Once in a while I flex my journalistic muscles and write a little opinion piece about books, horror, or on writing. Views are of course my own so they veer into editorial and are sometimes a little vignette.
Sometimes you have to pull a hard left turn… In my new quiet horror story, Only So Far In The Woods, a forager is invited… Read More »Writing horror shorts: The sparks that lit “The Woods” afire
As long as extreme and splatterpunk horror fiction has existed, there have been detractors for every proponent; fans and foes on either side. Lately, the… Read More »Responding quietly to the roar at extreme horror fiction
Self-publishing fiction has changed over the last few years. With more time at home, some authors have found themselves in a position where they have… Read More »Publishing: Vanity press, self-publishing and shades between
This post is the print version of my audio essay “Where Does Nonsupernatural Horror Fit?” from the August episode of the Typical Books Monthly Magazine. … Read More »Where Does Nonsupernatural Horror Fit?
Content warnings in horror fiction From the front cover of a book to the back cover blurb, there is quite a bit available to judge.… Read More »Content Warnings in Horror: Censorship or Accessibility
For the month of October and ten days into November, we tried HelloFresh. You know, the meal service that every podcast raves about? Yeah, that… Read More »We Tried HelloFresh for a Month
Working from home; is that not what we’ve all been striving for? I remember as a child the tongue-in-cheek scenario of robots stealing all of… Read More »Working from home as a writer, full-time employee and adjunct professor
This has been a long-term experiment on my part. Can I dictate fiction? When I was a 12-year-old girl there was a watershed moment after… Read More »Writing Fiction and My Experiment With Speech to Text
Until now, I have eaten nearly the same thing for lunch at work for seven years. Tuna, rice crackers, nuts, and vegetables. Sometimes this would… Read More »The Same Work Lunch For Seven Years
Originally appeared in the Ottawa Citizen, October 28, 2013 as a Halloween themed op-ed series xxx Every day I sit around and think about how… Read More »What Scares Me