books
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Last month, I taught my very first writing workshop. I’ve publicly spoken as an author before, talked at high schools about craft and publication, been featured on panels at conventions. Yet Novis Mortem Collective offered me my first opportunity to actually teach writing.
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Invisible Girls releases next week! Before it comes out into the world, a peek at where it came from…
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I gave up New Year’s Resolutions a while ago. I was never good at keeping them anyway. At some point, I switched to selecting an intentional word. A goal theme for the year. I have used “healing” and “simplify” in past years. This year, I’m going with reset.
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This not the first time I have had rights returned to me on a book. Assent Publishing went under completely, returning my first took books (Savages and The Waning). I was able to publish a second edition of both with HellBound Books. This industry is saturated and tumultuous. Aside from the Big 5, it’s hard…
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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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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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Do you need to consider the protagonist a good person or do you need to relate to or understand them to truly enjoy a book?
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Escapism! Losing myself in books and TV shows and movies. As an update, current read: The Fall (book 2 of The Strain Trilogy) by Chuck Hogan and Guillermo del Toro current watch: FROM on Epix Give me more. What are YOU reading and/or watching? Christina Bergling https://linktr.ee/chrstnabergling Like my writing? Check out my books! Followers…
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I find myself at a crossroads with my writing. Three options, three projects lay before me. I need to decide where to allocate my energy.
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