''Thought provoking
original horror & historical mysteries.''
Charley Appenzellar
Pair-A-Dice Lost: querying a fictionalized autobiography of my childhood on an isolated ranch in the wilds of the Montana Rocky Mountains in the 1970's. (see Bibliothèque for a pdf preview).
ADP: Secret of the Knights Templar: querying agents with this 50,000 word, French, non-fiction, historical manuscript.
The original self-published, L'Enigme des Aretes de Poisson, is enjoying a huge success and is available to purchase online in French at Lyon Souterrain.
A Haunted Guide to France: querying a book proposal and mostly completed non-fiction guide to French hauntings whose excerpts have had a great success on my blog.
Short story A Perfect Fit has just been published in the spring issue of Twisted South Magazine.
I like the idea of writing thought-provoking horror. There is nothing like an evil protagonist riddled with psychosis, lurking under the skin of a seemingly normal, god-fearing person.
In my short story, A Perfect Fit, Barbara Williams imposes vigorous perfection upon herself and her entourage and counts upon the social rules and regulations laid out by the church to contain the pustulant blackness that is her soul from oozing out.
But the Forces That Be have something else in store for the perfectly contained Mrs. Williams; true nature always finds a way to break free. In A Perfect Fit, this force is found in a mysterious hat that is irresistible to the eye of the beholder. And once Mrs. Williams puts the hat on … well, let's just say, she sees things from an entirely new perspective.
