During the first World Horror Convention, before a panel on Regionalism in Horror, Charles Grant looked over at me and said, "I've read your stuff. Even after I had become an established Zebra author, I still carried around the stigma of being a Zebra "horror hack". I knew how my peers in the writing community regarded the big Z, with its hologram images, foil embossed titles, and - heaven forbid - those tacky skeletons. the dreaded red-headed stepchild of mass market publishing. My reaction to the sale? A mixture of elation and worried apprehension. His first novel, Hindsight was released by Zebra Books in 1990. They must have submitted it to every publisher in the alphabet, from A to Z, because, two years later, it was finally accepted by Kensington Publishing for their Zebra imprint. A former Zebra Books author, his published works include Fear, Undertaker’s Moon, Blood Kin, Hell Hollow, The Dark’Un, Midnight Grinding & Other Twilight Terrors, After the Burn, Hindsight, The Buzzard Zone, The Halloween Store, Seasons Creepings, Irish Gothic, The Saga of Dead-Eye series, and the EC horror-flavored Southern Fried series. Fear Pitfall by Ronald Kelly () The DarkUn Hindsight. I submitted it to my agent at the time, the Scott Meredith Literary Agency, and waited. Ronald Kelly is an American writer, best known as the author of a speculative fiction. I based that first novel on the youthful life of my mother and that brutal mass murder and titled it THE TOBACCO BARN, setting the massacre inside an abandoned tobacco-curing barn.
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