by Carter Wilson | Feb 1, 2020 | Uncategorized, What's Entertaining Me, What's in my backyard
Happy New Year and new decade! This is the time of year I walk into my hometown gym and there’s twice as many people as usual. Everyone’s ready for the new year. New resolutions, fresh dose of determination. But did you know less than 10% of people keep...
by Carter Wilson | Dec 1, 2019 | Holidays, Personal stuff, What's Entertaining Me, What's in my backyard
Rejoice, as the Halloween highlight reel is here. As my long-term readers know, each year I comb though video footage to collect the choicest screams from my Halloween house-staging. This was the first year I moved the set from the porch to inside the garage, allowing...
by Carter Wilson | Nov 1, 2019 | Holidays, People I'm judging, Personal stuff, Uncategorized, What's Entertaining Me
One of the best parts of Halloween is I have guaranteed newsletter content for a quarter of the year. In August or September I write how I’m stressed out that I haven’t yet decided on a theme. In October I reveal the theme. And in November I always provide...
by Carter Wilson | Oct 1, 2019 | Personal stuff, What's Entertaining Me, What's in my backyard, Writing
My readers know what I write: dark psychological suspense, sometimes tinged with horror. The space of fiction in which I exist is a cold, barely lit world where paranoia rules and people quite occasionally die—a place where trust is a rare commodity, hope is even more...
by Carter Wilson | Jul 1, 2019 | Book news, Dead Girl in 2A, Uncategorized, What's Entertaining Me, What's in my backyard, Writing
My publisher bought my book The Dead Girl in 2A in 2018, though when I sold it that wasn’t its title. My working title was The Orphan List, but my editor wanted a different name (this is very common) and she came up with the finalized version. The “girl” in the title...
by Carter Wilson | Jun 1, 2019 | Book news, Mister Tender's Girl, Uncategorized, What's Entertaining Me, What's in my backyard, Writing
Storytelling is 20% idea and 80% mood. When I set out to write a story, I never have a fully formed vision of what the plot will be, but I know how I want the story to feel. Of course, moods shift scene to scene throughout a novel, but there should be one pervasive...
