I recently was offered an opportunity to interview with a contributor for Cinema-Crazed.com for their coverage in Women in Horror Month.
Truly this was an awesome opportunity to say thanks, talk inspiration, movies, and offer some encouragement for all the bullshit creative ladies have to deal with.
Horror is a wonderful genre with so much potential. For me horror is very much a genre driven by feelings. Deep, instinctual feelings of fear, pain, hopelessness, and celebration of uncontrollable chaos. You can blend horror with many tropes and prose styles found in other genres, and it will still be a horror story. I have loved horror for too long to not represent it whenever I have the opportunity to.
However, it is an underserved genre of fiction that is often panned by critics and has a smaller pool of fans to initially catch interest with. In addition, when you look at the people who have been most successful at selling their horror stories, an overwhelming majority have tended to be white men, with few women, and even fewer people of color. Achieving mainstream success in horror is very difficult for anyone to achieve. There is often additional challenges in transparency when you do not fit exactly into the ‘mold’ or when you try to change it too much. In essence, writing and creating horror is truly a labor of love for the author and often goes unnoticed. So honestly, if this is the first and only time I am asked for an interview, I am so happy to have been seen.
I am a firm believer in that you have to acknowledge and talk about your successes, hard work, intentions, and practices for things to come to fruition. Call it magical thinking, but it makes practical senses. If you never take the opportunity to talk about the good things happening in your life or around you, no one else will. If you do not water the seed you plant, it will stay dormante underground.
I also have everyone who has supported me to thank as well. I cannot say it enough, THANK YOU! Your support financially, and through comments and reviews really help make this possible. I am never more happy than when someone has told me they have liked my story.
Check out the interview on the link at the end of article.
Additionally, a reader reached out to me expressing how much she had been enjoying my work but was wondering if I could audio reading to my site. This would help with readers who have limited vision or other conditions that make sitting down to read a challenge. Geniunely, I felt some shame for having not considered that as a possibility before then.
For that, Thank you for your help Patricia! That was such a wonderful idea. I would like to go on some older posts to fix that, but I will at least do more moving forward on this site.
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