While scuba diving off the coast of Diamond Head with her diving partner on a quest to find a family heirloom, underwater photographer Dominique St. John witnesses his brutal murder and photographs...

The dance floor vibrated with footsteps as guests glided, clomped, and stomped across it. The Joker hopped around, laughing like a fool. The Deranged Clown grabbed Margot for a spin around the...

Magical! Mysterious! Creepy and surreal! Who's hiding behind that mask?  Don't you just love a masquerade? Whether it's Mardi Gras, Halloween, New Year's Eve or a Regency ball from a Gothic era,...

Good Evening!  Those chilling words still send shivers racing down my spine from the old television show "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" Ever since I was a little girl, I loved being scared to death....

People have often asked me how I bring a character to life.  Although I've heard other writers say that characters speak to them or come to them in dreams, I thought it a bunch of blarney. Until it...

I'd like to chat about rejection letters. Are they the demons and bitter pills and a writer's worst nightmare? Every writer has traveled this long and winding road, and if you're having a bad day,...

Love it or hate it, this book: "I didn't talk much about my missing leg--it wasn't interesting, really--but I expected it to bring me some respect.  By and large, my lovers came to my house.  My...

"I know that people like talking about gazing into their loved one's eyes, but it was never exactly Mick's pupils that I looked into.  The inner canthus is the notch in the eye next to the nose, and...

Hi, readers--  Not along ago I was seated next to another woman fiction writer at a book-signing.  Since no one was looking at our books (sigh) we had a lot of time to talk.  This woman writes...