#ThrowbackTuesday – 10 years and 1 day ago…

…I signed the publishing contract for my debut novel The Lamplighters.

I had pitched the book to legendary horror editor Don D’Auria at Dorchester Publishing’s infamous Leisure Books imprint in 2009, and I was excited to receive a full manuscript request from Don by return. I submitted the book and waited anxiously for the outcome.

…and then Dorchester Publishing went under.

It was difficult not to take that as a sign. Ha ha!

But when Don D’Auria became Executive Editor of the n...