Today at ADR3NALINE3, I Explain How an Orange County Childhood Turned Me into a Gothic Novelist

Fellow Amulet Books author A.G. Howard, author of Splintered (January 2013), invited me to be her guest today at ADR3NALINE3, the new website for dark middle-grade and teen fiction.

Head over to my guest post to discover how my Orange County childhood, Walt Disney, Harry Houdini, and an elementary school library book all led to the creation of my upcoming Gothic novel, In the Shadow of Blackbirds.

If you've just arrived here from ADR3NALIN3, welcome! Feel free to have a look around my humble virtual home.

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Yes, I'm Definitely Seeing This Ghost Movie

Being the huge fan of Gothic historical ghost stories that I am, I'm counting down the days until the February 3 release of The Woman in Black, starring Daniel Radcliffe. If you haven't yet seen or heard anything about this film, or Susan Hill's novel on which it's based, here's one of the many Woman in Black featurettes popping up around the web (it includes a quick peek at the author):



As with most movie adaptations, differences from the book seem to abound, but I still can't wait to run out to see this creepy, classic, ghostly tale on the big screen and get scared out of my wits.

Gothic YA Novels Coming Our Way

Today at Suburban Vampire I blogged about Gothic young adult novels coming our way...and I discussed ADR3NALIN3, a brand-new site that celebrates dark YA and middle-grade fiction:

http://suburbanvampire.blogspot.com