{"id":33859,"date":"2023-05-19T09:27:53","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T13:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=33859"},"modified":"2026-02-04T10:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T15:09:15","slug":"l-marie-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2023\/05\/19\/l-marie-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"Munch on mahi mahi with L. Marie Wood in Episode 198 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Though the lunch on which you’re about to eavesdrop didn\u2019t take place at a convention, it took place because<\/em> of a convention.<\/p>\n

I knew L. Marie Wood<\/a> for a decade or more before I learned at the last in-person Balticon before the pandemic that we\u2019re basically neighbors, but never knew it. So after an earlier lunch during which we tried to figure out how we\u2019ve somehow managed to avoid each other all these years, we got together at Brix 27<\/a> in downtown Martinsburg, West Virginia so I could learn more about who she is and how she came to be.<\/p>\n

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L. Marie Wood is a writer of psychological horror, supernatural suspense, and dark fiction of all kinds who’s been a professionally published writer for 20 years, ever since her first novel Crescendo<\/em> and first short story “The Dance” were published in 2003. Her novels since then include The Promise Keeper<\/em>, Cacophony<\/em>, Accursed<\/em>, and others, plus multiple short story collections, including Anathema<\/em> and Phantasma<\/em>. She\u2019s also a screenwriter who\u2019s a three-time winner of Best Horror Screenplay at the NOVA International Film Festival, Best Psychological Horror Short Script at Hollywood Horrorfest, and on and on. Her most recent publications are the novel The Open Book<\/em>, accompanied by the related short story collection The Tales of Time<\/em>, which contains the short stories being read by — and feared by — the characters in that first book.<\/p>\n

We discussed the way she began her writing career selling poetry in parking lots, our differing experiences with hand selling our own books, the fears which keep horror writers up at night, the many misconceptions she had about the writing life back when she began, the uncomfortable novella she wrote when she was five, what our parents made of our horrific scribblings, the ever-present problem of dealing with rejection, our mutual love of pantsing, what should become of our papers, and much more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can join us — <\/p>\n

1) Subscribe at Apple Podcasts<\/a> — where I hope you’ll be tempted to sample a few of the 197 previous episodes.<\/p>\n

2) Listen via the RSS feed of http:\/\/eatingthefantastic.libsyn.com\/rss<\/a> on the device of your choice.<\/p>\n

3) Or simply use the embed below.<\/p>\n