books
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I just returned from a trip to Tennessee/Georgia to perform with my metal belly dance troupe, the Corpsewax Dollies.
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The horror genre has always reflected current fears in society. Horror is how we explore and face them. It is our playground where we exercise the worst what ifs. Post-pandemic, mid global political turmoil, fully in climate collapse, what are we scared of?
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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?
Fiery Pen 