, or
kill them if you prefer.It is a chance to embrace all your darker impulses. The freedom to be as vicious and cruel as you want without actually hurting anyone. And it is a great way to take out your frustrations with life and people without doing something you will regret later.
Since you are speculating in the deepest sense of the word (I hope) you can explore situations like I do in my story, Bloody Rain where one possible solution to the Jack the Ripper mystery is considered that I had personally never seen before, and hope you find interesting if you choose to look into it.
Let me walk you through an example. My story in The Grotesquerie House Call began from an idea that I had when I overheard a young man in scrubs on his cell phone. I don't remember what he actually said, but it got my imagination working. Who was on the other end of the line? Why was it important that this young man talk to him/her? What difference would it make to his life if he were rejected by whomever he was talking to?
I decided he was talking to a doctor he wished to work with in a clinic. Okay, what was the next logical thing to know? What did the doctor say?
The doctor rejected him.
What was the next logical step? Because he was on the phone so long, he was late getting back to work and was fired.
His life was going downhill fast.
What would be the result? He sees a news report that the doctor will be opening a free clinic for hurricane victims. He decides to go volunteer to help.
The doctor rejects him again.
And then...
So, the key to writing horror is to take an incident and look at what can happen as a result of that incident, the most twisted, dark, possibly unnatural, but logical conclusion you can think of.
Zombies appear in your neighborhood. What happens next? That is the basis of horror.
THE GROTESQUERIE
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About
Mocha Memoirs Press:
Mocha
Memoirs Press, LLC is a genre-oriented publishing company. Their vision is to
provide an outlet for outstanding speculative and romance stories that often
fall beneath the radar of traditional publishing houses. They seek to provide
quality stories that invigorate the reader’s literary palette like a good,
strong coffee. Like great coffee houses, they offer a variety of flavors. They
publish stories in the following genres: science fiction, fantasy, horror, and
romance, including the sub-genres of steampunk, cyberpunk, diesel punk,
alternate history, weird westerns, and mash-ups.
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And that's a wrap! Tomorrow I'll be back into my routine with a review of a book that's been getting a lot of press lately. I'll give you a hint– It's set is space, and it deserves the praise. It's wonderful.
I hope you enjoyed the promotion and are at least considering reading the works of these authors. Every one of them has a creative– and wonderfully creepy– mind and are sure to make you think twice about reading in the house alone with one reading light on.
Until next time!
Amy
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