Long Fiction, Writing

New Release!

New Release!! Love Lies Bleeding, the sequel to Bluebells is finally here! Love Lies Bleeding is available from PS Publishing in ebook (kindle formats too), hardback and deluxe signed hardbacks. Want to dive back into the gothic world of โ€œIn the Devilโ€™s Gardenโ€? More here! New to the gothic world of โ€œIn the Devilโ€™s Gardenโ€… Continue reading New Release!

Long Fiction, research

The French Revolution

In celebration of the release of Love Lies Bleeding: In the Devilโ€™s Garden Book 2 from PS Publishing, the second in the trilogy that began with Bluebells. Love Lies Bleeding begins in the town of Laon, France during the French Revolution. For a detailed history of events that occurred during the several decades of the… Continue reading The French Revolution

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The Bewitching

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ ** I received an ARC for an honest review ** Description โ€œBack then, when I was a young woman, there were still witchesโ€: That was how Nana Alba always began the stories she told her great-granddaughter Minervaโ€”stories that have stayed with Minerva all her life. Perhaps thatโ€™s why Minerva has become a graduate student… Continue reading The Bewitching

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Favourite Reads, Folklore & Fairytales

Book DNA is working to connect readers and authors through shared interests and passions. I participated in one event to help promote Three Curses and Other Tales while also sharing the books and authors who influenced me most in writing that collection. You can read my thoughts on my 5 favourite books that influenced me… Continue reading Favourite Reads, Folklore & Fairytales

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Historical Mass Hysterias

Mass sociogenic illnessโ€”also known as mass hysteria, epidemic hysteria or hysterical contagionโ€”occurs when symptoms without a clear medical cause spread among members of a community. โ€œThink of it as the placebo effect in reverse,โ€ says Dr. Robert Bartholomew, an honorary senior lecturer in the Department of Psychological Medicine at Auckland University. For centuries, human societies… Continue reading Historical Mass Hysterias

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Emily Wildeโ€™s Encyclopaedia of Faeries

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Description Emily Wilde is good at many things: she is the foremost expert on the study of faeries; she is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world's first encylopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people So when she arrives in the hardscrabble village of Hrafnsvik,… Continue reading Emily Wildeโ€™s Encyclopaedia of Faeries

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The Haunting of Kenmore Aslyum

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ ** I received an ARC for an honest review ** Description I am always there.Perhaps I always have been?Perhaps there is no end for me โ€ฆ 1910The mentally unwell are considered dangerous and a blight to be kept hidden from family and society. The recently opened Kenmore Asylum is bursting at the seams. Amidst… Continue reading The Haunting of Kenmore Aslyum

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World War I Alliances

On June 28, 1914, a member of the revolutionary group Young Bosnia assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The archduke was the presumptive heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, which had annexed Bosnia-Herzegovina several years before. Young Bosnia was trying to overthrow Austria-Hungaryโ€™s rule of the region and had acquired weapons for a revolution with the help… Continue reading World War I Alliances

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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Description A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life… Continue reading The Buffalo Hunter Hunter