Storytellersunplugged

by Alexandra Sokoloff I have to warn you, this month’s post is going to seem a bit radical to some of you. You may even feel, well, horror, at what I’m about to tell you. I’m going to talk about my secret favorite convention. And no, it’s not WHC, or WFC, or World Con or Horrorfind or DragonCon or any of those. It’s the Romantic Times Booklovers Convention. (I’ll wait for the gasps to subside…) But I think it’s important for people in the ... Read More

Put yourself in their shoes. Would you have survived? Could you hack it under such conditions? Oh, don't pretend you've never thought about it. I mean, how did Dickens pull it off? What about Austen or Bronte? They didn't have laptops for mobility, or word processing for easy editing, or iPods for drowning out the screaming babies and clattering horseshoes, or...Well, for that matter, they didn't have thermostat-controlled work environments or soft reliable lighting. I write at a desk upstairs, separated from my bed ... Read More

Here at Storytellers Unplugged we started a semi-traditional practice last year of posting fiction during October to celebrate Halloween. When we started out, there was a predominance of horror writers in the group - we are much more diverse now. Some of us will still be posting fiction this month, and for my own entry I've chosen a very old story of mine. It was written for and published in a fanzine titled "Norfolk by Night," and it's a ... Read More