May 6, 2020 | The Writing Life
Hello everyone, First of all, I apologize for not responding to all the comments from the last Insecure Writer’s Support Group post yet. It’s been quite the month. Attempting to deliver an in-class experience to my students online has been challenging, and...
Jun 4, 2019 | The Writing Life
I’m finally able to spill the big secret I’ve been keeping. If you’ve read this blog a while, you know I’m positively obsessed with true crime, especially unsolved mysteries. So I couldn’t believe my luck when a production company emailed...
May 28, 2019 | Scary True Stories
I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty sick of zombies in general–at least, the undead, stumbling, murderous variety. The real thing is much scarier. In the early 1980’s, a Canadian ethnobotanist by the name of Wade Davis traveled to Haiti to...
May 21, 2019 | Scary True Stories, Tales of the Supernatural
The sad fate of the RMS Titanic continues to haunt us. On April 14, 1912, over 1500 people lost their lives due to a tragic combination of human errors. Oddly enough, the disaster could have been avoided if Captain Edward Smith had only read Futility, a work of...
Mar 20, 2019 | Tales of the Supernatural, The Writing Life
Two more sleeps! https://www.jhmoncrieff.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Forest-of-Ghosts_vimeo.mp4 “Moncrieff has once again deftly woven real life intrigue with the supernatural, giving us characters we are deeply invested in, which makes the horror all...