Dark Fiction & Gothic Suspense
Happy New Year! I've been so deep in the groves with Eva that I'm a little late with my New Year wishes, but I hope 2026 is treating you well so far. I've been living in Eva's head for weeks now, revising Book 2 of Beneath Beauford Grove. The story picks up just three days… Continue reading Writing update from the groves…🌳👻
Happy July, everyone! It's been a strange summer with so much going on environmentally: Canadian forest fires, record-level heat, floodings, tornadoes, etc. Global warming is real, devastating lives around the globe. From my New York highrise, a surreal orange smog covered the skyline like a scene from an apocalyptic movie. A panorama I care not… Continue reading Author Update
Hi Everyone, It's June, and I haven't met my goal of posting once a week. Sorry, but life is so unpredictable at the moment. But there's one constant, writing, writing, writing. I've made much headway with my WIP, Echoes of Ballard House, and hope to finish the final draft by the fall of 2023. Meanwhile,… Continue reading Writer’s Update
Hindsight 2020, let's move forward into a brighter and happier year. For many, 2020 was a frightful year, a time of many uncertainties. But I hope it was a period of reflection and growth that's taught us what matters and what needs to be done going forward. Though remnants of 2020 linger and we have… Continue reading Happy New Year!
Today’s guest post is excerpted from How to Write a Page Turner (Writer’s Digest Books) by Jordan Rosenfeld (@JordanRosenfeld). If we wrote novels that were hyper-accurate to the “real lives” of our characters—even those that populate fantasy and science fiction novels—they would be thousands of pages long and span a series too big to fit… via… Continue reading 8 Mundane Elements You Should Cut From Your Story — Jane Friedman
What have I been up to? Well, I've been working on another novel. My work in progress is a Paranormal Historical Fiction set in my favorite part of the country, Geneva New York. I'd spent my college years in this region which brims with history and natural beauty. Geneva sits at the northern tip of… Continue reading Where Past and Present Meets