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Hope Screams Eternal: An Unsettling Reads Anthology

I feel it is only fitting, as I have been professing my love for the MCU and LOTR on our podcast, that I tell the origin story of Unsettling Reads and how Hope Screams Eternal came to be. So gather round, and I will tell the tale from its beginning.

Before the great pandemic struck in early 2020, Dair and I were gathered at a local bean roasting establishment, writing and planning. Always looking for a worthy quest, Dair proposed the idea of starting a podcast to not only aid our reading interests, but to be able to network with fellow writers. We also had a deep burn inside of ourselves to promote others like us, other up-and-coming authors battling in the trenches to make names for themselves.

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Meet The Authors: Alex Child

Here at Collective Tales Publishing, we want to celebrate our authors! This week we’re going to talk about Alex Child! Alex is one of our longest-standing authors. His first story was published in “Pond Scum,” and since then has been published in Little Darkness with “Backroads” and will be published in Collective Fantasy with his story “Poached Caladrius Eggs.”