Welcome to the Spot Writers. This month’s prompt is to use these five words in a tale: wax, teeth, stain, spirit, quiet. This week’s tale comes to us from Val Muller, author of the Corgi Capers kidlit mystery series. All Hallows Magic By Val Muller “Wax candies,” Grandma was saying. “They were wax and filled […]
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It is no secret that I love Halloween. I am just as happy as my three-year-old to be headed from one pumpkin festival to another. As a teacher, I am always looking for read-aloud resources for those days when I have no voice (three-year-olds are good at attracting bugs) and to generally engage young writers. […]
I’m excited to kick off my blog tour this week. I’m touring my two most recent young adult works: The Man with the Crystal Ankh (perfect for this haunting time of year) and The Girl Who Flew Away, a literary coming-of-age novel. Each stop offers the chance to win a $10 Amazon gift card or copies of my books. […]
Welcome to the Spot Writers. Today’s tale comes to us from Val Muller, author of the Halloweenish tale The Man with the Crystal Ankh, a story of a violinist who is contacted by spirits while she plays. This month’s prompt is very Halloweenish as well: write a scary story using the words dress, light, dark, […]
I’m excited about my new book, The Man with the Crystal Ankh. It’s the first in the Hollow Oak trilogy. When I sat down to think about what truly inspired my writing of this book, one of the answers surprised me. When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this Bearenstain Bears book called […]
This week, I had a chance to chat with author-friend David Fulcher. He likes to write on the creepy side, so I thought October would be a fitting time for an interview. Tell us about your book. Blood Spiders and Dark Moon contains fourteen tales of terror. Within these pages you will encounter werewolves, werecats […]
Today’s post is part of a series in which I highlight a character or theme from one of my works, especially as it relates to something in the news. Today’s post is a reaction to a news story I read about in July, and although I wrote this over the summer, I thought I’d save […]
I wrote a guest blog for Natalie Wright, a fellow author. You can find the original post here, as well as a contest/giveaway she ran. Since the post was written for her Halloween-themed month of posts, I thought I’d repost it here for celebration of this scary day: The Most Terrifying Thing By Val Muller […]
Happy October! For those of you loving sweaters and pumpkin spice everything, happy October! For those of you dreading the snow and plummeting temperatures—enjoy October while you can. And for those of you (like me) who miss summer already, just be glad it’s not winter quite yet—and “we are closer to spring than we were […]
Today’s Halloween-inspired tale comes from multi-genre author Val Muller. Her two Halloween works, Faulkner’s Apprentice (adult horror) and The Sorceress of Stoney Brook (spooky middle-grade mystery) are available at valm16.sg-host.com. Look forward to next week’s tale, coming to us from Cathy MacKenzie, who you can stalk at http://writingwicket.wordpress.com/wicker-chitter/. Hilda’s Magic Brew Hilda Bingen […]
