I'm a writer, mostly, though I also dabble in art and some crafts. I've been published in over a dozen anthologies, magazines, and podcasts. I specialize in cosmic, sci-fi, and weird fiction.
You can check out my list of published works by clicking here.
I also have some free-to-read fiction on my website here.
I also blog regularly, reviewing horror novels and movies, as well as video games. You can check out my blog here.
Besides my Buy Me A Coffee account, I have a Patreon which gives my supporters access to super special content like recordings of me reading my fiction, and peeks behind the scenes.
I also sell my artwork on my Threadless shop, where you can get a PLM artwork on a mug, shirt, or bag!
Getting more in-depth about me: I started writing short stories way back in elementary school, mainly trying to mimic R.L. Stine and his Fear Street series of books. I wrote about skeletons, killers, haunted houses, and blood -- lots and lots of blood, while also illustrating the little books I made (many red pencil crayons died in the making of those).
Eventually, a teacher called my mom to tell her I was writing "disturbing" material at school. Props to my mom, who was a dedicated and heavily over-worked social worker and didn't have time for that nonsense, told the teacher she should be encouraging my creativity and not to call my mom again for something like that.
Then she asked me to keep the horror writing at home and write something else at school. Which, to be fair, was probably the right call. (She also took to calling me her "Little Stephen King").
This continued through junior high (where I spent three years writing a terrible Mary Sue/Sailor Moon trilogy), into high school (switched to horror again), to university where I began my BA in English Literature, as well as taking creative writing classes. Those creative writing classes were a joke, to be honest, and more harmful than helpful to my writing. But I'll dive into that in a different post.
After university, I got my TEFL certification and left for Thailand to teach in a small city called Ranong. I didn't write much in my six months there, but started up again when I moved to Izu, Japan. A lot of my writing during my two years in Japan reflect a lot of the otherness I felt, and I also had a travel blog I maintained.
Fun fact: I wrote "Falling" in Japan after I started feeling a sense of falling while lying down. Turns out that my blood pressure was dangerously low, I ended up passing out one day, and had to take blood pressure medication for half a year.
x P.L. McMillan