My final story of 2020: DIE HARD meets Hallmark (kinda) in this crazy, tongue-in-cheek holiday mashup. Content warning: contains profanities, PG13.
A Regular, Normal Christmas
Merry Christmas, Other You
A weird, seasonal horror story for anyone who has ever wished they had a second pair of hands or more time to get everything done over the holiday period. Content warning: includes some profane language. PG13
THE WAR ON BLANK-PAGE TERROR: a personal approach to scriptwriting by Jamie Delano
All writers must confront that blank-page terror. Daily. Unless they’re soulless hacks content to shovel junk food. Feed undiscerning appetites with fast-fiction plotted by committee. At least I assume they do. I speak only from my own experience. - Jamie Delano
New Release – Poetry Chapbook
Around this time last year I released RISE, a collection of poems about motherhood, family, old friends, spiritual journeys and the sea. This year is the turn of BEACH GLASS & OLD BONES, poems with a strong focus on belonging, becoming and mental health. Both ePubs are, and always will be, free on Smashwords. https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/tabathawood
Awards Eligibility Post — Published Works 2020
I thought it was time to pull together my awards eligibility post for 2020. This also serves as a nice round up of things I achieved throughout this incredibly strange and surprising year. Most of these are eligible for any horror and speculative fiction awards including the New Zealand Sir Julius Vogel Awards, and the
Breathing Room
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Friends Are The Family You Chose For Yourself — Why Horror Blogs are Essential
by Mx T. / @meringutang To celebrate the upcoming rebrand of DHR — something which I am very excited about and thrilled to be a part of — it seemed like a good time for me to share some thoughts about Horror blogs and the review scene in general. Strap in, this might get a
The Memento Vitae Project
My usual author bio begins like this: Tabatha Wood lives in New Zealand and writes weird, dark fiction and uplifting poetry. Despite her obsession with the strange and unusual, she considers herself mostly harmless. I don’t always write horror. In fact, a lot of what I write isn’t really horror at all, and is just barely skirting the
Listing the Positive: Helpful Hints for Writers
“Why am I doing this? Why am I putting so much of my energy into this? I’m useless. Rubbish. I could give up. Maybe I should give up? It would be the easiest thing in the world to just… stop. No-one is reading my work anyway…” I hear these thoughts in my head very regularly.
All the Laird’s Men
Monsters, military and mayhem. A ragtag trio of Scottish soldiers meet their match at Loch Ness when they’re sent on what might end up being their last ever mission.