writing
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Red Walls may be my sixth book, but this is the first time I’ve commissioned a book trailer to go with one of my books.
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I have been waiting so long for this season, reminding myself it would come on the other side of slogging through edits and submissions and rejections. And at this current point in time and history, I need a light to focus on, something that feels good.
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Here we are again. The end of the year. The annual retrospective. It was another challenging year full of fresh hells but also peppered with healing and joy.
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It has been a long time since I produced a horror short for this blog. The following short hit me like a train in November. Obviously, it is a direct result of my trauma from my son being bit in the face by our dog the month before. So, this season, I give to you…
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Horror is a genre about trauma. Whether it is the fictional trauma being inflicted on the characters or the zeitgeist of fear it confronts for us. At Colorado Festival of Horror 2024, I participated in two panels on the horror genre and trauma. Both sessions were so compelling and cathartic for me that I needed to…
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I have a new novella (working title: Red Walls) under contract with Graveyard Press for publication in early 2025! When parents seek revenge against the monsters who hurt their daughter, they never expect real monsters.
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One of my short stories has been accepted into an anthology. The publisher (Tundra Swan) is running a Kickstarter campaign for this anthology.
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I’m back! I have been avoiding the camera since losing my hair. But here I am, reading horror I wrote inspired by said loss. It then, of course, gets so much worse.
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But this book, all these insights from other authors in the same world, has me adding more shades of gray into my black/white mentality.
Fiery Pen 