DEREK AUSTIN JOHNSON
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This was nice to wake up to. Inkd Publishing has nominated my story "Day of the Devilfish for the Pushcart Prize. The story is my attempt to answer the question of what John Steinbeck's fiction would have looked like if it had been published by Weird Tales. The book also includes stories by Rachel Roth, Armand Rosamilia, A. M. Sutter, Ross Baxter, and Kelli Dianne Rule, among many others. You can pick up physical copies here, here, and here.
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Recently I attended the Con-Tinual Panel Room with Gini Koch, Marx Pyle, Fraser Sherman, Carole M Stokes/Ellis Colton, and host James P. Nettles III as we looked at Lovecraft stories, adaptations, inspired works, and the themes driving cosmic horror.  
On April 23, 2024, Mike Davis of the Lovecraft eZine Podcast interviewed me. I love the Lovecraft eZine. If you are not a member of their Patreon, you owe it to yourself to join.
In 2022, Rebecca Rowland edited the fantastic anthology Generation X-ed, which includes writers such as Crystal O'Leary Davidson, Douglas Ford, Holly Rae Garcia, Eldon Litchfield, and Erica Ruppert, among many others. One of the features of the anthology included a headshot and brief notes from each author on a singular experience as a Gen X'er. My small bit of autobiography concerns my first exposure to John Carpenter's Halloween. Enjoy!
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