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Why I’ve Chosen to Write Young Adult Horror (YA Horror) Fiction

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I’ve recently decided to switch genres with my writing. Or rather to modify one of the genres I’ve written in before – which is horror fiction. In the future, I’m going to concentrate on Young Adult – Horror (YA Horror).

There are a couple reasons for this, which I’d like to get into. First of all, for readers who have been with me for some time, you’ve been used to my interest in literary fiction. I’m not necessarily abandoning litfic altogether since one of my favorite authors, Stephen King, made a career out of driving academics batshit with stories that aren’t entirely horror but simultaneously touch on elements of non-genre fiction – personal development, coming-of-age and sociology.

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Interview with Alex Espinoza: Author of The Five Acts of Diego León

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Alex Espinoza was born in Tijuana, Mexico and raised in suburban Los Angeles. His first novel, Still Water Saints, was published by Random House in 2007 and was named a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection. His second novel, The Five Acts of Diego León, was also published by Random House in March 2013.

Alex’s fiction has appeared in Inlandia: A Literary Journey Through California’s Inland Empire, The Southern California Review, Flaunt, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. His essays have been published at Salon.com, in the New York Times Magazine, in The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity, in The Los Angeles Review of Books, and as part of the historic Chicano Chapbook Series. His awards include a 2009 Margaret Bridgeman Fellowship in Fiction to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, a 2014 Fellowship in Prose from the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2014 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for The Five Acts of Diego León, and a 2019 Fellowship from MacDowell.

His newest book is Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime, which was published by The Unnamed Press in June, 2019. Alex is the Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at UC Riverside.

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Interview with Jane Davis: Author of At the Stroke of Nine O’Clock

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Hailed by “The Bookseller” as ‘One to Watch’, Jane Davis is the author of nine thought-provoking novels. Her debut, Half-truths & White Lies, won the Daily Mail First Novel Award 2008. Of her subsequent three novels, “Compulsion Reads” wrote, ‘Davis is a phenomenal writer, whose ability to create well-rounded characters that are easy to relate to feels effortless’. Her 2015 novel, An Unknown Woman, was “Writing Magazine”’s Self-published Book of the Year 2016 and has been shortlisted for two further awards. Smash all the Windows was the inaugural winner of the Selfies (best independently-published work of fiction) award 2019. When she isn’t writing, you may spot her disappearing up a mountain with a camera in hand. Her favorite description of fiction is ‘made-up truth’.

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Interview with Neda Disney: Author of Planting Wolves

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Author Neda Disney has lived in England, Los Angeles, and New York. She studied painting and sculpture and has worked in film, TV, and radio. She lives in Los Angeles with her family. Visit her website at https://nedadisney.com/.

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The 5 Best Coming-of-Age Novels of 2019

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The following post was written by Desiree Villena.

Coming-of-age fiction is, without a doubt, one of the most powerful literary genres. Its intimate depictions of growth, exploration, and loss of innocence reignite the emotions that we felt in our own youths — and, for those who are still young, reflect some of the most potent things they’re presently experiencing.

In other words, coming-of-age fiction can be wonderfully moving for readers of all ages, and authors have produced many brilliant works in the genre over time. Today, however, we’re going to focus on the contemporary! For your entertainment and/or emotionally wrenching nostalgia, here are the five best coming-of-age novels of 2019.

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Interview with Brian Finney, Author of Money Matters

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Brian Finney, a professor of English, has published eight books on subjects ranging from a biography of Christopher Isherwood (awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Book Prize for the best work of non-fiction in 1979) to Terrorized: How the War on Terror Affected American Culture and Society, published on Amazon’s Kindle in 2011 and as a paperback in 2018. In 2019 he published his first novel, Money Matters (see below for link), an unconventional detective novel in which a woman with no experience uncovers the whereabouts of a missing person with connections to the powerful CEO of a mutual fund company, a politician running for governor in California, and a drug cartel.

In 1989, after two years as a Visiting Professor at the University of California, Riverside and subsequent adjunct positions at UCLA and the University of Southern California, he became a full-time professor at California State University, Long Beach, where he is currently a Professor Emeritus in the Department of English.

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