In just ten weeks, Kate McCall has used her acting expertise, her theatrical flair, and her dramatic savvy (her words) to solve not just one or two, but many cases. It all started when her father was found dead, tied to a chair with his eyes blown out. He left Kate his private detective business.…
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but it is up to the author to write those thousand words. (Richard Petracca) Will you be the one to write those thousand words? When you look at a picture, do you only see what is right in front of your eyes? Or do you see…
Harry Potter went to a special school for wizards where he learned to control his powers. Teddy Cannon is going to a school where she is learning to control and use her psychic abilities. When the story begins, Teddy has been banned from every poker table in Las Vegas. She has disguised herself and is…
How mysterious and scary is your monster? If your monster were to come to life and get lost in your town, would people’s hair stand on end when they saw it? Would they stop whatever they were doing and run from it? Would it cause them to fear for their lives? How do you make…
The research I did for Softly and Tenderly had me delving into things that I would never have learned about just for the fun of it. How fast does a person’s body decompose once they have breathed their last? Just the thought of that gave me chills. When are bugs first attracted to the lifeless…
You can’t see me, but I am here. I do believe I started mid-story. Please, forgive me; let me back up a bit. We are born with the ability to do great things. Will we be the next Beethoven, Shakespeare, or Joan of Arc and transform our darkness into something we can use to overcome…
Broken Chains takes place in Azerbaijan, Kenya, and Canada. It is a story of escape from abuse, psychological and physical. It is a story of poverty, deceit, dementia, and alcoholism. It is a story of errors in judgment. The daughter suffers because of her mother’s bad choices, yet she ends up making similar bad choices in…
Whether it be the 1910 horror film, Frankenstein, written and directed by J. Searle Dawley, or the 1974 comedy from Mel Brooks, Young Frankenstein, the image of the monster and his creator are forever etched into our minds. But with all the great adaptations to this fine story over nearly two centuries, we should not…
The story opens on the dark night of July 31, 1995. That night is dark in more ways than one. A ritualistic human sacrifice is being made. Oh, and the woman being sacrificed is pregnant. Then the story skips ahead to twenty-one years later. Has the sacrifice been forgotten? What about the child she was pregnant with? What became of it?
There are enough rules about when to use a comma and when not to use one to drive any normal person insane. Have you ever noticed that sometimes there are commas between adjectives and sometimes there aren’t? Why is that? Order of AdjectivesDid you know that there is an order in which adjectives should appear?…
