Ramsey Campbell wrote the first horror novel that I fell in love with. I was a teenager when I first read that one and it stayed with me....

If you go down to the woods today ... A wonderful den that reminded me of The Blair Witch Project. Gentle treescape in spring. Bright...

In order to write well, one needs to read. The pressure on writers to produce a huge back catalogue if they are to have any chance to...

A Daisy Chain Adventure for B2BCyCon 2018, written by Anita, Carmilla, Susanne, Brenda and Naching. The parts written by me (Carmilla...

Too often we encounter a thing of beauty at the wrong time in our lives and its layers of splendour and meaning are lost on us. Yesterday...

I always take a notebook and camera while out walking. Frequently I am inspired to jot down a plot point or record something beautiful I...

Magic and perception are two of my special interests, so this book might easily have been written for me. As well as providing an...

Is perception reality? Is magick simply madness? Is there a point in space, time or perception we can access that allows us not only to...

April promises to be a busy month in Carmilla’s world. From 1st - 15th April you can find my novella Basement Beauty for free courtesy of...

It’s not as easy as it sounds. While tropes, clichés and stereotypes might be easy to spot in others work, they can become embedded in...

For a Kafkaesque bizarre farce you can't get much sillier than "The Similars" or "Los Parecidos" a Mexican horror. That said, in spite of...

What to say about this book? Well the first thing to say was I almost didn't finish it. Parts of it made me spit with fury. Schopenhauer...

“Free Women of Spain” by Martha Ackelsberg made me consider my own relationship towards mainstream feminism or white liberal feminism,...

For two weeks in April I'll be offering Basement Beauty as a free read via Art of the Arcane. Check back or subscribe to my newsletter...

This April I'm proud to be a part of the Brain to Book expo. It will take place across the internet including blogs (like this one),...

I’ve raved about Haruki Murakami before, but I can’t help it. I’m a fan girl. “A Wild Sheep Chase” was the first of Murakami’s novels...

After finishing Philip Pullman’s book about writing I returned to Haruki Murakami’s. Either I misremember picking up this book and...

or Why I’d Ban Valentines Day and Send Romance to the Gallows. Full disclosure – I don’t do romance. I don’t mean simply that I don’t...

I have a soft spot for books about the craft of writing, so when I saw “Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling” by Philip Pullman I knew I...

Anna and I are wondering whether Starblood the graphic novel is cursed. It might just be the teething pains of working in a new medium,...