Super fun one today fellow 3Q’s readers! Today’s guest is a prolific, fantastic, super-supportive writer who continues to deliver the dark fiction goods!

Please, do welcome Gaby Triana!

Steve: What does your writing time look like? Do you try and write at the same time each day? Do you have a word count you attempt to hit?

Gaby: I don’t write every day unless I’m actively working on a book, and when I am, I usually don’t start writing until well after 2-3 PM. Mornings don’t work for me. My brain and imagination haven’t woken up yet, but I will use mornings to edit or do some marketing for other books. If I do happen to be working on a book, I’ll write about 5 days a week and try to hit 2,500-2,800 minimum. That’s the average length of my chapters, so a chapter a day. If I’m on a tight schedule, I might go for 2 chapters a day.

 

Steve: You end up at an estate sale and discover an unpublished manuscript from an author you love. Do you keep it just for yourself or do you share it with the world?

Gaby: I share it with the world. That story wasn’t written with me in mind. The author undoubtedly wrote it with his/her readers in mind and fans deserve to read it.

 

Steve: Tell me about your newest release (novel/story/poem/novella) and why someone should read it!

Gaby: My newest release is the ghost anthology I edited, LITERALLY DEAD: Tales of Halloween Hauntings. From the moment I laid eyes on Lynne Hansen’s pre-made cover with the trick-or-treating pal ghostie, I knew I had to have it. The collection contains 19 short ghost stories written by masters of dark fiction: Jonathan Maberry, Tim Waggoner, Lisa Morton, Lee Murray, Jeff Strand, Catherine Cavendish, Steve Rasnic Tem, Gwendolyn Kiste, Sara Tantlinger, and more and is already being hailed as a must-add volume to any annual Halloween reading list. If you love ghost stories, vintage Halloween feels, and superb writing, this book is for you.

 

Steve: Bonus Question! You wake up in a comic book. What is your comic book character and what is your superpower?

Gaby: Enid from Ghost World. She doesn’t quite belong in the world she’s living, she’s too weird for the mainstream, too mainstream for the weird, and she’s lightyears ahead of her time. Her superpower is being witty, judgmental, and endearing all at once.

Oh wow, what a great answer! And I haven’t thought of that movie in forever!

Thank you for doing this, Gaby!

To find more of her work, check the links!

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Gaby-Triana/e/B0045B9682

Website: https://www.gabytriana.com/