Still Floating: 40 Years of Pennywise contributor Lindy Ryan

Lindy Ryan is a 4-time Bram Stoker Award finalist, an Astra Award winner, and a USA TODAY bestselling author. She is also the founder of Black Spot Books, a press dedicated to supporting and promoting women horror writers. So what better person to write an essay about Beverly Marsh!

For Still Floating, Lindy outdid herself with "My Heart Burns for Beverly Marsh." Her opening line is "If Stephen King’s IT has a heart, it beats in Beverly Marsh." The essay is spectacular, a must read for all IT fans.

Lindy's bio:

Lindy Ryan is a USA TODAY ​bestselling, Astra Award-winning, and 4x Bram Stoker Award Finalist, whose books, anthologies, and short-films have earned starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal. A "champion for women's voices in horror" (Shelf Awareness) and a 2020 Publishers Weekly Star Watch Honoree, Ryan is widely recognized for her work amplifying women's voices in contemporary horror and was named one of horror's most masterful anthology curators. ​She is the author-in-residence at Rue Morgue, a columnist at BookTrib, and a former board member for both the Brothers Grimm Society of North America (BGSNA) and the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA).Ryan is an award-winning professor at Rutgers University and guest faculty in the Creative Writing MFA program at Western Connecticut State University. Before entering academia, she co-founded Radiant Advisors, a business intelligence research firm, where she led data strategy initiatives for clients including 21st Century Fox Films, Warner Bros., and Disney. In 2017, she founded Black Spot Books, a specialty press dedicated to amplifying women voices in horror.​​On Instagram and Substack @LindyRyanWrites.