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Melting: Saturday Update

31 Saturday Jan 2026

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I’m late again this week, but in my defense, I had no idea yesterday was Friday until after midnight today. Had the whole week off from work because most of that white in the picture above isn’t snow. It’s sleet. Ice takes a lot longer to melt down than snow, because the snow melts and solidifies to ice on top of the existing ice… I didn’t feel safe leaving the house until Friday, which is usually a day off for me, and even then, I worked during the day instead of afternoon/evening. All my schedules are off. I should be back to normal by next week.

News:

I can finally share the cover for In the Dollhouse We All Wait, and it’s freaking amazing. The artwork is by David Kozlovsky, and I got to get a glimpse of his sketches as he worked. I’m blessed beyond measure, as they say, to have indie horror art for Dollhouse.

I finished the final proofreading round of edits, thanks to the Icepocalypse, and I’ve been given an official release date of April 10, 2026.

Works in Progress:

After finishing the proofreading round for Dollhouse, I edited and submitted my flash fiction to Shallow Waters, then got hit with a short story idea for something with a deadline mid-February. I think the concept is better than the execution right now, but I’m still striving to finish, because maybe the execution can be fixed in edits. I would have liked to use the Icepocalypse to work on my double edit of Never & Forever (Meridian Book 8), but the timing just wasn’t right, sadly. The deadline for Dollhouse was much harder than the tentative deadline for the N&F edits. I’ll really have to buckle down when I finish this short story, though.

Books I’m Reading:

Raising Loki: A Memoir by Elliot Manarin
The Shining by Stephen King
Skeleton Crew by Stephen King

Things I’m Listening To:

Christmas playlist

Things I’m Watching:

My Norwegian Holiday
Bugonia
What Lies Beneath
The Bone Collector
Dante’s Peak
Truth or Dare (2017)
9-1-1 series
9-1-1: Nashville series
Stranger Things series (finished)
Elsbeth series
Resident Alien series

Poem of the Week:

It is relief
not to feel
relief
I love
not to feel
love
a monstrous sensation
to feel monstrous
and not recoil
from my coils
give me cold blood
and armored scales
steal feeling
’til heart beats
still

Cover Reveal: OUT OF CURIOSITY AND HUNGER

30 Tuesday May 2023

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Here’s my beautiful cover for OOCAH, from the premade collection at roosterrepublicpress.com. It doesn’t represent the featured creature itself, but I wanted something both naturalistic (like old anatomy drawings) and distorted. I was enchanted by the many legs and the weirdness of the mouth parts.

ROSE RED Cover Reveal

20 Sunday Oct 2019

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I know it’s been a while since I last updated. I had computer troubles and needed to send it out for repairs. It took a lot longer than I thought it was going to, because I just told myself I’d wait until I got it back before doing any blogging. Joke’s on me, I guess.

So we can start with the soft reveal of ROSE RED. I think it’ll be a bit late coming out–mid to late November instead of end of October. I’m just starting on the proofreading, and then it’s got to be formatted and I need to get a proof sent to me before I publish.

Until then, whet your appetite on the gorgeous, white-gothic cover of ROSE RED, the second book in the Thorns series, a custom by Covers by Combs. The fairy/folk tale inspirations for this one are Beauty and the Beast (of course), Snow White (but oddly enough, not Snow White and Rose Red, which is a Bearskin tale–just borrowed the name), and the Nutcracker.

Rose Red E Cover

Cover Reveal – Nocturne

25 Wednesday Oct 2017

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I’m shooting for a Halloween release at this point. It’s no gimmick. That’s really just the way it’s turned out.

Shout out to the fabulous Covers by Combs for the custom cover design and formatting.

It’s been eight years since the car accident that stole Callie’s voice and plagued her with terrifying nightmares every night. Four years since her family wrote her off as a lost cause and abandoned her at a boarding school for troubled teens. Despite friction with some of the other residents, seventeen-year-old Callie has nevertheless thrived in a place where they don’t expect her to be normal, but she’s not sure she’s able to thrive anywhere else.

Then one night, a man who calls himself the Guardian pulls her into a subterranean world filled with all the monsters from her dreams and ruled by the Night Mare herself. Down in the darklands, Callie’s nightmarish creations worship her. Down in the darklands, she isn’t tired or sick or hungry.

Down in the darklands, she can speak.

As her waking life deteriorates under the weight of exhaustion and other complications, Callie’s nightly forays into the nightmare world also begin to take their toll. And it’s getting harder to tell which world is really the nightmare.