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Gretchen Felker-Martin
Thanks so much Sophia! You can preorder it anywhere and buy it starting the 11th of June!
Gretchen Felker-Martin
Thank you! Melanie Tem's WILDING, Torrey Peters' INFECT YOUR FRIENDS AND LOVED ONES, Porpentine's PSYCHO NYMPH EXILE, Patrick Suskind's PERFUME
Gretchen Felker-Martin
You know, I'd certainly consider adding things that had to be cut into a future edition, and maybe expanding on the second act. We'd have to see!
Gretchen Felker-Martin
I find it helps me to process the unrelenting awfulness of human civilization. Also, I'm a sicko.
Gretchen Felker-Martin
A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
Lilith's Brood, Octavia Butler
The Books of Blood, Clive Barker
IT, Stephen King
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Melanie Tem
Psycho Nymph Exile, Porpentine
Tell Me I'm Worthless, Alison Rumfitt
Juniper, Monica Furlong
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Perfume, Patrick Suskind
Ulysses, James Joyce
A Hero of Our Time, Mikhail Lermontov
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Lapvona, Ottessa Mosshfegh
A Universal History of Iniquity, Jorge Luis Borges
Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
A Feast for Crows, George R. R. Martin
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
Blindness, Jose Saramago
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson
From Hell, Alan Moore
Vision, Julia Gfrorer
Lilith's Brood, Octavia Butler
The Books of Blood, Clive Barker
IT, Stephen King
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Melanie Tem
Psycho Nymph Exile, Porpentine
Tell Me I'm Worthless, Alison Rumfitt
Juniper, Monica Furlong
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Perfume, Patrick Suskind
Ulysses, James Joyce
A Hero of Our Time, Mikhail Lermontov
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Lapvona, Ottessa Mosshfegh
A Universal History of Iniquity, Jorge Luis Borges
Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
A Feast for Crows, George R. R. Martin
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
Blindness, Jose Saramago
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson
From Hell, Alan Moore
Vision, Julia Gfrorer
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(view spoiler)[Just finished Manhunt and holy FUCK that was insane. I've never really read a lot of horror, so you were kind of my expose and I'm so glad I choose it. Manhunt was so honest and raw and just.. amazing. (I cried.) My question is this- what do you think happens to Robbie, Indi, and Beth after the book? Do they say at the fort? Do they kill off all the men? Also is the virus only in the US? (BTS Katya read your book) (hide spoiler)]
Gretchen Felker-Martin
Thank you Jack! Robbie goes West to find his dad's tribe in Arizona, Indi and Beth stay at the fort. As for the future, I won't speculate, but I will say that the entire world succumbed to the plague.
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(view spoiler)[I'm halfway through Manhunt and loving it, but... a reference was made to character Major Sarah Jane Spiers and I'm curious if this is an intentional use of the names of two victims of the (Australian) Claremont serial killer - Sarah Spiers and Jane Rimmer - or just a coincidence please? (hide spoiler)]
Gretchen Felker-Martin
oh this is a complete coincidence. she's named Spiers for the architect who was a part of Hitler's inner circle
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(view spoiler)[I loved Manhunt so much but I have a question: In the final chapter, Deadname, Teach calls Beth 'Brandon', and Beth, after killing her (yay!) is asking herself "how did she know?" I took from that that Beth's deadname is Brandon, and based on Teach's flashbacks, Brandon is her brother. This is brilliant and I love it, but if it's right, how did Beth not recognize Teach as her sister? What did I miss? (hide spoiler)]
Gretchen Felker-Martin
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(view spoiler)[Brandon IS Beth's deadname, but Teach knows it because she got Beth's wallet out of the basket of her bike in the very first chapter. Beth remembers having left it there a little later, and that it had all her old IDs and cards. They aren't related (hide spoiler)]
Gretchen Felker-Martin
Well I detest "quips" in general, but the one that really killed me every time I saw it was when Robert Jordan would describe a woman as "plumply pretty".
Gretchen Felker-Martin
Recently, Alma Katsu's THE HUNGER had me scurrying around after dark like a nervous rat, but I think the all-time scariest has to be IT. I would leap into bed to avoid even the IDEA of something under it having access to my feet.
Gretchen Felker-Martin
There was the usual grumbling when the cicadas began to emerge, complaints about sleepless nights spent listening to the high, insistent whine of their mating song and the machine gun rattle of their fat bodies striking glass or metal in flight. It was nothing, in the end, compared to what lay sleeping just a little deeper than the swarm.
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