Today is a very special day. Why? Because today Brian LeTendre and I are revealing our cover for Harrowed!! Harrowed is a YA horror novel about a serial killer stalking a small town in Massachusetts, and a girl who is trying to solve the murders. Everyone knows how much I love horror and I was beyond excited to start collaborating with Brian on a new series called the Woodsview Murders. Book one is Harrowed, out 9/22/15. Brian has done a fantastic job updating everyone on the progress and our crazy edit month that we affectionately dubbed "Editpalooza." Me, l[...]
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0 SWEET MADNESS, September 18, 2015 from Merit Press Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty one. Who was Lizzie Borden? A confused young woman, or a cold-hearted killer? For generations, people all over the world have wondered how Andrew Borden and his second wife, Abby, met their gruesome deaths. Lizzie, Andrew’s younger daughter, was charged, but a jury took only 90 minutes to find her not guilty. In this retelling, the family maid, Bridget Sullivan, shines a compassionate light on[...]
It took me around an hour to even be able to write this blog post. I kept sporadically breaking out in dance and song. Yep, you could say that I'm excited. I swear, I couldn't even control my limbs. And now, I can barely contain my fingertips to write this post. I'm a HUGE Alice in Wonderland fan. I love the imagination, the story, and the fact that a book published in 1865 is still loved, cherished, and relevant today. Imagine my excitement when I got a message from Leap Books. In 2015, they're celebrating its 150th anniversary in a BIG WAY. Leap Books is putti[...]
Let me just say that there are few authors as fantastic as Heather Marie. What I love about her is her love of dark things and her individuality. Which of course, is why I flipped out when I heard about THE GATEWAY THROUGH WHICH THEY CAME. Have you heard of this book? No? Well, let me introduce you. THE GATEWAY THROUGH WHICH THEY CAME To seventeen-year-old Aiden Ortiz, letting the dead walk through his body to reach the other side comes with the territory. Being a Gateway isn’t an easy job, but someone’s gotta send Bleeders where they belong. Heaven. Salva[...]
Recently, for Pen & Muse's Summer School, I wrote a piece for the Alternative Types of Writing segment called "What the Hell is a Blovel + Freebie Alert." Essentially, a blovel is a novel you write on your blog. I included a ton of tidbits in that post and a freebie to help plan your blovel. So if you're interested in starting your own, I highly recommend checking it out. Anywho, I was so excited about the post, I decided that I was going to write my own blovel. So here it folks. My blovel, NIGHT DARES. If you prefer reading on Wattpad or Penned, you can fo[...]