“The more effective you are as a torturer, the better the story is for your reader.”
“Your job is to muffle the clank of your characters’ manacles.”
“It’s never a good idea to outsource your own thinking.”
—Alex Jablokov
“What didn’t work for me…”
“A bottled unicorn fart is priceless.”
—Arley
“I feel her love for her goat.”
“Fae! Yea!”
—Brigitte
“What would Jeanne do?”
“Dark Lloyd returns!”
“Why did I become a writer?…Because I confused the pleasure of reading with the act of writing. I was wrong.”
—Cecilia
“Cavelosian moment of genius. C-MOG.”
“I’m a little disappointed. I thought we were going to get a tavern and we didn’t.”
“I love the bacon stripping of the guy.”
“Ideasplosions.”
“Semicolon linkage.”
“Is it wrong if I’m jealous of your novums?”
“The dastardly guy whose name I can’t pronounce.”
“I’ve never heard of a child skinner and I thought that was a nice take.”
—Chip
“The darkness was just lovely.”
“There’s a lot of thesaurus work here.”
“I was disappointed when the stew wasn’t made from the villager. Please make him eat her.”
“I’m not a time master.”
“A cherry of hope.”
“Gamey with a sweet marble, like the flesh of a dwarf.”
“The stew should be made from the old lady.”
—Darin
“It went down so easy that I hardly noticed I didn’t know what was going on.”
—Delia Sherman
“What is Jeanne feeding them?”
—Elizabeth Hand
“This is my kind of story so I’m going to skip over the compliments.”
“You could do bank robberies very slowly.”
—Holly
“He could use Beverly’s skin and make more balloons out of it.”
“I would like for her to melt the wizard’s arm like candle wax.”
“Novum envy.”
“There’s only so much Jack Sparrow you want, but you want it. You know you want it.”
“I love making the protagonist responsible for horrible things.”
“Pretend you’re normal people.”
—Jeanne
“I’m exhausted. I’m ready to die.”
“Very beautifully written, yet disgusting.”
“Inbred psychotics make moonshine.”
—JT
“You have one of the awesomely sickest minds I ever came across.”
—Karen