Author of dark fiction with character.
📚 Already up to 70+ downloads and still growing. There’s still plenty of time today for more folks to get their alien paws on a free ebook of my queer YA sci-fi horror comedy Blood Frequency. 🌈 👽
And don’t forget to browse and find other good stories from other authors. I went through and got a handful just a bit ago. My TBR is a mountain of good intentions.
It’s time for a book cover reveal! This is the wholly original cover for my queer YA comedy horror sci-fi short story called Blood Frequency.
If you previously bought the ebook, that was released last Thanksgiving, I’ll be updating it for free with the new cover. And I’ll be releasing a paperback version in the near future as well with this lovely cover.
I’m so happy Jamie Hahn could help me bring to life this weird alien creature I wrote in the story and with an old VHS rental vibe.
If you look closely at the fake movie credits, you may recognize a few names. This was my way of shouting out other indie artists and authors.
And… on July 18, I’ll be participating in the Midsummer Night’s Scream event by making the Blood Frequency ebook available for free — with the new cover and all!
🔗 Follow the link with the button below and bookmark that page and come back to it on July 18:
With the whole Sony PlayStation “no more games ownership” crap, it seems like a good time to remind people I’ve created a “library” on my newsletter where I’m building up a collection of short stories and poetry across genres. These are free and DRM-free ebooks from a diverse group of authors and poets. Meaning, you can download them and keep them forever. No license, no subscription. Just save them somewhere safe and back them up.
I love movies. Not gonna lie. Most people these days seem to prefer tv shows or long movie franchises. Not me. I tend to still prefer a one and done approach. Movies are like books (those without a series) in that they have a beginning, middle, and end.
When done right movies, like a good book, get your character arcs neatly woven and plots neatly arched into a satisfying package. The big difference being that a movie can typically be watched in a single sitting.
I watched quite a few 2025 horror flicks this year. I’ve been watching a lot of horror films since 2002 and I have to say, that I really feel like we have been living during a horror renaissance these past few years. So many amazing horror films have come out in recent times. Just incredible stuff. Some are big budgets with big stars, some indie stuff, a lot of foreign folk horror is off the charts good. Just a lot of good horror films that are well made coming out on the regular.
And that’s not to say that before this time the horror movies were bad. Just that there were highs and lows. If you like the horror genre, you inevitably know that it never gets the respect it deserves. If it did, there would be a Best Horror Film category at the Oscars. As such, it seems like we have periods where studios and distributors recognize there’s money in horror and we get a lot of good stuff for a while. Then, they stop distributing or cut back on productions that are horror for a while. It’s a cycle almost.
In the early 2000s, there were a lot of good horror films that were just fun, good times stuff. We also had a lot of Japanese horror at that time that was incredible. A great time to be alive as a horror fan. And today, we’re having another renaissance of horror and I’m here for it.
Now, I didn’t actually track my movie watching habits last year, so I may have missed one or two from this list. Feel free to toss out some titles in the comments if there were some you watched that aren’t on the list, as I may have just forgot about them. I am tracking my movie watching this year, so next year I should have a more thorough list.
(In no particular order and using a 5-star rating system).