The cover conveys what kind of story to expect. It is shorthand, the same way traffic lights are visual indicators of whose turn it is to go through that intersection. The wrong cover is the equivalent of a green light that should really, really have been red.
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Coming Soon! Gothic Vault Advice Column
Characters in Gothic novels get themselves into all sorts of strange situations. What would an advice columnist suggest when confronted with their issues? Find out by reading Gothic Vault, an advice column exclusively for tormented characters and their dreadful, eerie, bump-in-the-night dilemmas. I'm (re)reading The Monk: A Romance, by Matthew Lewis. This novel is considered… Continue reading Coming Soon! Gothic Vault Advice Column
Throwing Shade: The One-Legged Loner of the Medieval Bestiary
Sciapods are one-legged monsters who use their giant foot for shade in the Dog Days of Summer.
Researching the Middle Ages Was Mind-bending
My dual-timeline novel, Aulisyn, required research into Medieval Europe; these are some of the surprising mental constructs I encountered.
Erzsebet Carmean 