I have been DYING to announce this! My story “Murder for Beginners” was accepted for John Skipp’s Psychos: Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane. Isn’t that fantastic? You know what is even cooler? This TOC. Check it! Jim Shepard Edgar Allen Poe Joan Aiken Richard Connell Ray Bradbury Robert Bloch Ed Kurtz Laura Lee Bahr William Gay … Read More
Oh, Memories! And a High School Picture
Oh my dear friends! I have been away from home for two weeks. TWO WEEKS. It was awesome, and pictures are to come. But last night I was lightening my book collection (my hometown library is getting a new horror section, hooray!) and I found my yearbooks. What a delight! I was surprised at how much I had forgotten. But … Read More
Paying It Forward
You know how you get together with your buddies, or your church group, or your motorcycle gang, or whoever, and you make clothes/dolls/blankets/kits for sick kids in hospitals? Yeah, I do those things. And I have received these things. Because hospitals and I, we’re like THIS, yo. I know pretty much know where every Coke machine is in every hospital … Read More
One Year Later
It’s been a year today since our little girls were born. Today we celebrated Lilia’s birthday (yay!) and I also fiercely missed Seija and Daisy. But it was a wonderful day filled with happiness. Yesterday I picked up the girls’ headstone, and isn’t it beautiful? I think it’s sweet and cheery. It’s sitting in the back of my vehicle, ready … Read More
Troll or Derby: A Book Review
It’s easy to weary of the traditional fae in literature. They’re gorgeous, ephemeral little things with delicate wings. While such ethereality can be charming in small doses, I would prefer fae with more bite. A little more teeth. And a lot more rock and roll. Then Red Tash’s Troll or Derby came blowing through the doors and my prayers were … Read More
If Only They Were Standing in Line for My Books…
Went to a super baby sale today. It was insane. Spent two hours in line. Sure, I made a killing on children’s clothes, but it took all of my willpower not to knock everybody down and eat them. Cuz, well, I was hungry. And the line was loooooong. Here it was outside: And then it snaked around inside. Never again, says … Read More
This Is What It Looks Like When Ryan Bridger Critiques Your Work
Familiar with Ryan? Search for “Shock Totem Drinking Game” and you’ll learn everything you need to know. He critiqued an old story of mine that was apparently so boring that he needed to jazz it up. “What are you?” indeed.
I Received an Offer for My Novel! Then I Walked Away.
See these glasses? Once upon a time, back when the world was young and Da Man and I were newly married, he was a member of Sigma Chi. We went to the formal and got these awesome glasses. A few weeks ago, they were filled with Coke Zero as my Angry Ginger friend and I celebrated AN OFFER FOR MY FIRST NOVEL! … Read More