Feature with author – THE BIG THRILL

Inspired By An Unhinged Moment: What’s Yours Is Mine

Nothing stirs up raw, unfiltered emotions quite like youth sports.

October 16, 2025

Story Behind the Story: The Girl in Cell A

Why do we Brits keep writing America?

October 15, 2025

The Airplane That Tried to Kill Me (and other adventures in writing)

I really started writing fiction when a C-5 Galaxy decided to give me a bad day.

October 14, 2025

The Divorce Party by M.M. Deluca

Celebrating freedom in Sin City with an Alimontini

October 7, 2025

From VHS to Final Girl: Miranda Smith’s Smile for the Cameras

There’s only so much peacekeeping you can do when the past shows up wielding a weapon.

October 1, 2025

Use Your Words!

What’s harder than writing a script? Writing everything else.

September 24, 2025

Foster Care, False Identities, and the Power of Story

The hardest parts of our story often become the ones that resonate the most.

September 23, 2025

Behind the Covers: Bad Decisions Make Better Stories

Bad decisions. They’re needed to get our protagonists from the beginning to the end of each story, and the more

September 16, 2025

Changing Lanes

Blending genres using supernatural elements, Part 2

September 15, 2025

First Chapter Spotlight: Fade In

Sometimes a Loose Cannon is Your Best Weapon

September 12, 2025

Where the Dark Things Lurk

Blending genres using supernatural elements, Part 1

September 4, 2025

Story Behind the Story:
You Lied First

Ultimately, I hope every reader will ask themselves: What would I have done?

August 26, 2025

My Book Playlist:
Lime Juice Money

An aural journey through the jungle and more…

August 20, 2025

In Admiration of Snakes on Planes

As a writer, I’ve often thought, “Why can’t I come up with ideas like that?”

July 24, 2025

Story Behind the Story:
Runner 13

Surviving sandstorms and serial killers.

July 22, 2025

Loving The Bad Guys

Like most relationships, it’s complicated.

July 15, 2025

My Book Playlists: Maps Private Value series

Globe-trotting value engineers take on chaos, climate, and the cosmos—set to a soundtrack as epic as their journeys.

June 17, 2025

Writing Outside Yourself

“Tough isn’t a literary trope here.”

May 27, 2025

Can You Leave Your Past Behind? The Ascent

Buccola explores what happens when a family’s truths are shattered.

May 22, 2025

Story Behind the Story:
Not Your Average Thriller
(I hope)

“Sometimes the scariest part of a thriller isn’t the killer—it’s how close to home the story hits.”

May 12, 2025

A Staircase to Nowhere

Chuck Wendig’s New Horror Roots Itself in Unease

May 8, 2025

Trouble in Paradise:
Murder Takes a Vacation

I was barely out of college the first time I shoved everything I owned into a pair of suitcases and

April 21, 2025

My Book Playlist: “Where the Bones Lie”

I always create a playlist for whatever book I’m working on, usually during the outlining stage. My theory is that