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Writers, After Dark #89: Kate M. Williams Babysitters, magic and which tropes to follow and break

Writers, After Dark #89: Kate M. Williams Babysitters, magic and which tropes to follow and break

by Summer Brooks | April 4, 2021 Leave a Comment

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Journalist and YA author Kate M. Williams stops by to talk about her debut fantasy trilogy, “The Babysitter’s Coven”, and the recently released second novel, For Better or Cursed.

Kate talks about where the ideas for the series came from, and the types of relationships between the babysitters and the groups of adults in their lives, along with dealing with the supernatural elements they have to battle along the way.

She also talks about how Stephen King’s “On Writing” took her down the worst possible writing path for her style, plus writing advice that has worked for her, on being a Scrivener fan and much more.

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    Summer Brooks

    Summer Brooks enjoys putting her additiocn to sci-fi & horror stories to good use in interviewing guests. She is a long-time podcaster, in several roles (co-host , host and producer) for Slice of SciFi since 2005, as co-host for The Babylon Podcast since 2006, and host of Writers, After Dark since 2018. She is an avid reader and writer of sci-fi, fantasy, and thrillers, with a handful of publishing credits to her name. Next on her agenda is writing a graphic novel urban fantasy, and a B-movie creature feature. Summer also does story narrations for Tales to Terrify, StarShip Sofa, and Escape Pod, among others.

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