Today folks, we have Brian Johnson, no not the singer from AC/DC, over for a chat.  Brian as well as being an author, is also a teacher and a storm chaser, so please give him a warm welcome and enjoy the interview. 

Today folks, I am really honoured to be a part of Andy Gavin's Blog Tour, now as some of you may know, Andy is the man behind among many other things, Crash Bandicoot.  Andy has now turned hands to writing, So grab your self a coffee and sit down and enjoy a fascinating interview with the man himself. 

Modern man has a wide variety of "pure" storytelling mediums, like film, long form television, and novels. While these have some very significant differences they all share the same basic focus on plot and character. Typically at least, good stories introduce a character with problems, get you to like them, then chronicle the struggle as they are compelled to change and adapt to overcome these problems. In the end, they either do so, or are defeated to teach us a lesson (a variant we call tragedy).

These elements: character, plot, and transformational arc, are completely central to the normal story (I deliberately ignore weird experimental storytelling). Really, they are the core of what makes a good film or novel.

 Hi Sara , how are things with you?

I’m a tad stressed.  I’m currently house-hunting.  I’ve been talking to altogether too many estate agents.  I’m going to write a horror story about estate agents soon.

Just how angry do you get when people call you Sarah?

Hello folks, it's been awhile, work and real life managed to force it's way in past the front door.  But enough about me, today we have an interview with Richard Salter.  Richard has written over twenty published short stories and a entire USB-drive full of horrible unpublished ones, as well as being the editor of  a Dr Who: Short Trips, and one of this years most anticipated anthologies Worlds Collider. 

Edward Lorn launched his illustrious career with the brazen theft of fire from the Gods. When questioned, he explained that he could not write in the darkness of his cave, and was tired of chewing uncooked sinew. Wrathful Gods descended upon Lorn’s cave like a swarm of rich men angry about a dent in the door of their new Beemers. As luck would have it, Lorn had just invented French cuisine, and the Gods left with bellies full of coq au vin and gateau a noix. They did not bother him again, except for recipes. Lorn perfected his chiseling-stone technique by working freelance for the Sumerians and Egyptians; he is credited with codifying the Egyptian hieroglyphs, and thus averting war due to misunderstandings. One day, after catching a rook with nothing more than a cold stare, Lorn discovered quill and ink. He celebrated by sharing the secret of gun powder – and fireworks – with the Chinese. By the multi-colored light of the first fireworks show, Lorn devised the horror genre. He wrote the first freaky-as-hell clown, and the world was never the same. In a recent interview, Lorn states that was when he realized it was time to create a printing press. Under Lorn’s constant tutelage, pulp fiction went mass market and he sold the rights to the press to Gutenberg. With this fortune, Lorn was patron to Jules Vern, Poe, and the people who came up with Netflix. Although Lorn taught Chuck Norris almost everything he knows, he left out one crucial move: how to make the sun rise every day. When not running the solar system and setting up show times for meteor showers, Lorn can be found writing horror and living under the glyph “E.””

Stuart Young is a British Fantasy Award-winning author. His stories have appeared in various anthologies such as Catastrophia, Alt-Dead, Alt-Zombie, We Fade to Grey, Where the Heart Is, The Monster Book for Girls and The Mammoth Book of Future Cops. 

As well as Spare Parts he has published two other short story collections: Shards of Dreams and The Mask Behind the Face.

Today I am more than honoured  to have Reggie Oliver over for an an interview.  Reggie is a modern master of the ghost story as well as being an accomplished playwright. It has been a while when I felt this nervous in an interview.  Hopefully I didn't brick it too much.