Over the last couple months, I’ve been fortunate enough to be part of numerous panels and readings for the fall season. Recap of my fall events & upcoming New York Ghost Story Festival

Speaking of release, the official release date is August 23rd, 2022, and the book is already available for pre-order! So feel free to head on over to the official Simon and Schuster page if you want to learn more. Things are definitely shaping up well for the release next year! Tor Nightfire did a fabulous cover reveal earlier this month, which also includes the very first excerpt from the novel! Big thanks to Emily Hughes at Nightfire for hosting the reveal, and big thanks to Saga Press for all their promotion of the book so far. It’s gorgeous and strange and psychedelic, and it fits the mood of the novel perfectly. The cover is by artist Kelli McAdams, and needless to say, I absolutely adore it. Because really, what’s cozier than the blood and guts of horror?Īt any rate, I’ve had some writing updates in the last few months, which means it’s about time to use my blog for another round of “if you haven’t heard it yet on my social media, allow me to chatter on about it now.” So let’s get down to it, shall we?Ĭover reveal and release date for Reluctant Immortalsįirst and foremost, I’m beyond thrilled that the cover of my third novel, Reluctant Immortals, has been unveiled. I’m currently at work on my next novel, which is truly the best way to spend these darker days of fall and impending winter. Combining elements of historical and gothic fiction with a modern perspective, in a tale of love and betrayal and coercion, Reluctant Immortals is the lyrical and harrowing journey of two women from classic literature as they bravely claim their own destiny in a man's world.Welcome back, and happy end of November! Over here at my perpetually quarantined corner of the world, we’re playing the dutiful role of hermits. Rochester, and the two women who survived them, Bertha and Lucy, who are now undead immortals residing in Los Angeles in 1967 when Dracula and Rochester make a shocking return in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. Rochester's attic-bound wife in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre-as they band together to combat the toxic men bent on destroying their lives, set against the backdrop of the Summer of Love, Haight-Ashbury, 1967.Reluctant Immortals is a historical horror novel that looks at two men of classic literature, Dracula and Mr.

For fans of Mexican Gothic, from three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a novel inspired by the untold stories of forgotten women in classic literature-from Lucy Westnera, a victim of Stoker's Dracula, and Bertha Mason, Mr.

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