MEEMNTO MORI INK’S AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: NORA PEAVY

Savannah got to talk to Onyx Brightwing aka Nora Peavy about her writing!

For this week’s author spotlight, we have Nora Peavy —an author that should be on your radar if she isn’t already! After all, why marry yourself to just one genre when you can sample the entire feast? Here’s a little bit more about her!

Q: What do you want readers to know about you as an author?

A: I write in more than one genre. I write what inspires me. One day I’ll be writing a splatterpunk story about an ileostomy called Me and My Buddy Frank and then the next day I’m writing a soft sci-fi piece entitled Carnivorous Cows from Outerspace. The former can be found in The Best of Carnage House Year Two and the latter in Cemetery Tacos and Other Delights from Trepidatio Publishing.

Q: What inspired you to start writing? When did you start?

A: My third-grade teacher, Mrs. Krahn can be credited with my love for writing. We had a creative writing assignment and I was picked to record my story on cassette tape. (I’m dating myself here. HAHAHA.) The tape was played at The National Teacher’s Convention. I was bitten by the writing bug. It was the first time I realized I could be one of the people that had their name on a book! I’ve been writing since the third grade and I’ve never looked back. My first poem was published in Primitive Bikini when I was sixteen and I remember being so proud. It was about a sunset.

Q: What works do you currently have available (solo and anthologies)?

A: My two main works are Flesh-Eating Turtles! Available through The Evil Cookie Publishing and Godless.com and Cemetery Tacos and Other Delights, which you can find on Amazon. My favorite anthologies I am in are The Best of Carnage House Year One, available through Amazon and Godless.com, The Best of Carnage House Year Two, available through Amazon and Godless.com, Pretend You Don’t See Her: The Invisible Woman from Kandisha Press which can be found on Amazon.com, A Wisconsin Harvest of Horror from the HWA Wisconsin Chapter and The Wisconsin Writers Association, which can be found on Amazon.com, Necronomi-RomCom: Where Mythos Meets Cute by Obsidian Butterfly, which can found on Amazon.com, and Shocking Sojourns Vol. 2 by Sidney Shiv, which can be found on Amazon.com and Godless too. There are many more anthologies I’m in, but these are my favorites.

Q: What was your gateway into horror?

A: My gateway into horror was Stephen King. I was a freshman in high school and my friend; Kelly loaned me Pet Sematary. I grew up with five cats, one of which slept with me every night. I had never been so terrified in my life as I was reading this book, but I also liked it. Poor Patches ended up getting thrown off the bed that week a LOT, but I found a new found love for horror. I read every Stephen King book I could get my hands on and then started on Dean Koontz and it spiraled from there.

Q: What are your favorite subgenres of horror?

A: I can’t really pinpoint one subgenre that I love more than another. I love them all – gothic, creature features, splatterpunk, all of it. I love all horror. If it’s well-written you will find me reading it.

Q: If you didn’t write horror, what other genres do you think you’d be in?

A: Actually, I don’t like to peg myself as a horror author. I’ve written sci-fi and fantasy before. And I’m thinking about getting into writing erotica under the pen name Jenny Flame. I’ve never really identified myself as a horror author. I tell people I’m an author. That’s it.

Q: What are some authors (traditional or indie) that have inspired you or helped you along your journey?

A: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Michael Moorcock, Jack Ketchum, Terry Pratchett, Piers Anthony, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Toni Morrison, those are just a few of them.

Q: What’s on your TBR? Anything coming out soon that you’re looking forward to?

A: The Perverse Misadventures of Grampy’s Shovel Buddy: More Occult Horror from The Riding the Finger Universe by Brian DuBois. Crawl Space by Steve Toase, and too many others to name. As for anything coming out soon … Well, those are things I am either blurbing now or going to be reviewing, so I can’t say. My lips are sealed. LOL

Q: What are you working on now?

A: Right now, I am working on a vampire novella to be published with three other authors’ novellas on the same creature, a novella with Melinda Pouncey about Mishipeshu, an Indigenous underwater panther, a short story collection called Sapphic Divinity, the prequel to Flesh-Eating Turtles! Called Ghost Bees!, a novella about the leshy, a nature monster with Ayla Marie, brainstorming a creature feature book with Chuck Nasty and Sarah Moon, and I’m working on a book review YouTube project which is ongoing for The Horror Realm called: Read This!

Q: Where can readers follow you and find your books?

A: I’m on FB as Onyx Brightwing, Instagram as nora_b._peevy , X as @NoraBPeevy , Bluesky as @biteycat.bsky.social , SubStack as Nora B. Peevy, Amazon as Nora Peevy, Slasher as @Nora1976 , and TikTok as norapeevy1976.

Savannah R. Fischer is the permanently exhausted pigeon in charge of two well-loved chaos gremlins. When not with her family, she can usually be found in her cave, wrapped in an oversized blanket and dreaming of spinach puffs. She wants to show her gremlins that they can do hard things, even when it’s scary, like pulling the wrong lever and ending up in a pit of alligators. No llamas were harmed in the making of her works of horror.

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