Just Me

  NOTE: I know I usually post my reading list on the last day of the month, but this month’s list is being posted early because I have way too much going on tomorrow, not the least of which includes Halloween stuff! So here is an early Happy Halloween!   The month of October was another whirlwind month! I started a new gig and there were some other things that were also keeping me busy. One of them is preparing for the launch of an imprint at Twisted Dreams Press that I will be in charge of. It is scheduled to debut next month and I am very excited about this!   But October has been a difficult month for me, too. For most of the month, I fell into a deep depression. Yes, I kept functioning and doing all the things that I had to do, but I had that lingering sadness really hit me hard. So hard, in fact, that I had no energy to decorate for Halloween, which is unusual for me because I usually go all out for Halloween every year. I practically turn our house into a Ha...

 On Facebook, someone posted a request from book reviewers: Share your top 25 reads from last year. I made a list that ran A LOT longer than 25 books so I had to shorten it a bit. Here is my list of the top 25 books I either read or read and reviewed in 2023. Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens edited by Marieke Nijkamp The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror: Evil Lives on the Land! Edited by Mike Marshall Smith If You Were Here by Jennie Yarboff The Boy from the Basement by Susan Shaw The Disappearance of Tom Nero by TJ Price Cackle by Rachel Harrison Clefelo by Sarina Policastro Salem’s Lot by Stephen King Sour Candy by Kealan Patrick Burke The Vile Thing We Created by Robert P. Ottone Never Wake: An Anthology of Dream Horror edited by Kenneth W. Cain and Tim Meyer The Levitation Game by Sharon Wagner Cruel Stories by Donald Tyson The Night Weaver by Monique Snyman Her Teeth, Like Waves by Nikki R. Leigh Dracula, the Un-Dead by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt The Exor...