You people scare me and I sort of love it.

(Possibly) haunted dolls needing a good home.

I get a lot of weird mail at Nowhere Bookshop so the team always opens it when it arrives because you never know if something is going to spoil, expire or explode before I come in and with this most recent box they got as far as uncovering possibly human hair before screaming lightly, resealingContinue reading “(Possibly) haunted dolls needing a good home.”

Calling all horror aficionados. Let’s get creepy.

Do you love tales of things that go bump in the night? Do you celebrate Halloween all year long? Do you lean in to hear ghost stories and own your own EMF detector? Did you sneak Stephen King books under your covers when you were probably way too young and it may have damaged youContinue reading “Calling all horror aficionados. Let’s get creepy.”

Every year I say it will be the last and every year I am a damn liar. WELCOME TO THE ALMOST 14th ANNUAL JAMES GARFIELD MIRACLE!

Hello and welcome to year 12B of the James Garfield Miracle! “12B?” you ask, wondering if I’ve lost my mind. Yes to both. Because I don’t use the unlucky number so it’s 10, 11, 12, 12b, 14, etc. This makes perfect sense if you have as much untreated OCD as me. “Weird. But cool. ButContinue reading “Every year I say it will be the last and every year I am a damn liar. WELCOME TO THE ALMOST 14th ANNUAL JAMES GARFIELD MIRACLE!”

Happy Booksgiving!

Hello, and welcome to the FIFTH YEAR OF BOOKSGIVING! What is Booksgiving? It’s pretty much the only holiday I actually enjoy celebrating (other than Halloween). It’s a day when I give out free copies of my books to people who may need them. It usually takes place earlier in February but I was in aContinue reading “Happy Booksgiving!”

Mother’s Day is complicated.

Mother’s Day is filled with conflicting emotions for a lot of us. I’m incredibly lucky that I have a mother who I adore. I’m enormously thankful that after lots of miscarriages and hundreds of injections I ended up with a small miracle in my daughter. I’m one of the lucky ones. But here’s the thing…Mother’s Day isn’tContinue reading “Mother’s Day is complicated.”

Creepy doll challenge…phase 1. (UPDATED WITH PHASE 3)

A couple of weeks ago I challenged my friend (and fellow collector of creepy dolls) Bonnie to see who could rework this doll into the creepiest thing possible and now I’m ready to share my first variation. In fairness, with the right lighting and filter it was already a little creepy: But I thought I could goContinue reading “Creepy doll challenge…phase 1. (UPDATED WITH PHASE 3)”