books
-
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…
-
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.
-
The Rest Will Come and Followers (coming next month), what is similar between them? Online horror! In this mini vlog I talk about going from online dating in The Rest Will Come to online followers in Followers. You can find The Rest Will Come on Amazon. Followers will be released September 24th by Crystal Lake…
-
I don’t know why depression and writing walk hand in hand for me. Mania and writing surely do not, though I would love to fuel my craft with that energy. There is just a certain point in the descent, a certain shade in the darkness where my mind unfurls and all the words pour down…
-
Since this pandemic started (or more since people began reacting to it), I have heard multiple times, “Your book Savages makes so much sense now” or “I really see what you meant in Savages” or “It’s just like you wrote about in Savages.” The goal of any writer is to produce a work that is…
-
I apologize for the break in the regular posting. My family and I went to England for the holidays; then I became slightly consumed by writing book #3. I have finally reached the point in the story that has me excited and engaged–murder. 2015 vanished in the blink of an eye. I am officially old,…
-
I have already shared my thoughts on our culture’s current fixation and mainstreaming of the horror genre. A natural extension of this is our culture’s near obsession with all things apocalyptic. The horror and apocalypse genres easily blur and mingle, mostly because the apocalypse is the worst thing that most people can imagine. The apocalypse,…
-
I remember when zombies were Romero. I remember when vampires were Anne Rice. I remember when werewolves were barely on the radar. Nothing sparkled in the sun; no tweens lusted over the dark creatures. I remember when being a horror lover made you a goth in high school or a gore whore as an adult.…
Fiery Pen 