 ALAN BAXTER Who are you? Alan Baxter, author. Your signature style: Horror and dark fantasy, liberally mixed with crime, noir, and mystery, heavily spiced with the weird. Toot your own horn: Author of (so far) seven novels, five novellas, two short story collections, and more than 80 published short stories. I’m also a seven-time finalist in the Aurealis Awards, a six-time finalist in the Australian Shadows Awards and a seven-time finalist in the Ditmar Awards. From those shortlistings I won the 2014 Australian Shadows Award for Best Short Story (“Shadows of the Lonely Dead”), the 2015 Australian Shadows Paul Haines Award For Long Fiction (“In Vaulted Halls Entombed”), and the 2016 Australian Shadows Award for Best Collection (Crow Shine). I’m also a past winner of the AHWA Short Story Competition (“It’s Always the Children Who Suffer”). Books read: Recently The Cipher by Kathe Koja, which was amazing. Currently The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones, which is so far fantastic. Movies watched: Not many movies recently, but I have been enjoying The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina on Netflix. It’s like Buffy the Vampire Slayer for this generation. Games and/or music played: I’ve been playing loads of Minecraft. My son wanted it, so I set up a world of my own to learn and help him. But I’ve found it incredibly therapeutic, so I’ve been losing myself there a lot. Words written: I’m finding writing very hard during this pandemic, not least with so much else going on with homeschooling my son and trying to run my martial arts classes online. But I have started work on a novel for my son. I plan to write it for him and read it for him. If it ever also gets published, then great. But that’s not why I’m doing it. Future stuff: I’ve got a sequel to Manifest Recall coming out in July (called Recall Night). Meanwhile, after I finish the book for my son, I plan to redraft a new horror novel I finished at the end of last year. Brain worms: I recently came up with a creepypasta story idea based on Zoom meetings, after teaching my online classes, so I typed it up as a twitter thread. It’s gone a bit viral, which made me realise people are hungry for stuff relevant to our current situation. You can read it here: https://twitter.com/AlanBaxter/status/1247844822833979392  Alan Baxter is a multi-award-winning author of horror, supernatural thrillers, and dark fantasy. He’s also a martial arts expert, a whisky-soaked swear monkey, and dog lover. He creates dark, weird stories among dairy paddocks on the beautiful south coast of NSW, Australia where he lives with his wife, son and hound. Find him online at www.warriorscribe.com or find him on Twitter @AlanBaxter and Facebook. Click on any book cover to learn more about it, or click here for an overview of all my published fiction. The Roo by Alan Baxter Something is wrong in the small outback town of Morgan Creek. A farmer goes missing after a blue in the pub. A teenage couple fail to show up for work. When Patrick and Sheila McDonough investigate, they discover the missing persons list is growing. Before they realise what’s happening, the residents of the remote town find themselves in a fight for their lives against a foe they would never have suspected. And the dry red earth will run with blood. THE HEART AND SOUL OF HORROR PROMOTIONComments are closed.
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