A Play Demonic: The Queen’s Idle Fancy continues with the 32nd serial installment of the horror tale. When last met, a strange force had arrived on the island and hid itself above the clearing at the top of Mt. Erie, where the audition for the role of Queen Stormag had taken place. The final decision…
Another new addition to the ongoing serial tale, A Play Demonic (The Queen’s Idle Fancy). I still love the dark meandering story of these doomed thespians on Fidalgo Island. The last we heard from the troop the two main divas vying for the plum role of Queen Stormag had begun their audition on the Winter…
A return to Bog blog central today, Sunday, the end of July, when the climactic action in one of my favorite horror novels, The Ceremonies, takes place . . . certainly auspicious. Many wonderful, lucky moments occurred since my last post. Has it really been months? Wake Me Up won a second book award. This…
Now that’s a headline . . . A year ago I nominated my first novel, Wake Me Up, a complex literary crime novel narrated by the victim of a brutal beating while he recuperates from his medically induced coma. Since then, a lot has happened, and I didn’t expect Wake Me Up to make the…
Meet the coach from Hell . . . This is the latest installment of my ongoing semiweekly horror tale, The Volunteer. I hope you are enjoying the introduction to this mystery-soaked coach, a new volunteer on the courts of a small island high school’s girls tennis team. It’s February, and practices have begun, conditioning exercises…
Here’s the next part of my ongoing horror story, The Volunteer, the one about a father and husband trying to do his best, as always. He’s a people pleaser, and this comes with its own frailties. Watch how he handles the introduction to the new volunteer tennis coach. Is he impressed? He’d never admit to…
Eartha Kitt’n and Ajax The Gray wanted to share space with today’s chapter of The Volunteer . . . they patrol the perimeter. Hello all The Volunteer readers . . . this is a weekly endeavor of pure pleasure for me . . . a story that combines my love of subtle fright and supernatural…
It’s Sunday, the last day of January, and I’ve missed my every-five-day posting deadline. By one day. Please forgive this since I thought about including the final six questions in the calendar of questions in one final post. February will be about sharing news from reviewers, readers, writing more posts about creativity, the process, and…
Continuing to delve into Wake Me Up in a variety of specific and observational ways, I hope you’re enjoying these “background” questions and answers about my first literary crime novel. This set of five questions deal with the senses involved in the book, from sights, scene setting, to sounds, scents, tastes, and touch/textures involved in…
All for fun, I’m providing five more answers in the January joy theme activator, one question for each day of the month . . . These cover January 6th through the 10th and I’m happy to begin thinking of why I wrote something that way, or how I created a certain character, conflict, resolution, scene,…