Jesse Teller

Author: jesseteller

  • The Friday 13 with Richard Nell

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    Richard Nell concerned family and friends by quitting his real job in 2014 to ‘write full-time’. He is a Canadian author of fantasy, living in one of the flattest, coldest places on earth with his begrudging wife, who makes sure he eats. His debut novel, Kings of Paradise, is the first of an epic, coming-of-age,…

  • Volacha

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    “What do you love?” I asked her. She was African-American, pretty, a bit thick in the right places, with a beautiful sundress and immaculate hair. She was tall, and barefoot, with an angry face and a bag over her shoulder. She was having a bad day, I could tell by her body language, and she…

  • Epic?

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    There is a form of art that has always inspired me. When I think of the amount of work that would be put into such a piece, it humbles me. This form is the epic poem, or epic ballad. The form demands a few features. First it is written in verse. Often there is a…

  • The Friday 13 with Christine E. MacKenzie

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    Christine E. Mackenzie grew up in Bavaria/Germany and moved to the United States in her mid-twenties. Having started out as a journalist for magazines, she later received a job offer writing for Australian Consolidated Press, based in Sydney/ New South Wales, owned by media baron Kerry Packer. By then already married to a world-class Polo player, she…

  • To Destroy Something Beautiful

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    It wasn’t long before Harvard read for Writers Club. To my recollection he read in Writers Club twice. This first time, it was a poem. It was dark, gritty. It gave off a rotting smell, had sour breath. It was a poem that made you feel like being other places, a poem to curl the…

  • The Friday 13 with David Hambling

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    David Hambling is an author and science/technology journalist based in South London. He writes for New Scientist magazine, The Economist, WIRED, Popular Mechanics, The Guardian newspaper and others. 2018 will see the release of “Master of Chaos”, fourth in the Harry Stubbs series of Mythos adventures, as well as the nonfiction “We: Robot – The…

  • The Friday 13 with Chrys Cymri

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    Priest by day, writer at odd times of the day and night, Chrys lives with a small green parrot called Tilly because the upkeep for a dragon is beyond her current budget. Plus she’s responsible for making good any flame damage to church property. She loves ‘Doctor Who’, landscape photography, single malt whisky, and her…

  • No Man

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    The house was a corpse. Hot and damp, the room had the smell of a disheveled man, a man who had other things to worry about. The house was black. Even the street light was dead outside the window, and no one could see anything except the horrified flame of the withering candle set by…

  • The Friday 13 with Melissa A. Joy

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    Melissa A. Joy is a new fantasy author who challenges the conventional expectations of fantasy and takes them to a whole new level. It is no secret that she believes in the existence of all things fantastical, and that anything is possible. She began building the world of Aeldynn and started writing seriously aged approximately…

  • The Friday 13 with Yvette Bostic

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    Yvette lives in the beautiful mountains of West Virginia. During the day she has a full-time career, but when she gets home and kicks off her shoes she becomes absorbed in her next novel. She enjoys the company of her ever-patient husband who believes she’s lost in her computer, and three dogs who are the…