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Tag: Monsters

August 18, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

The Limitless Potential of an Idea, a guest post by Refe Tuma

How a notebook I kept as a kid became the spark for my first novel, Frances and the Monster, twenty years later.

June 23, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

Book Review: Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

This is the best book about a trans six-winged Seraph bioweapon surviving an apocalyptic hellscape that you'll read this summer!

June 21, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

Sometimes a Monster is Just a Monster, Sometimes it’s More: Anxiety and Middle Grade Horror, a guest post by Lora Senf

Growing up with undiagnosed and untreated anxiety—let’s call it what it is, mental illness—was what led me to write the main character in my debut middle grade horror, The Clackity, as a young girl with anxiety

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Fairy Tales and Final Girls in THE GHOSTS OF ROSE HILL, a guest post by R. M. Romero

May 3, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

As much as my younger self loved final girls like Gerda from The Snow Queen, Buffy Summers, and Clarice Starling however, these characters didn’t exactly reflect my lived experience. They were all white women and they were all at least coded as being Christian, if not outright stated to be so. So in 2019, I decided to write a final girl who was like me: Ilana Lopez, the biracial heroine of The Ghosts of Rose Hill. 

What Makes a Monster? A guest post by Traci Chee

March 3, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

A Thousand Steps into Night started with a seemingly straightforward idea: A girl is cursed to turn into a monster. But what makes a monster? Maybe there's power in being a monster. Maybe it's worth it.

Monsters united can never be defeated: sentimental queer horror YA, a guest post by Hal Schrieve

March 21, 2019 by Amanda MacGregor

Author Hal Schrieve writes about the way that queer people and many others are seen as monsters; the threat of breaking violent systems through survival, solidarity, and love; and hir forthcoming novel, Out of Salem, a Teen Zombie Werewolf Witchy Faerie fantasy murder mystery.

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