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Making It Up with Ronald Kelly, author of Southern Fried & Horrified

January 12, 2023 • Carter Wilson • Season 1 • Episode 71

Ronald Kelly has been writing and publishing horror tales set in the American South for 36 years. A former Zebra Books author, his published works include Fear, Undertaker’s Moon, Blood Kin, Hell Hollow, and many more. His audio collection of Southern-fried short stories, Dark Dixie: Tales of Southern Horror, was included on the nominating ballot of the 1992 Grammy Awards for Best Non-Musical or Spoken Album. In 2021, his collection of extreme horror fiction, The Essential Sick Stuff, won a Splatterpunk Award for Best Collection. His latest release is Southern Fried & Horrified.

Among other things, Carter and Ronald discuss how Ronald took the self-taught route, the changes to the Horror Genre over time and how that impacted individual writers such as himself, and the stereotypes people have about authors. At the end of their conversation, they tell a story about change and realizations starting with a sentence out of Sin Killer by Larry McMurtry.

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Connect with Ronald at www.ronaldkelly.com