Scandal Rocks the Horror World!
Fiction Makes Strange Bedfellows
Yikes! Another Crowdfunding Thing Implodes!
I’d agree to contribute the story Celeste to this collection, but declined to promote the crowdfunding part. Once burned, twice shy? More like many times burned.
A few years back I agreed to attend a horror convention to be staged at the Stanley Hotel in Colorado. Yes, the hotel on which Stephen King based The Overlook Hotel in The Shining. The convention promised three days of antics, including Big Wheel races (ala Danny Torrance) up and down the hotel hallways. An October of fun! The hotel was planting a shrubbery maze!
Lots of tickets got sold at $3000 a pop — including to my friend, Nic, in Boston — before allegations surfaced about the event organizer. Of course all the money vanished when said organizer took a powder. This — and several other botched projects — leaves me leery of ever being involved in a crowdfunded anything.
Now it looks like another crowdfunded project has hit the skids.
Does anyone know the alleged details behind this mass exodus? Spill the tea, people!
Lots o' discourse on this sitch. It's the horror writers' "Where's Kate Middleton?" buzz on the twitters.
There are screenshots of one of the editors (Patrick) sexually harassing women in DM’s, among other things. Editor apologized and then retracted the apology and claims the allegations are false. There are multiple independent accusations of that nature and others who have had severally negative interactions with him, including one who had to take out a restraining order.