Paranormal-related topics.
I am currently caught in the same, endless pre-convention debate that I always have: to self-tan, or not to self-tan. I’ve tagged this post “bloodsuckers” because after being in a deadline cave for a year, my legs are as white as a vampire’s. (Though I can’t really blame the cave. Even when I’m not working […]
…from Pajiba’s review of Rise of the Lycans: Stay away from the vampire fellatio, kids Now those are words every paranormal romance writer can live by. Also, don’t miss their 5 Hottest Movie Vampires. Do you agree or disagree with their picks?
Every once in a while, you come across a concept that is so freaking cool, that you bang your head and wonder why you didn’t think of it. I ran across one of those today when I read an interview at Occasional Superheroine, regarding a new Zuda.com webcomic by David Gallaher and Steve Ellis called […]
…and you get a chance to win every book he’s appeared in. NOTE: THIS CONTEST OVER OVER. THANK YOU FOR PLAYING! I’m giving away two sets of my backlist — the trade HOT SPELL, DEMON ANGEL, and WILD THING. To enter, you must choose seven of the following questions, and answer them either on your […]
So, today is Valentine’s Day. Which means that my sister, who works at Godiva and lives with me, has to be downtown at 5am so that she can start dipping strawberries (see this page for an excellent rant about those strawberries). Which means that I have to get up at 4:30 am to get her […]
RENFIELD: Slave of Dracula by Barbara Hambly Hambly has retold Bram Stoker’s Dracula in the voice of a minor character, Renfield, the madman who becomes the vampire’s slave-agent in England. In Stoker’s original, Renfield is a harbinger, extremely strong and violent, given to an unnatural diet of flies. When Dracula occupies the estate next to […]
Note: This post contains spoilers for the movie DAWN OF THE DEAD. So last night I was on the couch with my sister, and we were wallowing in the sweet, sweet bombardment of cheesy horror movies that this time of year brings to TV. BLOODSUCKERS on SciFi channel? Terrible, but oh god what fun it […]
…of questions like this. How is a blood slurping guy (vampire) sexy? … Just wondering what the appeal is? Grr. You don’t like it? Fine. It seems to me that questions like that are not borne out of genuine curiosity, but a need to display disgust. Or to garner attention. They are the second cousin […]
…of questions like this. How is a blood slurping guy (vampire) sexy? … Just wondering what the appeal is? Grr. You don’t like it? Fine. It seems to me that questions like that are not borne out of genuine curiosity, but a need to display disgust. Or to garner attention. They are the second cousin […]
**originally posted here** First, there’s an excellent ATBF column that confronts issues of racism in publishing, marketing, and the reading of romance over at AAR. Second, Candy of Smart Bitches has a rant In Defense of Girly Men over at SBTB that is generating a lot of comments I haven’t had time to read through […]