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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Love that everyone is still oohing and ahing at the cover, and rightly so. Also I have a story in this collection, along with the work of far more talented people than me. It will be released to the world on October and I can't wait. @gsfwc.bsky.social

Front cover of Haverin by Jenni Coutts. A red-haired woman wearing a purple vest top with the outline of a butterfly on it and green shorts sits on the ground with a black and white cat in her lap, while a green snake wraps around her arm. Piles of books flank her, one book is open before her which she is reading. Mushrooms cover the ground around her. Butterflies and a fairy in the air around her. Far above her head is a flying saucer. Ropy, green vines grow up the sides of the picture. Sitting on the one on the left is an axolotl, while further up, wrapped in the vines, is a blue wizard's hat. The one the right has a sword with a red jewel in the pommel and at the top of the grip, woven in the vines. Text has "HAVERIN" in large lettering, with the subtitle in smaller lettering "A GSFWC ANTHOLOGY", below and even smaller is "EDITED BY BRIAN M. MILTON, PETER MORRISON, & HEATHER VALENTINE. In smaller text on the top right-hand corner is "Featuring: Neil Williamson, E. M. Faulds, Christopher Caldwell, Eliza Chan, and many more..." I am one of the many more.

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Felt like it took me ages to get in over here. Those invites were elusive way back when.

Bluesky celebrating 10,000,000 users. My number in 410,326, in the first ten percent, so it says. From joining on 29 July 2023. A lot of info here and it doesn't mean very much at all.

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 25/06/2024

Day 25. Worst writing advice? Hm. Outside of weird punctuation dislikes, I'm drawing a blank. #HorrorWriters #30DaysofQandA #AuthorQuestions

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

Day 24. My favourite bit of writing advice? Just start. Stopping talking about it. Get something down, and mess around with it after. #HorrorWriters #30DaysofQandA #AuthorQuestions

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 23/06/2024

Day 23. Nope. Don't really think about celebrities when I'm writing. Perhaps after and very occasionally. #HorrrorWriters #30DaysofQandA #AuthorQuestions

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 22/06/2024

Day 22. There're things I notice after the fact. For instance I'm looking over work from a few years ago and there is *so much* shrugging. Don't know what was going on in my head then. *shrug* #HorrorWriters #30DaysofQandA #AuthorQuestions

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 21/06/2024

Day 21. There could be a list. I read a lot of Dean Koontz over a decade. Got One Rainy Night and it was a preachy, half-written, load of Christian crap. Broke a spell. #HorrorWriters #30DaysofQandA #AuthorQuestions

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 20/06/2024

Day 20. SA is a big put-off for me. It's something I rarely touch on in my own work as a result. Present tense can also leave me cold. #HorrorWriters #30DaysofQandA #AuthorQuestions

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

Day 19. Beta readers are a luxury I can't afford. For a while my wife was looking over my work. Now I'm just out here flailing on my own. #HorrorWriters #30DaysofQandA #AuthorQuestions

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 18/06/2024

Day 18. Most of them. Or it feels like it, given the number of rejections I have. I really love my story "I Am Stickxz" and it gets no love. #HorrorWriters #30DaysofQandA #AuthorQuestions

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 17/06/2024

Day 17. I don't have a favourite or best opening line. It's something I've been racking my brain over for days. And now I'm contemplating what that means. #HorrorWriters #30DaysofQandA #AuthorQuestions

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 16/06/2024

Day 16. No, I've never really dreamed of my characters or stories. I've had dreams that inspired stories, but story elements haven't crossed over the other way. #HorrorWriters #30DaysofQandA #AuthorQuestions

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

Day 15. Yeah, a section of a novella called "Mister Bomblefetch" I wrote a few years back gave me a chill. #HorrorWriters #30DaysofQandA #AuthorQuestions

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

Day 14. I do this rarely. Well consciously anyway. Stuff drip-drips in without me thinking that I notice later. #HorrorWriters #30DaysofQandA #AuthorsQuestions

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

Day 13. See day eleven's answer. Can't add more to that. #HorrorWriters #30DaysofQandA #AuthorQuestions

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

Day 12. Rituals and superstitions around writing? I don't think I have any. Other than the standard, sit-at-desk-and-hope-I-remember-how-to-use-a-keyboard. #HorrorWriters #30DaysofQandA #AuthorQuestions

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 11/06/2024

Day 11. I think I've answered this one recently. The real world scares me. Particularly what I see happening in politics and the lack of willingness to change. #HorrorWriters #30DaysofQandA #AuthorQuestions

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 10/06/2024

Day 10. It might sound like a cop-out answer, but everything inspires me to one degree or another. Good, bad, random, it will spark something. My wife's support is a big factor, too. #HorrorWriters #30DaysofQandA #AuthorQuestions

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 09/06/2024

Day 9. Favourite authors? Right now, I don't think I have one. Author I admire most, and have done for a long time, is Alan Moore. #HorrorWriters #30DaysofQandA #AuthorQuestions

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 08/06/2024

Day 8. Not sure how to answer this. I mean my favourite horror from being a kid was from film: The Thing, Halloween, The Howling, and An American Werewolf In London. #horrorwriters #30DaysofQandA #authorquestions

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 07/06/2024

Day 7. This took a turn. Not sure how to answer this, because I'm afraid it gets way too dark. Leave it at: I have to. #horrorwriters #30DaysofQandA #authorquestions

Those thirty questions. Twenty-three days left.

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 06/06/2024

Day 6. Short on space here, so I have to write in the living room. #horrorwriters #30DaysofQandA #authorquestions

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

Day 5. I'm a metal head. I've listened to various bands over the years. Way back when it was a mix of Cryptopsy and Corrosion of Conformity. Now it's Unleash the Archers and Deftones. With a smattering of other bands. #horrorwriters #30DaysofQandA #authorquestions

Thirty questions. One per day. Until course has ended or sick of it.

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

Day 4. Tropes? That's something I try not to think about. Feels like we get a bit hung up on them. I mean my most obvious one is the everyman, mundane people with not much going on getting screwed over by the universe. #horrorwriters #30DaysofQandA #authorquestions

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 03/06/2024

Day 3. My current favourite character from my own work is the main character from my novel. He's an ordinary guy and a bit of a doofus. Likeable though. #horrorwriters #30DaysofQandA #authorquestions

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 03/06/2024

Catch up! Day 2. I'm about to launch into a short story. I've just finished a novel. Not horror, more a swing at British whimsy. #horrorwriters #30DaysofQandA #authorquestions

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 03/06/2024

Catch up! Day 1. I write anything from flash up to novel length. Most of what I've done is short stories. I've been known to produce comic scripts, too. #horrorwriters #30daysofhorrorQandA #authorquestions

A series of thirty questions to be answered over a month.

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

What's a "comfort" horror watch you don't mind playing often? Wonderful nonsense that just makes me smile every time I watch it.

The Lost Boys poster with the young members of cast in black-and-white and posing all cool-like on a red background.

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Will @willcouper.bsky.social · 05/04/2024

You can't pick Spidey or Batman, who is your favourite comic book character?

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