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Editing cannot be taught. Developing your own taste cannot be taught.

- Ellen Datlow
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Horror isn't only about ghosts or monsters. For example, paranormal romance seems the antithesis of horror. Once you have a sexy, fun vampire who is sweet, and you have a happy ending, it's not horror.

The genres of the fantastic and the grotesque are far more interesting to me than most mnemonic fiction.

I feel lucky that I get to read and publish stories that are not necessarily overtly horror in 'Best Horror of the Year.'

Amanda Hocking and Hugh Howey have been successful in their self-publishing ventures. But notice that Hocking would prefer to write and hand over the editing, promotion, and selling to a traditional publisher.

I am a collector of dolls and doll parts. I'm rarely creeped out by most dolls, either in real life or in literature, but I know many people who are.

I realized very young that I loved reading and wanted to do something related to books/reading for a living. I didn't think of publishing, really, until I was out of college.

Despite the fact that he's been dead for over seventy years and his prose considered purple and overwrought by many, H.P. Lovecraft's work is still widely read and has remained influential for generations.

I'll read any anthologies or collection I can get my hands on. If I find a book mentioned in 'Publisher's Weekly,' and it looks like it will be dark, I'll track it down.

I generally find fiction without some move to the weird, less imaginative, dull, prosaic. Not all of it, of course, but a lot of it. I suppose it's just a question of taste.

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Editing cannot be taught. Developing your own taste cannot be taught.

Editing cannot be taught. Developing your own taste cannot be taught.

Editing cannot be taught. Developing your own taste cannot be taught.

Editing cannot be taught. Developing your own taste cannot be taught.

Editing cannot be taught. Developing your own taste cannot be taught.

Editing cannot be taught. Developing your own taste cannot be taught.

Editing cannot be taught. Developing your own taste cannot be taught.

Editing cannot be taught. Developing your own taste cannot be taught.

Editing cannot be taught. Developing your own taste cannot be taught.

Editing cannot be taught. Developing your own taste cannot be taught.

Editing cannot be taught. Developing your own taste cannot be taught.

Editing cannot be taught. Developing your own taste cannot be taught.

Editing cannot be taught. Developing your own taste cannot be taught.

Editing cannot be taught. Developing your own taste cannot be taught.

Editing cannot be taught. Developing your own taste cannot be taught.