I don’t think I’ve mentioned this yet, but I have an Author Spotlight up on Fantasy Magazine. There are a couple of “Light on the Water”-related questions, and then some questions that get right to the point:

What childhood stories scared you the most?

One of the early volumes of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark has a story about a girl who wakes up one morning to find that spiders are hatching out of her face. It is not the kind of story anyone should bring to Show and Tell and read to an eight-year-old arachnophobe.*

Read the rest over at Fantasy Magazine!

* Dear author of this story, if you are reading this: That messed me up FOREVER. THANKS A LOT.

…man, those titles make things redundant. Anyway, Charles Tan was nice enough to interview me:

As a writer, what was the biggest hurdle you had to overcome before getting published?

I think the biggest hurdle for a lot of writers is that vaguely-Victorian perishing-rose hand-wringing fear that they will be rejected and their beloved muse will die and we’ll have to call off the cotillion. Then eventually you get over yourself and rejections just become a note in the story’s file. I tell this story from experience.

Read the rest over at Bibliophile Stalker!