This week, the amazingly talented Angela Scott is joining us in an exciting giveaway you're not going to want to miss! Her dystopian mystery, Anyone? has some surprising similarities to our superhero urban fantasy, Court of Nightfall. I've read it and LOVED it...plus, we're doing a BIG giveaway together that you should definitely enter...check out the [...]
With the focus this week on antiheroes, and specifically female antiheroes and the portrayal of women in fiction, it got me thinking about why it's so important for us to have a range of female characters in books, television and movies. Even villains and antiheroes. Even female characters we really don't want to be anything [...]
As a girl, you can climb a mountain, but only if you look sexy doing it. And DO NOT emote. It will make you ugly, thereby invalidating all other contributions you might make to humanity. Growing up I wanted to be a boy. Scratch that. I didn't want to be a boy so [...]
Who doesn't love the bad boy? They are often the most interesting characters. Most of us grew up rooting for the 'good guy.' Cheering on the hero. Imagining ourselves in the role of saving the world and defeating (or riding) the dragon! But the bad boy (or girl) is equally worthy of our time and [...]
We couldn't have been more excited for the series premiere of NBCs newest show, Dracula, starring Jonathan Rhys Myers, and we weren't disappointed. We loved this Golden Globe winner in The Tudors, and we knew he'd be perfect for the role of Dracula. He's got a sexy charisma that is dark and dangerous, and he [...]
I'm all about books, as you know, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy a good television show now and then. Since it's been awhile since I posted something not related to books and writing, I thought this would be a good time to spill my thoughts on this fall's television lineup. First, a few [...]
Lincoln seems to be a hot topic in theaters this year. I'm not sure why this is so, but first he's hunting vampires and now he's freeing slaves. Go Abraham! I must start by saying that this movie was incredible. Truly. It was brilliantly (and I mean freaking BRILLIANTLY!) cast, and the acting, [...]
Last night I dreamed of blog posts. This isn't unusual. I dream of book marketing strategies, plotlines, entire paragraphs of prose… in high school once I even dream-finished my Algebra homework—for real! I finished a pesky equation in my head and woke up to write it down. The Forbidden Trilogy started as a dream. Apparently [...]
Who doesn't love a great superhero story? I'm a big fan, after all, the Forbidden Mind series, while a paranormal romance/thriller, can also be described as a super hero series with an X-Men flavor. So I was excited to see the new Spider-Man movie, and we made it a point to take our kids to [...]
Today I'm over at Evolved Publishing talking (err... writing) about genre categories for younger readers. Here's a little taste of what's up. Why not join us there and participate in the discussion? Classifying Books for Kids and Young Adults As a parent, I’m always on the lookout for great books for my kids. As a reader, I [...]
