I love this day. Halloween. I really should have become a writer of Horror. Pure, rattle-your-bones, make-you-look-over-your-shoulder, run-up-the-stairs-hoping-the-hand-doesn’t-snag-your-foot horror stories. My cousin, Kathy, and I used to tell scary stories to each other growing up. Campfire stories. You remember them, right? The escaped killer with the hook, stalking lovers in their cars in the dark. […]
Okay, dearest readers, we’ve all heard the saying a thousand times before. You scratch my back, yada, yada, yada. Now sometime around the moment that political correctness reared it despicable head, people started preaching that we shouldn’t be doing things with an expectation of getting something in return (i.e. scratch others without any demand of […]
Okay, I admit it. Self-promotion makes my skin crawl. I just want to write a great book and have millions of people give it a chance. Not saying I want everyone to love my writing (although I won’t be anywhere near the Complaint Department if that ever happens). I am ready and willing to take […]
On Christmas Day, 2007, my wife and I were blessed with the arrival of our miracle baby, Brody. We’d tried for five long years with no success, and just when we agreed that being childless was okay, too, of course—we got pregnant. We figured his deciding to enter the world on […]
Author Jennie Shortridge had this to say about our RoW guest: “Melissa Foster is a wonderful connector of readers and books, a friend of authors, and a tireless advocate for women. She is the real deal.” I’ll say. I’ve only known her for a couple of months, and already she has impacted my life and […]
Narcissus was so enamored with himself that Nemesis was able to lure him to a still pond to fall in love with his own reflection. According to the Greek myth, Narcissus, not being able to part with his new soul mate, died there of starvation. Unlike the ravishing Narc, I’ve never cared that much for […]
I couldn’t stop thinking about garage sales last night. In my life I have never attended one and I have only ever staged one myself. It was a horror show. I’ve never seen such a blatant disregard for market value in my life. Okay, that’s not true. We used to walk across the San Diego […]
Since I was a kid, I have loved Halloween. And no, not just for the candy (although any holiday built around children begging for candy—and getting it—well, most children are probably going to give the day a positive Klout score. (BTW, the “begging for candy” description comes straight from my old man’s lips. I think […]
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