Being young and cute back then, I was always interrupted, but I managed to return to my writing book easily. When I was younger, I used to go to bars alone and write in a notebook by hand. I think the darkness is within me and I could write anywhere, and have. I doubt the gloom inspires my dark writing. And likely the cold keeps me from sitting too long because I end up having to have lots of warm drinks, which means trips to the kitchen. Are there gloves for people who type? This is not to say that I can’t write at home–of course I can. I find my hands are cold a lot and even though I type quickly, my fingers never get warm. When the temperature plummets to -28C as it did here for a couple of days, or even under -15C, I just can’t get warm. My apartment at home can get only so warm because of where it’s situated. It was so pleasant to work in a temperate climate. One year I could afford to leave for four weeks. I escape south for at least a week in the winter, this year for two weeks, different timeframes. NK: I live in Montreal and I’m kind of used to cold winters, but I don’t like them and tend to hover at home a lot. Do you enjoy Canadian weather in the winter, and how does it affect your writing if at all? LP: I read your Facebook posts about weather woes. I’ve also edited Expiration Date for Edge SF&F Publishing, which is now scheduled for fall 2014. And “Trick or Treat” in Halloween: Magic, Mystery and the Macabre from October 2013. Another is “Gurrl UnDeleted” in Dark Fusions: Where Monsters Dwell from November, 2013.
I have another short story to finish soon for a dark fiction anthology, and I’m also co-editing an anthology with a friend, which won’t be out until 2015–we’re just starting on that. My most recent short stories are “Ecto, Endo, Meso” in Dark Discoveries Magazine, issue #25 (December 2013). I’ve got another novel out through the same agent, a kind of multi-genre first in a series. Then I’ll be finishing my novel-in-progress, also about zombies, which my agent has a publisher for. NK: At the moment, I’m finishing up a short story about zombies. LP: What have you been working on lately, and where can we go to read your latest words? She and Lydia Peever spoke just before Women in Horror Month, 2014. From zombies to vampires, short-story markets, nonfiction, and the state of traditional dark fiction publishing, her thoughts as a Canadian female artist of dark design who’s had an online presence since the dawn of the internet are unmatched. She’s accomplished a prolific trifecta as author, editor, and teacher, and has won numerous awards as both writer and editor, from the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Mystery to Foreword Reviews’ Book of the Year. Nancy Kilpatrick, Canada’s reigning queen of Goth and vampire lore, proves a fount of knowledge about being an author in these shifting sands. Nancy Kilpatrick’s “Danse Macabre” (ed.) won the Paris Book Festival Award for Best Anthology.
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