Have you ever had a ghostly encounter? Tell me about it and be eligible to win a Kindle edition of one of the books in The Finger Lakes Mysteries. Who doesn’t love a ghost story on a dark October night when Halloween is near? The chills up your spine at every creaky noise? The blanket up around your face as you turn the page to the next scary scene? And what if some of those stories are true? How ghosts inspired my books The Finger Lakes Mysteries ghost mysteries were inspired by both true stories and legends. Helen Cavanaugh, the Read More
Tag: Haunted Castle
Ghostly Encounters of the Real Kind
Ghosts. Ghouls. Terror. Shivers. Halloween is terrifyingly fun. But what about real encounters with ghosts? Yes, I mean real ghosts. Dad My sister Judy actually saw my father shortly after he passed. He was standing at the bottom of the stairs in the entrance hall of our house. While alive, when retiring, Dad had always perched on the edge of his bed, removed one shoe, dropped it on the floor, removed the other, and dropped it on the floor. Several times my mother and nieces heard the signature “dropping of his shoes” after he passed. As they sat in Read More
Who Can Resist Romance, Murder and a Haunted Castle?
Author Kathleen Shaputis has channeled her dreams of living in a fairy tale to creating characters of her own. Today my fellow Crimson Romance author joins me to talk about her writing. Welcome, Kathleen. Tell us a little about yourself. I’ve been writing stories and plays since childhood. I wanted to be Briar Rose from Sleeping Beauty, and live in a forest taken care of by three fairies so I could write all day. Well, life and my mother had other plans. Eventually I did get my forest, two acres in the Pacific Northwest and various contracts to write books, Read More