Oct 2, 2026
Mark interviews Angela Yuriko Smith, a two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author, editor, educator, and publisher.
Prior to the interview, Mark shares comments from recent episodes, a personal update, welcomes a new patron, and offers a word about this episode's sponsors.
This episode is sponsored in part by an affiliate link to Manuscript Report. Use code MARK10 at checkout and save 10% off your own personalized report.
In their conversation, Mark and Angela talk about:
- The origin of the term "The Halloween People" for the HWA StokerCon conference
- Creating a huge "save the whales" message using rocks
- How a quote from a comic book first got Angela into writing
- Angela's start in writing doing articles and non-fiction and newspaper writing
- The situation that led to Angela taking over Space & Time magazine
- How important it is to put positivity into the world
- Winning a Bram Stoker Award for her "accidental" poetry
- Angela's first experience with critiques from a writing group
- Helping a woman publish her husbands poetry and what an honor it was for Angela
- Not really having an idea of what she's doing most of the time
- How Space & Time works for submissions for writers and their search for flash fiction
- The way that the Substack ties back into the printed magazine
- The story behind Authortunities
- The value of community
- Advise Angela has for other writers
After the interview Mark reflects on the power of community, the power of words, and the power that fear of judgement can hold over us.
Links of Interest:
- Angela's Main Website: Authortunitiespress.com
- The Expat Life Article (Randy Green)
- A Book in Hand (Main Weblink with Kickstarter link on it - for late pledges)
- Manuscript Report (Mark's affiliate link - use MARK10 to save 10%)
- Buy Mark a Coffee
- Patreon for Stark Reflections
- Mark's YouTube channel
- ElevenLabs (AI Voice Generation - Affiliate link)
- Stark Reflections articles on Substack
- An Author's Guide to Working With Bookstores and Libraries
- The Relaxed Author
- Publishing Pitfalls for Authors
- An Author's Guide to Working with Libraries & Bookstores
- Wide for the Win
- Stark Realities Book
- Mark's Canadian Werewolf Books
- The Canadian Mounted: A Trivia Guide to Planes, Trains and Automobiles
- Yippee Ki-Yay Motherf*cker: A Trivia Guide to Die Hard
- Merry Christmas! Shitter Was Full!: A Trivia Guide to National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
- I Think It's A Sign That The Pun Also Rises
Angela Yuriko Smith is a two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author, editor, educator, and publisher. She leads Space & Time and is the founder of Authortunities, a creative ecosystem helping writers create meaningful work, build sustainable creative lives, and shape the worlds they want to inhabit. She believes the world is a work in progress. Writers are here to shape what comes next.
The introductory, end, and bumper music for this podcast (“Laser Groove”) was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0