FINA-freakin’-LLY!

It’s been a really, really, REALLY long journey. Seriously – I started working on this in late 2017, but wrote the bulk of it in 2019 (thanks to my broken ankle). Most of the deep edits happened during lockdown, when I scored my agent (yayyy!). But post-COVID we got zero traction with publishers. After a year of near misses, I bade my agent farewell and ALMOST just walked away.

ALMOST.

But then my friend, writer Jen Cowan Parsons, mentioned she’d entered a few contests. I had no idea that there were contests for unpublished works. Well, I knew of one, but they didn’t have a horror genre entry, and while you could conceivably call it a thriller and/or mystery, the haunting makes it a tough sell for anything other than “horror”.

So I entered some contests. Five, to be exact. Three of them worked out really well, and three out of five ain’t bad. I ended up catching the attention of a publisher who was a judge for one of these contests. So, after winning the Page Turner award (both in my genre and for general fiction writing) in 2023, I started talking with Muse Literary Publishing. And while publishing with an small indie publisher is NOT for the feint of heart, the end product is both exciting and rewarding!

DATES:

Pre-Order….hopefully very, very soon! Like, maybe this week? Maybe? (Did I mention my publisher is small?)

ADVANCE COPIES will be at a table with me at STOKERCON 2025 in Stamford, CT June 12-14, 2025. No shit!!!

LAUNCH DATE: Tuesday (I’m told this is a publishing thing), June 24, 2025. Available everywhere, I hope…

Currently looking for a really awesome bookstore who wants to host my launch. Let’s talk. See you in the stacks.