Jessica Raney is the author of six books. Her latest, The Hard Truth is the follow-up to her Appalachian-Supernatural-Noir novel, Tooth and Nail. Her other works include a zombie Apocalypse adventure, These Violent Delights, and two collections of short stories, Oddballs and Dreadful Pennies. She has also co-written a collection of short, dark fiction, Tales from the Den: Volume I. &nbsp;She loves all things quirky and spooky, and her style could be best described as the intersection of dark comedy, horror, and the fantastical. Originally from southern Ohio, Jessica now lives in Houston, Texas and is active in the Houston Writer’s Guild and Writespace organizations. When not writing or navigating Houston traffic, she’s enjoying the Gulf Coast with friends and her cat/dog/demon/baby, Gimli.

20 Questions with Mari Dietz

As avid readers, we at Cursed Dragon Ship Publishing have grown bored with the questions in “respectable” interviews. What about the really important ones? So, we’ve decided to pick up a microphone and ask them ourselves. We want to know what flavor of ice cream our favorite author prefers. How can we enjoy their next novel if we don’t know which of their characters they’d spend a weekend with? Our speculative fiction author guests will finally get to answer twenty vitally important questions just like these. If they’re not your favorite before, they’ll be your favorite after.