When I was younger and wrote stories centered around the women in my life, most times, my mom, grandmothers, aunts, or cousins were the focal point. And although as a child, I wouldn’t have pegged them as such, they were and are incredibly strong women.
I’d never had the pleasure of attending one of the Horror Writers Association’s annual StokerCon conventions, but I was glad I did. It proved to be educational and a ton of fun.
To start with, I must admit that I never thought I’d ever write a mainstream action suspense thriller.
Miles, a fluffy tuxedo cat, joined our family one November, around the same time as the Pilgrims arrived in Plymouth almost 400 years earlier. We named him Miles in honor of Myles Standish who traveled with the Pilgrims on the Mayflower in 1620. Miles likes to explore our backyard and engages in what we call…
What did the author do when she was charged by a wild boar? Has she ever taken a cat on an adventure with her? If she could change what happened on any of the trips she’s taken, would she? 1) The adventures you write about in the book are far more than most people have…
My books are about my favorite things—grace and friendship, home, and small-town living—spiced up with mystery and murder. I write about friends you can’t lose, even when you do something dumb. The friends in my books may shake their heads or laugh at each other, but they’re loyal and true. I write characters into my…
Ever wonder how we keep all these characters and voices separate in our author heads? Sure one, two, hell even three isn’t so bad, but what about when you start having novels with three- or four-hundred individual characters in them? As the author of the multiple point-of-view apocalypse thriller series, The End Time Saga, I…
I’ve been writing now since 2012. Just to think about that passage of time is pretty scary. Since then I’ve turned out lots of books, one of which has been adapted into a film for which I also co-wrote the screenplay. Other titles have since been translated into multiple languages all over the world which…
I can still remember the day I hit Amazon’s “publish” button for the first time. Afterward, I told my wife, “If even one person reads this book and likes it, that’ll be enough for me.” That was in November of 2013. I’d just finished my first novel, a one-hundred-ten-thousand-word, year-and-a-half-long project that had been one…
About ten years ago, Doug visited a hypnotherapist, and while in an altered state, he experienced several past lives. Although I saw the same person, my experience was different: I didn’t experience much of anything. I have always been skeptical of such things, tending more toward the “if I can’t smell it, taste it, eat…
