I had the pleasure today of seeing and hearing acclaimed and award-winning author Jeffrey Ford not once today, but twice!

A prolific author in Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Mystery, Jeffrey Ford has written novels, such as The Shadow Year: A Novel, The Girl in the Glass : A Novel, and The Portrait …

Sorry, couldn’t resist taking a picture of our cat, taking a nap after a night of editing. She seems well adapted to the literary life.

No doubt she’s dreaming of captaining a starship searching for planets strange and populated with mice capering in catnip forests.

Some of us love stories that leave us listening fearfully for shuffling footsteps in the dark, or movies that make us spray our popcorn about the room when the bogeyman leaps from the shadows, on reflection, we may wonder just what it is about scary stories that causes such fearful reactions. Those …