Jul 28, 2021 | Scary True Stories
I’m not sure how cats got such a bad rap. One of the theories put forth is that many associate cats with women, and that’s the reason so many serial killers start off torturing felines. If true, that is beyond troubling. One important thing to remember,...
Jul 21, 2021 | Bloody Book Club, Scary True Stories
Some of you may remember my terrifying encounter in a haunted house. Like any good writer, I decided to let it inspire a novel. After all, who doesn’t love a ghost story? The good folks at Flame Tree Press will release The Restoration on the world on October...
Jul 7, 2021 | Mysterious Places, The Life Less Ordinary
With the global pandemic capturing most of the world’s attention, some interesting news has dropped without causing much of a stir. Everything from the US Pentagon releasing videos of UFOs to another ship disappearing in the Bermuda Triangle with twenty people...
Jun 9, 2021 | Bloody Book Club, Scary True Stories
Hello dear readers, Sorry it’s been a while, but I’ve put the time to good use by finishing a psychological thriller, tentatively titled The Next Victim. It’s currently in my agent’s hands, and I really hope she likes it. Fingers crossed! As...
May 3, 2021 | Unsolved Mysteries
As some of you know, I was fortunate enough to be the writer-expert for a true crime documentary show called Cruise Ship Killers, which tells the stories of twenty-six people who vanished, died mysteriously, or were the victims of other crimes while on board a cruise....
Feb 2, 2021 | The Writing Life
The dream is closer than I thought. All it took was setting myself on FIRE. Which is way less painful than it sounds. The FIRE movement, short for Financial Independence Retire Early, is already changing my life dramatically. I always thought one of three things had...
Jan 6, 2021 | The Writing Life
Am I the only one who wants Christmas back? I was happy to see the end of 2020, but so far, 2021 has brought me: a broken filling (ouch), “fun” with an insurance company who wrongly terminated my benefits, a kitten that was so destructive he had to be...
Dec 2, 2020 | The Writing Life
To paraphrase Poltergeist, “I’m ba-ack.” At least for now. When Alex Cavanaugh, the great leader of the Insecure Writer’s Support Group, suggested I make my monthly newsletter post an IWSG one so I didn’t have to leave the group, I...
Nov 4, 2020 | The Writing Life
Something had to give. I’ve known it for some time now. I just couldn’t figure out what. Or maybe the truth was I didn’t want to admit it — even to myself. But, after seventeen years of blogging, I’m hanging up my hat. I thought it would...
Oct 6, 2020 | The Writing Life
Hello Insecure Writing friends (and wonderful readers), Does anyone else feel like they’re on a sadistic merry-go-round? Mine looks like this… 1. I get a writing-related job to support my dream of being a full-time author 2. The writing-related job...
