It took a while — longer than anticipated — but if you think herding cats is difficult, try herding MONSTERS! The new and improved Candy’s Monsters site is up and running. Sure there will be some tweaking in the coming weeks, but the skeleton is up, the blog is alive and there are plenty of wild creatures roaming on the site. Monsters Meditations are Back My bi-weekly blog posts are back. I’m looking forward to sharing “monstrous” observations on writing and a few monsters too! FREE Fiction for All The free fiction page will offer three short stories at a
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Ghosts Posts!
The Candy’s Monsters blog is undergoing renovations. That’s why I’ve been avoiding posting. This has not stopped the GHOSTS from visiting the blog. You may have received notices of posts that were obviously old or posts that seem to be part of a Bookstore page on my site. If you have, it’s just the paranormal aspects of life on the Internet. Either ignore the Ghosts Posts or simply enjoy the strangeness of it all. The blog will be back up and running with FREE fiction pages and lots more very, very soon!
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Howl at the Moon — my first werewolf story!
Lena put it together first. She was playing with the moon phase App on her iPhone during Professor Adler’s lecture on Spinoza, and realized that the professor never scheduled anything on the evenings, or even the late afternoons, of full moons. “Maybe he’s a werewolf?” Lena giggled as she posed her question. She’d already asked Rado to email her his class notes as they shared a late, post-class breakfast in the cafeteria. He never refused her. She was his best friend and, as far as Rado was concerned, she was the prettiest girl on campus. “Not one full moon?” Rado
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Empathy for the Characters & Sympathy for the Writer
On the subway heading uptown for a Super Bowl/Birthday party at an Irish Pub on the Upper West Side, I realized that part of me was spending a summer day in Buenos Aires. I was there with my characters. While my body was here in New York, on a relatively warm winter’s evening, my mind was wandering the streets of a far away city, inside the life of characters with dangerous thoughts and complicated histories. My empathy for the characters changed the way I felt and it happens to me all the time. Sometimes it’s just an entertaining diversion, but
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