Interviews

An Interview with 'VOX' Author Christina Dalcher

April 25th, 2019

  I've had the pleasure of being friends with Christina since we met online several years ago. Christina is a delight on Twitter and beyond. She's humored me by answering many a nosy question behind the scenes, so I've finally asked her to do the same here on LitReactor, where everyone can enjoy her stories and insight like I have.

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David Nutt: Dark Debacles and Bewildering Sunlight

April 16th, 2019

Whenever I get out of New Hampshire and visit NYC I try to attend a reading at the KGB Bar. Recently, while attending an event for two writers I was already a fan of, I caught another that blew me away. I hadn't laughed so hard at a reading in years. Hearing David Nutt read was the highlight of the evening for me. I bought his book then and there. David was kind enough to answer some questions about himself and his excellent debut novel, The Great American Suction.

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Josh Denslow is Not Special: An Interview

March 25th, 2019

Thanks for allowing me the opportunity to speak with you! Of course, I'm already familiar with your work — I think it was in the deliciously named Pear Noir! that I first remember coming into contact with your words, maybe?

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Sarah Read on "The Bone Weaver’s Orchard", Horror, and Knitting

January 30th, 2019

Sarah Read is a dark fiction writer in the frozen north of Wisconsin. Her short stories can be found in Gamut, Black Static, and other places, and in various anthologies including Exigencies, Suspended in Dusk, BEHOLD! Oddities Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders, and The Best Horror of the Year vol 10. Her novel The Bone Weaver’s Orchard is almost out from Trepidatio Publishing, and her debut collection will follow in late 2019.

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Rob Hart Crowdsources An Interview for His Food Noir Collection And Settles The 'Is A Hot Dog A Sandwich' Debate

January 15th, 2019

It started as a joke. Someone noticed a food theme in my short stories and asked when the "food noir" collection was coming out. 

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Interview with Author & YouTuber Justin Little AKA Vernaculis

November 21st, 2018

Creator of the YouTube channel and persona known as Vernaculis, Justin Little brings an acerbic wit and engaging style to storytelling. He has emerged as an original voice of New Journalism for the modern indefinable age. His debut collection of essays, The Misadventures of a Jilted Journalist, is available now from Clash Books. Full disclosure: Christoph Paul is the Managing Editor of Clash Books. When did you first start writing and what made you want to continue working on the craft?

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Jeff Jackson Destroys All Interviews

October 15th, 2018

Photo courtesy of the author If you are a regular reader of this site, you are already aware of my affinity for the writing of Jeff Jackson. His books Mira Corpora and Novi Sad are a one-two punch of punk rock prose.

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Birds and Snakes and Bugs, Oh My! An Interview with 'The Blue Kingfisher' author Erica Wright

October 8th, 2018

Much like the protagonist of her Kat Stone mystery series, Erica Wright is a chameleon. One day she’s a poet, the next, a crime fiction writer. And now there’s a non-fiction book about snakes in the works… So maybe it’s safer to say that she’s more of a maverick, embracing multiple genres, refusing to be bound by convention or put in a box, staying true to her own aesthetic all the way through.

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Interview with Lit Witch Lisa Marie Basile

September 11th, 2018

About five years ago I got published in an anthology with James Franco. I thought it would really put my name out there, but all it did was make me look cool to other young writers on Facebook. One of those writers was Lisa Marie Basile, who ended up becoming my friend and a colleague who I really admire.

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An Interview with the Makers of 'Suspended in Dusk II'

July 18th, 2018

Suspended in Dusk II is out now! (Fair disclaimer: my story “Dealing in Shadows” appears in the book, along with work by Stephen Graham Jones, Damien Angelica Walters, Alan Baxter, Sarah Read, Nerine Dorman, JC Michael, Benjamin Knox, Paul Tremblay, Ramsey Campbell, Letitia Trent, Paul Michael Anderson, Gwendoyln Kiste, Bracken Macleod, Christopher Golden, Dan Rabarts, and Karen Runge.) This anthology has had an interesting journey, so I wanted to talk with editor Simon Dewar and publisher Anthony Rivera about some of the behind the scenes.

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