What is Sugary Snicket Productions?
Sugary Snicket Productions is the personal 'company' of writer and artist Gen Colter. Gen is the sole owner and operator of Sugary Snicket Productions, and her recent work includes not only writing but RPG games, Artwork and more. Gen and her work can be found all over the web.
Gen's goal at Sugary Snicket Productions is to create and present quality work, whether it be an homage to something she loves or a thing of her own devising. As a writer, Gen believes in giving her all, focusing on one or two tasks at a time until the job at hand is finished. A stickler for detail and realism, Gen strongly believes in that familiar old writing adage of "Show, Don't Tell" - the better described a story is, the better the reader can imagine the setting, whether it's the surface of Mars or an abandoned mine outside of a Western ghost town. She relies heavily on suspense, often citing it as one of her major flaws as a writer, and enjoys writing mainly poetry and short stories, though she does have some longer works.
If you would like to help monetarily support Gen's work and Sugary Snicket Productions, please consider donating to her PayPal at the following link:
Gen's goal at Sugary Snicket Productions is to create and present quality work, whether it be an homage to something she loves or a thing of her own devising. As a writer, Gen believes in giving her all, focusing on one or two tasks at a time until the job at hand is finished. A stickler for detail and realism, Gen strongly believes in that familiar old writing adage of "Show, Don't Tell" - the better described a story is, the better the reader can imagine the setting, whether it's the surface of Mars or an abandoned mine outside of a Western ghost town. She relies heavily on suspense, often citing it as one of her major flaws as a writer, and enjoys writing mainly poetry and short stories, though she does have some longer works.
If you would like to help monetarily support Gen's work and Sugary Snicket Productions, please consider donating to her PayPal at the following link:
About the Author
Genevieve Colter is a Cell and Molecular Biologist, author, poet, Call of Cthulhu Keeper, and artist with a zest for life and a bountiful imagination. She first began writing and publishing her works in the sixth grade. As a young writer, she often wrote for Danny Phantom, and later, A Series of Unfortunate Events. Gen didn't first begin to publish her works until the summer of 2005, when she joined FanFiction.Net and chose a username for herself. She took her username, Sugary Snicket, from a certain Mr. Lemony Snicket, the morose author of A Series of Unfortunate Events, and tweaked it to suit her personality and mindset, then began posting her Danny Phantom and Unfortunate Events stories. Because Gen was a young writer at the time, these yarns were not exactly the highest quality, but the Fanfiction community readily accepted her, and her writing prowess grew. Eventually, she grew out of her Danny Phantom phase and solely wrote for Unfortunate Events for a time, dabbling in other fandoms here and there when it suited her, but during the Summer of 2006, Gen discovered a passion for the Myst video game series. She started out by writing some poetry for Myst, then, after she felt her prowess had grown strong enough, started writing Myst-related fanfiction. Her largest work in the Myst fandom is Locusani: Saavedro's Tale, which became a hit with Myst fans and was so popular that it gained its own advertising campaign, website, and spiritual sequel in the form of a follow-up story called Locusani: Revilani.
After the success of Locusani and its sequel-in-spirit, Gen took a break from the Fanfiction world and decided to try her hand at original fiction and poetry. She immediately took her original works to FictionPress.com, the sister site to FanFiction.Net. There, she published her various poems under the username of SugarRayne (a play on her FFN pen name), and began looking at short horror and fantasy stories. During this time, Gen published her first major work of original fiction, a short psychological horror story called The White Hour, which she wrote and rewrote multiple times in order to get just the right feel. Her Fanfiction output during this time slowed to a trickle of mainly poetry, but was revived with the release of The Dark Knight, which inspired her to start working on a few short Joker stories. This inspiration gained from the Joker himself was only strengthened after she read the graphic novel Joker, which gave her several ideas for a much crueler and more psychopathic interpretation of the character. She has since begun exploring the Joker as a character throughout his various interpretations in comics, movies, and other media; her favorite Joker-centered graphic novel is The Killing Joke and her favorite stand-alone Joker story is The Laughing Fish. She is also a fan of a good number of other Batman rogues, including the Riddler, Scarecrow, Catwoman, Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, and even a slight interest in Two-Face as well.
Desiring something new, Gen fell into the Slenderman Mythos and Fear Mythos, where she wrote several blogs and short stories about these internet phenomena. This helped hone her horror authoring skills, and gave her a passion for writing dark and scary stories to chill readers. Never one to shy away from how brutal and psychologically tormenting the genre can be, her horror tales lean toward the surreal, psychological, and weird. She draws much of her inspiration from her own dreams and fears, as well as from the works of H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allen Poe and various authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien, J. K. Rowling, Neil Gaiman, Louis Sachar, and Daniel Handler. She has also written some short Creepypasta-style stories, and recently published a Yellow Mythos story, Before the Tattered King, with Atlantean Publishing, in their horror anthology A Terrible Thing.
Gen also enjoys drawing artwork (some of which can be found on this website as well as on her Facebook page), fabric craftwork, painting with acrylics, and tabletop RPGs. She runs occasional games of Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu, and plays with Into The Darkness, an online group dedicated to playing Call of Cthulhu. Gen also plays with other groups online, usually running the games herself. Her own group, Miskatonic Valley, formed in Fall 2015 and contains 7 or so close friends and family members. She has earned the nickname "Nyarlathotep," after the Lovecraftian horror of the same name, amongst her gaming friends for her devious and often mind-bending tricks and scares, and for her story-telling prowess, which work to pull players deeper into the story and the game.
After the success of Locusani and its sequel-in-spirit, Gen took a break from the Fanfiction world and decided to try her hand at original fiction and poetry. She immediately took her original works to FictionPress.com, the sister site to FanFiction.Net. There, she published her various poems under the username of SugarRayne (a play on her FFN pen name), and began looking at short horror and fantasy stories. During this time, Gen published her first major work of original fiction, a short psychological horror story called The White Hour, which she wrote and rewrote multiple times in order to get just the right feel. Her Fanfiction output during this time slowed to a trickle of mainly poetry, but was revived with the release of The Dark Knight, which inspired her to start working on a few short Joker stories. This inspiration gained from the Joker himself was only strengthened after she read the graphic novel Joker, which gave her several ideas for a much crueler and more psychopathic interpretation of the character. She has since begun exploring the Joker as a character throughout his various interpretations in comics, movies, and other media; her favorite Joker-centered graphic novel is The Killing Joke and her favorite stand-alone Joker story is The Laughing Fish. She is also a fan of a good number of other Batman rogues, including the Riddler, Scarecrow, Catwoman, Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, and even a slight interest in Two-Face as well.
Desiring something new, Gen fell into the Slenderman Mythos and Fear Mythos, where she wrote several blogs and short stories about these internet phenomena. This helped hone her horror authoring skills, and gave her a passion for writing dark and scary stories to chill readers. Never one to shy away from how brutal and psychologically tormenting the genre can be, her horror tales lean toward the surreal, psychological, and weird. She draws much of her inspiration from her own dreams and fears, as well as from the works of H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allen Poe and various authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien, J. K. Rowling, Neil Gaiman, Louis Sachar, and Daniel Handler. She has also written some short Creepypasta-style stories, and recently published a Yellow Mythos story, Before the Tattered King, with Atlantean Publishing, in their horror anthology A Terrible Thing.
Gen also enjoys drawing artwork (some of which can be found on this website as well as on her Facebook page), fabric craftwork, painting with acrylics, and tabletop RPGs. She runs occasional games of Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu, and plays with Into The Darkness, an online group dedicated to playing Call of Cthulhu. Gen also plays with other groups online, usually running the games herself. Her own group, Miskatonic Valley, formed in Fall 2015 and contains 7 or so close friends and family members. She has earned the nickname "Nyarlathotep," after the Lovecraftian horror of the same name, amongst her gaming friends for her devious and often mind-bending tricks and scares, and for her story-telling prowess, which work to pull players deeper into the story and the game.
So, What Does She Write About?
Gen usually writes poetry or short stories. Her stories are often in the genres of horror and suspense, and this sometimes crosses over into her poetry. Her poetry covers anything and everything, from sonnets to haiku, but she is particularly fond of free verse and typographical poetry.
In the realm of Fanfiction and Original Fiction, Gen's interests at the time usually indicated what she writes for. In the past, she has written for A Series of Unfortunate Events, Danny Phantom, Myst, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Phantom of the Opera, The Inheritance Cycle, and Dexter. She has also written for the Slenderman Mythos and Fear Mythos. Her original stories are usually either dramatic and suspenseful or dryly humorous, and she enjoys writing both Psychological and Lovecraftian horror.
In the realm of Fanfiction and Original Fiction, Gen's interests at the time usually indicated what she writes for. In the past, she has written for A Series of Unfortunate Events, Danny Phantom, Myst, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Phantom of the Opera, The Inheritance Cycle, and Dexter. She has also written for the Slenderman Mythos and Fear Mythos. Her original stories are usually either dramatic and suspenseful or dryly humorous, and she enjoys writing both Psychological and Lovecraftian horror.