what's your favorite genre of music? Symphonic Metal and Gothic Metal (really just metal in general), classical, folk, dreamy alternative pop. which lead singer do you think is totally bangable? Peter Steele » Continue Reading
I've finished planning the first three books of my Lullabies series (Frost, Howl, and Glass)…I've already been writing Frost a little but now I'm about ready to start on the other two, as well as planning the rest of the series. I just need to complete the playlists and name the chapters. Which is just about the hardest part for me. It's always the little details that I always get hung up on, but ... » Continue Reading
Drive in movies, caramel popcorn, handmade quilts, peppermint, Vivienne Westwood, hot chocolate, poetry scribbled om scraps of paper, poppy flowers, snowfall, fairy lights, the scnt of chimney smoke on a cold day, swans. » Continue Reading
1: Eyewitness New Orleans. 2: Louisiana: Off the Beaten Path. 3: Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts: A History of Burial. 4: Gods and Goddess: A Treasury of Deities and Tales from World Mythology. 5: Ancient Egypt Answered in 101 Questions and Answers. 6: Ancient Egypt: The Definitive Visual History. 7: Treasury of Egyptian Mythology: Classic Stories of Gods, Goddesses, Monsters, & Mortals. » Continue Reading
Years ago, the most random thought occurred to me: what do jellyfish dream of? We know that they do sleep (quote from Eco Magazine: However, Caltech scientists have now discovered that, as different as our daily schedules may seem, humans and jellyfish actually start and end their days with the same behavior: sleep. This finding that jellyfish sleep implies that sleep is an ancient behavior, large... » Continue Reading
Zael: an Ancient Greek name meaning sea strength. Cedar: a Latin name meaning cedar tree. Sol: a Spanish name meaning sun. Eos : a duel meaning, one of the Greek titan of Dawn and the other for the Welsh word for nightingale. Cullen: an Irish name meaning holly tree, handsome, or young hound. Lark: an English name meaning songbird. Fox: an Old English name meaning thick-haired. None » Continue Reading
In Grimm (one of my favorite TV shows), Diana has the beautiful dolls that I'm just obsessed with: these Burton-esque bride and groom dolls, I've loved them since the moment I saw them. They're go so lovely ๐ค I love all of the props in Grimm, the books and the weapons, but I especially love the dolls. Of course, I'm a collector so that's probably why... » Continue Reading
Sometimes I think about how my writing has led me to researching the most random topics. I love it because I love learning about, well, anything really but it's led me to having a rich source of random knowledge. 1: types of trees native to a series of random states. 2: funeral and burial practices in Korean culture. 3: Korean superstations. 4: calendars from different years (2003, 1884, and more... » Continue Reading
There is something dead in the garden. It is buried beneath the roses, hidden underneath thorns and bloody petals, this weak and withered thing, sun streaked bones sinking deep, deep, deeper into the soft earth. But a hand! A hand reaches out, tangled with gnarled roots and grasping; a voice calls out, some terrible thing come back to life. There is something dead in the garden, » Continue Reading