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Title: Are there any horror comedy writers here? Wanna team up?
Post by: DmGuay on August 20, 2019, 11:09:00 PM

Hi all.

Are there any other horror comedy writers here?

(think books like: John Dies at the End, Practical Demonkeeping. Authors like A. Lee Martinez and Christopher Moore.) 

If so, reply here. I'm hoping we can create a team and work together on fun and targeted promotions, etc. to build each other up in this niche market. I'm thinking Story Origin promos together, blog tours with each other, newsletter swaps, and whatever else we can come up with.


Yes, in my signature, my first series is UF. Ignore that. My new series is straight-up horror comedy, and that's the direction my career is taking me for the foreseeable future.

Title: Re: Are there any horror comedy writers here? Wanna team up?
Post by: Post-Doctorate D on August 21, 2019, 12:59:57 AM

Maybe-ish?

I have pretty much stalled on Dan's Lame Horror Novel, but my last novel (currently in the hands of my beta reader) has vampires so I guess it's horror-ish.  It started as humor but then took some dark turns, so I don't know what it is anymore.  Still has humor throughout, hopefully.  Sometimes I felt the humor wasn't as funny as I hoped, but waiting to see what my beta reader thinks of it.

Title: Re: Are there any horror comedy writers here? Wanna team up?
Post by: DmGuay on August 21, 2019, 01:20:27 AM

Sounds like you're suffering from genre disorientation.  grint

Horror comedy examples:

If your novel is similar to things like
Any book by A. Lee. Martinez (Gil's All Fright Diner. Helen and Troy's Epic Road Quest)
Any book by Christopher Moore (Practical Demonkeeping. The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove.)

Or movies / TV shows like
Ash vs Evil Dead/ Evil Dead 2.
Shaun of the Dead
What We Do In the Shadows

That's all horror comedy.

Also, is this the direction you're heading in?

I've spent a lot of time assessing where my WIP fit in the bigger world of literature lately and this ^^^ is what I've come up with!

Title: Re: Are there any horror comedy writers here? Wanna team up?
Post by: Post-Doctorate D on August 21, 2019, 01:49:23 AM

Dan's Lame Horror Novel, when/if I ever finish it, definitely fits along those lines.

The one with the vampires, I'm not sure.  I've been considering it as epic fantasy, but that may not be entirely true either.   :icon_think:

Title: Re: Are there any horror comedy writers here? Wanna team up?
Post by: The Doctor on August 21, 2019, 02:31:41 AM

I'm writing a horror comedy at the moment, though it's probably not as laugh-out-loud as Shaun of the Dead, though it has the same kind of British humour.

I may have mentioned it already somewhere on the site, but it's about a sweary Scottish vampire nicknamed Jockula. He is the supposed target of A Chosen One who can't be bothered to play the heroine, and features a bubblebath-loving Nosferatu in a shellsuit.  grint