Writer. Gothic Soul. Woodland Spirit.
Part horror story. Part love story. My novel, Demon's Grin, is now available in paperback on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and also as an e-book on Kindle. It's not especially scary as a horror story, but there are a few moderately gory scenes. At the heart of it, it's a love story. What It's... Continue Reading →
Here is another excerpt from my work-in-progress novel, Miss Cadaver. It's told from the point of view of a reanimated corpse. Darryl is the "mad scientist" with a day job at a medical school. Lydia is his wife who is not pleased with his project of bringing the dead back to life, but she's sympathetic... Continue Reading →
This is the opening to my novel Demon's Grin. I'm not crazy about the title, but I've been working on this for almost three years and haven't come up with anything better. For a while, the working title was Love and Destroy, after the Franz Ferdinand song, which is about the book The Master and... Continue Reading →
This is the opening to the novel I'm currently drafting. It's called Miss Cadaver, though I don't think my resurrected corpse uses "Cadaver" as her last name. I haven't decided on a name for her yet. The naming of people, places, and things stalls my writing progress more than it probably should. Anyway, this is... Continue Reading →
As with all the posts in this series, this one comes with a disclaimer that I am by no means an expert when it comes to self-publishing. I put a lot of work into my books, but once they're published, I move onto the next project and put almost no effort into promoting them. I... Continue Reading →
Welcome to the first post in my series on self-publishing a poetry book. I wanted to share how I went about publishing my book as a way to demystify the process for anyone else interested in putting out a book of their own work. I went completely DIY and paid no money except for the... Continue Reading →
This is one of my favorite topics to talk about, though it seems like my answer changes from time to time. The short answer is that I write for escape. I've always been disappointed by life, so through writing, I could experience all the things I never got to do in real life. Of course,... Continue Reading →
I started my first WordPress blog in January 2008. I knew almost nothing about the world of blogging. I thought if it as nothing more than an online journal, so I wrote about what was going on in my (not at all interesting) life, which was basically reading books, listening to music, and writing. The... Continue Reading →
September kind of got away from me in terms of posting here. I'm back at the job I quit last November when I finished my accounting degree. In February, I learned I did not like working a desk job, and I quit that one after a few weeks. So I'm back where I was a... Continue Reading →
I published my short story We Were Six. It is available as a free download on Kindle through August 25. Here's the description: We were six in number. We had been six for a while, all girls. Their father is king of the faeries who live deep in the woods. The girls await his seasonal... Continue Reading →
Michelle Wicklow 