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Kindle | Goodreads (reviews)(Note: available on Kindle Unlimited) “Something borrowed, something blue. Something terrible will happen to you.”It’s a bad neighborhood in Detroit, the kind of place where abandoned houses get stripped, then taken over by squatters, then burned. But it’s about to get worse.Across the street is a white van with those words spray-painted on the side […]

This one is currently available only on Wattpad; I entered it in the #TNTHorrorContest.  The next phase of the contest happens on December 2, with the top 100 stories posted to the contest webpage.  There appear to be a TON of entries.  It’s currently free to read; if nothing else happens with it, I’ll put

A Victorian Orphan makes good. How Smoke Got Out of the Chimneys (Smoke #1) Kindle | Nook | Kobo | iBooks | Goodreads (reviews) (still some links going up) London, England. 1840.Gangs of four- and five-year-old orphans are being used as “apprentice” chimney sweeps–they’re the only ones who can fit down the narrow chimneys, taking brushes and baskets down with them into upper-class Victorian

Can men write romances? OF COURSE THEY CAN, AND THEY DO. However, a lot of male romance writers feel they have to write under female pen names and/or initials to hide their gender–and that’s just wrong.  Here are some of the male writers (or partners including a male writer) of romance I’ve been able to

I have a mental checklist for emotional distress.  Because I am THAT kind of nerd.  But also because I often have a hard time staying in contact with my emotions and feelings (like, literally I can make physical pain go away if I’m focused on something).  In order to keep myself from having some kind

Over the last year (I fudged it – I finished A Dark Matter on October 24, 2015), I’ve read a number of excellent dark-minded books.  Here are the ones that stuck best with me–horror, noir, suspense, and one non-fiction.  No books in the middle or end of a series; some short stories; one novella.  One

I  have nothing deep and meaningful to talk about with writing at the moment but I want the feeling of having blogged, so I’m going to repost some of the links that I put up last week.  Or is that too honest? A-hem. Let me try again. I have run into a number of wonderful

Kobo has a 30% off sale on selected ebook titles – the promo code is 30OCT. A Murder of Crows:  Seventeen Tales of Monster and the Macabre is there to be had if you want it 🙂

Note:  this is not the tightest blog post ever.   In trying to write about handling information so I can clear up confusion, I keep stumbling over how to explain how to handle information about handling information…etc.  Things got confusing.  So my apologies in advance; this is tricky stuff to catch, and I’m fighting myself.