Sydney knelt at the edge of the stream, rubbing her fingers to get the dead girl’s blood off. The water was colder than she expected, almost icy. Winter was coming fast this year. Lifting her hands to her face, she inspected her short nails. No mud remained visible under them. Next to her, Bonnie stood […]
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And I’m in it! It’s a while now since I contributed a story to The Box Under the Bed. I also contributed to the second in the series. I skipped the third but I have one in the fourth book, Spellblound, available to pre-order now and due…
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Which Is Scarier?
A. Sydney knelt at the edge of the stream, rubbing the blood off her hands. OR B. Sydney knelt at the edge of the stream, rubbing the dead girl’s blood off her hands. B, right? Yeah. Lots of subtle changes in word choice can amp up the scary in a horror story. If you have […]
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A new horror anthology
I am participating in another Box under the Bed series anthology of horror stories, edited by Dan Alatorre. I have participated in two previous anthologies in this series. Dark Visions, published in 2018, had my stories The Willow Tree and The Haunting of William. Nightmareland, published in 2019, features three of my short stories, The…
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Some bozos never learn. On July 20, 2020, con artist and convicted felon Wid Bastian crawled out from under his rock to appear on a podcast – I won’t name it here because it got a whopping 45 views since airing – in which the recently bankrupt thief attempted to say he was a […]
What do you include when you write a short story? What does it mean to show and not tell? How much setting is appropriate, or description? These and other writing tips are here in this 53 minute video that is a must see for anyone who wants to write or write better, presented by USA […]
The topic of this weeks Open Book Blog hop is write what you know. I have heard this said may time since I started blogging and writing in 2016 and have found that I tend to do this unintentionally. Some examples of where I have written what I know, outside of my fictional autobiography of…
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A Little Help, Please
I write in several genres – and at times, that’s hurting my marketing and my Amazon author page… so I thought I might change things up. Several authors I’ve seen use a slight variance on their name when they write in a second genre. I never did this because i wanted all the eyeballs headed […]
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