“Fracture” Won the Bram Stoker Award!

My friends! I’m so delighted to share that my short story “Fracture” won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction! I am over the moon. What does this mean? The Bram Stoker Awards are considered the Oscars of horror. It means that something I wrote, a beautiful little story about love, loss, and healing (but not always … Read More

So, Um. This Happened. Thank You!

On Saturday night, I was blown away when I was awarded the beautiful Bram Stoker Award for my story Little Dead Red.  Little Dead Red is probably the darkest thing I’ve written. It’s a tale about little girls, their dead-inside mothers, and the Wolves of the world. It’s a tale of love and justice. It’s a difficult read because it isn’t … Read More

Nameless Won The Staff Choice Book Cover!

How cool is this? Nameless: The Darkness Comes won Staff Choice for Genre Book Cover in the New LDS Fiction Book Cover Contest.  Say that ten times fast! But I get a cool little badge and the satisfaction of knowing that, thanks to George Cotronis and Ragnarok Publications, my book covers RagnarROK.

Mrs. Stabby and a Giveaway!

Happy New Year, my friends! I hope your holidays were fun and that you achieve your dreams this year. I have wonderful news! Not only is my debut novel, Nameless, coming out at the end of this month (EEEEEE!) but Apocalyptic Montessa and Nuclear Lulu: A Tale of Atomic Love won the Reddit Stabby Award for Best Short Fiction of … Read More

Yay for Amie!

You know who makes me happy?  Amie Boudreau.  She’s intelligent, sweet, and all kinds of quirky.  Anyway!  She won the “Yay-I-Have-An-Agent!” giveaway, and was cool enough to blog about it! Hooray!  Also, I’m a lousy packer and the horns broke in the mail (oh no!) but she was even great about that, saying that someone dear could fix it. Thanks for … Read More

Coolest. T-shirt. Ever.

  Is there anything more delicious than this?  No, not really. I won another week of the #NovelChallenge against Simon.  This man makes losing look fantastic. This is the third time that he’s lost to me.  But this week I lost to him for the very first time.  What will my consequence be, do you think? Anyway, awesome pic, Simon.  You’re stellar.