After I published The Evil That Was Done, I got to work on a new series. While I had a vague idea for a fourth Secrets of Redemption book, it was still a little hazy, and I thought it would be smart to write a new series. Alas, I found myself really struggling with the […]
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Are you living in a Haunted House? You may not know this, but I have an alter ego named Riley Longhill, and she’s a ghost hunter. I’ve been visiting real haunted places all across the country as part of my research for Riley, and it’s been eye opening to say the least. I’ve been amazed
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Pros and Cons of Dating a Cop in a Haunted Town Redemption, Wisconsin is like no other town. Redemption decides who it wants living there … and who it doesn’t. Some people even say the entire town is haunted. In celebration of the publication of The Evil That Was Done, the third book in my
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The Evil That Was Done is the third book in my award-winning Secrets of Redemption series (it also had the title “What Was Done,” more on that below). It has the distinction of being the first third book in my first series. If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like writing a series, I
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First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a “haunting”; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor,
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The Haunting of Ashburn House People whisper rumors about a family murdered at Ashburn House. They say its old owner, Edith, went mad in the building, and that restless ghosts walk the halls at night. When Adrienne arrives on the gothic house’s doorstep, all she has is a suitcase, twenty dollars, and her pet cat.
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“The Haunting of Hill House” is a Netflix series based on the novel by Shirley Jackson. At least, that’s how it’s billed. But, to be clear, the two are very different. They share the same title, the same haunted house, some of the same character names but that’s about it. In the Netflix version, the
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Ever Consider Living in a Haunted House? Back in September, 2018, when I was promoting It Began With a Lie, my publicist had lined up some guest blog posts on high traffic fiction sites, and one of them, ISmellSheep.com wanted a fun, playful post. I came up with the idea of a Haunted House real
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