Episode 5: Erica Waters
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Erica Waters grew up in the pine woods of rural Florida, though she now resides in Nashville, Tennessee. She has a Master’s degree in English and works as a university writing tutor. She writes dark fantasy and horror set in the South. Her most recent novel, The River Has Teeth, won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel and was also an Indie Next pick and a Kirkus Best Young Adult Book of 2021. Erica’s other works include Ghost Wood Song and her forthcoming novel, The Restless Dark. She is also a contributor to the bestselling folk horror anthology The Gathering Dark.
In this episode:
Goosebumps Series by R.L. Stein
John Saul
Shadows by John Saul
Shadow and Bone Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo
Daughter of Smoke and Bone Series by Laini Taylor
Emily Dickenson
Raymond Carver
The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner
Nutmeg & Luna - Erica’s dogs
Pitch Wars
The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle Series) by Maggie Stiefvater
The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
Lauren Spieller - literary agent at TriadaUS Literary Agency
Alice Jerman (Erica’s editor at HarperTeen)
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody
Save the Cat! Writes a Young Adult Novel: The Ultimate Guide to Writing a Young Adult Bestseller by Jessica Brody (coming 2023)
The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror (with special shoutouts to: editor Tori Bovalino and contributors Aden Polydoros, Courtney Gould, Shakira Toussaint, and Hannah F. Whitten)
It Looks Like Us by Alison Ames
Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White
The restless Dark
October 4, 2022
Enter Cloudkiss Canyon at your own risk.
Sadie meets Wilder Girls in this unnerving tale about the struggle for survival, the twisted satisfaction of revenge, and the darkness hiding in all of us.
The Cloudkiss Killer is dead. Now a true-crime podcast is hosting a contest to find his bones.
Lucy was almost the serial killer’s final victim. Carolina is a true-crime fan who fears her own rage. Maggie is a psychology student with a little too much to hide.
All of them are looking for answers, for a new identity, for a place to bury their secrets.
But there are more than bones hiding in the shadows…sometimes the darkness inside is more frightening than anything the dead leave behind.
-HarperTeen/HarperCollins-
Previously Published
Ghost Wood Song
The River Has Teeth
The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror
“Stay”