All hail the swamp monster!

A few of my wonderful readers have likened my style to Stephen King. I have to say every single time someone writes that I get a little glow about me. I've been reading his books since he first started publishing, and though I loved and read many horror books before him, his were such a unique take that I was an immediate fan.

When I first studied writing at a part-time course every Saturday (the course went for a year), I was only twenty-two. T