An Interview with Suzanne Church
TT: What is your name?
SC:Suzanne Church
TT: What is your current location?
SC:Kitchener, Ontario
TT: What is the name of your story in Tesseracts Fourteen Strange
Canadian Stories?
SC:Destiny Lives in the Tattoo's Needle
TT: What inspired you to write your story?
SC:A writer friend of mine challenged me to use the words "sage grass" in a
story. At the same time, Steampunk as a genre was just beginning to gain
attention and I wanted to write a story that had an airship in it. The two
prompts morphed into this story.
TT: Since this collection is about Strange Canadian Stories, what is one
of the strangest things that has ever happened to you personally?
SC:Years ago, I was out running on a hot and muggy summer's day in Muskoka.
Near the end of the run, I caught sight of someone walking in the other
direction on the other side of the road. Her skin was so grey, she looked
like either (a) she was about to die of some nasty disease that should have
taken her long before, (b) she had caked herself with makeup, or (c) she was
a ghost. I remember being totally creeped out. Luckily, she was on the other
side of the street, so I didn't have to interact with her directly. She
smiled at me, though, and it was one of those eerie smiles that makes you
feel like you need a shower after. Maybe it was the heat and the
over-exertion of the run? M
Maybe she was a ghost, because at the end of that road is an abandoned
hospital, which at the turn of the century was a sanatorium, and for decades
after, was a mental institution?
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When Suzanne Church isn't chasing characters through other realms, she's
hanging with her two sons. She has been writing Science Fiction, Fantasy,
and Horror since 2002, and grows more enamoured of the process every year.
When cornered she becomes fiercely Canadian. Her short stories have appeared
in Cicada and On Spec, and in several anthologies including Tesseracts 13
and 14, and the forthcoming Chilling Tales. Read more at
www.suzannechurch.com.
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On the Fifteenth Day of Tesseracts: An Interview with Catherine MacLeod
TT:What is your current location:
CM:Nova Scotia
TT:What inspired you to write this story?
CM: It started with a typo. I'd emailed a friend, saying I was looking for "Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde" on DVD, and noticed I'd written "Hydes." An image of dark-furred creatures standing in a field popped into my head, a chickadee started singing outside my window, and everthing else sort of tumbled into place.
TT: What is one of the strangest things that has ever happened to you personally?
CM: Seeing my grandmother walk through our dining room two years after she'd died.
TT:A strange question you'd like to ask other authors?
CM: What's the very *first* strange thing you can ever remember happening to you?
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Catherine MacLeod was recently a guest blogger on Tor.com, which may or may not be a sign of the apocalypse. This fall, after 20 years of trying, she finally made it all the way through "Night of the Living Dead."
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TT:What is your current location?
JP:Ottawa
TT:What is the name of your story:(name of the anthology)
JP:Nightward (Tesseracts Fourteen)
TT:What inspired you to write your story?
JP:Reference to life on a slowly rotating planet in something I was reading a
dozen or more years ago, plus a lot of trial and error.
TT:Since this collection is about Strange Canadian Stories, what is one
of the strangest things that has ever happened to you personally?
JP:Walking home from a party with a friend early one morning and being
spontaneously offered free pizza by a delivery man, about thirty seconds
after we'd mused aloud about much we'd like a pizza right then. (We tried
the same thing with a Brink's truck, but it didn't work.)
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On the Fifteenth Day of Tesseracts: An Interview with Brett Alexander Savory
Brett Alexander Savory co editor of Tesseracts Fourteen.
TT: Your current location: BAS:Toronto
TT: What inspired you to theme the anthology in this way and select the authors for this anthology etc)
BAS: "Strange Canadian Stories" was pretty broad and invited a lot of variance without going too broad and getting stuff that wasn't strange enough. If that makes any sense.
TT: Since this collection is about Strange Canadian Stories, what is one of the strangest things that has ever happened to you personally?
BAS: One of the strangest things that has ever happened to me was seeing and hearing ghosts for hours at a time when I was young. Scared the living hell out of me when it was happening, but now just seems like a faraway memory, as if it happened to someone else.
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Brett Alexander Savory is the Bram Stoker Award-winning Editor-in-Chief of ChiZine: Treatments of Light and Shade in Words (which has been in operation since 1997), Co-publisher of ChiZine Publications, has had nearly 50 short stories published, and has written two novels. In 2006, Necro Publications released his horror-comedy novel, The Distance Travelled. September 2007 saw the release of his dark literary novel, In and Down, through Brindle & Glass. His first short story collection, No Further Messages, was released in November 2007 through Delirium Books. He is now at work on his third novel, Lake of Spaces, Wood of Nothing. Savory is represented by The Carolyn Swayze Literary Agency. He lives in Toronto with his wife, writer/editor Sandra Kasturi.
