SL_Super Women_0523FINAL.qxp_Profile ( Dept . ) 5 / 31 / 23 3 : 45 PM Page 3 ? ? River Eno , LCW Allingham , and Susan Tulio Q & A Tell me about the work that goes into putting out a book . I wanted River , Susan , and I knew we had pretty limited resources to start , a collection that but one thing that we had to give was our years of experience edit - wasn’t about our ing , publishing , and being in - oppression , but volved in the author community . We wanted to not just take stories our power . ” and make books , but to provide support for the authors who trusted us with their work . There is so much that goes by my country and my elected officials , but by into making a book , and the first everyone around me who wasn’t screaming one we put out on our own was their throats bloody . All my life I had tried to just overwhelming . Everything toe the line and keep my anger in check when has a learning curve , from the I encountered all the casual and not - so - casual initial idea , to putting out the call misogyny of the world . No one listens to a hys - for submissions , to reading and terical woman , after all . selecting the stories that will go But the thing is , women have been keeping in each book . The best part is it in check , biting it back , letting it go , and here working with the authors and get - we are , having our rights stripped away , and it ting to know them through the was being treated like any other Friday . So that’s process . when Incubate took form . … I wanted a col - The second best is the day lection of the absolute fury that had incubated the book comes to - in the souls of women who have gether . Working from been forced to swallow their own both the editorial and voices just to survive . I wanted a the artistic angle , collection that wasn’t about our ON THE that’s one joy that I oppression , but our power . get to experience on SAME PAGE my own . What are your future goals for the enterprise ? uthors LCW Allingham , River Eno , and In the future , we’re hoping to ex - How do you go about choosing Susan Tulio met through a weekly online pand to novellas , maybe even full - your subject matter ? Awriting chat group called Writers Block . Once we opened the books up to length novels and branch into im - A close friendship soon followed . submissions , River , Susan , and I prints . We have our roots in Today , the three women lead a Bucks chose the topics based on the sto - horror , fantasy , and speculative fic - County - based publishing outfit called Speculation ries we really wanted to read and tion , but we’re enjoying the lighter Publications . Each has developed her own pas - the subjects we really wanted to stuff , too . We’re also trying to get sion projects pertaining to specific genres . Tulio , learn more about . Dancing Plague out a little more . We’re doing our for example , championed the enterprise’s first was amazing ; I learned so much first convention this year , and romance anthology , and Eno will lead a collec - about the time period , and the area . we’re hoping to do a lot more in tion of Yule stories for the holidays . With our upcoming Cry Baby the years to come . Most of all , we Allingham credits another Writers Block Bridge , I am really hoping to be want to continue to be a place member , the late Dan Kitner , for putting the scared witless . that helps to elevate authors and wheels in motion . One year after its creation , Incubate was a different story , amplify new voices . Speculation Publications has released six an - though . Up until that , everything There’s no stopping point , thologies to date — The Lost Colony of had been in the “ Utter Speculation ” and I don’t know if I will ever Roanoke , The Jersey Devil , Lady in White , The series . It was also the first topic that reach a place where I can say I’m Dancing Plague , Incubate , and Beach Shorts — was entirely mine . I knew I wanted fully satisfied . I’m pretty happy to with more to follow . The trio has also begun a specifically horror anthology . I continue to build on the things son to develop a series of workbooks designed to knew I wanted a feminist slant to that we started back in Writers bin help aspiring authors . it , but it didn’t congeal until the Block , the foundations I’ve Roculti - y We spoke with Allingham about the trio’s overturn of Roe v . Wade . vated in my own work , and al - Jod growing enterprise , the work required to When Roe v . Wade was yover - ways keep a door open for new b to breathe a book into existence , and the power turned , the only way I can describe ideas . And , you know , burn down Pho and fury of a well - told story . — BD the way I felt is betrayed . Not just the patriarchy . That’s a big one . SUBURBANLIFEMAGAZINE.COM VOLUME 14 ISSUE 9 | 57