Cooking With a Writer – Ghostly Pizza
carriejonesbooks As you know, I’m trying desperately to make the family vegetarian and I am TOTALLY failing. But here is my recipe for Halloween pizza. Halloween is a frantic night for…
ghost stories
A Little Bit of Wisdom from a Writing For Children and Young Adults MFA Grad
Ten years ago, I was at Vermont College doing the graduate assistant thing. Everywhere people were engaging in intelligent discourse about craft and me? Um…. I began the residency by…
Tell Our Stories (The Ghost Version)
So, I think it’s seventh grade, I’m trying to be a theater kid, but I’m not actually talented enough to be a theater kid. My dad died last year. My…
Three Tips to Writing Scary Things
I almost never think that what I’m writing is scary, but I am also an author who has occasionally had people put their books in the freezer in order to…
The Woman in the Wave
When I first saw her, she stood on a granite walk that jutted out into the Atlantic Ocean, holding onto a railing that tourists lean against in better weather. They…