The fun part of Cat O’Nine Tales, was that it was not just one inspiration…it was ten! I call this endeavor my accidental book because my previous three releases were all full-length novels. This one was very different. When I first began writing the stories in this book, I had no idea that I would…
Trisomy XXI is the thrilling story about the adventures of Joshua Allen, a sixteen-year-old boy who was born with an extra chromosome—a genetic aberration known as Trisomy XXI, or Down Syndrome. When a serious accident leaves him in a coma at the hospital, Joshua receives a mysterious injection that endows him with supernatural powers. The…
Q Island, my novel about the impact of a virus that sweeps across Long Island, had two inspirations, both pretty far apart. The first thing that sent the muse into action was a news story about scientists discovering a complete baby wooly mammoth frozen in the Siberian tundra. They dug out the ice around it,…
Growl was inspired by three things I love in this world: my mother, cats, and Native American culture. I love animals, and there has been a furry feline in my life ever since I can recall. In fact, the white housecat in Growl, Tinker, is named in honor of my first pet. All of my…
Though there is a great deal of fiction in my Sons of Darkness series, both Grim and Wrageare full of references from mythology, religion and historical lore of spirituality. I’ve always been fascinated with how various cultures explained unknown phenomenon in the world around them with supernatural tales or with faith-based belief systems. I’ve also…
STRINGS originally began life as a short story I wrote called “The Good Girls,” which I released on Amazon in the summer of 2012. It quickly became one of my best selling stories, despite my worry over how incredibly dark it was. A few days after the story came out, a friend of mine sent…
Where do best-selling authors and lesser-knowns gather? In one place: The Horror Zine. Begun in 2009 as a monthly online magazine, The Horror Zine has morphed into an award-winning publication that receives over 30,000 hits a week. But it didn’t start that way. Founder Jeani Rector is a writer herself, and she would submit her…
The monstrous Tsul Kalu beasts of PROGENY are drawn from actual Cherokee mythological lore, underscoring the fact that there are legends of hairy humanoid giants in countless cultures throughout the world. Tsul Kalu is revered by the Cherokee as The Ultimate Hunter. From the North comes the term: sasquatch. It’s derived once again from the…
Oddities & Entities is an anthology, so its creation came in spurts rather than one smooth curve, as would be typical with a single story novel. The second story in the book, titled “Shift/Change”, contains a phrase that became the tag line on the back cover, and it goes like this: “There’s more to this…
Khost is the creation of two men: Vincent Hobbes and A.K. Waters. Khost is a military horror novel, inspired by actual events. Khost is a real place, a province on the far eastern border of Afghanistan—a place of war, a place of death. It’s 1984, and the Soviet Union is locked in a bitter war…
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