Dark Promptings: Alone in the Dark with Mary SanGiovanni

"Dark Promptings" is a special series of guest-written creative writing prompts, aimed at sparking the imagination's gasoline for writers from any genre...but with a dark or devious discoloration, just like the Instigation department at Gorelets.com. The guest contributors are folks who wrote articles appearing in my fat new non-fiction book for fiction writers of all kinds, Many Genres, One Craft: Lessons in Writing Popular Fiction, making a stop here at gorelets.com as part of their Virtual Book Tour across the web. (You can find my own VBT essays elsewhere). Writers and creative people: drop on by our book's meaty weblog…

Dark Promptings: Murder Ballads from Jason Jack Miller

"Dark Promptings" is a special series of guest-written creative writing prompts, aimed at sparking the imagination's gasoline for writers from any genre...but with a dark or devious discoloration, just like the Instigation department at Gorelets.com. The guest contributors are folks who wrote articles appearing in my fat new non-fiction book for fiction writers of all kinds, Many Genres, One Craft: Lessons in Writing Popular Fiction, making a stop here at gorelets.com as part of their Virtual Book Tour across the web. (You can find my own VBT essays elsewhere). Writers and creative people: drop on by our book's meaty weblog…

On the Virtual Book Tour for Many Genres

My latest book (co-edited with Heidi Ruby Miller) is Many Genres, One Craft: Lessons in Writing Popular Fiction. It is a huge compendium of advice for people who write genre fiction, from horror and sf/f to suspense, mystery, romance and more -- with over 60 amazing contributors. Many of the writers are participating in a "Virtual Book Tour" which essentially means they're writing guest blogs at various places all over the internet, sharing even more advice and opinions that aspiring authors will want to check out. Visit our weblog to explore all this. For my part, soon guests will be…