fiction

  • Inspired

    Ah, nothing like a good rainy Seattle outing to the largest Oddity and Curiosity expose to further inspire the macabre. I’m telling you, between my husband’s Horror Film Extravaganza, the steadfast diet of horror books, I thought I was full of dead things and weird stories, but this month has been bountiful. I took a… Read more

  • Tis the Season

    One of the most romantic things my husband has ever done is to whisk me away to LA where we stayed on the supposedly haunted Queen Mary. From there, we went to LACMA and saw Guillermo Del Toro’s At Home With Monster’s exhibit. This year isn’t so grand, it’s simply spinning a wheel of horror… Read more

  • Husk!

    Husk is a standalone that comes after launching a series, so I fully expect my husband to read half of it before saying, “I don’t know what this has to do with The Dredes…” He’s furious that I won’t allow him to leave a review on my books. They are the first pieces of fiction… Read more

  • A book a month

    I didn’t just crash into Indie-publishing with two books and a third coming out next week. This looks weird without context and I realize I haven’t given any context as to why I’ve pulled a book out of my ass every two weeks. I touched on it a little bit in previous posts, particularly The… Read more

  • In the cold light of Day

    “Are things okay at home with your husband?” Hang on, what? As readers (especially of the horror variety), we can’t help but wonder “What inspired this piece of work?” My former publisher was no exception. So when I turned in The Day Dredes, the reactions were surprising because I didn’t see it as the horror… Read more