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Middle Grade Weird West Author Spotlight: Catt Colborn

23 Jun 202213 Jun 2022
Welcome, Catt! Catt Colborn is a writing professor at Stockton University and has three books published under PFI Press and one from Bizarro Pulp Press, an Imprint of JournalStone Publishing.…
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Weird West Author and Editor Spotlight: David Boop

12 Jun 202220 Feb 2023
Welcome, David! David Boop is an author, editor, screenwriter, and award-winning essayist. He debuted with the sci-fi/noir, She Murdered Me with Science from WordFire Press. His follow-up, The Soul Changers, is a Victorian…
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Weird West Author Spotlight: Edward J. Knight

5 Jun 202212 Jun 2022
Welcome, Edward! Edward J. Knight writes fantasy and science fiction from his home in Colorado. He’s put three satellites into orbit and is raising two children with his partner, Sarah.…
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Weird West Author Spotlight: Ken Hoover

3 Jun 20223 Jun 2022
Welcome, Ken! Ken Hoover is the word slinger of two weird western novels in the Midnight Agency series. His short fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies, and he’s been a semi-finalist…
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Weird West Author Spotlight: Julie Bozza

6 May 2022
Welcome, Julie! Julie Bozza is an Aussie-Anglo hybrid empowered by writing, fuelled by espresso, calmed by knitting, overexcited by photography, and madly in love with Amy Adams and John Keats.…
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Weird West Author Spotlight: Tim Meyer

22 Apr 202220 Feb 2023
Welcome, Tim! Tim Meyer dwells in a dark cave near the Jersey Shore. He’s written and published over fifteen novels and novellas, including Malignant Summer, The Switch House, Dead Daughters,…
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Weird West Author Spotlight: Edward M. Erdelac

10 Apr 202222 Apr 2022
Welcome, Edward! Edward M. Erdelac is the author of fourteen novels including Rainbringer, Andersonville, Monstrumfuhrer and The Merkabah Rider series. His stories have appeared in dozens of anthologies and periodicals…
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How To Write A Weird West Story

6 Mar 20222 Jun 2025
So you want to write a Weird Western? If you love your historical fiction with a dash of the weird, you may have already dabbled in weird western fiction. If…
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What are Splatter Westerns? (and Where to Read Them)

23 Dec 202121 Feb 2023
Good news for fans of gory horror and pulpy Westerns: Splatter Westerns are here! This subgenre takes elements of "splatter horror" and mixes them with the Old West genre to…

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    • Weird West Fiction: What To Read Right Now
    • Dialog and Dialect in the Old West: A Writer’s Resource
    • How To Write A Weird West Story
    • Magazines and Publishers that Accept Weird West Story Submissions
    • What is the Weird West: Overview and History
    • What are Splatter Westerns? (and Where to Read Them)
  • Author Spotlight
    • Weird West Author Spotlight: Joe R. Lansdale
    • Weird West Author Spotlight: Jonathan Maberry
    • Weird West Author Spotlight: KC Grifant
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    • Weird West Author Spotlight: Jean-Paul L. Garnier
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