LET’S READ ACOTAR
CHECK IT OUT A Court of Thorns and Roses is the first book in Sarah J. Maas’s new adult book series of the same name. It appeared on the New York Times bestseller list when it was released in 2015, and has been optioned by Hulu for a television series…
ROLL ON AUGUST
NEWS & UPDATES Goodbye, July! And cheerio June, May, April and March. I can’t believe it’s been five months since I last wrote one of these news and updates posts. Or, indeed, that it’s been a full year this month since I decided to stick my nose out of my…
ALRIGHT, LISTEN UP NERDS
MW MCLEOD NEWS 11 JULY, 2022 The wild blog reader, in their natural habitat, stumbles upon the new page. Could it be? It looks like yes, it is M.W. McLeod’s July update. Let’s see what they make of it. A frazzled-looking woman, who is neither young nor old, with unkempt…
CRANES, PIRATES AND TREE FROGS
July has arrived with the songs of tree frogs. Summer to me is the gothic south of sweltering nights where you...
I CAN FEEL THE STORM COMING
FK MARLOWE NEWS 7 JULY, 2022 July for a horror writer should be hot; the sun a white, baleful eye that sees every sin and reaches fingers deep into the soil to find the rotting secrets buried there and bring them writhing to the surface. It should be a sheen…
DEMONIC DEALS
When Ellyria’s father died, he left the family spell book hidden. To make matters worse, her mother fell into a drug habit, leaving the teenager to handle the household finances alone. Desperate for help and with no other options, she researched a spell on the internet and cast it in…
THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR
MW MCLEOD NEWS 10 JUNE, 2022 Grey. I see nothing but grey all around me. Fog covers the ground in the strange, wide open liminal space of this purgatory. Black text, white background. Text, words, letters everywhere. The author died and came here to this limbo to edit, only to…
A HORROR WRITER’S JUNE
FK MARLOWE NEWS 7 JUNE, 2022 It’s a horror-writer’s June here in BC, with louring skies and torrential downpours one minute, sweltering heat the next. Not great for the flowers, but fantastic for the imagination, and mine is putting out creepy crawly tendrils all over the place! It’s hard to…
I AM NOT A WRITER
In June night falls late but the voices crowd where the shadows cast. An American in London selling smut...
THE SEASON OF TITS AND JOGGING BRAS
With May comes spring and the annual cycle of flowers blooming, hockey ending and my ritual of watching for the...