Of the Publishing Persuasion - Aussie Queens Celebration Episode!!!

IT'S THE EPISODE YOU'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR!!! A very spooky celebration with these three glorious Australians, Claire Low 🐨 Katya de Becerra🦘 and your very own cloaca queen, Melanie Schubert🐙 
This episode is everything. Laughter, tears, chaos. But most of all it's a celebration of the happy fact that these three Aussie icons all have stories coming out in the brand new Castle of Horror anthology Volume 11 REVENGE. Their stories are chilling, powerful and not to be missed !
We can't wait for you all to tune in! You can find the anthology here:

Get your copy of the anthology here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CZZHLG8D

Add the Anthology to Goodreads here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210919703-castle-of-horror-anthology-volume-11

And now, a bit about our authors!

Claire Engkaninan Low, or just Claire Low, is a Sydney-based visual artist and writer living on Cammeraygal land. Claire's work connects with themes of horror, sustainability and her identity as an Asian Australian. Her recent artwork All Monsters Are Real won the Reused/Recycled Materials Award in the 2023 Reimagine Art Prize. The same piece, a skateboard deck that imitates a Ming dynasty scroll, was a finalist for the 2023 National Emerging Art Prize – and is a finalist in the 2024 North Sydney Art Prize. Claire exhibits work alongside other artists of the Wet Paint Collective around Sydney's Inner West. Her most recent written work, a short story titled After I Found Her, features in Clan Destine Press' horror anthology This Fresh Hell. After I Found Her is shortlisted for an Australasian Shadows Award. This Fresh Hell is among the publisher's spec fic bestsellers ✨️✨️

Find Claire on her website: https://www.clairelow.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clairelow_/

Katya de Becerra writes atmospheric horror and mystery featuring determined characters, complicated families and enigmatic places. Critics called her debut What The Woods Keep “a thoughtful and compelling horror fantasy” (The Bulletin) and “a narrative that will keep readers enthralled” (Booklist), while her second novel Oasis earned a starred review from Booklist. Katya regularly publishes short fiction in anthologies and literary magazines. She is also co-editor of the bestselling anthology This Fresh Hell, which reimagines and subverts horror tropes in new and unexpected ways. As a child, Katya wanted to be an Egyptologist, but instead she earned a PhD in Cultural Anthropology and now works at a university, where she teaches and researches as well as supervises graduate students in Anthropology, Creative Writing and Education. Katya is a short version of her real name, which is very long and gets mispronounced a lot. Her third novel, When Ghosts Call Us Home, received two starred reviews, with Kirkus Reviews calling it “haunting, intense, and eerily spooky” and including it in its Best of 2023 list.

Katya's website: https://katyadebecerra.com/

Katya's IG: https://www.instagram.com/katyadebecerra/

Melanie Schubert is a Croatian Australian who writes about badass anxious characters who do it scared. She is a host and a creator of the writing podcast: Of the Publishing Persuasion, together with her wildly talented and hilarious co-host Angela Montoya. She has written multiple musical productions for the New Zealand performing arts company Gobsmacked for large scale stage productions. She lives with her biscuit of a husband and one highly opinionated French Bulldog in Melbourne Australia, but a piece of her heart is always in Japan 💘

Melanie's IG: https://www.instagram.com/melanie_schubert_writer/

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