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Melissa Hope’s New Middle Grade Adventure, SEA OF KINGS
Pirates. Monsters. More pirates. As a kid, I couldn't get enough of adventure books like Melissa Hope's Sea of Kings. I think I wanted to get away from my landlocked life in San Antonio, Texas, and sail away on dangerous ocean, a place I just knew would be filled with...
WWII Ghosts: S.S. Thistlegorm
I don't know why, but I love WWII ghosts. I was raised on stories from the war, heroes and Nazis and entire platoons wiped out in a day---it was all larger than life, almost mythic. So when I wrote Fractured Tide, I created a fictional ship called the...
The Ghosts of Truk Lagoon, Indonesia
For years, a vacation to Truk, Micronesia, has been on my bucket list, partly because my old dive master spun some great stories about exploring this postcard-perfect site, and partly because I’m a WWII buff. I had no idea until recently that there’s a third reason...
Interview with Hanna Howard, author of a new YA fantasy, IGNITE THE SUN
I'm so excited to have Hanna Howard, the author of IGNITE THE SUN, on my blog this month, because her lyrical writing style--especially her fondness for creepy descriptions of the darkness--is right down my alley. Hanna Howard, author of YA fantasy, Ignite the Sun...
Interview with Author Sasha Laurens
This month on the monster blog, I had the pleasure of interviewing fellow debut author Sasha Laurens, whose A WICKED MAGIC is set to release July 28, 2020. This fantasy YA has been described as The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina meets The Craft, and I personally could...
Interview with Cat Scully, author of JENNIFER STRANGE
Today on my water monster blog, we have a guest, Cat Scully, author of the much anticipated JENNIFER STRANGE. Wanna know what this talented author is really afraid of? Read on. But first, a little about the book itself, which Claire Legrand, author of Sawkill Girls,...
Buffy and the Creature from the Blue Lagoon
When I got my book contract last year, I followed my good friend’s advice (awesome romance writer Jenna Sutton) and took the time to celebrate. She told me it’s easy to let the moment pass, as you care for the people in your life or check off the boxes on your to-do...
The Ocean’s New Big Bad: UNDERWATER’s Creeptastic Water Monster
If Aliens and Deep Star Six had a stylish baby, it would be this movie. So here’s the story line: Mechanical engineer Norah Price (played by Kristin Stewart, looking quite lovely in her buzz cut) has to escape a slowly disintegrating deep sea drilling...
A Holiday Interview with the Kraken
Now that we’re knee deep in the Christmas season, I think again about my favorite holiday movie of all time. That’s right. Die Hard. But even though I watch it every year, I feel an emptiness when I turn off the T.V. There’s just something missing from the Christmas...