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- Full name
- Rebecca Brock
- A bit about me
I’ve always said that I’m about as exotic as vanilla yogurt, but with my recent forays into the wild world of publishing, I may have to update that to “exotic as vanilla yogurt WITH GRANOLA.” Yeah…I said it.
I’m a library director, which means I sit for eight hours a day in an office piled with books and papers, spending all my time buying books, processing books, paying bills, figuring out payroll, and other mind-meltingly boring tasks like that. Being a grown-up truly sucks, but I enjoy being paid every two weeks for a job that allows me to read.
And I write—or attempt to write—horror fiction. When I was younger I used to pop out the novels the way other girls my age were popping out babies (oh, snap!), but as I’ve gotten older and more buried in my day job, the fiction output has trickled down to short stories. A few of those short stories, however, have actually seen the light of publication in such anthologies as my beloved “Brainchild,” as well as other neat little collections like “Cold Flesh,” “The Book of More Flesh,” “Love, Damned Love,” “Decadence of the Dead,” and a couple of others that I won’t name because the “editors” screwed me out of the so-called royalties. Bastids.
I’ve got a story in a new collection coming out from Permuted Press called “History Is Dead”—zombies through history, in other words. I tend to write a lot of zombie fiction because, well gosh darn it, I just love ‘em. I think they’re scarier than just about any other kind of monster and something about the idea of a zombie apocalypse (or “zompocalypse,” as I like to say—TM me!) just fills me with dread and story ideas.
Recently, I’ve gathered up my guts and put together a collection of short horror fiction, called “Abominations,” through Lulu. I just received the first copy of it in the mail today, and I’m excited. I found some things I need to fix, but it’s still a feeling like nothing else to see your work on the printed page.
Personal information on a wild child librarian like me would just make the reader envious of my exciting lifestyle, so I’ll just say that I love horror movies (zombies are my faves, of course) and reading (true crime, romance, horror, nonfiction, etc and so on) and that I’m getting pretty damn good at crocheting blankets. Yeah, like I said, it’s thrill-a-minute when I’m around.
If you’ve read down this far and you’ve read any of my contributions to Ology, then I hope you’ve enjoyed the articles as much as I’ve enjoyed reading them…which would be quite a bit, just to be perfectly specific. I’m thrilled to bits to be a part of this gang, and I hope to keep on keepin’ on with ‘em for a long time.
Drop me a line sometime and let me know what you think of the state of horror today, or my stories, or even the best way to crochet a granny square. I promise I’ll write back. It gets lonely at the library.
- Quote
“Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche- Website
- http://www.thehorrorhack.com
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