It's been a decade since Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy began to hit theaters. 
Looking back with fresh eyes, were the movies better than originally thought?

​For two years, Quinton Wyatt's social circle has revolved around T.J. Shapleigh. But a newfound interest in role-playing games acquaints him with a group of intelligent — and highly vindictive — teenage outcasts. He may live to regret this...

Cleaning my home office resulted in me finding my first (albeit unpublished) novel, a tale about a mysterious vandal, a parapsychologist and about dark and sinister alter-egos. And it was based on a true story!

As a child, I always kept a nightlight burning in my bedroom. My mom assumed it was to scare away ghosts... but really it was about luring them in.

Surface was a short-lived science fiction show that dared to chart new territory by showing the deep sea as a place of mystery rather than terror.

T.J. Shapleigh is a central character in the "My Summer" books, but does his seeming betrayal of Quinton Wyatt make him a victim of circumstance... or a villain by design?

As soon as I began renovating my house, I began finding old coins in the walls, behind baseboards or wedged in doorjambs. Was this coincidental... or something much older and stranger?

I journaled for years... and then stopped. Here's why I regret that decision and why journaling is so valuable to authors.

Finishing a manuscript should be a joyous relief for an author... and it usually is. But in the era of COVID 19, even our triumphs can produce unexpected emotions.

I went to Greece to walk where legends were born and  found inspiration as a writer in a most unexpected place.

If you're not paying attention to what your readers are saying, you're doing yourself (and them) a disservice.

Before Star Wars was a cultural icon, a 10-year-old fanboy named Marsh Myers had to cling to some photographic crumbs and hope that there would be more to come from a galaxy far, far away...