In this episode of Storyline Sessions, horror author and Bram Stoker Award nominee Laurel Hightower shares her experience with writing grief and different sensitive topics, being traditionally published, choosing the right cover art and many more interesting subjects.<\/p>\n
Laurel’s website – https:\/\/laurelhightower.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n Laurel’s Instagram – https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/laurelhightower\/<\/a><\/p>\n Laurel’s Twitter – https:\/\/twitter.com\/HightowerLaurel<\/a><\/p>\n Follow Storyline Sessions Podcast on Instagram – https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/storyline.sessions\/<\/a><\/p>\n Riverside.fm<\/a> affiliate link (I receive a recurring commission with no additional cost to you): https:\/\/www.riverside.fm\/?via=marko<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Timestamps:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n 00:00 – Start<\/p>\n 01:04 – Conversation start<\/p>\n 01:18 – Silent Key reception<\/p>\n 03:25 – Switching up genres and writing strong characters<\/p>\n 06:23 – Picking the right cover<\/p>\n 08:08 – Traditional vs self-publishing<\/p>\n 12:01 – Editing process<\/p>\n 14:52 – Co-editing short story anthologies and representing important issues in genre fiction<\/p>\n 20:02 – Every Woman Knows This and writing about women issues<\/p>\n 26:10 – Diversity in genre writing and biases<\/p>\n 28:23 – Grief in horror<\/p>\n 32:52 – Audiobooks<\/p>\n 36:10 – Short vs long form<\/p>\n 39:00 – Below novella and Bram Stoker Award nomination<\/p>\n 42:50 – Cryptid horror and other types of horror Laurel enjoys<\/p>\n 45:50 – Using pen names<\/p>\n 47:55 – Splatterpunk<\/p>\n 50:15 – Give Me Your Fingers<\/p>\n 51:25 – Piracy<\/p>\n 54:25 – Day job impact on writing<\/p>\n 57:48 – Day of the Door (new novel)<\/p>\n 01:00:42 – Mike Flanagan<\/p>\n 01:03:05 – 2023 favorites<\/p>\n 01:06:20 – Outro<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In this episode of Storyline Sessions, horror author and Bram Stoker Award nominee Laurel Hightower shares her experience with writing grief and different sensitive topics, being traditionally published, choosing the right cover art and many more interesting subjects. Laurel’s website – https:\/\/laurelhightower.com\/ Laurel’s Instagram – https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/laurelhightower\/ Laurel’s Twitter – https:\/\/twitter.com\/HightowerLaurel Follow Storyline Sessions Podcast on…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":389036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[673],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-storyline-sessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}