This publicity stunt must’ve cost a fortune ::fingerguns:: Now if only the house below had a little flag billowing on the roof, with a picture of The Drowning House’s cover. Ah, well. A girl can dream.
Woman captures video of floating cabin in winter storm: ‘I was shocked’ (kptv.com)
A smallish house tootling along in some pretty rough-looking waves. No publicity flag, alas.
Okay obviously I am (halfway) joking, but people keep sending me this story about a woman getting video of… well, a house washing up on shore in a storm… because you know. ::gestures at The Drowning House - a book that opens with a house washing up on shore in a storm:: Heck, even the scenery looks about right.
Scroll back to my most recent blog post before this one, and you’ll see what I mean. (There are pics.)
But anyway no, this is not the house that inspired the book, not least of all considering I started writing The Drowning House back in 2021. In fact, this book is inspired by this other, unrelated, equally jarring story about a house washing up on shore in July of that same year in El Salvador: Mysterious mansion ruins on beach captivate onlookers (yahoo.com). I mean, if you’re curious and/or a stickler for details.
So! In the interest of pretending that I’m the recipient of a gift from the publicity gods, I’m gonna go ahead and take this opportunity to beg, yet again, to any and all who may not have taken the time to do so yet… please, if you’re interested and able, consider preordering this book! Or for that matter, go to your library and ask them to order it! (Authors love libraries. Don’t trust any author who doesn’t, that’s what I say.)
Preorder The Drowning House at Amazon
Preorder The Drowning House at Barnes & Noble
Preorder The Drowning House at Target
Oooh… shiny!
And may all of you have salty, damp, restless dreams about haunted houses that steadfastly refuse to stay where you put them…
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And while I’m at it, let’s not forget about Cinderwich! Coming in May, my first novella with Apex Book Company hits the stands - and while I don’t have a cool random news story for promo, I do have a cool tiny haunted town with a creepy little mystery. And because truth is so often stranger than fiction, Cinderwich was inspired by this wild true story: Who Put Bella Down the Wych Elm?
I just moved it to rural Tennessee, that’s all. And added some happy old lesbians and a Waffle House. Like you do.
So check it out if you’re keen on folk horror, southern gothic, or “cozy” horror - which my internal monologue refers to as “spoopycore” and I refuse to apologize for it.
Come with me… on a very spooky road trip…
At any rate, thanks for reading, folks! Please keep reading! And I very much hope that you enjoy these stories, for I very much enjoyed telling them <3