So once upon a time my friend Nisa had a bad day, so I wrote her a novel. I literally sent her about a chapter a day. This fun little book became my first published novel titled Nameless: The Darkness Comes. It’s fun, crazy, snarky, creepy, and has a healthy dose of the paranormal and hard, grueling reality. It’s my best … Read More
Miss Murder’s Easy Asparagus Tart (Three Ingredients!)
This might be my new favorite summer meal, and you can get it done in about half an hour. Serve it aside a salad with sliced strawberries or raspberries, poppyseed dressing, and feta cheese. Or maybe simply with chocolate chip cookies. However you do it, you’re golden. 🙂 You will need: 1 can of pizza dough, refrigerated pizza crust, or … Read More
Pen of the Damned: 31
Pen of the Damned. A group of horror and angst driven writers sworn to their eternal suffering. We are The Damned. I’m a member of The Pen of the Damned, a group of writers who get together and write short fiction based on picture prompts. It’s fun and keeps my brain from getting cobwebby. The stories are between 100-200 words … Read More
My Nemesis Matt Betts Takes Over My Blog!
Matt is just the worst. THE WORST. He’s been my nemesis for years and he just won’t stop. Won’t stop writing poetry, won’t stop putting out books, won’t stop being successful, etc etc. Such a jerk. Anyway, he has a brand new book titled The Boogeyman’s Intern that I may or may not have read months and months ago (I did) and … Read More
Pimp A Friend Friday: Barones Lovey de Luxe
I was invited to a fun, super sekrit project that will be coming in 2020, and I needed some pictures for it. Pictures aren’t my favorite things. I have that “Hello, I had triplets” tummy, a stiff smile, and now I have this strange wonky eye. (Thanks, scorpion!) I’m awkward and uncomfortable in front of a camera. I’ve never had … Read More
Mercedes’ Great Wednesday Adventures!
Seriously, today was insane, and it’s only 11:30 AM! I had a full day so I dropped the kids off to the school a bit early. I needed to hit the ATM, but had received a notice saying our bank branch was closing and to go elsewhere. So I found another one to go to. It was inside a building, … Read More
Storymakers 2018!
It was a fantastic conference. It’s one of my favorites. Storymakers is a writing conference for LDS authors (although you certainly don’t need to be LDS to attend) to help us elevate our literary work. The classes are phenomenal. If you have the opportunity to go, you should definitely try it. Hold on to your hats, because it is intense. I … Read More
This Mother’s Day Thing is a Mixed Bag
We love our mothers. Of course we love our mothers. But they drive us crazy. They raised us wonderfully/strangely/amazingly/poorly or they didn’t raise us at all. They fill us with love or hate or guilt or horror or remorse. We take care of them or they take care of us. Perhaps we have never met them. Perhaps we like it … Read More
Rest In Peace, Beautiful Thug Bunny
I don’t even know how to start this post. It’s a love story. Once upon a time I was looking at the local shelter’s website, and I found a picture of a black bunny with terrified eyes. The shelter had saddled him with the ridiculously unimaginative moniker “Shadow.” I told my best friend, the Angry Ginger, that I had found … Read More
Miss Murder Goes Glam
Totally dressed up. I’m the cock of the walk. Eggsellent! And some other horrible puns.