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Of all the genres out there, dark fairy tales were probably the most influential on me growing up. I don’t necessarily mean the grimmer origins of the fairy tales that Disney took and made movies out of, although I certainly watched and loved all of those. I’m an older Millennial, and I had the good […]
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I fervently love the month of October. Yes, autumn is great, and we’ve had a surprisingly lovely fall in Chicago so far, but I love October because I cut my teeth on horror from a very young age. I was raised by a young mom who also loved horror movies with a passion, and she […]
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Bluegrass and summer go hand in hand for me. The first Big Thing I ever did on my own was go on a road trip from Chicago to northeastern Utah by myself in peak summer. I had gotten accepted into the Denver Publishing Institute (a graduate certification for publishing and editing), and I was about […]
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The first romance novels I read that stuck with me came from the minds of Nora Roberts and Julie Garwood. I gobbled up the tales of a gifted shop owner reconnecting with the handsome older brother of her murdered best friend, a boat racing badass falling in love with the goodhearted social worker assigned to […]
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Oh, you know what time of year it is. Mm-hmm. If you’re like me, October is the month to let your fright flag fly free. Halloween decorations. Carved pumpkins grinning at passersby. Curling up under a blanket with a cup of hot cider, scaring yourself half to death with literally any Mike Flanagan movie or […]
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