Horror author Michael J. Riser updates with a blog, new horror art throughout Bookruptcy, and some news on his editorial position at Screen Rant.
2023.10.31 -
"Lucid Interval” published in Qualia Nous vol. 2 from Written Backwards. Available in hardcover, softcover, and ebook formats.
2023.10.31 -
"What's Left of the Sun” published in Put Out the Lights and Cry from Outcast Press. Available in softcover and ebook formats.
2022.01.01 -
“Observance” published in Coffin Bell‘s vol. 5 issue 1 to finish out 2021 with a bang. Available for free.
2021.10.01 -
“Adopt Now” published in Coffin Bell‘s vol. 4 issue 4, "Technophobia", alongside a boatload of other great work. Available for free.
2014.06.19 -
"Love, Posey" appears in Solarcidal Tendencies (paperback from CreateSpace/Amazon.com $10).
2014.05.27 -
"Cradlesong" appears in Despumation vol. 1 (paperback issue from CreateSpace/Amazon $6.99, $3.99 for Kindle).
2014.05.18 -
"Casa de Perros" appeared in Pantheon Magazine's anthology Gaia: Shadow & Breath (paperbacks from $10-$13 at CreateSpace/Amazon, ebooks for $2.99).
2013.12 -
"Dog Training" and "As Simple as Teacups" featured in the Fall 2013 issue of Sheepshead Review (print only - $5, shipping included, here).
2013.10.12 -
Come Death featured on deviantART.com.
2013.09.21 -
The Pursuit of Love and Labor published in Deimos eZine, vol. 2, issue 3.
2013.01.06 -
"Snow Angels" published in Downer Magazine (defunct).
2012.12.12 -
"Love, Posey" published at Solarcide.com. Eventually removed to be published in a future Solarcide anthology.
2012.04.26 -
because I still don't get e. e. cummings featured at myhero.com for National Poetry Month.
2011.11.15 -
blue sluice featured on deviantART.com.
2011.02.07 -
Featured in deviantART.com's The A,B,C's of Literature: Q by the-photographicpoet.
2011.01.10 -
a poem from a well bottom featured on deviantART.com.
2008.12 -
"poet show" was published in UNC Charlotte's Sanskrit, vol. 39, pg. 19.
2008 -
Poem "profanity" was published by Black Book Press.
Everyone go read @horrorsong.blog immediately because we need more of their outrageous, beautiful, and surreal work. All the more important to up your trans author reading game as we go into the next four nightmare years of oppression and misery.
#horrorwriterschat
Matt Mason: Chaotic horror and fantasy author
20.11.2024 @ 20:45Quick follow up, getting it in while the timeline works 😂
#HorrorWritersChat question 4 (stick around for the outro):
We are about community and mutual support here, so for World Kindness Day pay an indie author a compliment about their work.
P.S. Don’t forget to include the tag when reposting!
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Michael Bailey called "Lucid Interval," in Qualia Nous vol. 2, a "perfect story". Craig Clevenger said my horror-adjacent story "What's Left of the Sun" (in Put Out the Lights and Cry) "blindsided" him & was "beautifully & brilliantly done". Never heard kinder words than those.
#horrorwriterschat
Matt Mason: Chaotic horror and fantasy author
20.11.2024 @ 20:35We seem to be back as I've had a whole lot of notifications at once.
#HorrorWritersChat question 3:
World Kindness Day was the 13th – What was the kindest thing anyone ever said about your horror work?
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My male characters are often toxic, but in my upcoming novel DIVINE APPETITES, I explore masculinity via addiction & religious/family trauma. Jackson is my fav character, a conservative psycho medic with a sweeping arc that pulls together existential apocalypse horror and PTSD.
#horrorwriterschat
Matt Mason: Chaotic horror and fantasy author
20.11.2024 @ 19:29#HorrorWritersChat question 2:
Yesterday was International Men’s Day. Tell us about your favourite character who identifies as a man, and how that character demonstrates a positive masculinity.
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Late to the party, #horrorwriterschat! 😧 I'm Michael J. Riser, I write things that are dark and bleak and hopeful and shoved full of religious trauma. I love to write horror because it's so personal and easy to identify with, plus it's got the real good aesthetics and atmosphere.
Matt Mason: Chaotic horror and fantasy author
20.11.2024 @ 19:00#HorrorWritersChat question 1:
Introduce yourself! Tell us who you are, what you write, and as 15th was "I love to write day" tell us why you love to write horror.
P.S. Don’t forget to include the tag when quote posting!
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he must forward the fries to seven people to avoid the curse
Pod Damn America
19.11.2024 @ 00:48he will die in seven days
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Hey people!!!!! Good mood and good luck to everyone!!!!!
This was great to reead
Grateful for shariing this
Thanks, Chris! Gonna buckle down and get er done this year if it kills me.
Looking forward to reading the book when it's ready!