Golden Guest:Taylor Grothe

Welcome to the last podcast of Thrill Quill- where I finish up my conversation about NORNAKONA with Golden Guest Taylor Grothe.   Taylor Grothe is a gothic and literary horror novelist. She is an Icelandic Saga and Arthuriana scholar  with a degree from Duke University. She lives in southwestern Connecticut with her husband and two  children. NORNAKONA 99,800 words Psychological, Gothic Horror On Submission Intent on a fresh start, Kathryn buys a one-way ticket to Iceland after her writing career and love  life suffer simultaneous meltdowns. While cavorting with the locals and evading her landlady’s  increasingly forceful requests for unpaid rent, she hears a rumor about a witch lurking nearby. At  a forbidding hotel near an eerie, windblown lava field, Kathryn meets Anna. Though struck by Anna’s beauty and intelligence, Kathryn is disconcerted by her  aggressiveness—and her implication that they already know one another. Kathryn retreats to the  nearby gift shop where Sigrún, the local herbalist, soothes her rattled nerves. Unfortunately, her  contentment is short-lived. On a trip to a nearby beach, Kathryn witnesses the impossible: Anna  raising corpses from the stormy Atlantic. Despite being terrified and repulsed, Kathryn is  fascinated; she returns to determine the truth—and to see Sigrún again. After waking injured in Sigrún’s apartment, Kathryn begins to suspect her relationship with the  herbalist and Anna is more complicated than she understands. To disentangle herself and escape  with her sanity, she must seek the truth, or suffer the mortal consequences of her ignorance— perhaps becoming one of the corpses in the water herself. NORNAKONA is a 99,800-word queer psychological horror novel reminiscent of the uncanny,  gothic backdrop in MEXICAN GOTHIC by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and the psychological trauma  and pacing of MIDSOMMAR by Ari Aster.    Taylor Grothe  [email protected]   Twitter/Instagram: @TaylorLGrothe  TaylorGrothe.com  Represented by: Elle Thompson at TriadaUS [email protected]   Triada US Literary Agency   PO Box 561  Sewickley, PA 15143