‘I’ve had “evil video game” in my notes for story ideas for, like, ever’: Tatiana Schlote-Bonne on writing horror for the fun of it

Tatiana Schlote-Bonne. — photo by Jordon Walter On the day of the release of her debut, Such Lovely Skin, Tatiana Schlote-Bonne expressed excitement and optimism about her literary future and upcoming books. The Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program graduate’s horror novel centers on a young gamer and Twitch streamer, Viv, whose most recent game creates a demonic mimic of her which is determined to ruin her life. In a video interview with Little Village , Schlote-Bonne said, “I’ve had ‘evil video game’ in my notes for story ideas for, like, ever. Since one of those early undergrad classes. I knew I wanted to write a high-concept, easily digestible, hook-y story and I wanted it to have more depth. I wanted the monster and Viv to be intertwined.” Schlote-Bonne said that she read in a craft book that an antagonist has to be as developed as the protagonist, and “I wanted a really scary monster.” For almost as long as she can remember, if she was going to pick out a movie or browse books, “Horror has always been my genre. That’s always been the case since I was small.” Seeing movies like Evil Dead and its sequels at an early age influenced the author a lot. “I guess I was just a certified horror girlie at, like, 9 and never grew out of it.” Such Lovely Skin cover. — courtesy of Page Street YA She devoured Goosebumps, quickly graduating into creepier books and movies, but she didn’t always intend to write or create horror herself. “I took literary classes when I started undergrad, so we wrote very grounded-in-the-real-world things and I felt compelled to add monsters and creepy things and things that leaned more speculative,” she said. At a certain point, she found herself bored if she wasn’t reading horror. “Ultimately, I realized if I was going to write, I had to have fun writing.” The concept of Such Lovely Skin soon came together. “I just knew a doppelganger would be really fun to write about and I just wanted to pull it off.” To do this, she had to […]

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