It's the first Wednesday of the month and so it’s time for another Insecure Writer’s Support Group (IWSG) blog hop! In an IWSG post, we writers bring our writing challenges and problems out into the open to share with each other and try to offer solutions. I should say it now: I’m only going to have this one blog post for the week and I apologise for missing posting on Monday. Easter weekend kept me busier than most other weekends and so I didn’t have time to do the regular Monday post. And next Monday I have family from out of town visiting and so I don’t think I’ll be doing a post then either. I’ll be back with the Monday blog post on April 15th. In fact, I’m only now getting to this post on the Wednesday evening that it should have already been out by. So, I’m going to have to limit it to answering the IWSG question of the month which is: How long have you been blogging? (Or on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram?) What do you like about it and how has it changed? I’ve been blogging sin
Credit: Wikimedia Commons Because March is Women's History Month, I decided to do this week’s post on a female horror writer. However, before that, I wanted to make sure to read something by one. So, I went to my local library to check out a book last Friday afternoon. The book was "The Magic of Shirley Jackson" first published in 1966 and edited by her husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman. It contains several of Jackson’s short stories, (including the famous "The Lottery") and three of her novels, although only one of these is even only remotely related to horror and is actually more suspense/psychological thriller (“The Bird’s Nest”). So, if you haven't already guessed, the woman horror author I've decided to focus this post on is, surely, Shirley Jackson! Shirley Jackson: A Brief Bio Shirley Jackson was born December 14th, 1916 and in 1965, sadly, died an early death at 48 years old. She was a native of San Francisco ("next door" to my home region o