Sarah Read discusses her Bram Stoker award winning horror novel “Bone Weaver’s Orchard” (Journal Stone, 2019)

Sarah Read discusses her Bram Stoker award winning horror novel “Bone Weaver’s Orchard” (Journal Stone, 2019) Check the book out here https://amzn.to/2Naauis Interview Timeline Sarah Read is author of the 2019 Bram Stoker award for best first novel. She’s also a librarian and a fiction editor. We spoke about her novel, her gothic interests, her editing and ghost writing work, and her passion for fountain pens. 0:42 – Sarah talks about why she wrote this book. 1:24 – Sarah talks about the details of the book. 3:14 – Sarah talks about her spiders. 3:46 – Sarah talks about research she did for the book. 6:11 – Sarah talks about how much she knows the history of the period of her book. 8:17 – Sarah talks about the horror atmosphere of her book. Then she discusses the things that inspire her. 9:59 – Sarah talks about her love of books. 11:38 – Sarah talks about the sound qualities of the book. 12:28 – Sarah talks about her writing process. 14:30 – Sarah talks about using a computer to finish her drafts. 16:38 – Sarah talks about what winning an award affected her writing. 20:00 – Sarah talks about post-WWII horror. She also discusses her next two novels. 21:29 – Sarah talks about Pantheon magazine and it[‘]s hiatus. 22:23 – Sarah talks about her editing work. 23:32 – Sarah talks about teaching literature. She talks about her grandmother instilling a love of Gothic literature. 25:32 – Sarah talks about how she started writing. 27:08 – Sarah talks about her poetry. 28:51 – Sarah talks about ghostwriting. 32:06 – Sarah talks about underwriting her drafts. 35:34 – Sarah talks about how to balance the elements of her novel. 37:41 – Sarah talks about the lyricism of her writing. 39:13 – Sarah talks about epic fantasy writing. 42:49 – Sarah talks about wanting ghosts to be real when she was young. 46:38 – Sarah recalls growing up around wilderness areas. 49:01 – Sarah talks about the publishing process. 53:03 – Sarah can be found on twitter and instagram @inkwellmonster and inkwellmonster.wordpress.com. She also talks about her interest in fountain pens. 55:43 – Sarah talks how she writes with her fountains pens and using blotting paper. Links of interest https://amzn.to/2Naauis https://journalstone.com/bookstore/the-bone-weavers-orchard/ https://inkwellmonster.wordpress.com/ https://twitter.com/inkwellmonster https://www.instagram.com/inkwellmonster/ Contact Information For more “Full Contact Nerd” please follow me at crisalvarez.com, on Facebook at CrisAlvarezFCN, on youtube at Cris Alvarez on twitter @CrisAlvarezFCN, on Instagram @crisalvarezscifi, and on Apple Podcasts / Google Podcasts / Stitcher / Spotify for the podcas...