Several afternoons a week, I sit at our local coffee shop, sipping a chai, writing, knitting, and watching customers come and go. Though I’m not a stalker or psycho (okay, shut up), I can’t help but eavesdrop on other customers’ conversations if they are close enough and loud enough, because hey, they’re close enough and…
What kind of theme does the author believe Desper Hollow has? Did she have to do any research to write this book? What kind of books does she like to read? What fictional character would she like to have dinner with? What advice does she have for writers? I see Desper Hollow as a story…
A zombie’s only purpose is to kill and eat. They don’t have feelings. They don’t think. In Desper Hollow, Elizabeth Massie has taken the ever-evolving zombie to a new level of existence. Something evil is going on in Desper Hollow, Virginia. This is a place to be avoided, a place people shy away from visiting. Granny…
For Halloween, authors take advantage of things that scare people. Some write stories that will keep you awake at night; others write stories that scare you for the moment. Any phobia would be appropriate in a Halloween story, but the following ones are more closely associated with this spooky time of year. Write your own…
Why did Gary Hendrix write about a haunted furniture store? Has he experienced anything like what happened in his book? How much research did he have to do? If he could choose any person, dead or alive, to spend an hour with, whom would it be? What was your inspiration for this book? Did you…
What is going on at Orsk? When the employees leave each evening, the store is in perfect order. They walk in the next morning to find broken bookshelves, smashed wardrobes, and shattered goblets. This chilling tale will make you think twice before you visit your next furniture store. I wanted to start reading this book…
How silly will you act at the tea party you throw on Mad Hatter Day? Do you need to go outside and scream on International Moment of Frustration Scream Day? How many fears do you need to face on National Face Your Fears Day? Are you going to overindulge in chocolate on National Chocolates Day?…
The great thing about fairy tales? Anyone can connect with them. They’re highly accessible. The only price of admission is being human. There’s a reason we give fairy tales to children. It’s about all they can connect with. They haven’t yet been told how to “get” Sartre, or Barthes, or any other tricky-to-pronounce French author.…
What if you could travel to the land where the dead resided? Would you go there and try to bring back your loved ones who have passed on? From the title of the book, I thought it would be about a girl who died and then came back from the dead. But I was wrong.…
In their first adventure, Nick and Tesla rescued a girl from her kidnappers and managed to wiggle out of those same kidnappers’ clutches themselves. Now they need to help a friend find a stolen mint-condition comic book. Still spending the summer with their mad scientist uncle, Nick and Tesla are in the basement lab when…
