{"id":35421,"date":"2024-07-26T09:29:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T13:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/?p=35421"},"modified":"2024-07-26T09:29:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T13:29:03","slug":"chuck-tingle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2024\/07\/26\/chuck-tingle\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s time for tea and scones with Chuck Tingle in Episode 231 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to my guest on this episode of Eating the Fantastic, love is real. Actually, love is always<\/em> real on this podcast, it\u2019s just that this time around, that message comes through even louder than ever.<\/p>\n

My second guest coming to you from this year’s StokerCon in San Diego, California — following last episode’s Ai Jiang<\/a> — is Chuck Tingle, who first came to prominence with such erotica of the fantastic as Pounded by President Bigfoot<\/em> and Taken by the Gay Unicorn Biker<\/em>, work which eventually led to two Hugo Award nominations. The USA Today\u00a0bestselling novel Camp Damascus<\/em> \u2014 his first traditionally published horror novel \u2014 was a Bram Stoker Award finalist this year, and his second horror novel, Bury Your Gays<\/em>, was released earlier this month on July 9th. Both books were published by Tor Nightfire. <\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how he describes himself: “He is a mysterious force of energy behind sunglasses and a pink mask. He is also an anonymous author of romance, horror, and fantasy. Chuck was born in Home of Truth, Utah, and now splits time between Billings, Montana and Los Angeles, California. Chuck writes to prove love is real, because love is the most important tool we have when resisting the endless cosmic void. Not everything people say about Chuck is true, but the important parts are.”<\/p>\n

We discussed how existing is an arrogant act against the forces of the infinite, why it’s horror rather than comedy which warms his heart, how he used social media to find a publisher for Camp Damascus<\/em> (and why that technique probably won’t work for you), how to write horror about a gay conversion camp without retraumatizing in an already traumatizing world, the differences between cathartic horror and grueling horror (and why he’s more interested in the former), the intriguing comment his copyeditor made about a reference to Superman, which comics subgenre occupies the most space on his bookshelves, the five creators who’ve most influenced him (and my encounter with one of them during the ’70s), how art is more than what’s between the covers of a book or within the frame of a painting, what most people get wrong about the term “high concept,” and much more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can join us for tea and scones — <\/p>\n

1) Subscribe at Apple Podcasts<\/a> — or wherever<\/a> you choose to consume your podcasts — where I hope you’ll be tempted to sample a few of the 230 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