I have one fear that I have never managed to shake. Fire. I watch flames from a safe distance almost lovingly and yet I am terrified to...

2017 might be best described as the year I stopped trying to change the world and started to heal myself. At the start of the year, I was...

I was in court today. The wheels of justice move slowly and all that, and the event had happened six months before. I was a witness to...

Drac-in-a-Box’s life began in March of 1999. Before then I was in carpet sales, a career I simply fell into. When I met my second husband...

If you've been visiting my blog throughout this event you'll have read about zombies, vampires, Adam Nevill, Friday the 13th and ghosts....

It’s a beautiful house, built in 1735 by the architect William Adam. A house that is almost three hundred years old is bound to have some...

The Darker Side of Fiction was my third large-scale, multi-author book-signing/convention and it was the best so far. I’ve got the bug....

In the prime of my life (46 is prime of life now, right?) I look back at my adventures and realise how lucky I've been with friends and...

I'm sorry. You tried to warn me and I refused to listen. He told me you were jealous and my genitals convinced me to believe him even...

I can hardly remember my childhood. Snippets here and there, mostly built around photographs I still possess. I wasn’t Carmilla then. I...

Books take a long time to write and unless the author is lucky or already famous the chances are they won't sell enough copies to make...

I have a recurring dream. I’m strapped to a conveyor belt and hundreds of blades slice down through my body and cut me into tiny pieces....

I remember when we heard the serpent hiss. We huddled together to keep warm. Bottles clutched in white knuckles, alcohol on our misty...

I have lived in many places. I've owned (well paid mortgages on) three houses. I've never spent time and creative energy making any of...

If chaos theory states that a butterfly flapping its wings in Tokyo could cause tornadoes in California, is it a giant leap of faith to...