''Thought provoking
original horror & historical mysteries.''
Charley Appenzellar
Pair-A-Dice Lost
(pdf
excerpt)
manuscript
Querying this fictionalized autobiography of my childhood on an isolated ranch in the wilds of the Montana Rocky Mountains in the 1970's.
ADP: Secret of the Knights Templar
manuscript
Querying agents with my translation of a 50,000 word, French, non-fiction, historical manuscript.
The original self-published, L'Enigme des Aretes de Poisson, is experiencing a huge success and is available to purchase online in French at Lyon Souterrain.
A Haunted Guide to France (pdf
excerpt)
narrative non-fiction guide
Querying a book proposal and mostly completed non-fiction guide to French hauntings whose excerpts have had great success on my blog.
A Perfect Fit (pdf
excerpt)
short story published in 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.
A Modern Cathar (pdf
excerpt)
short story
Living In Reverse (pdf
excerpt)
fiction novel & screenplay
Sex, parties, and designer clothing accompany Isabelle
as she stumbles backward down the years to self-discovery: in San Francsico
as a forty-something, single career woman with ovaries overflowing with
fertile eggs; in Manhattan as a thirty-something, married woman with children
and everythign money can buy; and in London as a twenty-everything "it"
girl.
Isabelle wonders which manifestation of herself is real as her relationship
with men, friends, and a good hard look in the mirror teach her that life
is brimming with possibilities and that real beauty comes from within.
