Feb 12, 2020 | The Writing Life
Today’s the day: Dragonfly Summer is now available. If you already have an Audible subscription, it’s included, and if not, you can listen to it through their free trial. It’s hard to believe that this is my tenth published book. It doesn’t...
Feb 4, 2020 | The Writing Life
So, it’s February again already. How did that happen? It’s also Black History Month. And, unless you’re a part of the horror writing/reviewing/blogging community, you may not know that it’s also Women in Horror Month (WIHM). To be honest, I...
Jan 29, 2020 | The Writing Life
While Dragonfly Summer, my upcoming Audible Original release, is not a true story, it comes the closest of all my books to being autobiographical. For its setting, the claustrophobic town of Clear Springs, I pulled heavily from the town where I grew up. When I was...
Jan 8, 2020 | The Writing Life
I must have been the only writer to attend a screenwriting masterclass and be thrilled to discover it was not, actually, a screenwriting masterclass. You see, I have no interest in writing screenplays. I hope that one day, some talented person will be the one to turn...
Dec 4, 2019 | The Writing Life
I can’t believe it’s already IWSG day, when I haven’t managed to return all the comments from the previous one yet. I’m so sorry. I know I keep saying this, but please bear with me. I promise to be better in the New Year. Now, how, I...
Nov 6, 2019 | The Writing Life
Well, I did it. I survived the craziest week of all time. (Note: I do not own a vehicle and rely on public transportation, which makes all this “rushing” a lot more…um, interesting.) Monday, Oct 28: In the studio by 7 am with Drew and Karly at the...
Oct 23, 2019 | Mysterious Places, Scary True Stories, Tales of the Supernatural
Please welcome my multi-talented author friend, Damyanti Biswas, as she shares this chilling true story of one of India’s mysterious places. Delhi is a sprawling modern metropolis, and its urban jungle of steel and glass looks unlikely to be haunted, but as I...
Oct 2, 2019 | The Writing Life
So it’s October. Officially spooky season in my neck o’ the woods, which means it’s time to break out the spiderweb earrings, haunted house dress, and Ouija board skirt, (and pretend I don’t wear these things year round). Halloween is a great...
Sep 17, 2019 | Mysterious Places, Scary True Stories, The Writing Life
When the Winnipeg International Writers Festival selected me as one of four dark-fiction authors to stay overnight at a haunted house, I was excited, but I didn’t have any expectations–at least not on the haunted side of things. Still, it was an amazing...
Aug 14, 2019 | Scary True Stories, Unsolved Mysteries
I was at a rural farmer’s market on a sunny day when something caught my eye. Amid stalls of questionable antiques was a treasure trove of old horror books that were in sad shape. Amid these gems was Murder in Amityville, written by Hans Holzer and published in...
