Oct 9, 2026 · 59 min · 17 segments
"If we don't define the canon, someone will define it for us." That line, from Dr. Chesya Burke, became the organizing principle behind an anthology that started as a phone call between two old…
Chesya BurkeGuestDaniel WillcocksHost
Maurice BroaddusGuestOutside of this podcast, I have a lot of book stuff in the pipeline that I am working on.
So for people who would like to get their hands on some incredible horror books from some amazing publishers and amazing independent authors, head on over to devilsrockbooks.com forward slash Halloween hyphen 2026.
And we've got like 40 odd books there, all that have been slashed down to rock bottom price.
We have Julie Heiner, people who have been on the show before, which is very, very exciting.
So if you're listening to this on the day it comes out or in the first couple of days.
You have until midnight on Sunday, the 11th of October to get your hands on those books before all the prices shoot back up and your Kindle is sad because it hasn't got its horror fix for this Halloween season.
Outside of that, I have my brand new book comes out on the 14th of October for people who like really, really twisted dark reads.
Apart from the fact that Amazon adds the not for resale banner around it when you get your author print copy.
And in all honesty, I got a bit of some of that sort of publishing paralysis that comes with, I think I've had conversations with them.
A lot of authors have been around for as long as I have now about that moment where you realize that you know so much that you then paralyze yourself with trying to do everything perfectly.
And I've just done everything I can in the way that I can in a deadline that I gave myself to get this book out.
I'm getting really, really, really good feedback from ARC readers, which is awesome because I would argue that this is probably the closest I've gotten so far to the type of stuff that I wanted to write on a big permanent basis.
Outside of this podcast, I have a lot of book stuff in the pipeline that I am working on.
So for people who would like to get their hands on some incredible horror books from some amazing publishers and amazing independent authors, head on over to devilsrockbooks.com forward slash Halloween hyphen 2026.
And we've got like 40 odd books there, all that have been slashed down to rock bottom price.
We have Julie Heiner, people who have been on the show before, which is very, very exciting.
So if you're listening to this on the day it comes out or in the first couple of days.
You have until midnight on Sunday, the 11th of October to get your hands on those books before all the prices shoot back up and your Kindle is sad because it hasn't got its horror fix for this Halloween season.
Outside of that, I have my brand new book comes out on the 14th of October for people who like really, really twisted dark reads.
Apart from the fact that Amazon adds the not for resale banner around it when you get your author print copy.
And in all honesty, I got a bit of some of that sort of publishing paralysis that comes with, I think I've had conversations with them.
A lot of authors have been around for as long as I have now about that moment where you realize that you know so much that you then paralyze yourself with trying to do everything perfectly.
And I've just done everything I can in the way that I can in a deadline that I gave myself to get this book out.
I'm getting really, really, really good feedback from ARC readers, which is awesome because I would argue that this is probably the closest I've gotten so far to the type of stuff that I wanted to write on a big permanent basis.
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