The origins of my Divine Trilogy is fairly simple: I have always been interested in the possibilities of psychics using their gifts to solve police cases. In fact, my novels have been compared to the hit TV show Medium, as well as Ghost Whisperer and CSI. Imagine if we had a secret division within our…
Becoming an author was something I always hoped would happen, but I never dreamt of being a fiction writer. Many years ago, when I was an undergraduate at the University of Delaware, I discovered that works of philosophy didn’t have to be strictly boring dissertations, like something Kant or Wittgenstein might write. It was acceptable…
Written in Ruberah is about a woman who feels hard-wired to be with the man she loves but who cannot realize that love because of a debt she bears from a previous life in ancient Ruberah. I wanted to set a novel in Cornwall, UK, where I grew up. I felt the lush countryside, the moors,…
The inspiration for my book was an image in my mind that turned into an entire book series in a matter of seconds. I saw it all play out in my mind. I know, I know. That probably doesn’t make sense, so here goes my short version of how this book started. It had been…
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…
I began Grim because I missed writing terribly. For the first decade of my professional career, I’d written at regional daily newspapers with the pressure to produce entertaining and informative stories on a tight deadline. The pursuit of my writing goals led me to papers across the country in Illinois, Iowa, Virginia and Colorado, but…
Come with me to a corner of England more known for sheep than people… Sometimes you fall in love with a place. Never mind that it has not been in existence for several hundred years, or at least not in the family anymore. But it was once. Tony Clegg-Hill (original name Huel) was the previous…
The inspiration for Terminus actually came from ideas floating around my head over the years, having read C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters, and Max Lucado’s Fearless. The concept of a spiritual dimension in which angels and demons operate has always fascinated me, but where it really hits home is where that dimension intersects and interacts…
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…
Name: Larry Jukofsky Name of Book: The Final Victim Guest Post for The Story Behind the Book: Q: How did you come up with idea to write your book? Having read Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the only original as far as vampires are concerned, I realized that all post Dracula literature…
The Story Behind the Book 