Dehydrating Pineapple! An Easy Tutorial.

Okay, so maybe I went a little crazy when I bought 32 pounds of pineapple . I’m not sorry. Fresh pineapple. Frozen pineapple. Pineapple on homemade pizza. Finally, though, I knew I had to dehydrate it or lose it. Woman cannot live on pineapple alone, although she may try. Cutting and dehydrating it was incredibly easy! You can do it … Read More

An Interview with BOOM TOWN Author Glenn Rolfe

I adore Glenn Rolfe. I adore him so much that he had a cameo in my novella Little Dead Red. I received emails saying that Glenn was their favorite character, and that doesn’t surprise me at all. Not at all. Glenn just came out with his new novella, Boom Town. Glenn was kind enough to sit for an interview, and … Read More

A Typical Day Living with Williams Syndrome

This photo breaks my heart and makes me smile at the same time. It stirs up emotion. This is my beautiful, guileless son, who has Williams Syndrome. He’s crying in the bathtub after I told him his behavior wasn’t up to par and he wouldn’t earn a trip to McDonalds unless he improved. His emotions are always so close to … Read More

Alien: Isolation

It’s a fantastic, horrifying game that gives me the shivers. Check out my writer’s group playing it!

Don’t Starve Together with GoJoBot

So I had one of the most entertaining interviews ever! GoJoBot and Driftwood Kid invited me to play the super cute, kinda creepy Don’t Starve Together game with them. While we were busy skinning beefalo and eating mushrooms (don’t eat raw red ones!), they asked me a bit about books and other things. Each interview runs for about ten minutes … Read More

Nameless: The Darkness Comes

Nameless: The Darkness Comes by Mercedes M. Yardley LUNA MASTERSON SEES DEMONS. She has been dealing with the demonic all her life, so when her brother gets tangled up with a demon named Sparkles, ‘Luna the Lunatic’ rolls in on her motorcycle to save the day. Armed with the ability to harm demons, her scathing sarcasm, and a hefty chip … Read More

Vulnerability and Accountability

So this isn’t easy for me to say publicly. It isn’t a life-shattering thing in any way, but admitting it makes it true. I’m diabetic. I’m diabetic and have been for years. Gestational diabetes with Middlest, and it simply never went away. That was almost eight years ago. Not only am I diabetic, but I’m wildly uncontrolled. This is because … Read More

A List Containing Some Lovely Ladies of Horror

So February was Women in Horror Month, where we celebrated some of the dark and lovely ladies in horror. We discussed many of the newer women in the genre, but I had a lovely conversation with David J. Schow where he urged us not to forget some of the veteran female horror writers. He gave me a wonderful list and … Read More

Nameless Won The Staff Choice Book Cover!

How cool is this? Nameless: The Darkness Comes won Staff Choice for Genre Book Cover in the New LDS Fiction Book Cover Contest.  Say that ten times fast! But I get a cool little badge and the satisfaction of knowing that, thanks to George Cotronis and Ragnarok Publications, my book covers RagnarROK.