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After deciding against being a ballerina, an ichthyologist, and a famous singer, Wednesday Lee Friday decided to become a novelist just before starting kindergarten. \u00a0Her books include A Stabbing for Sadie<\/em> (Crossroad Press 2014), The Cat’s Apprentice<\/em> (StoneGarden.net Publishing 2008), Kiss Me Like You Love Me<\/em> (Crossroad Press 2013), and The Finster Effect<\/em> (Crossroad Press 2012). Her short fiction has been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies. She currently lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with some carnivorous plants, a few cats, and her husband. She is a very busy woman of horror!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
1.) Can you give our readers a brief introduction?<\/strong><\/p>\n Hi readers!\u00a0 I am Wednesday Lee Friday, author of A Stabbing for Sadie<\/em>, Kiss Me Like You Love Me<\/em>, and The Finster Effect<\/em> in addition to a bunch of wild short stories.\u00a0 I’m also a TV and movie reviewer, a sex writer, and the managing editor of Under the Bed Magazine<\/i>, a horror fiction monthly.\u00a0 I’ve studied theatre and broadcasting and have worked as everything from a reptile wrangler to a phonesex operator to a manager at a now defunct video store chain (almost rhymes with Lackluster).\u00a0 Mostly though, I love horror.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2. Why do you write horror? \u00a0What draws you to the genre?<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong> <\/p>\n 3. Can you describe your writing style or the tone you prefer to set for your stories?<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong> <\/p>\n 4. Who are some of your influences? \u00a0Are there any women authors who have particularly inspired you to write?<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong> <\/p>\n 5. What authors do you like to read? \u00a0Any Recommendations?<\/strong><\/p>\n I read a good one by Kate Jonez recently: Candy House<\/em>.\u00a0 Amy Grech also has a splendid collection called Blanket of White<\/em>.\u00a0 I enjoyed a collection recently by Antoinette Bergin called Bedtime Stories for Children You Hate<\/em>.\u00a0 I read those Hunger Games<\/em> books recently.\u00a0 Those should probably be called horror books, especially given the ending.\u00a0 Yeesh! My website <\/a>is a great place to catch up with all my insidious deeds. \u00a0In addition to Amazon and Smashwords, my books are also available from Macabre Ink Digital and Crossroads Press.\u00a0 Thanks so much for letting me be a part of Women in Horror month.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Interested in learning more? Visit Wednesday Lee Friday’s Amazon author page<\/a>, her\u00a0Smashwords page<\/a>, or the website for Under The Bed<\/a><\/em>, the online horror fiction magazine she edits. And check out this incredibly awesome nonfiction piece on point of view <\/a>and how it can make or break a story– something she mentioned briefly above.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After deciding against being a ballerina, an ichthyologist, and a famous singer, Wednesday Lee Friday decided to become a novelist just before starting kindergarten. \u00a0Her books include A Stabbing for Sadie (Crossroad Press 2014), The Cat’s Apprentice (StoneGarden.net Publishing 2008), Kiss Me Like You Love Me (Crossroad Press 2013), and The Finster Effect (Crossroad<\/p>\n
\nThe horror genre is about exploring our limitations as humans and discovering what, if anything, could drive us to do things well outside out established morality.\u00a0 Some people insist that there must be a supernatural element in horror, but I couldn’t disagree more.\u00a0 Horror is in the everyday things that haunt us with their impending possibility.\u00a0 Horror is what turns us against our fellow humans out of fear and desperation.\u00a0 Horror is in every act of violence, every lie, every glare from a stranger, every wish that some annoying fuckwit would get hit by a truck just so we don’t have to deal with them anymore.\u00a0 Horror is all around us.\u00a0 Horror writers just want to make sure you notice.<\/p>\n
\nI’m a firm believer in first-person narration.\u00a0 To my mind, it’s the best route for intimacy, immediacy, and understanding.\u00a0 I write horror with the desire to help people get their heads around the unfathomable.\u00a0 Kiss Me Like You Love Me <\/em>follows a very damaged man as he commits deplorable acts of violence on truly innocent people.\u00a0 Readers have reported being extremely uncomfortable by experiencing the killer’s point-of view\u2014that it makes them feel complicit in his deeds.\u00a0 This perspective also makes the reader watch helplessly as the killer repeats his pattern over and over.<\/p>\n
\nI confess, a lot of my favorite horror writers are fellas.\u00a0 Stephen King, Jack Ketchum, Christopher Moore are my big three.\u00a0 But I’ve been influenced by plenty of ladies: most notably Shirley Jackson, Mary Shelley, and the great Margaret Atwood.\u00a0 I know Atwood isn’t typically called a horror writer, but her books scare the hell out of me. \u00a0The\u00a0Handmaid’s Tale<\/em> gave me nightmares for years afterward.\u00a0 I’m still depressed over the end of Maddaddam<\/em>.<\/span>\u00a0 I’m continually amazed at how Atwood uses such lyrical, beautiful prose even as she’s describing terrible people and horrific brutality.<\/p>\n
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