In this episode, we talk with Wendy Wagner about her gothic novella The  Secret Skin. We talk about Wendy’s path to horror, her writing process,  and developing this gothic novella. We spend the first half avoiding spoilers and in the second half we drill down on Wagner’s incredible skill for writing powerful sentences.  

Wendy N. Wagner is a writer and Hugo award-winning editor.  She is the author of nearly fifty short stories and two novels for the  Pathfinder role-playing game. Her third novel, An Oath of Dogs, came out in July 2017 from Angry Robot Books.   She is currently the  Managing/Associate Editor of Lightspeed and Nightmare magazines. 

Her short fiction has appeared in nearly fifty venues, including magazines like Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Farrago’s Wainscot, and  anthologies like Autumn Cthulhu and The Way of the Wizard. She lives in  Portland, Oregon.

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