Welcome to Beware! Dark Seas Halloween showcase, an annual author & artist showcase that features talented creators. Come back each day, the entire month of October for a scare! Prepare for dark stories, myths & legends, and creepy creations that will make the hair on the nape of your neck stand up straight. May the water have mercy on your soul. A full posting schedule can be found here. Of Scales and Sorrow BY Nicole Mainardi “You were born of scales and sorrow, and it will destroy you, and everyone you love.” This was the last thing y[...]
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0 Get the entire story posting schedule here! Beware the Icepick Killer by Jamie Rusovick-Smith “This is gonna be a summer you’ll never forget,” Brook sings—loud and crazy— over the wind rushing in through our car windows. I tug at my blood-red Camp Moore-Saine shirt and curl my lip in disgust. “You might love this place, but there’s a reason I’ve never been camping before, dear cousin.” The main reason being I hate the great outdoors. Bugs, sleeping in a dirty bag on the floor, and food burnt over the fire just doesn’t do it for me[...]
I’ve been working hard. In fact, fourteen authors and a cover artist and I have been working hard. On what? Well, on, as far as I’m aware, the first anthology of it’s kind…A young adult pizza anthology (affectionately dubbed the Pizzathology) called A Pizza My Heart. A Pizza My Heart contains fifteen amazing stories of murder, mystery, love, monsters, and more and every single story revolves around pizza. I’m so honored and proud to work with these authors and our amazing cover artist Haley.[...]
It took me around an hour to even be able to write this blog post. I kept sporadically breaking out in dance and song. Yep, you could say that I'm excited. I swear, I couldn't even control my limbs. And now, I can barely contain my fingertips to write this post. I'm a HUGE Alice in Wonderland fan. I love the imagination, the story, and the fact that a book published in 1865 is still loved, cherished, and relevant today. Imagine my excitement when I got a message from Leap Books. In 2015, they're celebrating its 150th anniversary in a BIG WAY. Leap Books is putti[...]
