I’ve been telling stories in one form or another from the age of six. That’s when I took my first acting class. The class culminated in a performance on stage, which at the time was the highlight of my life. During the performance, I got very wrapped up in a monologue I was giving and walked right off the edge of the stage, falling gracelessly into the front row. Although I continued to perform for decades after this disastrous debut, I realized that my natural clumsiness might prevent me from using the stage as my primary creative platform.

As I entered elementary school, I wrote the kind of gorgeously intricate sugar that little girls are known for - the stories that justify dotting the letter i with a heart, using multiple ink colors in the same narrative, and decorating the edges of the page with carefully selected glitter stickers. As the real world and teenage hormones started encroaching on my childhood cotton candy perspectives, however, I switched to darker themes that required notebooks from Hot Topic, all black ink pens, and the token padlocks and security measures taken by suburban pseudo-goths to secure their heinous, tortured prose from prying eyes.

When it was time for college, I knew one thing. Writing was something that had been a reliable friend to me. No matter who I had been trying to be, writing was there, patiently letting me work through my thoughts and phases and feelings. I knew I wanted to write. I also knew I did not want to teach or starve. So I got a degree in Advertising Copywriting and got to work. In my professional life, I quickly learned there were so many more kinds of writing out there than I’d ever dreamed of - technical writing, business writing, coding. And I wanted to learn it all. I even took a break to go to law school and learned about all the different kinds of legal writing that are out there.

Hi, I’m Emily, and I’m a writing addict.

I’m now living my dream of writing every day. Some of it is professional, which currently falls in the technical writing realm. Some of it is personal, which typically falls in the thriller or horror realm.

My love of horror started in my teens when my mom and I would snuggle up on the couch with some take-out food and watch every single scary movie we could find at the video store. Now, I draw inspiration from podcasts and day-to-day life. I love to blend information from wildly different sources to forge a unique story for my readers.

I have one daughter and a dog. I live in Minnesota where the real horror is February’s wind chills.