Combating Isolation Blues - How to Find Your People in Genre Communities

Russ Colchamiro

Host Russ Colchamiro discusses combating isolation in genre communities w authors Hildy Silverman, Bracken MacLeod and Michelle Renee Lane

BRACKEN MACLEOD is the Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Award nominated author of the novels, Mountain Home, Come to Dust, Stranded, and Closing Costs. He’s also published two collections of short fiction, 13 Views of the Suicide Woods and White Knight and Other Pawns. Before devoting himself to full time writing, he worked as a civil and criminal litigator, a university philosophy instructor, and a martial arts teacher. He lives in the MetroWest area with his wife and son, where he is at work on his next novel. MICHELLE RENEE LANE is a speculative fiction writer born and raised in the middle of nowhere Pennsylvania. She misspent her youth consuming vampire fiction, climbing into strangers’ cars, exploring abandoned buildings, reading Tarot cards, dropping acid, befriending skaters and skinheads, and consulting the dead with a Ouija board. Michelle writes cautionary tales about the perils of falling in love with monsters. Her short fiction appears in several anthologies, and her Bram Stoker Award nominated debut novel, Invisible Chains (2019), is available from Haverhill House Publishing. The Spanish language translation, Cadenas Invisibles (2022), is available from Dilatando Mentes Editorial. Book one of her erotic paranormal romance series, The Courtship of Nora Fagan (2022), is available from Stardust Romance. She holds an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University. HILDY SILVERMAN was the Editor-in-Chief of Space and Time Magazine for 12 years. She is a short fiction author whose recent publications include, "My Dear Wa'ats" (2018, Baker Street Irregulars II: The Game's Afoot, Ventrella &amp; Maberry, eds.), "The Lady of the Lakes" (2018, Camelot 13, French and Thomas, eds.), "Sidekicked" (2019, Release the Virgins, Ventrella, ed.), and “Divided We Fell” (2020, The Divided States of America, Bechtel, ed.). Her nonfiction articles have appeared in numerous legal and medical professional journals and blogs. In the mundane world, she is the Digital Marketing Manager for Oticon Medical US. RUSS COLCHAMIRO is author of the Sci-Fi mysteries Crackle and Fire, Fractured Lives, Hot Ash, and Blunt Force Rising, the ongoing series featuring hardboiled private eye Angela Hardwicke. Russ is also the author of the rollicking time travel/space adventure, Crossline, the SF/F backpacking comedy series Finders Keepers: The Definitive Edition, Genius de Milo, and Astropalooza, is the editor of the Sci-Fi mystery anthology Love, Murder &amp; Mayhem, and co-author and -editor of the noir anthology Murder in Montague Falls.A member of The Mystery Writers Association, The Private Eye Writers of America, Horror Writers Association, and the author collective Crazy 8 Press, Russ also hosts and produces his Russ’s Rockin’ Rollercoaster podcast, where he interviews best-selling and up-and-coming Sci-Fi, fantasy, crime, mystery, and horror authors.He lives in New Jersey with his wife, twin ninjas, black lab, Jinx, and precocious kitten, Callie.

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