Thursday Thoughts

So I posted about an anthology that Serena is in. It really is such a lovely book. The other authors are amazing…and I can’t help feeling like I don’t belong there. The story I wrote was decent…I am not going to claim it was awful or any crap like that. But there is an Introduction in the front of the book that lists that authors as the top horror and dark romance authors…And my brain goes ok now I am guilty of lying to these amazing people.

Imposter syndrome is such a tough thing to grapple with. Most of the best authors I know fight with it. It can seriously cripple even the best writer to a mess and make writing a defeated blank on an overthinking mind…

So, I am struggling with my own brain. I don’t want to accept the idea that I am unable to tell the stories locked inside the squishy lump calling itself my brain.

choices and changes

The majority of the votes were for this volume.

I then realized that I didn’t have a line that I always put on my volumes.

so I decided to update it…and I added some whimsy at the same time.

the other thing is that several people pointed out that My Causality was better suited for Serena Mossgraves than for me.

so it will be her volume instead of mine.

In the vein of announcements….

This year for kids week Serena Mossgraves will be releasing one .

My favorite kiddo reader asked Serena to write him a scary story. Now he is only four/five years so how can she resist ?

She never planned to do any kids books and I have my doubts about her writing any more but it is such a fun story..

It is time again

I actually waited longer than I usually do. Lost Notes is completely written and scheduled for release. I usually ask 5 or 6 poems from being done. Help me to choose the next volume?

Links and teaser

https://books2read.com/themonsterilove

Discover the allure of the darkness.

Join Fractured Mind Publishing and some of the hottest dark romance authors as they bring you a new side of Lovecraft’s horrors.

Fall in lust with the Cthulhu mythos.

Heat and Ice is but one of the stories in this anthology – but it is the one that I wrote,

When an attack changes her wife, Grace has to adapt the environment to try to save her. The question is can she succeed or will she lose Elizabeth?

Wednesday Whispers

Hindsight

by Serena Mossgraves

The way hindsight blinds, 
kindness hidden by fear, 
and friendship torn apart  
by the illusion of what 
 the mind perceives. 

Perhaps hindsight is twenty twenty, 
but with no light to illuminate  
seeing through the dark 
can be an impossible thing.

Tuesday Tunes

Lyrics –

Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swingin’ in the Southern breeze
Strange fruit hangin’ from the poplar trees

Pastoral scene of the gallant South
The bulgin’ eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolias sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burnin’ flesh

Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather
For the wind to suck
For the sun to rot
For the tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop

My 2 cents –

I hate the direction American politics have taken lately. I feel like the songs from the past are relevant again. Though the topic was not a good one, Billie Holiday had a gorgeous voice and made the song seem like such a beautiful thing. I am leaning into the older blues and jazz music lately…Because it seems to be relevant again…and that make me sad.

Monday Poetry

Identity

by Patricia Harris

Who am I, Really? 
Hiding behind labels, 
Lost in pretending  
I understand who  
I am supposed to be. 

There was a time 
When I was sure  
Of who I wanted to be, 
No labels, no questions, 
just me and who I wanted to be... 
 
Age has changed me 
adding fear, adding wear and tear... 
adding the questions  
and the lost identity  
that I find the need to chase.