Last November, I attended the Poetry Society of Texas Annual Awards Banquet, where two of my poems took home first place prizes. The banquet was lovely, the food was good, the poems were wonderful, and of course I was excited about my prizes, but the best part about the whole thing was that my momContinue reading “A Mother’s Gift”
Tag Archives: The Writing Life
The Night Before Deadline
The Night Before Deadline ‘Twas the night before deadline, and all over my desk not a character stirred—the manuscript was a mess. The computer was on, the cursor was blinking in hopes that a plotline would soon enter my thinking. The coffee cups were empty, the blogs had been read, yet nothing—no nothing!—danced inContinue reading “The Night Before Deadline”
When Writers Go on Vacation
When Horror Writers Go on Vacation… They visit cemeteries and consult creepy fortune tellers and seek out local lore of haunted places. Photos: The Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, MA; The Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, NY; The Carousel Museum in Hartford, CT (fortune teller); Maine Ghosts & Legends: 10 Encounters with the SupernaturalContinue reading “When Writers Go on Vacation”
Carie Juettner 