Lacrimore

Thrilled to share that Lacrimore has won the Silver Independent Publisher’s Book Award for Horror!

So if you’re looking for an award-winning summer read about an Evil Sentient House and the flawed people who inhabit it, here’s one to pick up! Synopsis and purchase links for ebook/print/audiobooks can be found here, and it’s also available to borrow as an audiobook via Hoopla.

[ID: Photo of the author of Lacrimore reading an excerpt while seated at a lamp-lit table in a garden decorated with fairy lights]

Had a lovely time reading a bit of Lacrimore last night at the Secret Sphynx Literary Salon alongside other fabulous authors Marcus Tsong, Annabel/Michael Bishop, Angus McIntyre, Randee Dawn, and Leanna Renee Hieber!

Hardcover Lacrimore is here!

Support both an independent publisher and independent booksellers by seeing if it’s available near you on indiebound.org or via bookshop.org. Also available for sale at big retailers like Barnes and Noble and Amazon. Paperbacks also exist in all the same locations.

And if you’d like to avoid supply chain wait times? It also exists as an ebook via Amazon or my gumroad, and as an absolutely beautifully narrated audiobook read by Rishi Katz, available most places audiobooks are sold (such as audible, kobo, libro.fm, and more). The audiobook is also available in some library systems via hoopla. If you’d like to see a physical copy of Lacrimore in your library, please submit it for their consideration!

Thank you all for supporting my evil sentient house story.

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Synopsis:

Winner of the 2021 Silver Independent Publisher’s Book Award in Horror, Lacrimore is a gothic novel about the scars history leaves on a place. Sivre Sen is a spiritual medium who's lost her faith. Though it's been years since the epidemic that swept the mainland and changed her life, she has yet to find the answers—or closure—that she's looking for. When she's summoned to conduct the funeral rites for a reclusive scholar, the unusual circumstances give her hope that maybe, finally, she'll find the answers she needs.

When I started writing the book three years ago I would have never expected—nor wished—that its setting would be felt so immediately in our present. It was a difficult book to finish in March of 2020, but it was also a cathartic book to finish. I imagine for some it would be a hard book to read, especially in this current moment. For others, I hope there was something in it that resonated with you, some catharsis that could be found, as we’re all trying to figure out our own way forward.