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Another new character, perhaps my favorite in The Commune, is Skeeter, a down-on-his-luck airboat pilot and owner of Skeeter’s Airboat Charters, an organization that figures heavily in the new story.  Gibson, Louisiana: 3:35 PM, Tuesday, December 11th, 1984 Skeeter’s Airboat Charters was little more than a mouldering shack on the outskirts of Gibson. There was a single air […]

I’ve been chomping at the bit to share some snippets of the new characters in The Commune, the next book in the Parata series, and I want to begin with a little old lady. Meet Miss Thelma:  Baton Rouge, Louisiana: 9:37 AM, Tuesday, December 11th, 1984 We left for the two-hour drive to Baton Rouge first […]

If you’ve read any of the Parata books, you’ve probably noticed that I’ve included some ‘props’ in the form of images in both books. I enjoy doing this because I feel it’s more impactful than just describing these images.  For example, the symbol in The Betrayed feels sinister and mysterious to me, but if I had just described […]

To honor the release of the second Parata Occult Mystery book, The Betrayed, I’ve decided to give you guys a preview of one of my favorite new characters, Bernard Latour:  New Orleans, Louisiana: 4:09 PM, Tuesday, October 16th, 1984 After spending a fruitless morning interviewing Burke Foundation volunteers, Rae and I visited a sandwich shop for a […]

In The Betrayed, most of the book is set in Nola proper, and one of the reasons I did that is that I wanted to include some iconic locations in the book. The first of those, introduced in the very first chapter, is a place I named Saint Christina’s Catholic Church in the book, but […]

I’ve already covered most of the locations used in The Artifact (you can read about them here and here if you missed the newsletters), but there’s another location that was so creepy, I had to add it to the book, even though I didn’t really need another location. The place is named the Lafon Boy’s […]

As I’ve mentioned several times, I quite enjoy putting real locations in my books. I feel like it’s a little easter egg when you recognize a real place in fiction, and it’s one of those things I really enjoy when I’m reading a book. In The Artifact, there are three major houses, and all three […]