I read a ton of stuff in August, more than usual even. It was nice to binge read a little instead of having to spread reading a single book out over a few days or longer. When I read Joe Hill’s Horns earlier this year, I fell in love with his writing style and storytelling skill. I’ve been slowly working my way through his other books, spreading them out a little so that I don’t run through them too quickly….
I just finished watching Letters to Juliet, the charming Romantic Comedy starring Amanda Seyfried and Vanessa Redgrave. Set in Verona, Italy, the home of Juliet Capulet of Romeo and Juliet fame, the movie begins shortly before Sophie, an aspiring journalist, discovers a fifty-year-old letter to Juliet hidden in an outside wall of Juliet’s home. The letter was written by then fifteen-year-old Claire Smith, who has decided to run away from a passionate love of Lorenzo Bartolini. After reading the letter,…
A few months ago, fellow author Rebekah R. Ganiere put out the call to a chapter of the Romance Writers of America searching for authors to participate in a Horror in Romance panel at the upcoming RT Booklovers Convention taking place 2-7 May 2017 in Atlanta.I jumped at the opportunity. Several of my published stories, and a few planned ones, can be classified as both Horror and Romance. The obvious ones, of course, are those within The Vampyr Series: The…