Katherine's Book Backyard

Portrait of Yalira by Joanne Renaud As part of the March Mayhem promotion, artist/rwiter Kat Laurange is hosting a "character inter...

Ambrose Bierce by J.H.E. Partington I actually know a lot of artists who write. In addition to Joanne Renaud and Kat Laurange, I can nam...

  From now until the end of the month, enter the March Mayhem contest sponsored by Joanne Renaud, Kat Laurange, Donna Thorland, Lynn...

March Mayhem: Five Writers, Fifteen Days, A Whole Lot of Prizes!!! Enter to win our swag basket including some incredible and unique prize...

From now until the end of the month, enter the March Mayhem contest sponsored by Joanne Renaud, Kat Laurange, Donna Thorland, Lynne Conn...

Nuyorican Noir writer Richie Narvaez tapped me for The Next Big Thing (read what he had to say about HIS next big thing here ). If you haven...

Cover design by Joanne Renaud I will be releasing a new collection of stories in the next few weeks, a group of Christmas stories loosely...

Writer/Artist Joanne Renaud sends word that Caoimhe Ora Snow's Kickstarter Campaign to fund a startup of her RPG fantasy game Wandering ...

Patti Abbott hosts some terrific flash fiction challenges and this one was irresistible. Choose any work by American artist Reginald Marsh ...

Mark Satchwill, my partner in crime at NoHo Noir, has been sick for a few weeks so various artists have been filling in for him. Joanne Ren...

Friend of Dark Valentine Christine Pope's book Sympathy for the Devil came out just before Christmas, and was a great Christmas presen...

1/1/11--2011 is here. An not a minute too soon, I might add. I can't really complain about the year just passed, it was great creative...

The Fall Fiction Frenzy at Dark Valentine Magazine is winding down but not running out of steam as we begin a 7-part presentation of Christ...

Novelist Stephanie Draven has created a literary contest for young women inspired by her upcoming trilogy of novels about Cleopatra's da...