Barbara Ducharme's got a plan: she's going to stitch her fraying family back together with a little help from...Satan. Mired in an homogeneous suburban hell where happiness is always one impulse purchase away, what's a housewife to do when her frozen marriage refuses to thaw, and her children's lives are falling apart before they've even had a chance to begin? A trip to a run-down, mountain home she's inherited from a mysterious relative sounds like an ideal way to break the routine, and break the news she's been dabbling in the dark side. Then they showed up--three masked assailants on their own little adventure filled with terror, torment and torture. Of course, there's no accounting for the toll years of family dysfunction has taken on their victims. For Barbara, the brutal assault may be just the thing to bring her twisted family together. For the intruders, it could be wrong family, wrong time. sWitch is a sophisticated, subversive romp that blends the sexy with the supernatural, knowing just when to turn up the humor and when to turn down the lights. So light a fire, lock your doors, and get ready to turn the tables on everything you've ever known about horror fiction.
Upon graduation from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Communications with a BA in television, radio and film writing and a minor in English literature, I entered the marketing industry where I wrote a ton of commercial and industrial scripts and ad copy, and accumulated a great deal of experience in video, film and multimedia production. I also learned about the importance of an office that overlooks a low roof. Happiness is often a handy escape route.
Having done a fair bit of traveling over the years, including living in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Cambridge U.K. and, most recently, the New Jersey shore, I've expanded the palette of my imagination, incorporated a larger resource of scenery, culture and language to my ideas, and increased my understanding of the human condition. I've also learned for myself what I've always been told: we're all essentially the same, yet different, in some of the most horrific and delightfully interesting ways.
Currently, I'm pursuing a full time career as a writer of commercial and genre fiction that includes dark, horror, transgressive and sci-fi. If necessary, I will return to a diet of Ramen noodles and condiment packets and relocate into a tiny studio apartment in the worst part of town until my goals are realized. For now, a tiny seashore town that locks the parking meters for winter will have to do.
For more info, please visit www.scottStories.com and www.yellowhorsepublishing.com.
