How One Radioactive Monkey Found his Feet

Below, dear reader, please find bonus content for Suzanne’s book: ELEMENTS: A Collection of Speculative Fiction. This series of posts provides stories-behind-the-stories for each tale in ELEMENTS. Sitting in the 6th slot in the Table of Contents is: “Hot Furball on a Cold Morning” Years ago, I was scoping out Ralan.com in search of markets for my fiction when I stumbled across a call for submissions to the anthology: Requiem for the Radioactive Monkeys. The market didn’t pay much, but…

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“What Becomes a Legend Most” – Introduction by Sandra Kasturi

Below, dear reader, please find bonus content for Suzanne’s book: ELEMENTS: A Collection of Speculative Fiction. This series of posts provides stories-behind-the-stories for each tale in ELEMENTS. The “Introduction” for a book sets up the reader for the prose that follows. In this post, I thank Sandra Kasturi for writing the Introduction: “What Becomes a Legend Most” I am honoured that Sandra Kasturi wrote the introduction What Becomes a Legend Most  for ELEMENTS. Sandra Kasturi is Co-Publisher at ChiZine Publications,…

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Interview: Steve Vernon

Growing up in Northern Ontario, Steve Vernon learned the storytelling tradition from his grandfather. Steve’s regional books include The Lunenburg Werewolf, Maritime Murder, Haunted Harbors, Wicked Woods, the children’s picture book Maritime Monsters, and the YA novel Sinking Deeper – or my questionable (possibly heroic) decision to invent a sea monster – a novel which begins with a jailbreak, seguing into an impromptu Main Street midnight caber toss leading to the invention of a sea monster, a gumbooted dragon dance,…

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