Punctuated by horror movies

Dracula, 1958, with Christopher Lee. I hail from Romania. so o, course. I remember watching this particular Dracula with my little sister, my cousin O (lifelong partner in horror-appreciation), and my aunt, O’s mother, at home. My parents were away for a wedding, probably. We all got so frightened during that movie that my aunt […]

Feminizing the canon, are we?

The Paris Review has started this new column they call “Feminize Your Canon,” which looks like the best idea I’ve seen lately in support of women’s writing. There is a but, though. It depressed me like nothing else. If you are an unsuccessful women writer, it will depress you too. I honestly didn’t need help […]

The smallness

  It’s something that the human brain cannot really process: our own smallness. I have been having to deal with a lot of rejection coming my way lately. Since January I haven’t had any story accepted for publication, although I have been submitting regularly, up to ten stories per month. Every time I open a […]

Since late last year I fell victim to the bullet journal craze. I am easily swayed by trends, as we all know, but this time I was actively looking for a system that would bring back pens and notebooks into daily use. Before the bullet journal I used to have a scattered system all centered […]

Checking in: snow day

Another snow day. I heard yesterday on the radio that historically in our area we get the most snow of the winter in the first two weeks of February. Right. So, it’s not over. This winter has been relentless. But a snow day is not a bad time to write a blog post over here […]

A dreadpunk, gaslamp, and dark steampunk anthology: DeadSteam

One of my short stories, “A Visitor at Sultana’s Castle,” is set to appear in the upcoming DeadSteam anthology, edited by Bryce Raffle, to be published by Grimmer & Grimmer Books in October 2018. The dreadpunk, gaslamp, and dark steampunk anthology will include seventeen chilling stories of the monsters lurking around every corner, the ghosts […]

Wardrobe planning: What I’ll wear

Looks like everyone (Grechen of Greche’s Closet, Talia of Ethel Grace, and M of Work From Home Wardrobe) is thinking about planning their future purchases and style tweaks for the year, and I am, as always, feeling the inspiration. Something good came out of my (too many) Instagram outfit pictures: looking back through that record […]

Something new and something old

Although I started with such a clever title, I don’t want to keep up the suspense, which must be killing you for sure, so I’ll let you know right away that I’m talking about the new year on one hand and some sketches I made in the past but never got to publish on the […]

My story, Picture Perfect, in Myths, Monsters, Mutations

One of my horror short stories, “Picture Perfect”, that has been published in the Myths, Monsters, Mutations collection, edited by Jessica Augustsson, and published by JayHenge. It’s a really beautiful collection of stories, and I’m so proud to be included! I’m off to celebrate with a handful of chocolate-covered espresso beans.

The Caretaker, a short story

Sirens Call Publications has published one of my short stories, The Caretaker, in their latest issue of the The Sirens Call ezine, Horror-Struck!. You can read it right now at www.sirenscallpublications.com, along with a lot of other great stuff, if you’re into horror at all.

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