The Marrow Blog

  Rest in Peace Granny It's okay to be sad. It means you loved something enough to miss it. And maybe, if you were lucky, it loved you back. And THAT should make you happy. And it's okay to be happy. My Granny... Where do I even start... Some people aren't even lucky enough to have met their grandparents, much less get to spend so much of their lives with one as I did. Everywhere we went, you went with us. Everything we went through, you went through with us. For the first 27 or 28 years of my life, you were always a walk away. Always. A bend around the lake, the tickle of the willow over my shoulders, the little pond you meticulously kept to my right, and I was there, on your back porch again, and then in your house. Into safety. Into peace, into whatever I needed at any given time. You were very much my room of requirement, throughout so much of my life, you were the door that showed up when needed with what was needed. You were the escape, you were the shade tree, you we...

   The Morgue 1st Draft - Done! Well, well, well… The final period has been placed. The last comma curled into its rightful corner. And the closing moment of existential dread has settled. The first draft of The Morgue —book two in the Wicker Anthology —is officially complete. With Wicker Hill only recently released into the wild, The Morgue now enters the editing phase, with plans to unleash it just in time for Halloween 2025. And that timing feels perfect. If Wicker Hill is the psychological horror of the series—layered with unease, haunting memories, and unraveling minds—then The Morgue is the physical horror. This is the book where things get... tactile. Think body horror. Think the undead. Think liminal spaces soaked in formaldehyde, where the line between life and death is less a boundary and more a suggestion. Think him —the presence you don’t quite believe in... until he’s already inside you. If you love cosmic dread wrapped in flesh, if you’ve ever feared the si...

   Horror Podcasts on Youtube! If you follow me on any of my socials, you probably already know that Olivia Blair—my badass friend, and co-founder at Fanward—and I host a weekly podcast where we try to give the voice back to you , the audience. Because let’s be real... in a world where every massive studio and AAA game company plays the victim while squeezing the life out of the very people keeping them alive, someone’s gotta shift the spotlight back where it belongs: on the fans, the creators, and the stories that actually matter to us. This week—and next week, for part two—we’re diving into a topic that’s near and dear to my cold, cursed little heart. That’s right. We’re talkin’ horror, baby. So head on over to the official Fanward YouTube channel to check out this week's episode, catch next week’s continuation, and keep an eye out for an upcoming special one... which might just happen to be about a certain 630-page horror epic I wrote. No big deal. Just a little night...

  Wicker Hill is FINALLY Available! If you’ve been following me for any time at all, you already know that I finished Wicker Hill months ago—two and a half, maybe three months ago to be exact… Well… I can now officially say that it is 100% completed and NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ! Both digitally and physically via my official website www.FCMarrow.com , and through Amazon and Barnes & Noble! Earlier today, I received my final print proof copy, and people have already started buying their own physical copies through Amazon—and now you can too! I don’t have to tell you how ridiculously proud I am of the final product. Knowing that I did all of the writing, all of the formatting, the front, spine, and back cover designs, all of the editing, all of the publishing—everything—all by myself only makes me even more proud to finally say: it is done. The editing isn’t perfect, and there is a lot of room for improvement to pick up on things that tunnel vision missed, but I already ha...

  Wicker Hill Update Coming Soon After what has genuinely felt like a small eternity, I’ve finally heard back from my publisher—and it looks like updates on Wicker Hill ’s physical release should be coming within the next few weeks! The process has taken much longer than I anticipated. Months, actually. Far beyond the timeline I originally planned for, and definitely long enough to throw a wrench into everything I had lined up after it. The delay ended up halting a lot of my forward movement on The Morgue (the second book in the series, already 50% done by the way ), which has been frustrating—but not unexpected, given how publishing tends to go. Still, it’s been a test of patience. The good news is that, despite the detours and drawn-out waiting game, things are finally shifting into motion. If all goes well—and God willing and the creek don’t rise— Wicker Hill will soon be more than just a file on my hard drive or a name in my head. It’ll be a real book. One with pages, a spin...

  As a man who has lost a number of heroes due to mental health issues, emotional trauma, and unresolved pains, this month is particularly important to me, and even more so a topic of extreme passion. I myself have struggled with issues that made me question the strength of a support beam and a rope. I have faced periods of incredible emotional struggle, regret, paranoia. I have lost family to the power of those who have power over men. I have faced courtrooms that saw me only as the male, the oppressor, the aggressor, and never as a part of a bigger puzzle.  I have been silenced. Abused. Stabbed, Robbed. Ostracized. And I am not alone. Each year, June marks Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month —a time to shine a light on a crisis we rarely speak about with the gravity it deserves. While society has made meaningful strides in mental health awareness overall, there remains a critical gap when it comes to men. It’s a conversation too often whispered—if it's had at all. But the nu...