Oh my goodness, my friends! I’m so excited! I learned yesterday that Love is a Crematorium and Other Tales made the final ballot for the Bram Stoker Awards! They are the premier literary horror awards, and it is such a huge honor. I’m especially pleased because this year was such a fantastic year for horror, and it is so humbling to … Read More
Join the Virtual Love is a Crematorium Book Club Tonight!
Hi friends! Tonight I have a pretty exciting event going on. Cemetery Dance Publications is hosting a new Paperback Book Club series, and I’m so honored to be the inaugural author! Join us tonight to discuss Love is a Crematorium. It’s a fun, pressure-free environment. You can participate as much or as little as you’d like. Feel free to mute … Read More
I’m Going Live in Two Hours!
Hi friends! I’m so excited to share that I’ll be going live on the Bald & Balding podcast at 4 pm PST. It’s a new podcast for me with TOTAL STRANGERS, but they look like a lot of fun and they ask interesting questions. And so can you! If you join the link, you can talk to us in the … Read More
A Short Story For You! A Serial Killer’s Christmas.
My friends! Life has been wonderful and busy and chaotic and challenging and painful and so exquisitely full of beauty. To celebrate us muddling through together, I want to give you a gift. Once upon a time in 2013, I wrote a short story for this now out-of-print anthology titled Let It Snow: Season’s Readings for a Super Cool Yule. It … Read More
Please Vote for Little Dead Red in Today’s BoH Short Smack Competition!
Hi friends! Things have been so deliciously busy, and I need to fill you all in. But for now, my Bram-Stoker Award-Winning novella Little Dead Red is competing in the Facebook group’s Books of Horror Short Smack competition! Each member of the group gets to vote for their favorite 32 books, and they’ll eventually whittle down to a winner. Today is … Read More
Join Me at the Las Vegas Book Festival!
Tomorrow (Saturday, October 19) will be a fun, busy day! I’m thrilled to be part of the Las Vegas Book Festival! I am also honored to be included in the welcome video alongside my friend and colleague Jarret Keene on the festival’s website. Jarret looks like a proper, broody author and I’m just happy to be there. I’ll be on … Read More
I’m Speaking at Snow College!
I’m delighted to present at the Snow College Convocation Series! I’ll be giving a live presentation titled “The Worth and Beauty of the Macabre.” It is, of course, about the beautiful and redemptive aspects of my favorite genre, horror. *swoon* If you want to watch me live, you can tune in here. If you’re afraid I’ll faint, screw up, or … Read More
Miss Murder at the American Night Writers Association Conference!
I just returned from the American Night Writers Association conference! That’s a mouthful, isn’t it? We just call it ANWA, because we love acronyms. I was delighted to be faculty at the ANWA conference in Mesa, Arizona! I mentored three writers during a four-hour critique workshop. It was intense and that’s a long time to tear into something, but they … Read More
Going Live on Vox Vomitus!
The lovely co-hosts of Vox Vomitus have invited Tom Deady and I over to talk about The Rack. The rack is a cool anthology featuring several super cool horror writers (including Stephen King) and includes my story “I am a House Demanding to be Haunted.” It’s a haunted house story in reverse, and I really like it! Anyway, feel free … Read More
The Love is A Crematorium Cover Reveal!
Hi friends! And here she is! I’m delighted to share the cover of Love is a Crematorium and Other Tales, created by Elderlemon Designs. Isn’t it wonderful? I think it really fits the collection and especially goes along with the beautiful introduction by Gabino Iglesias. It made me swoon. Love is a Crematorium is available for preorder for 99 cents, and … Read More