If Walls Could Talk: Tis the Season to Find Balance!
Hi, my name is Mary Helen and I’m a procrastinator. Sure, I start stuff months in advance and then when I hit a creative wall, I decide to push it off until I can’t anymore. But, I also have come to
Totmann’s Curve: a Sockhops & Seances Interview with Jon Black!
Please tell us a bit about your story! “Totmann’s Curve” is a fast-paced tale of ghosts, teenage hot-rodding, and evil sorcerers worshiping dark entities, set in the 1950s Texas Hill Country. After the tragic deaths of two teens during an illegal
The DeSoto Ghost: a Sockhops & Seances Interview with M. Lopes da Silva!
Please tell us a bit about your story! I love ghosts and ghost stories in a huddle-around-the-campfire way, but the story I wrote for Sockhops & Seances is not a fun one. I think I wanted to tell that kind of
Khloros: a Sockhops & Seances Interview with David M. Hoenig
Please tell us a bit about your story! Joshua and Avi are good friends, caddying for celebrities in Monticello, New York, in the heyday of the Catskills. When Avi tells his best friend about the strange thing he found out on
The Fishers of Men: a Sockhops & Seances Interview with Jackson Kuhl!
Please tell us a bit about your story. What inspired it? The great thing about writing historical fiction is that the well of inspiration is bottomless. Wherever you live, there’s some bit of surrounding history largely unknown outside of the area
If Walls Could Talk: What Inspires You?
It feels like it’s been a bit since I last came and sat on the wall and chatted with you. Let's cut right to the chase: I’m going to chat with you about something I spent the entire Summer and
The Case that Baffled the Boy: a Sockhops & Seances Interview with Joshua Wanisko!
Please tell us a bit about your story! "The Case That Baffled the Boy" is a collection of three short stories of an unusual boy who solves mysteries in the small harbor town of Greenville to pass the time while
Unquiet in the Earth: a Sockhops & Seances Interview with Josh Reynolds!
Please tell us a bit about your story! “Unquiet in the Earth” is the latest entry in the long-running Royal Occultist series. It catches up with an older, wiser Ebe Gallowglass in the 1950s, as she and her assistants deal with
Bottles: a Sockhops & Seances Interview with James Dorr!
Please tell us a bit about your story! “Bottles” is about a young Puerto Rican woman during the Cold War in 1958 Cambridge, Massachusetts. Employed as a maid by an elderly man with what sounds to her like a Russian accent,
Joe Meek Inherits the Earth: a Sockhops & Seances Interview with Richard Sheppard!
Please tell us a bit about your story! ‘Joe Meek Inherits the Earth’ is a detective story set in London in 1952. The detective is a former American GI who decided to stay in London after demobilization. He his hired to