A girl is twisted in terror in the poster for the movie "I Was a Teenage Werewolf"

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Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones is not your typical werewolf book. Werewolves have been twisted, molded, and (in my opinion) maligned in popular fiction and movies. Vampires have archetypal antecedents to draw on—Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Nosferatu, for […]
A man sits at a desk in front of a typewriter and holds his head in his hands

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Genre in fiction can be a slippery beast. Sometimes I don’t know what to say when people ask me in what genre I write. I usually say that I am broadly writing in the fantasy genre. Sometimes I […]
A girl is twisted in terror in the poster for the movie "I Was a Teenage Werewolf"

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After last week’s focus on research—timetables, maps, photographs—I was ready to write this week. Notes on the next scene in the WIP had been drafted months ago. This week I worked on finishing this scene, which opens the […]
Text from a dictionary with the definition of the word "lingo"

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Werewolves love and hate the moon. She gives them freedom on their Night, but rules their lives, even when it’s not the Night. She can be a cruel mistress. She gives them amazing strength and magical abilities (like […]
A wooden bench next to a pond

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What do dogs (or wolves, for that matter) see?   Dogs don’t see the world in black-and-white. Rather, their vision is most similar to people with red-green color blindness. But there are other ways dogs differ from humans. […]