: About Me

Carl's work has appeared in the zombie anthology Cold Storage, which he co-edited. His work has also appeared in Champagne Shivers 2007, DeathGrip: It Came from the Cinema, DeathGrip: Exit Laughing, the horror-romance anthology Loving the Undead, the erotic paranormal ghost anthology Beyond Desire, the Book of Tentacles, and several issues of Lighthouse Digest.

Carl's nonfiction has appeared in The Blue Review and Writer's Journal. He has upcoming nonfiction in Butchers, Knives, and Body Counts - Essays on the Horror Genre.

You can visit his web site, Writer's Inkwell, at carlhose.net.

My passion is ...

my family, writing, and coffee.

I know too much about ...

too little.

My parents always told me ...

to be who I want to be.

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a professional storyteller.

My favorite memory ...

is the day I watched my son's birth.

Why I write ...

. . . I write because I feel as if it is what I was born to do.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I read Stephen King, I watch horror, and I listen to Thin Lizzy.

My first job ...

was probably working at an animal farm.

My best moment ...

changes all the time and is always yet to come.

My inspiration ...

changes frequently, but I always rely on myself to make things happen.

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Rejection is indeed a fact of the writing life. I used to keep all of my rejections. I was proud of them. Rejection meant I was writing. In order to be rejected, you need to actually send your work out into the world. Sending your work out into the world is the only way to find acceptance. I no longer keep my rejections. There have simply been too many of them. Along with those rejections, I've published extensively. Different writers have different ways of handling rejection. Even today, after publishing my work in numerous magazines and anthologies, I feel the same way. I'm proud of the ...

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