Okay, confession time. I have always loved ghost stories. Both reading them and writing them. Spooky stuff enthralls me; next to Christmas, Halloween is my favorite holiday. Barbara Michaels’ haunted gothics were among my favorite reads of all time–and still are. But have you ever watched Sixth Sense? If you have, perhaps you’ll sympathize when [...]

Okay, so I have three days right now between the Novelists, Inc conference on the beach, and the World Fantasy Convention in San Diego.  Yes, the time for denial is over:  I am a conference junkie.  Every year I think I should cut back on the number of cons I attend. . .and every year [...]

Everything you think you know about vampires is wrong… That’s what urban fantasy heroine and struggling actress Esther Diamond discovers in her latest misadventure, Vamparazzi, while playing a vampire victim in a (fictional) stage adapation of The Vampyre, a (real) neglected gothic classic, as well as being hounded by wanna-be vampires, pestered by a fake [...]

Tell us about yourself. I’ve always been a writer. I wrote my first book at 15 on my mother’s old portable typewriter and I went into journalism after realizing that I needed to parlay my writing talent into something that could provide an immediate paycheck. My first book was published in 2006 with Harlequin Superromance, [...]