002 - Getting to Know You
In our debut episode, join friends, collaborators, and co-conspirators Stephanie and Trevor as they invite you to get to know the hosts, the work, the genres, and the podcast.
Meet Steph, the oddball self-published crazy cat lady horror author, who is three anthologies in and shows no sign of slowing. Learn about how family informs her short story collections, how true events inspired one of her most ick-inducing horror shorts, and how she coordinates her outfits for her tattoo appointments.
Meet Trevor, instructional designer and dad of three, who writes for a living and keeps writing when he gets home. Learn about how his parenting and borderline-obsessive need to make stuff inform both his creative non-fiction and his novels.
Join them on the borderlands between horror and suspense. Dodge fast-flying recommendations from TV, film, Twitter, and books. Salivate in anticipation of their upcoming flash fiction prompts. And breathe a sigh of relief that these two will continue gracing your feeds, but only every couple of weeks.
Welcome to Writing and Robots. The writing is coming. The robots are coming. Brace yourself.
Get to Know Steph’s Work
Kasey (free with signup for the newsletter)
Cold Cuts and Cigarettes (available from stephanieanneauthor.ca)
Silver (from Coping Mechanism and Other Disturbing Stories)
Coping Mechanism (from Coping Mechanism and Other Disturbing Stories), if you are very, very brave
Get to Know Trevor’s Work
Finding the Story - The Persephone’s Champion Podcast
The Velveteen Rabbit - Love Make Share
The Framework Laptop First Look - Love Make Share on YouTube
Have I taken Halloween too far? - Love Make Share
Steph’s Recommendations
Crimes of the Future (2022, dir. David Cronenberg) - IMDb
"The plot maybe isn't the main focus... but I love how weird everything looks.”
The Fireman by Joe Hill | Goodreads
"I'm loving it, because I'm having these moments reading it because I have to keep going back to the information page at the front... because there are some things coming up where I can't believe that this was written before 2020. Like, 'This is scary in how accurate it's predicting some of what we went through with COVID...' the progression of the illness goes to absolutely fantastical levels, but some of the relationships and scenarios... when you put that kind of stress on a population, those kinds of things will happen."
Trevor’s Recommendations
The Midnight Society (@midnight_pals) / X (twitter.com)
Watch The Bear | Disney+ (disneyplus.com)
"We are coming back to this show when we talk about character and characterization, because it is masterful... In a landscape of prestige drama that is wildly overwritten, The Bear pulls all that way back and lets actors act, but lets very good writing happen in those gaps."
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance, #1) by N.K. Jemisin | Goodreads
"[Jemisin's work] is very aspirational for me... I was like, 'There is no way that this person has been this good at writing always... she can't have just sprung into existence fully formed...' Fortunately, it is rough in some interesting ways as you get into it... you see the seeds of the things that make her great, but they aren't always applied the way they are in her later work. That was a really informative read for me."