Oct 6, 2015 | Bloody Book Club
At long last, it’s finally here! Childhood Fears, which contains my novella The Bear Who Wouldn’t Leave, is released today. In honour of this momentous occasion, I asked some of my favourite authors to reveal their childhood fears. Read on…...
Sep 21, 2015 | Mysterious Places
In our search for a quiet tropical island, we stumbled across one that is more quiet than most. The Palmyra Atoll has between four and twenty people living on it at any one time, all of whom are U.S. government scientists. I found this intriguing bit of info on...
Aug 5, 2015 | The Writing Life
Like most writers, I’m often glued to a computer. I don’t need medical science to tell me this isn’t good. Before I went to Romania for a Horror Writer’s Workshop in Transylvania, I was getting migraine headaches almost everyday. Since...
Jul 25, 2015 | Mysterious Places, Tales of the Supernatural, The Writing Life
Hasdeu Castle has a strange, sad history. After his daughter Iulia (pronounced Julia) died of tuberculosis at the age of nineteen, Bogdan Hasdeu claimed to receive instructions from beyond the grave. For some reason, Iulia, a brilliant prodigy who had written several...
Jul 19, 2015 | Mysterious Places, The Writing Life
This week in Romania has been stretching my muscles, literally and figuratively. At least three hours each day is spent in a writing workshop with author Richard Thomas. Richard has been throwing us some curveballs. Just when you start to relax, he wants you to write...
