This is one of those questions I too have! Cover letter just means cover email, right?…Right?

2008-2009: About 200 agent rejections (and as many unanswered queries). No one will publish my stories. 2022-2023: Stoker, Edgar, Locus, Reading the West, and Anthony nominations. I mean it every time I say it: Don’t quit. Never settle. Don’t stop. Never give up. Keep at it.

In honor of all querying writers, I have created this blackout poem from a rejection letter. Please enjoy. #writingcommunity #amquerying

Happy #MotherDay

Have decided that the best way to describe my WIP is: “nice characters you got there, be a shame if anything happened to them.”

Sometimes it’s so hard to keep going because writing is such a lonely, rejection-heavy business. Then you wake up to an acceptance and it makes it all worthwhile 🎉 🎉 🎉 #vagueacceptancetweet

So happy to share that I’ll have a story in Hear Us Scream Press’s forthcoming anthology of subdermal body horror!

The most important lesson I ever learned as a writer: When I was 28 I was at a bar on a Friday night. My friends and I were dancing and getting wasted and having an amazing night, when I looked around and noticed that my buddy Bunny was missing. I asked my buddy Henry, “Hey

Crawling into our upcoming anthology is A.R.C. Mitra with her story ‘The Alligator Handbag.’ In “The Alligator Handbag,” fashion student Lex buys the ugliest handbag she’s ever seen from a thrift store in New York City - and lives to regret it.

I’ve been very quiet for the past few months, but I’m thrilled to share that my little gothic fever-dream, “Wolfwere,” is out in The Fabulist Magazine today! fabulistmagazine.com/wolfwere/

I've taken some time this Halloween to finish "Crawling", an amazing anthology published by Hear Us Scream Press and I'm absolutely chilled in the greatest way! I cannot recommend this enough.

Check out my creepy story with shades of Southern gothic, “Kill You With Kindness,” out now in #Allegory! allegoryezine.com/stories/fictio…

Check out this interview in which I talk about my little story “Wolfwere” published earlier this year by the fantastic The Fabulist Magazine patreon.com/posts/hairy-on…

Want to read some great new body horror? Look no further than Crawling, in which I’m fortunate to have a story!

Thinking about checking out Hear Us Scream Press’s new anthology which includes a story by yours truly? Here’s a great review by NightmarishConjuring! nightmarishconjurings.com/2023/09/22/cra…

Check out this awesome new anthology that I’m excited to have a story in!

A nice surprise to learn today that my story “Wolfwere,” published in The Fabulist Magazine received an Honorable Mention for the 2024 Legere Prize!fabulistmagazine.com/congratulation…