{"id":217,"date":"2011-05-23T00:08:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T05:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefoff.com\/?p=217"},"modified":"2019-12-01T14:44:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T22:44:25","slug":"lunch-with-silvia-moreno-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"Lunch with Silvia Moreno-Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">Specfic writer and publisher <a href=\"http:\/\/silviamoreno-garcia.com\/blog\/\">Silvia Moreno-Garcia<\/a> has traded rainy British Columbia for somewhat- less-rainy Portland&#8211;for a few days. She shared a couple of her vacation hours with me at lunch today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">Moreno-Garcia is, among other things, the publisher of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.innsmouthfreepress.com\/\">Innsmouth Free Press<\/a>. If you like horror and dark speculative fiction, you probably already know the site. It&#8217;s an online magazine packed with reviews, interviews, articles, and&#8211;thrice annually&#8211;fiction. (Horn-tooting: Moreno-Garcia and editor-in-chief Paula R. Stiles bought a story of mine, &#8220;The Second Sphinx,&#8221; for an upcoming fiction issue.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">Innsmouth Free Press serves up cosmic dread and Lovecraftian horror. As its recent anthology <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.innsmouthfreepress.com\/?page_id=10930\">Historical Lovecraft<\/a><\/em> shows, IFP&#8217;s vision of Lovecraftian horror is much broader than tales of appalling Elder Gods and forbidden tomes, wonderful as those are. In our conversation today Moreno-Garcia shared her enthusiasm for weird and dark fiction that reaches beyond the derivative to explore new territory, not just in subject matter but in approach to storytelling.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">One weird tentacle has probed its way into Portland&#8217;s restaurant scene, and I&#8217;m not talking about calamari. Lunch took place at the <a href=\"http:\/\/thelovecraftbar.com\/\">Lovecraft Bar<\/a>, a dark venue decorated with a cabalistic ceiling painting, Lovecraft posters and images, and many, many skulls. Animal, not human. In this spectral setting Moreno-Garcia and I talked about Clark Ashton Smith, the challenges and the importance of writing about the Other (cultures, races, eras), and trends in publishing. Ebooks are accounting for a much greater portion of total <em>Historical Lovecraft <\/em><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">sales than expected, Moreno-Garcia told me&#8211;a fact that fits in with a lot of what I&#8217;ve been reading lately about ebook sales.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Here&#8217;s hoping the Lovecraft Film Festival resumes here in Portland next year. It might lure Silvia Moreno-Garcia back for another visit.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Specfic writer and publisher Silvia Moreno-Garcia has traded rainy British Columbia for somewhat- less-rainy Portland&#8211;for a few days. She shared a couple of her vacation hours with me at lunch today. Moreno-Garcia is, among other things, the publisher of Innsmouth Free Press. If you like horror and dark speculative fiction, you probably already know the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14,12],"tags":[48,45],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraft","category-publishing","category-specfic","tag-lovecraft","tag-specfic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}