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Greetings! It’s a pretty big leap to go from a June blog post to a mid‑October one. There’s been so much happening behind the scenes—so much, in fact, that my posting schedule went completely ary and then vanished altogether. I apologize for that. This project is mostly a one‑person rodeo, and I am that person. Luckily, I’ve had the honor of working with a developmental editor in a year‑long process that helped shape Once Upon a Midnight Erie into a coherent and (hopefully) a

The first round of edits is officially complete, and my beta readers have begun their descent into the story. It’s a strange feeling — handing over a world I’ve been shaping in the dark — but it’s time.

"Once Upon a Midnight Erie" consists of twenty-six chapters. The editing process, a meticulous endeavor where every word and detail is crucial, and each scene must be effective, has been underway for nearly nine months. As I wrap up the edits for Chapter Twenty, I'm delighted to start editing Chapter Twenty-One before the new year. At twenty-one, my book is metaphorically old enough to celebrate the new year. Cheers!

It's not as if a book writes itself. Yet it does, in a way. It arrives unexpectedly as a hazy idea. Capturing the idea and putting it into words usually is a process and what I end up with is an initial draft that's cryptic and overly or underly written. Next comes the fine tuning, sculpting the words into an understandable form, painting pictures and stories using language. After that, more editing, and adding, and subtracting, and clarifying. And along with myself and my ed

On one special day out of every year, if you stand in just the right spot on Edgewater beach and watch, the peak of the Terminal Tower will pierce the rising sun. And if the day ever comes when the sun bleeds, it will herald the moment when the dead shall rise.

What if OUME could come to life? What would it look like?

The famous shower scene from Psycho has survived multiple decades. It's been redone countless times. It makes perfect sense. It's because there's almost no other place or time when one feels more vulnerable. My showers tend to be pretty quick and no-nonsense, usually because I'm running late. Unfortunately, it’s a constant theme in my life. I do my best to minimize this less than desirable trait—the running late part, not the showering part. Unfortunately, it's a constant bat

Evil has a way of slowly creeping in, undetected. It comes without words, hype or trumpets blaring. Instead, it hides quietly in the background, slowly changing, stealthily altering ideas, facts, basic elements until before we know it, there's a change we never even realize happened. It's something we don't question. Something that seems as if it "always was" But the fact is, it always "wasn't". I did a lot of research when it came to The Franklin Castle. It was a proposed ch

Hello, lovely readers! I’m the voice behind the curtain, the author. Thanks for being here. I'm excited to share this story with you as it comes to life as well as the true stories, odd encounters and hauntings that helped inspire it. As I move through the process of launching my book, this is where you’ll find everything you need. Curious about my own experiences with hauntings and ghosts? They’ll be here. Want the real stories the book is rooted in? Here. Something strang