It’s a good question. I get asked it all the time. Actually, what I get all the time is more like, “Ugh. You seriously write about horror movies? How can you WATCH those things – they’re so disgusting/stupid/puerile and clearly you are an inferior excuse for a human being for liking them.” (Ok so people [...]

Every once in a while I’ll read something that restores my faith that writers are important. Something that’s so true, so authentic, and so universal that it needed to be written, and read, by as many human beings as possible. This is that in a nutshell.
I listen to conversations. A lot. Hell, one of [...]

One of the problems with relying on Los Internets for your job is that things can disappear. Granted, stuff vanishes in tangible reality as well (just look at newspapers) but when your writing exists as coding in a series of tubes, it can evaporate before you even realize.
And so your work, which once existed, [...]

Yah change! Change is good! We like change! Oh who are we kidding — it scares us more than Sandra Bullock or bugs the size of trash cans. But it was long overdue in this case — and not just because I was using a pre-Colonial version of Wordpress.
So look around, see what you [...]

Aaaand so for this week’s Horror Chick we delve into the vast and rarely original world of sci-fi horror. With a dig at Tucker Max thrown in. ‘Cause Lord knows it’s been a while since that sad scrap of humanity has been mentioned on this blog.
UPDATE: The witty and smart Lindsay Robertson has the best [...]

My love for horror movies has been well documented on this blog. And given my recent discovery that the Huffington Post is being trolled by controversy-starved production assistants at Fox News (more on that later), perhaps a move away from the political sphere is in order. So I’m gonna write about slasher flicks for the [...]

Yup, you read that right. Check out the full story here. Since when does being a hot actress preclude you from having a single working brain cell?

I’m the world’s worst liar. I know this because people tell me so. Also because any lie I attempt winds up resulting in apologies, laughter, and me losing my balance and falling down — not necessarily in that order.
I used to think my ineptitude at deceit was due to the fact that the people [...]

“What are you reading/watching/eating??” the readers ask. Well, here’s an ultra-short compilation:
Isn’t it great when a friend writes a novel, and you think it’s amazing? Check out Rakesh Satyal’s amazing debut, Blue Boy. It’s the perfect book for anyone who has ever spent a day feeling bullied, suppressed, misunderstood, downtrodden, or tyrannized. In other words, [...]

Not a chance. But I will sort of miss it when (if) it does go.