If you know me at all, you know that I love fall and I love Halloween. My friend Jessi and I got to talking and we are excited to announce our news! We are teaming up to bring you a new paid anthology in the fall of 2017 and we're looking for submissions! ANNOUNCING Red Leaf Hollow bring us the weird, the wicked, and the strange in the town of red leaf hollow! It’s fall in the small New England town known as Red Leaf Hollow. It’s not on any map but it’s been around as long as the sun and the moon. The first snow is coming, but for now, t[...]
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5 Happy cover reveal day! Last year I had an idea. I wanted to launch a small publishing house that published only MG, YA, and NA horror because in my opinion, it’s widely underrepresented. I love scary stories and I grew up reading anything and everything spooky that I could get my hands on. I read it all. R.L. Stine, Point Horror Books, and Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories with those incredible illustrations by Stephen Gammell. So I launched Hocus Pocus & Co. I put out a call for a Halloween anthology. The stories and illustrations had to be of the MG an[...]
Last year I picked up a book called Find Me. I'd never heard of the author before but it sounded good. The page I skimmed in the book was funny and interesting. So I grabbed it. AND OH MY GOD ROMILY BERNARD IS ONE OF MY NEW FAVORITE AUTHORS!!!! In fact, just recently I picked up her newest release REMEMBER ME. I took an awkward photo with me holding it for proof. Okay, so back to how amazing Romily is. I love her writing because it's funny, snarky, clever, and some scenes from FIND ME were so perfectly creepy that I was glancing from side to side. I loved it.[...]
I can barely contain my excitement today!!!! And not only because it's Halloween. I have two VERY SPECIAL guests. Guests that helped to shape my love for horror and the macabre as a child. Guests that have written some of my favorite books of all times. Guests that to me, are literary legends. Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones have written over 150 books. And I guarantee that each and every one is amazing! In fact, I've read most of them. So, I knew right off the bat that I wanted to interview them for my grand Halloween Trick-or-Treat author interview. I w[...]
