Writing What Hurts

Clay McLeod Chapman has really nailed the world of obsession and addiction. In this book, Erin, our “heroine,” I suppose, has not lived the life her parents hoped she would.…

Benny Rose, the Cannibal King is nearly a perfect slasher. It is founded on some fo the best of the tropes but bears their weight well, spinning and reshaping them…

Things have been happening this summer. The big push is still on for The Devil’s in the Flaws & Other Dark Truths – and you should pre-order it. It’s been…

In his debut novel, Alan Lastufka introduces us to Addy, a troubled young single mother whose only current employment is doing an occasional tattoo. She’s a gifted artist, but has…

Spite House, the debut novel from Johnny Compton, is a very complex story. There are a lot of well-developed characters, and each of them has secrets, and stories, things they…

This novel is deeply complex, and entirely compelling. I listened to the audiobook, which is narrated by the author, Gemma Amor, and I can’t imagine a more perfect voice to…

So, this is one hell of a book for a lot of reasons. Some of those reasons are typical of Stephen King’s works, and others are not. There are hints…

This may, or may not appeal to a wide variety of readers, but it should. Anyone who believes the lives of writers, screenwriters, actors, or any creatives are simple, easy,…

It’s wonderful when an author takes the time to share some of the very personal things that are parts of them. We Came From an Island is a small, fairly…

There is so much to unpack in this book. Author Stephen Graham Jones takes readers back to his childhood, to a dusty Texas town where lives are lived one cotton…