A PIECE OF MY HEART died today. It’s never easy to lose a friend, but it’s even harder when it is completely unexpected. This morning, when I uncovered the cage of Stormy, our 10-year-old cockatiel… she was not waiting for me on her perch. She was lying on the bottom…
ON OCTOBER 8, my 15th novel, The Bloodstained Doll, will be released in hardcover, paperback and e-book editions by Flame Tree Press. It’s another horrific murder-mystery thriller in the vein of my last Flame Tree release, Five Deaths for Seven Songbirds. Meant to celebrate the crazy giallo thrillers of Italy…
TONIGHT WHEN I LOGGED in after the workday, I found my social media had been blowing up all day… because The Night Mother is nominated for a 2024 SPLATTERPUNK AWARD in the Best Novel Category!!! Talk about a great way to end the day! I am hugely thankful to everyone…
LAST NIGHT, I drove into Chicago for a showing of The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago … which was one of the most amazing nights I’ve had in years. I was lucky enough to be able to attend a special private reception before…
THIS WAS ONE action-packed year for me. Seems like every year slips by faster than the one before these days, but 2023 really cooked! A big part of that was my son Shaun starting college. He’s a music major focused on percussion, so the first quarter of the year we…
OVER THE PAST THREE months, new audiobook company Fright Night Audio has released four of my novels in audiobook format via Amazon and Audible. Violet Eyes, which previously had a limited release a few years ago from Audio Realms, just came out in a newly recorded edition this week and…
This blog was originally published on Cheryl St. John’s Christmas Tree Blog Tour on Dec. 18, 2011. I’ve reproduced it here since that website is long gone. I’ve always been a sucker for Christmas. A lot of people don’t expect a “horror” novelist who writes things like Sacrifice and The…
