Read Me A Nightmare

By: Angelique Fawns
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  • "Read Me A Nightmare" brings strange short stories to life. A fan of Twilight Zone? Tales from the Crypt? Mixing genres, these tales come from the realms of sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and comedy. A writer yourself? Stay tuned after the readings for interviews with editors, publishers, voice actors and other interesting folks in the industry. Visit www.fawns.ca to learn more. Please --if you enjoy the episode, leave a review!

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  • 52 A Monstrous Bid by Robert F. Lowell

    52 A Monstrous Bid by Robert F. Lowell
    Apr 25 2025
    How do you win Writers of the Future and what happens in Hollywood? This podcast features a short story read by the author, Robert F. Lowell.A Monstrous Bid was originally published in Flash Fiction Online in Feb 2024, can be read here:https://flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2024/02/19/a-monstrous-bid/Robert F. Lowell (Fred) is a friend from my writing group, and he just returned from the Writers of the Future gala because his story was a winner and can be found in Volume 41, which was just released! We’ve also shared a TOC in the LTUE anthology Dog Save The King.Here is his self-written bio:In previous professional lives, Robert researched and wrote about international relations, weapons of mass destruction, and terrorism. He taught at universities in the US, Costa Rica, and Switzerland and was kissed by a dancing horse in Siberia. Now he expands the universe of online learning as an instructional systems designer and writes about swords, sorcery, robots, aliens, and magic rabbits as a member of the Wulf Pack Writers Group. He, his Lady Wife, and at least one dog live in a town with very expensive weather on California’s Central Coast and travel in search of enchantment. His friends call him Fred.Thanks for reading Writing & Selling Stories with Angelique Fawns! This post is public so feel free to share it.Get your bidding card ready, and let’s listen to this short sci-fi story before we peek behind the curtain at the Hollywood gala for Writer’s of the Future winners. A chat with recent WofF Winner, Robert F. Lowell AF: Our listeners have just heard “A Monstrous Bid”, can you tell them about your inspiration for the story?R.F.L.: A couple of years ago, Scott Noel, the editor of DreamForge, who’s a great guy, put out a call for stories featuring futures where material scarcity was a thing of the past. Of course I immediately thought, if there’s no scarcity, if everybody has everything they want, what conflicts could still exist that would make interesting stories? Would there still be any material things, or non-material things like status, that people would fight for? About the same time, Lady Lowell, my brother-in-law and his wife, and I went to an auction for vintage and classic cars. That made me think, what would people bid if there was no need for money? And those two ideas came together.BTW, I have another car-related story in the anthology “Magic Malfunction,” which debuted this month from Raconteur Press.AF: You just returned from your week in Hollywood! Give us an insider’s scoop of what happened there.R.F.L.: Writers of the Future is the world’s biggest amateur talent search for speculative fiction authors. There’s a parallel competition for illustrators. I was blessed to be one of the winners last year. There is a monetary prize, but the biggest prize by far is the weekend workshop in Hollywood. It was led by Jody Lynn Nye and Tim Powers, with contributions from giants of science fiction and fantasy, including Larry Niven, whose stories got me hooked on SF, Orson Scott Card, Katherine Kurtz, Kevin J. Anderson, Robert J. Sawyer, Mark Leslie Lefebvre. It was intense – sometimes they had us going from 8:30 until midnight. It ends with a gala dinner and awards ceremony, like the Oscars except more fun, where they announce the grand prize winners. My story “Kill Switch” didn’t win the Golden Pen, but my artist Jordan Smajstrla won for her absolutely brilliant illustration for my story.Seeing her illustration at the art reveal was the best part of the workshop for me. The worst part was the 24-hour story, because I like to plan my stories and let them simmer after I write a good draft. but I got through that and proved to myself that I could do it.AF: Tell us about your writing journey and your strategy for winning this contest?R.F.L.: I’ve been writing non-fiction for almost 40 years for various jobs and published a number of books and papers, but I’d always wanted to write a book that I would actually enjoy reading, and hope others would enjoy too. When covid hit, two things came together. One was that I started running online Dungeons & Dragons games, which I hadn’t done for decades, for my friends because we couldn’t get together in person. That got me thinking, “I’m spending so much time and energy designing characters and coming up with plots for a few friends, whom I love, why am I not doing that for readers? Second, covid marked the first time that I seriously thought I might die very soon, so if I was ever going to achieve my ambitions for writing, I better get started. So I took a creative writing class, went to the Life, the Universe, and Everything symposium for SFF creators when that began again after covid, found a great writers group in the Wulf Pack Writers, and started submitting stories to Writers of the Future.For “Kill Switch,” I was experimenting with different genres and mashups of genres, and thought I’d try a hard-boiled ...
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  • Selling Stories to Writers of the Future

    Selling Stories to Writers of the Future
    Feb 28 2025

    How do you win Writers of the Future?

    Coordinating Judge Judy Lynn Nye answers a selection of questions put together by the Wulf Pack writing group.

    ADDED BONUS. Jody Lynn Nye also reads her story "Superstition."
    Superstition first appeared in Furry Fantastic an anthology featuring otherworldly animals published in October 2006.
    You can also find this story in her collection Cats Triumphant.

    Jody Lynn Nye is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of fantasy and science fiction books and short stories, many of them with a humorous bent.

    Before breaking away from gainful employment to write full time, Jody worked as a file clerk, book-keeper at a small publishing house, freelance journalist and photographer, accounting assistant and costume maker.

    For four years, she was on the technical operations staff of a local Chicago television station, WFBN (WGBO), serving the last year as Technical Operations Manager.

    In 2016, Jody joined the judging staff of the Writers of the Future contest, the world’s largest science fiction and fantasy writing contest for new authors. She is now its Coordinating Judge.

    Learn more here:
    https://jodynye.com/

    Enter the writing contest here:
    Writers of the Future

    Check out the latest anthology here:
    L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Vol. 39

    Grab your favorite black cat, and let's curl up for a dark story with Jody Lynn Nye.



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  • 51 Wyatt & the Whog + Rachel Luttrell!

    51 Wyatt & the Whog + Rachel Luttrell!
    Dec 23 2024

    This episode originally aired on Read Me A Nightmare 3 years ago! But I am sure many of you missed this magical and fun performance.

    Rachel Luttrell is not only an award-winning actor, but also my very best friend. Listen to the story and stay tuned afterward for a conversation about acting, life, and our friendship.

    NOW for the story:

    Wyatt is having the baddest of all bad days...And when he gets sucked into a magical world,it's about to become wildly worse. Read by Rachel LuttrellThis story is rated "PG"Wyatt & the Whog was written by Angelique Fawns and first published in the Mannison Press anthology, "Little Boy Lost". Rachel Luttrell is an actor and singer, and my lifelong best friend. She was born in Tanzania but moved to Toronto at the age of five. She's accomplished many wonderful things in her life, including performing the role of kick-ass warrior Teyla Emmagan in Stargate Atlantis. Check out her website and acting school at

    https://www.rachelluttrellstudio.com

    A few questions with Rachel Luttrell:

    AF: I love how engaged you were with the character, and I know you are voicing a novel for an author right now. What is it that you love about voice work?

    RL: I love VO because you can inhabit characters that you would never get the chance to perform on camera. I have always loved singing and playing with my voice is an extension of that. VO allows for that kind of play!

    AF: What kind character is your favourite to portray?

    RL: Hmmmm… my favorite character… That’s a tricky one. So many characters. Some intriguing with little screen time. Some on stage some on camera. There are even characters that I have only had the privilege of performing in class that I loved. But the character of Teyla was very fulfilling and fun. Teyla has certainly brought me the most love back. I am eternally grateful for that.

    AF: What did you think of Wyatt & the Whog? (gratuitous begging for compliments here. Lol.)

    RL: This story was so fun! My daughter, Ridley, just loved it. She wanted more! I love that it’s so accessible for all ages. What’s going to happen next? It reminds me of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. Stumbling into a new dangerous realm as told from the perspective of a child.

    Thank you so much for joining Rachel and I today! If you want to learn more about her acting, cooking, and lifestyle, join her Substack here!



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