The making of a horror novelist.
Thank you, Priscilla, for letting me be a guest on your blog today! To celebrate Women In Horror Month, I’d like to share something about my newest work-in-progress. Hi, I’m Yawatta Hosby, a horror and suspense author. I’m working on a story now about a serial killer using urban legends to murder college students. Right … Continue reading Guest Post: How Urban Legends Shaped My Newest Story by Yawatta Hosby
I’ve been tagged! Horror writer Rami Unger, the talented author of Rose, tagged me on his #FirstLineFriday post. My assignment? To post the first one or two lines of a WIP or a completed story. The rules of the meme: On a Friday, create a post on your blog titled #FirstLineFriday, hashtag and all.Explain the … Continue reading #FirstLineFriday
My dad died last month. Daddy had this thing he said. “Hurry every chance you get.” I’d forget my coat on the way to the car on a chilly, Alaskan morning and have to run upstairs to get it. Glancing at his watch, he’d call after me, “Hurry every chance you get.” But it wasn’t … Continue reading R.I.P. Daddy
If you want to be a writer, you have to be a reader. Here are the fiction and nonfiction books I read during the last three months of 2019 with my corresponding stabs at coherent, one-sentence reviews. (As always, I’ll try not to cheat and string a bunch of sentences together with and!) 22 reads, … Continue reading One Sentence Reviews: My 4th Quarter 2019 Reads
What can writers do in that awkward, unbalanced writing time between mid December and the New Year? I’ve got 22 fun ideas! Update your email signature to link to your website.Read a book totally outside your genre.Stay up way past your bedtime and observe the winter (for those in the northern hemisphere) starry sky. Often … Continue reading December To-Do’s for Writers
1 Gotham Writers has a scary-first-line contest. It’s free to enter, and the winner gets a free Gotham class. I entered today. Here’s the link so you can enter too, but hurry because the deadline is December 1st: https://www.writingclasses.com/contest/frightening-first-line-contest-2019 2 My sweet daughter got me a tee shirt with my 2019 Nanowrimo book title on … Continue reading 5 Non Sequiturs
