A Writer’s Life: The Novel That Started It All
I often get asked how I got my start as a professional author. I expect most people who do what I do get asked this question. For me, it dates…
True Crime With a Conscience
True crime seems to be everyone’s favourite flavour these days going by the sheer number of television series, podcasts, and books being published in the genre. If you’re reading this…
Self-Publishing, Copyright Theft, and Author Brand Infringement
UPDATE: Since this blog was first published, there were more Kindle e-books showing up fraudulently using my name. In fact, the fraud spread to include other authors, some of whom…
Well-Mannered Criminals Do It Best!
So here we are, roughly a year since the last time I blogged at Errant Ramblings. It’s now become so bad that in my official author bio, rather than simply…
True Crime, Small Towns and Me
“The real monsters aren’t hiding in the woods—they’re in our towns!“ It seems like only yesterday when my debut true crime book The Best New True Crime Stories: Serial Killers…
True Crime, Serial Killers and Me
“Serial killers. They make the headlines. They give you nightmares. They make you afraid to leave your house. Yet according to statistics, you’re more likely to be murdered by someone…
Women in Horror Month
It’s February – which means it’s Women in Horror Month! This is a time when women who work in horror – be it as authors, filmmakers and artists – receive…
I Want to Be Alone – A Writer’s Life
Greta Garbo should’ve been a writer. She definitely had the right mindset. Being writers, we often feel a natural inclination to sequester ourselves, to hibernate, to dig a moat around…
Courting Horror with Florida Gothic
OH, THE HORROR!!!!!!!!!!!!! Horror isn’t exactly new to me. No, I’m not talking about my personal life; I’m talking about my writing life! I’ve crossed over into horror on several…
Dorian Gray Strikes Again: Riding the Wave of Decadence with Penny Dreadful
Last November saw the publication of my sexually explicit Gothic novel The Wilde Passions of Dorian Gray, a sequel to Oscar Wilde’s classic work about a man whose fateful wish…
