I say: “When you’re Latina American, everything you write is ‘magical realism,’ an arcane and meaningless label, and yet it’s kind of the hole where publishing/marketing puts us.”
Horror is back! Like Stephen Graham Jones explains, POC are ready for this. https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/1954?rto=x_gr_e_nl_general&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=October202020&utm_content=Horror.Returns&ref_=pe_3097180_543248670">https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show...
Horror is back! Like Stephen Graham Jones explains, POC are ready for this. https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/1954?rto=x_gr_e_nl_general&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=October202020&utm_content=Horror.Returns&ref_=pe_3097180_543248670">https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show...
Don& #39;t mess it up for us, publishing! POC can carry this boat into the waters of success but only if you support them and don& #39;t demand clones. Anyone silly enough to demand & #39;next Mexican Gothic& #39; is that, a fool. It& #39;s not going to be a haunted house story that works next time.
Give writers their space to expand.
As for readers: you really need to read more horror. Horror is not some dirty word and it has a history and aesthetic. Ignoring that and pretending everything should be boo! jump scares! will narrow your view.
As for readers: you really need to read more horror. Horror is not some dirty word and it has a history and aesthetic. Ignoring that and pretending everything should be boo! jump scares! will narrow your view.