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[...]
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1 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[...]
I'm extremely excited to introduce my special guest today. She holds a special place in my heart. I remember the first time that I held her book in my hands, I had this thought. "Finally, someone wrote a book that I've been dying to read." I read it. And I loved it so much that I bought everything else that this author's ever written. I love her ability to combine dark writing with humor and suspense. Kicking off this week's Trick-or-Treat Chronicles is the amazing Tessa Gratton, one of the most fantastic dark authors around! She's the author of Blood Magic and[...]
I'm so excited that so many fantastic authors were willing to let me conduct Halloween inspired interviews with them for the month of October. Today on Trick-or-Treat Chronicles we have a fantastic author who was kind enough to take a moment from her writing and zombie organizing to let me interivew here. Today, I welcome Judith Graves, a fantastic young adult author. She's the author of several titles such as Under my Skin (the Skinned series), Strangeways Versus the Blood Brothers, and Killer's Instrict. Hi Judith! Thank you so much for letting me interview yo[...]