Happy Spring! Warm (or warmer at least) weather has finally come. Hopefully you’re taking the time to bask in the sun and enjoy a JournalStone Book while you’re soaking up the rays. I have to lead off this month with an admission of error. In last...
How’s the weather? Weather is easy to overlook in fiction unless it pertains purposefully to plot: the characters are trapped by a flood or left homeless by a tornado. The elements, however, can convey mood or setting. I think of when I was a child, waiting for the...
Hello all. I hope that those of you who are reading this in the eastern two thirds of the United States and Canada haven’t gone stir crazy from all of the snow you received in February. At least there is one bright spot to being stuck in the house as the snow...
The Horror Writers Association (HWA), the premier organization of writers and publishers of horror and dark fantasy and home of the iconic Bram Stoker Awards®, today announced Jack Ketchum and Tanith Lee as the 2015 recipients of the Bram Stoker Award® for Lifetime...
Happy February! The Superbowl is past and you’ve either celebrated madly, cried bitterly, or stifled a disinterested yawn. Regardless of your interest level in American football, I think we can all agree that we must start preparing for that greatest of...
In a year of far, far too many Hollywood remakes of spooky Asian movies for the post-RING/GRUDGE PG-13 audience, here’s a disappointingly mundane reworking of the well-received 2002 Pang Brothers movie. It’s all the more disappointing for representing a compromised...
