By Samantha Kroese I am a writer. I have been my entire life. My life's goal has always been to use my writing as a way to give a voice...

Buy Cursed Song here! Cursed Song is a Dark Twisted Fairy Tale with a romantic subplot and LGBTQTIA+ main characters. It contains horror...

I write stories that fill a very tiny niche. My books are very much either where I drop fantasy elements into horror (Fading Lights) or I...

Just in case anyone following me, or anyone who stumbles across this post is considering fighting for traditional publishing..let me clue...

Creating Dynamic Characters By Samantha Kroese Characterization is one of the most important elements of fiction. Characters need to...

I was lucky as a young writer. At the time social media wasn't a huge thing, we found friends/colleagues/support on forums that were...

I first published my trilogy in 2019. They had covers that I had designed from stock photos. I've gone into the reasons why I went to...

I noticed a thread I found invaluable as a writer in a reading group I'm in so I thought I'd briefly share the results. They were...

Fading Lights is 3 years old this month (Originally published May 14, 2019). I have been a writer since I was 8. It took me 29 years to...

Hello! If you don't know me I'll start off by saying I've self-published 8 books, I've written for 30 years, studied the traditional and...

Warning: This trilogy has a lot of DARK things that may upset/trigger people. I understand that some people don't want to read about bad...

(picture from Pixabay) Happy Easter to everyone. However you celebrate it (or maybe you don't, that's fine too). This is a sign of how I...

Paradise Undeserved is an attempt at flash fiction by author Samantha Kroese. It is Dark Fantasy featuring Diajik, one of the main...

Hello everyone! I've had people asking me recently so I thought I'd explain how things work here. I'm a very picky reader. I very rarely...

As many of you know I'm currently writing Sephyrn, book four of the Assassins of Dakaal series (and the last of the assassin books but...

Well we all know 2020 has been a year of many bad things. But I've also found for reading it's been a great year! I decided near the...

It is nights like this one that my past haunts me. A full moon, a chill in the air. My parents named me Talent. That is the only gift...

Hello everyone! Welcome to my blog. I thought for October since it's a spooky Halloween month I'd do a little feature for the blog called...

(originally posted 4/15/2020) I did an interview with Kara Skinnerover at Lovers Quarrel for Indie April. She did an amazing job with the...

(Originally posted 1/25/20) So for this special Caturday I’d like to share the story of how one tiny determined feral kitten saved my...