This October, I will be releasing Tapes from the Crawlspace, a series of short stories over YouTube, one story for each day leading up to Halloween. To give you an idea what this series will be like, I've written a self-interview, which I'm providing for blog followers and anyone else who may be interested: How …
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I enjoy a a good parody of fantasy or sci-fi almost as much as I enjoy the genre itself. Recently I took part in a contest created by writer Jeff Mach (author of various funny short stories) to name the worst scifi/fantasy tropes so he could create stories based on each one. I read Robert …
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Some months ago, I talked about a short story I'd gotten published as an audiobook. I'm pleased to announce that another one of my short stories has gotten published by the same group. You can check it out below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd5MPwXppd4
In this series (click here for Part 1), I'm looking at 5 questions about arts based on something a Puritan wrote and giving some answers. To read my thoughts on the previous question, click here. Question (2 of 5): Is portraying sin in art sinful? Answer: Not necessarily. Portraying sin as good is certainly sinful. But …
A few weeks ago, I talked about how my short story "Ghost in a Chrome Cage" was released as an audiobook. The text for that short story just got published via The Odyssey, so you can now read it as well as listen to it: https://www.theodysseyonline.com/ghost-in-chrome-cage
You may remember my blog about one of my short stories being made into an audiobook by Tall Tale TV. Tall Tale TV just adapted "Last Rites," a story by my friends Ryan S. O'Malley. I highly recommend listening to it. Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-fRq_iwk7w
Sometimes the best children's authors are the ones who trust kids enough to include some scary elements in their stories. In a recent article for the Odyssey, I talk about 6 authors, from Maurice Sendak to Roald Dahl, who wrote popular but dark children's stories. You can read the article here: https://www.theodysseyonline.com/6-authors-who-wrote-dark-childrens-stories
Tall Tale TV, a site that produces short audiobooks, just released one of my short stories, "Ghost in a Chrome Cage." You can find it below. Hope you like it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxVDQiS_wE0&feature=youtu.be
Sometimes, I write fiction. Recently, I submitted a 300-word short story to a contest by Booknest.eu which has an interesting feature: every story that gets submitted gets posted for 1 month until the contest ends. So, even if you don't win the contest, you get exposure as a writer. I highly recommend submitting to this contest. …
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G. Connor Salter 