This is the first year that I will be participating in NanoWrimo–and I’m excited. I didn’t think I would be, but it will help keep my butt in the chair and ensure that I write daily and consistently.

For those of you who don’t know, NanoWrimo stands for National Novel Writing Month, wherein participants are challenged to write a 50,000 word novel within the month of November (November 1-30). I think that I may do well. 😉 And if I don’t, well at least I’m going to try. 🙂 For those of you participating, my Nano name is Horror Diva if you’d like to friend me. 😀

Who else is participating? Who’s just going to watch?

My friend Writtenwyrdd is having a contest on her blog. Take a look at it here: Contest

It should be loads of fun. Even if you don’t write horror, take a shot at it. You never know what may happen. 🙂

Get to writing, fright fiends! 😀

I love vampires and werewolves, so I didn’t care what the result would be. Take the quiz and tell me what you are! 😀

OMG, folks. When I saw this preview for the movie LEGION, I actually had hope for horror movies again. It. Is. Awesome! It’s five minutes long, but I promise you that you won’t be able to concentrate on anything else as you watch this preview. LEGION doesn’t come out until January, but I am patient. I cannot wait to see it.

A friend of mine said not to get my hopes up, but I say hogwash. It’s going to be awesome. I guess I’m so stoked about it because my urban fantasy series involves angels as well, but not in the same light as this movie does. Watch the preview, horror fiends, and let me know what you think in the comments. 😀

Robert Swartwood coined a wonderful term called hint fiction, which is a story of 25 words or less that suggests a larger, more complex story. The definition was taken directly from his website: Robert Swartwood.

W.W. Norton will publish an anthology of hint fiction in the fall of 2010. Oh, and anyone can submit for a chance to be published in the anthology with some well-known authors. For more details, check out his site: Robert Swartwood.

And if you are accepted into the anthology, please let me know. 🙂

David McAfee has had four pieces published by the horror magazine, Necrotic Tissue. I was featured in the July 2009 issue as well. My flash piece MARGIE was in that issue.

David also has a chapbook called THE SPIDER AND THE FLY which was released by Ghostwriter Publications in June. More information can be found on his website.

David is having a wonderful contest over on his blog: http://mcafeeland.wordpress.com/

You can win all kinds of great prizes. All you have to do is come up with a name for his new website. So head on over, and tell David that I sent you. 😀

Some things never cease to amaze me. I just read this story about a man who is on the sex offender registry in South Carolina for doing this: OMG. Of course he should be on the sex offender registry list, but will there be a new one created just for people like him? You have to read it. I don’t even want to type what he did. Although the story is sick—I’m sorry, but I laughed. You have to read it. And please remember that this guy is mentally ill and it’s thought that he was off his medication for a while, according to other sources.


I can honestly say that as a former mental health counselor, none of my mentally ill clients ever did anything remotely close to this. I thank God that I function in my right mind. Visit a mental hospital sometime, you’ll agree.

Hi. Have you ever wondered about foods you should and should not eat? Of course—we all do at one time or another. I recently read a warning about MSG in most of our food here in the U.S. A very famous fast-food chicken restaurant was named, and it was mentioned that no one should EVER eat anything from said restaurant.

Yeah, I’m terrible. Just ate lunch there today. x-/ Well, at least I didn’t want what this guy named Freddy craved.