I consider New Year’s Day the day to recover from the year before and start the new year on a high and happy note. What will I be doing January 1? There will be coffee. I’m talking strong Starbucks venti black coffee. There will be chocolate. I’m talking no restrictions on the intake amount. There […]
No, I’m not referring to an app. Real-life notebooks! There are two things I heavily depend on as a writer: notebooks that reflect the essence of what I’m writing, and fun sticky notes or notepads. This Christmas I was so excited to get exactly those two things as gifts! The notebook on top […]
Victorian Christmases are beautiful, full of tradition, and multi-faceted in celebration. In fact, many authors of both books and scripts would love to put a gorgeous Christmas scene into their book. So why isn’t there one in Anatomy of a Darkened Heart? You’ll notice that I used the words “beautiful” and “gorgeous” to describe the way […]
I got my very first video review from fantastic horror author Rocky Rochford! My favorite suite of his works is the Don’t Turn Around trilogy, which can be found on Amazon as Wait and Bleed. Rocky also writes poetry, romance, and…well, just about everything! He’s quite a dark horse. Special thanks to Rocky, of course, […]
I’m proud and excited to be featured on The Scary Reviews today. I was interviewed by David Spell, a very well read indie reviewer and creator of the site, as part of his brilliant Spotlighting Women in Horror feature. It was fantastic talking to him about the music that inspired Anatomy of a Darkened Heart and other […]
This year has been a very productive writing year for me, and to finish it out, you can read my short story “Piece and Quiet” for FREE in The December Awethology – Dark Volume. It’s a wonderful holiday anthology filled with short dark writings by plenty of fantastic authors, including Rocky Rochford, William Frank Lloyd, Rebecca […]
One of my favorite video games now has three number 2’s associated with it: today Doom 2 is 22 years old. I think that calls for a post! Doom is a classic video game with many versions, and Doom 2 is my favorite iteration. The first first-person shooter game I ever learned, I still love […]
Yesterday I was thrilled to find horror and dark fiction review website The Scary Reviews had posted a review of Anatomy of a Darkened Heart. I have to say, when I found out the wonderful David Spell was reading my book, I was nervous. AoDH is certainly dark, but it isn’t horror. Some people say AoDH […]
NaNoWriMo is almost over, and while I had a major setback that meant I needed to restart the whole book, I also feel the book is shaping up to be something much stronger and more intense than I’d originally planned. My publication date has not changed: early 2016, so that’s a big positive. My motivation […]
Very exciting news! A poem of mine called “Desensitization” was recently published in The Andromedae Review‘s premier issue! You can see it here for free. It was put into three columns, but just read one column at a time. “Desensitization” was inspired by a time that I drove past a car on fire that was parked […]