Available on Amazon or at the Speculation Publications Website During the cold winter months, we mirror the Earth as she lies quiet, waiting for the return of warm days.
Yule: Tales for the Winter Solstice out today in Ebook
Lots of News on the Way
They say when it rains it pours but my goodness.
The Fifth Collection of Utter Speculation is Live today
Happy Anniversary Collections of Utter Spec! Five years ago Susan, River and I were in a small workshop with two other authors and we had an idea to put out an anthology together. We had so much fun (and a few fights) doing that first book and when it was all over we knew we... Continue Reading →
Cry Baby Bridge Author Interview: Jean Jentilet
I grew up very close to an infamous cry baby bridge. Nearly every urban legend we had where I grew up involved the bridge somehow. A lot of the feelings that I had about that bridge as a child made it into my story, especially the way it seemed to have two distinct natures.
Cry Baby Bridge Author Interview: Dori Lumpkin
It isn’t really a surprise to me that this legend is so especially pervasive. I think that it makes a lot of sense that we want to explain something tragic or traumatic with the supernatural. Grief is handled in so many different and interesting ways, and the creation of urban legends like the cry baby bridge is just one of them.
Cry Baby Bridge Author Interview: Jeff Provine
In my folklore research, I’ve come across some twenty different bridges in Oklahoma all claiming to be “the real” Cry Baby Bridge. One of them, which inspired my story, is the “Ghost Boy Bridge”
Cry Baby Bridge Author Interview: Cat Voleur
I’ve always been interested in local legends, and had heard of these bridges in the US all my life. Last year, when doing urban legend research for a different project, I found out how close I had grown up to one of the Cry Baby Bridges, and after a brief visit I felt compelled to write a story.
Cry Baby Bridge Author Interview: Ray Daley
follow writers in your genre and support them. Lift them when they are down, cheer their wins, commiserate their losses.
Cry Baby Bridge Author Interview: Ef Deal
I think the truth lies in the definition of a bridge as a passage; some people don’t quite make it across.
Cry Baby Bridge Author Interview: Brent Salish
When we consider a bridge, we cannot help but think of what it crosses. But what if we didn’t understand why the bridge existed?
LC W. Allingham 