{"id":2989,"date":"2014-02-20T10:46:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T14:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=2989"},"modified":"2014-02-20T10:46:39","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T14:46:39","slug":"women-in-horror-fiction-lori-r-lopez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/women-in-horror-fiction-lori-r-lopez\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in Horror Fiction: Lori R. Lopez"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"ImageLori R. Lopez is the author of many books, including An Ill Wind Blows <\/i>(2013 CreateSpace), The Macabre Mind of Lori R. Lopez: Thirteen Tormentous Tales <\/i>(2012 CreateSpace), and Poetic Reflections: Keep the Heart of a Child <\/i>(2010 CreateSpace).\u00a0 Her short stories have also appeared in such anthologies as Darlings of Decay <\/i>(2013 Dark Shadows Publishing), Masters of Horror: Damned if You Don\u2019t <\/i>(2011 Triskaideka Books), and I Believe in Werewolves <\/i>(2011 NetBound Publishing).<\/p>\n

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1. Can you give our readers a brief introduction?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you for the invitation!\u00a0 I\u2019m an indie author, poet, artist, and more.\u00a0 I have a number of print books as well as E-books out, and I\u2019ve started a creative company with my two talented sons for literature, music, and film.\u00a0 I\u2019m a vegetarian and an activist for the rights of animals, children, and women.\u00a0 I care about conservation.\u00a0 I write dark and speculative fiction with elements of fantasy and humor.<\/p>\n

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2. Why do you write horror? \u00a0What draws you to the genre?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t have a happy childhood, so there are personal demons involved.\u00a0 But I had a fascination for monsters and things macabre since I can remember.\u00a0 I am a horror fan.\u00a0 Conversely, in real life I don\u2019t eat meat and can be squeamish.\u00a0 I do not enjoy especially gory fiction or films that sensationalize violence.\u00a0 Like my writing, I prefer that there is meaning behind the madness.\u00a0 I love Horror\u2019s creepiness, the weird and wonderfully gruesome aspects of it all.\u00a0 Thrills and chills.\u00a0 That is what I portray in my stories, novels, verse and art.<\/p>\n

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3. Can you describe your writing style or the tone you prefer to set for your stories?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I love words.\u00a0 My tales are more suspenseful and thought-inducing than gory.\u00a0 They can be quirky.\u00a0 I like to try different things.\u00a0 Some of it is edgier, intense, but the majority is suitable for ages twelve through adult.\u00a0 My writing is intelligent and contains depth, both in the characters and the plot.\u00a0 There is also a poetic grace to it.\u00a0 I care very much about the flow of sentences.\u00a0 The voice can vary from story to story.\u00a0 The tone can be dead serious or quite humorous; it might shift from one to the other.\u00a0 I love atmosphere and vivid detail, yet I do not go into a great deal of description.\u00a0 Instead, I leave a lot of that to the imagination.\u00a0 Some people do not care for the way I write, because it isn\u2019t simple enough or isn\u2019t what they\u2019re used to reading.\u00a0 I believe creative writing should be creative.\u00a0 Mine certainly is.<\/p>\n

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4. Who are some of your influences? \u00a0Are there any women authors who have particularly inspired you to write?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mary Shelley was a huge inspiration.\u00a0 I read Frankenstein<\/i> in fifth grade.\u00a0 I had seen the movies prior to that, along with Hitchcock and \u00a0The Blob<\/em> and many classics.\u00a0 When I read the book, it was so poignant.\u00a0 I cried for the monster.\u00a0 It really affected me, transcending the films.\u00a0 Not that movies cannot achieve that depth of emotion, but the book was more.\u00a0 And it was beautifully written.\u00a0 I like writing that makes you stop and savor the words.\u00a0 A lot of books just tell a story.\u00a0 You\u2019re not supposed to pay attention to the words.\u00a0 I figure, writing can be a lot of ways.\u00a0 There are many opinions out there on writing.\u00a0 I like Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub.\u00a0 But I like classics, too:\u00a0 Victor Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, Ray Bradbury, Mark Twain, Washington Irving, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Franz Kafka, James Fenimore Cooper, Jack London, Andre Norton . . .\u00a0 That\u2019s writing.\u00a0 And Mary is right up there with them.\u00a0 I also treasure the words of Lewis Carroll and Kenneth Grahame.\u00a0 Grimm\u2019s Fairy Tales.\u00a0 Mother Goose.\u00a0 And William Shakespeare.\u00a0 Some discovered more recently are Neil Gaiman and Roald Dahl.<\/p>\n

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5. What authors do you like to read? \u00a0Any recommendations?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have stacks of books I want to read, and many I would like to read again! \u00a0I haven\u2019t even read all of Poe\u2019s works yet.\u00a0 There are authors I\u2019ve met who write well, such as Billie Sue Mosiman, Leigh M. Lane, Carole Gill, Lynn C. Tolson, Angela Shelton.\u00a0 Others I know and have read samples or stories by (and plan to read more as time allows) include Jaime Johnesee, Malina Roos, Uvi Poznansky, Mary Ann Peden-Coviello, Linda Lovecraft, E.A. Irwin, Chantal Noordeloos, Julianne Snow, Anna Taborska, author Suzi M, Kat Yares, Suzanne Robb, Christine Verstraete, Cindy Hernandez . . .\u00a0 I know there are more.\u00a0 Guys:\u00a0 Blaze McRob, Jerry W. McKinney, Trent Zelazny, Vincenzo Bilof, Anthony Servantes, William Cook, Patrick Greene, Paul D. Marks, Bernard Lee DeLeo, Jeffrey Kosh, Mark Parker, Terry M. West.\u00a0 Most recently, Kealan Patrick Burke.\u00a0 I enjoy the poetry of Jaye Tomas and Phibby Venable, Aline S. Iniestra, E.A. Irwin, Will Cook, Vincenzo Bilof among others.\u00a0 Of course, Poe and Carroll and many of the classic poets; Shakespeare.\u00a0 I have little time to read these days, and my memory has a mind of its own, an absent mind.\u00a0 I will doubtless think of some I didn\u2019t mention, and it will haunt me to the grave.<\/p>\n

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6. Where can readers find your work?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m on Amazon, B.N., and Smashwords.\u00a0 You can learn about my books on GoodReads, Shelfari, LibraryThing, Pinterest, and my website Fairy Fly Entertainment.\u00a0 Some of my titles are free:\u00a0 3-Z<\/em> and The Fruit Of Thy Womb<\/em> on Amazon; also, Unleashed, Next Door,<\/em> and Horrendus<\/em>, on Smashwords.\u00a0 My work has been published in anthologies with other authors, including: \u00a0Mirages: Tales from Authors of the Macabre; Masters of Horror: Damned If You Don’t; Bones II; Splatterpunk Saints; Darlings of Decay; I Believe in Werewolves; The Epocalypse: Emails at the End; Soup of Souls; Thirsty Are The Damned; Scare Package: 14 Tales of Terror;<\/em> and In Darkness We Play<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I also write a column called \u201cPoetic Reflections\u201d at my website containing dark verse and humorous prose.<\/p>\n

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Want to find out more about her and her books? Visit \u00a0Lori Lopez’s Amazon author page<\/a>, or her Facebook author page<\/a>, \u00a0You may also want to check out her column, “Poetic Reflections”<\/a>, at her website, Fairy Fly Entertainment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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  Lori R. Lopez is the author of many books, including An Ill Wind Blows (2013 CreateSpace), The Macabre Mind of Lori R. Lopez: Thirteen Tormentous Tales (2012 CreateSpace), and Poetic Reflections: Keep the Heart of a Child (2010 CreateSpace).\u00a0 Her short stories have also appeared in such anthologies as Darlings of Decay (2013 Dark<\/p>\n

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