Okay, this is wild for me to even get to type this, but this past weekend I was named the League of Utah Writers 2021 Writer of the Year at their annual Quill Awards Banquet. I’m still in shock. Since joining the League in 2016, I’ve watched many authors I respect and admire accept this […]
I don’t want to bury the lede, so: both Donn’s Legacy and my short story, “Bad Luck Bridget,” have won Certificates of Excellence in the Cat Writers Association Communications Contest! I’m so deeply honored! To be eligible for this annual contest, the works must be primarily focused on cats. For fiction, the cats must play
I am completely enamored with the cover for my upcoming horror collection, DREAD SOFTLY. My cover artist fully captured the surreal mood of these 11 stories, and the more I look at it, the more I seem to discover. And then I just squeal with excitement because not only am I finally reaching that milestone
Award nomination season is coming up (or already here). A friend and fellow Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America member recommended I put together a list of everything I wrote that was published in 2020, and more than anything it felt like a great opportunity to reflect on the fun I had writing stories
There’s something deeply haunting about theaters. Maybe it’s the way the wings of the stage are designed to obscure anything and anyone standing among the layers of curtains. Maybe it’s the way sound seems to travel in unnatural ways, as though amplified by unseen forces. Or maybe it’s simple conditioning; we walk into a theater
I love visiting spooky places on vacation. Here in the United States, I like to explore old places whenever possible. I’m not saying a newly constructed hotel can’t be completely haunted, but there’s just a feeling I get inside buildings that have been around for a very long time that can’t be matched by most
I honestly can’t believe this day is finally here! As of today, I have officially published my first trilogy. (Well, trilogy for now. I can’t stay away from these characters, and one way or another this series will grow in the future.) But the feeling still stands. When I first started writing Donn’s Hill, I
There is (at least) one thing I didn’t learn enough about before writing the first two Soul Searchers mysteries, and that is the history of the indigenous practice of smudging. My failure to research the origins of this practice and the full definition of this term led to me unintentionally appropriate it within my books, and for all of those things, I apologize.
