Mae Murray is one of our favorite people. She is incredibly funny, interesting, talented, and insightful on so many things. Her first novel, I'm Sorry if I Scared You, is a favorite of both Rebecca and I, and it was our pleasure and honor to talk to Mae as that novel celebrates the first anniversary of its release!

Listen as we talk about navigating crowdfunding your novel, the highs and lows of social media, being a one person marketing team, and the joys of finding people that get you and your work.

Carina Stopenski is so freaking cool. A librarian, author, artist, and home school program creator, Carina is an incredible asset to any organization and really anyone that knows them! This conversation was so much fun, and I hope you enjoy it as much as we did!

Jocelyn Codner is one of our favorite people. She is an academic librarian, and she is so passionate about libraries and horror that it is incredibly infectious (in a good way, of course). This conversation is wide-ranging, from the services that libraries provide that we certainly never knew about, to terrifying stories her family told her as a child that sparked her love of horror, and is so perfectly and insightfully unhinged.

Mad Axe Media Publisher, author of two excellent books this year (Squirming All the Way Up and co-author of Night Games with his brother Josh), and cover artist to the stars, Joey Powell is a one man book releasing machine. Listen as we walk about why he wanted to start a press, his evolution as a writer, and how he finds time to do it all and be a devoted husband and father. You will definitely have a good time with this one and we dig deep on some more serious issues as well. Come listen and find out why Joey is so beloved in the indie horror community!

If you've ever been lucky enough to attend an event or reading with Clay McLeod Chapman, you know that it's an experience you won't forget. Clay seems to have an unending supply of energy to support fellow writers and to support this genre that we all love so dearly.

But how did it all start? Was it a conscious decision to become the Clay that we all know and love? Listen as we talk about that and a ton of other topics!

Will Roth is our longest and dearest friend, whom we met a couple of months ago at The Twisted Spine's opening party. He is the publicist for one of the most exciting publishers in the business right now, Creature Publishing, and our conversation talks about all of the wonderful books that Creature is releasing, and a whole lot more.

Also, Creature Publishing just launched a Kickstarter for an Affirmation Deck based on V. Castro's extraordinary novel Goddess of Filth. That can be found at the following link:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/creaturepublishing/goddess-of-filth-affirmation-deck?ref=8y7dj3

Abby Wolf (unstable.books on Instagram) is doing big things! She has an interview series on Substack with different figures in the Horror Reader Community including authors and other influencers, and she has a story in the upcoming With Teeth anthology edited by Cassandra Celia.

Abby is a delight and so much fun to talk to, as you will find out as soon as you start to listen!

Royal Poff is the author of Sleeping Among Wolves, a contributor to With Teeth coming in February, and the mastermind behind Canaries, one horror story told by thirteen writers.

Listen as we talk about pretty much any and everything together in a really fun conversation!

Check out Royal's page for the Kickstarter for Canaries, coming 12/1/25.

Cassandra Celia is writing some of the most exciting and original horror out there today. With Teeth, an anthology benefiting The Lakota Wolf Preserve, arrives in February, and Cass kicks off With Teeth week on the pod with a bang! This fun conversation is wide ranging and insightfully unhinged to the max!

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John Ward has been scaring Middle Graders for the past couple of years with his spooky and delightful Scareville series. The latest book in the series, Food To Die For, recently released and is waiting to creep you out! John is also working on an adult horror novel, which you will hear all about in this great conversation! John has so many great stories about writing and some seriously freaky true life supernatural tales!