Considering it’s almost summer, I guess I’m a little bit behind on this year’s Spring Cleaning. With good reason, though-a lot has been going on these past few weeks! Read on and I’ll give you the highlights: -First, Murder At Castle Rock is out in paperback! Hooray! It’s doing fairly well too, if I do say so myself. For a debut novel, it’s selling decently, and I’ve gotten tons of […]

It’s confession time: I did something completely out of character tonight. I-Anne Marie Stoddard, live music junkie-missed a concert that I had a ticket to. And Cold War Kids, no less! I haven’t lost my mind (completely, anyway) and yes, I’m definitely regretting not getting to hear “We Used to Vacation” and “Hang Me Out To Dry” live at the Masquerade (the venue that was the inspiration for Castle Rock, […]

Anyone who has written a piece of work in their lifetime and then released it out into the world for all to see knows how scary it can be to receive those first pieces of feedback. Especially writers of fiction-we basically reach inside the most personal, intimate, inner sanctum of our minds, turn our souls inside out, slap them into a word document and then send them off to be […]