Get your favorite beverage, sit back, and listen in as I chat with Award Winning Author KC Grifant. We cover a wide range of topics with little nuggets tossed in there. Enjoy the show!

BIO

KC Grifant is an award-winning writer based in Southern California who writes internationally published horror, fantasy, science fiction and weird west stories. 

She is an accomplished short story writer, with dozens of stories appearing in podcasts, anthologies and magazines, including: Spaceways Magazine, Unnerving Magazine, Cosmic Horror Monthly, Dark Matter Magazine, the British SF Association’s Fission Magazine, Tales to Terrify, the Lovecraft eZine; Chromophobia; Musings of the Muse; Dancing in the Shadows—A Tribute to Anne Rice; Field Notes from a Nightmare; The One That Got Away; Six Guns Straight From Hell; Shadowy Natures; Beyond the Infinite-Tales from the Outer Reaches; the Stoker-nominated Fright Mare: Women Write Horror and many others. She also teaches a short story workshop and co-founded the San Diego chapter of the Horror Writers Association (HWA) in 2016. Her debut supernatural western novel, Melinda West: Monster Gunslinger (Brigids Gate Press, Feb 2023), described as a blend of Bonnie & Clyde meet The Witcher and Supernatural, has received positive reviews internationally. Readers and reviewers call the book “a fun, fast-paced, monster-filled joy ride,” “genre-blending,” “a story that is fascinating and irresistible,” and a “massive crowd-pleaser.”

Links:

Website:  www.KCGrifant.com

Newsletter sign-up: http://eepurl.com/hmZGVb

Instagram: instagram.com/kcgrifant/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kcgrifant
Facebook: facebook.com/kcgrifant
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kcgrifant

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8288519.K_C_Grifant

Book links

Amazon: https://mybook.to/MelindaWest

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63338279-melinda-west

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