What Makes Ghost Romance Different — And Why That Difference Matters If you’ve ever finished a paranormal romance and thought — I want more of that, but different — ghost romance might be exactly what you’re looking for. It sits in its own corner of the paranormal world, and once you understand what makes it tick, […]

Not the ghost. That’s the counterintuitive truth at the heart of every ghost story that actually works. The ghost is the engine, not the destination. What the ghost does to the living — that’s where the fear lives. The monster in the closet is only scary until you see it. Once it steps into the […]

My son says Douglas isn’t a ghost. Douglas is the protagonist of my paranormal romance series Phantom Forensics. He’s a man whose body is lying in a hospital bed in a coma while his spirit wanders free, invisible to nearly everyone, aware of exactly what happened to him and why. He can see his own body. […]

The recent release of The Bride has reignited something that was quietly smoldering — a hunger for steampunk horror. Searches for the subgenre have spiked dramatically in recent weeks, and it’s easy to understand why. There’s something uniquely compelling about horror set against a backdrop of brass gears, gaslit streets, and the dangerous optimism of an age […]