by Lisa Kroger and Melanie R. Anderson
Lisa Kroger and Melanie R. Anderson, authors of MONSTER, SHE WROTE (Quirk Books), discuss women in the horror genre.
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April 29, 2025
<p dir="ltr">Tracy Cross is a dealer in dark fiction, her gripping stories featured in a range of podcasts and anthologies. Her debut novel, the gripping "Rootwork" (Dark Hart Publishing, November 2022), explores the strong bonds of family and draws on her own heritage in hoodoo. This is followed by "A Gathering of Weapons" (October 2024), the second book of the Rootwork series. Tracy resides in Washington, DC, where she is an active member of the Horror Writers Association. When she's not busy writing scary stories, she's dancing to disco. Keep up with her news and musings at her blog: <a href= "http://tracycwritesonline.com/">tracycwritesonline.com</a>. You can also follow her on Instagram @tracycrosswrites, on Bluesky @tracycrosswriter.bksy.social, and on Threads: @tracycrosswrites. </p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Recommended in this episode: <a href= "https://bookshop.org/a/105273/9781958598856">Rootwork</a> and <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/105273/9781958598382">A Gathering of Weapons</a> by Tracy Cross</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">NEWS: We have a <a href= "https://bookshop.org/shop/lisa-kroger">Bookshop.org shop</a> now! Find all of our favorite books at our shop–and help out small businesses. </p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">UP NEXT: <a href= "https://bookshop.org/a/105273/9780439023528">The Hunger Games</a> by Suzanne Collins</p> <p><strong id= "docs-internal-guid-ee3fec2e-7fff-c6b7-6855-0932f7e0ee08"><br /> Buy our books <a href= "https://bookshop.org/lists/lisa-s-and-mel-s-books">here</a>, including our newest <a href= "https://bookshop.org/a/105273/9781683692911">Toil and Trouble.</a></strong></p>
April 15, 2025
<p dir="ltr"><a href="https://bannedbooksweek.org/">Banned Books Week</a> (launched in 1982) is normally in September/October, but given the state of things, we thought it was a relevant topic. Buying physical copies of books, when you can, seems to be a smart thing to do.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">PEN estimates that book bans have doubled in the past year; h<a href= "https://act.pen.org/a/we-believe-fight-back-against-book-bans-tell-state-lawmakers?_gl=1*1nucn7e*_gcl_au*MjA5ODQ5ODg4MC4xNzQzNzI2MTQy*_ga*MTUxMTUxMTk4Ny4xNzQzNzI2MTQz*_ga_0RQGYGDH22*MTc0MzcyNjE0Mi4xLjEuMTc0MzcyNjU2Mi4zMC4wLjIwMTE4MjQ3MDU">ere’s where to fight that by sending a letter to state lawmakers. </a></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Some of our sources: Data from the <a href= "https://www.ala.org/bbooks/book-ban-data">ALA</a>; <a href= "https://uniteagainstbookbans.org/about/#:~:text=Unite%20Against%20Book%20Bans%20works,censorship%20attempts%20in%20their%20communities."> Unite Against Book Bans</a>; <a href="https://ncac.org/">National Coalition Against Censorship</a>; <a href="https://pen.org/">PEN America</a>; <a href= "https://www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/">Authors Against Book Bans </a></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Recommended in this episode: <a href= "https://bookshop.org/a/105273/9780063209879">B.R. Myers’s The Third Wife of Faraday House</a> and <a href= "https://bookshop.org/a/105273/9781683693956">Clay McLeod Chapman’s Wake Up and Open Your Eyes</a></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">NEWS: We have a <a href= "https://bookshop.org/shop/lisa-kroger">Bookshop.org shop</a> now! Find all of our favorite books at our shop–and help out small businesses. </p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">UP NEXT: <a href="https://tracycrossonline.com/">Tracy Cross</a></p> <p><strong id= "docs-internal-guid-83dd3b44-7fff-277f-e64f-04954a68268c"><br /> Buy our books <a href= "https://bookshop.org/lists/lisa-s-and-mel-s-books">here</a>, including our newest <a href= "https://bookshop.org/a/105273/9781683692911">Toil and Trouble.</a></strong></p>
April 1, 2025
<p dir="ltr">We are rerunning the classic episode to celebrate the upcoming release of Moths through Valancourt Books as part of their Monster, She Wrote series. <a href= "https://www.valancourtbooks.com/moths-1976.html">Preorders open now, shipping in July 2025!</a></p> <p dir="ltr">Rosalind Ashe’s Moths was marketed as a book for fans of Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca. And there are some similarities: a beautiful old estate with a crumbling wing. A young wife who moves in determined to make it her own. And a dead woman haunting the home that was once hers. But what would happen if Rebecca had possessed the body of the new wife? That’s what Ashe’s book posits. So join us as we discuss Moths.</p> <p dir="ltr">UP NEXT: an episode on banned books and then an interview with horror author Tracy Cross</p> <p> </p>
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