I wanted to thank everyone who read my short stories leading up to Halloween. I had an enormously fun time writing them, but it's probably pretty obvious that I'd rather write than do just about anything. Your responses were really supportive and wonderful and you gave me a lot of confidence in my fictional writing capabilities. I've never really shared my writing with others and just considered it a hobby with the goal of getting published "some day." Well, after Halloween I was so empowered, that I'm finishing off "The Thicket" my erotic horror novel and preparing to send that off in the next few months, followed by two other novels a romance horror/series manuscript and a SciFi manuscript about--talking to ghosts, of course! I found that there seems to be other people out there who want to read the kinds of things I enjoy writing and wish to read myself.
I've had a few people tell me I should write short's every now and then and I do plan on doing that. As I come up with more theories, I'd like to occasionally write a short story that incorporates it into the plot.
I promised to tell what my favorite short's were that I wrote and I loved them all for the dear reasons any "parent" has for their "offspring" but my fav's were:
October 13: Graveyard Guardians: This one came from my own experiences wandering graveyards at twilight and I loved the concept of the guardians being the statuesque trees that stand sentinel in these places.
October 16: Cotton Candy, Carnivals, and Clowns: I have a fear of clowns like anyone else but the idea of going to a carnival alone, getting over the fear of clowns, and then finding out they're scared of us...that was thrilling.
October 21: The Haunted Dales: This was a classic haunted house story. I was able to put a bit of the haunted formula into it by incorporated limestone in the haunting solution.
October 27: Cave Dwellers: That one just gave me the creeps. The movie "The Descent" really creeped me out and any stories of alien babies in caves...yikes!
