Tag: YA horror

  • A Taste of Darkness – announcing a new YA horror anthology

    I always love reading short story anthologies. They’re perfect for just dipping into when you have a few spare minutes, and have introduced me to tons of new authors whose longer novels I then go on to read. Which leads me to my exciting news: I’m thrilled to have been asked to contribute a short…

  • 5 Random Questions with J.P. Rose, author of The Haunting of Tyrese Walker

    5 Random Questions with J.P. Rose, author of The Haunting of Tyrese Walker

    In this month’s newsletter (catch up HERE if you missed it) I interviewed J.P. Rose about her YA debut, The Haunting of Tyrese Walker – a terrifyingly gripping horror story about a boy who goes with his mother to visit their family in Jamaica following the death of Tyrese’s father, and finds long-buried secrets and…

  • 5 Random Questions with Tess James-Mackey, author of Someone Is Watching You

    5 Random Questions with Tess James-Mackey, author of Someone Is Watching You

    In this month’s newsletter (catch up HERE if you missed it) I interviewed Tess James-Mackey about her gripping debut, Someone Is Watching You – a YA thriller set in an abandoned prison, where Nia is goaded by her friends to put herself into increasingly dangerous situations until she finally encounters a danger she really hadn’t…

  • Harrow Lake-inspired art

    A few weeks ago, I was invited for a virtual visit with a class from Korah Collegiate & Vocational School in Canada. The students had been studying Harrow Lake for their class, and so a Q&A session seemed like the perfect way to round off their study. They had a bunch of awesome questions, and…

  • Kat Ellis: My 2022 in Review

    Doing a yearly review post has become a bit of a tradition (I first started it back in 2012 on my old Blogger site, RIP) and it’s a tradition I thought I’d continue as I launch this new site. So, what happened in 2022? On the writing front, foreign editions of Harrow Lake and Wicked…