horror movies

  • Upcoming Release: Savages & Savage Island

    My debut novel, Savages, will be re-released with a complete sequel, Savage Island.

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  • Cover Reveal: Invisible Girls

    I am following up a short story publication with a new novel in 2026! Not only a new book but my first published story that is not horror!

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  • Holiday Horror Bingo

    Holiday Horror Bingo

    This year, at the request of the Midnight Monster Club, I adapted the game for the holiday season, replacing any horror movie with holiday or winter horror movies and coming up with festive categories.

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  • Telluride Horror Show 2025

    Telluride Horror Show 2025

    Year #9 at the Telluride Horror Show! This year, there was no traumatizing child injury, so I had a much more typical experience.

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  • 31 Days of Horror Bingo 2025

    31 Days of Horror Bingo 2025

    Please join me in playing my annual #31DaysofHorror bingo!

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  • Colorado Festival of Horror 2025

    Summer sprinted to an end, landing us in September. For me, spooky season starts with Colorado Festival of Horror (CoFoH). Horror may be year-round for me, but the CoFoH weekend of horror movies, celebrities, and art sets the tone for the impending October and Halloween surge.

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  • Releasing Red Walls

    Releasing Red Walls

    Every book release is different. For Savages, I had a new baby and a toddler. Followers came in the aftermath of COVID. Red Walls, my sixth and newest book, comes at a time of personal turmoil (and honestly, global turmoil but we’ll keep this blog in the microcosm).

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  • Writing Seasons

    Writing Seasons

    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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  • Horror and Trauma

    Horror and Trauma

    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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  • Telluride Horror Show 2024

    Telluride Horror Show 2024

    Telluride was different for me this year. Nonetheless, it was a great weekend of horror in the autumn mountains. Until next year, Telluride! Find me with my kids healthy and happy at home next year.

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