It’s October, my favorite month. We’re only a couple of days in, but already the season looks promising. I have a new home to decorate, so my favorite old frightful friends have come out to play on our porches. The weather has turned cool enough to open the windows in the mornings and cook chickenContinue reading “Looking Back on a Little Piece of Horror”
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The Ghostly Tales of Burlington
It’s my book’s birthday! Today, The Ghostly Tales of Burlington makes its eerie entrance into the world. This collection of nonfiction stories for readers 8-12 is my third in Arcadia’s Spooky America series, which adapts the popular Haunted America books into volumes for younger readers. My first book explored haunted historical sights all over NewContinue reading “The Ghostly Tales of Burlington”
Darkness Follows, Then Laughter Follows After
That’s how my short story, “Darkness Follows,” begins. With a drink and a memory and a knock at the door. I first started this story in 2016 during a Writers’ League of Texas workshop. It was just a page of notes then, but it soon grew into a full story. I titled it “Knocking” andContinue reading “Darkness Follows, Then Laughter Follows After”