About specific books.
MELJEAN: Hmm…the site seems to be on the blink. MISSY: Oh, so this is your excuse for being late? You said you’d play with me yesterday. MELJEAN: Hehe. So I did. I admit it, I’m a dork. The only thing I worry about being late for is a deadline. Oh, and menstruating. That would be […]
MISSY: So, what’s this theory? MELJEAN: I’ll get to it in a second… MISSY: **scowls** You know, I hate it in suspense novels when the person with the theory is always like, “I know all the answers, but I’m not going to tell them yet!” Why? It makes no sense, except to prolong the idiocy […]
MELJEAN: How old are you now, kid? MISSY: Nine. And you are a liar. MELJEAN: Huh? MISSY: You said this was my first Silhouette Desire. It’s not. I read two before this one: Rare Breed by Janet Joyce and Through Laughter and Tears by Marie Nicole. MELJEAN: Oh, yeah! You read them in Auntie Joy’s […]
Okay, you guys — I apologize in advance for recycling old posts, but I’ve recently been reminded about Missy, and I’m thinking she needs to come out of the closet again. But — I also don’t know my schedule this week (methinks it will be one of THOSE weeks) so I’m taking the lazy way […]
I haven’t finished it yet, but … yeah. I also can’t believe it took me this long to pick it up. I bought it about two months ago, but then got caught up in other stuff, and it went missing for a little while. But. Yeah. It puts me vaguely in mind of Nabokov, and […]
Yay! I finally got it! (Actually, my sister did, but it’s in my house and that’s what counts.) So, my sister read it first (while I was toiling away in the kitchen *sob*) and when she was finished she brought it out to the living room and tossed it onto the sofa, made a huffing […]
I was dying for a good thriller/horror read, but not an overly depressing one — but I was having some trouble getting into Koontz’s ODD THOMAS (I think because of the first person narrator, which doesn’t always bother me, and I really like the voice, but for some reason just wasn’t dragging me in) so […]
So, DEMON MOON has a page at Amazon.com (I’ve been checking pretty much daily so that I can put the link up on the website) an ISBN, and an estimated page count (I imagine someone takes the manuscript and word count and sends the estimated final page count with the initial info). 480pp. *headdesk* DEMON […]
Yeah, that’s right. This week is all about HOT SPELL (and a little about DEMON ANGEL). If you haven’t yet entered the contest to win a copy, now is a good time to do so. Or anytime between now and next Sunday. But the book isn’t just about me! HOT SPELL includes a novella “The […]
Good book. Missy so happy. I don’t know what it is about Neil Gaiman. The way he ties everything together, just so? The writing itself, which is kind of like sliding down melting ice cream? The lime? Dunno. I do know that every time I close one of his books, I wish I was a […]
Which is good, because it’s hard to write a sex scene without it. It’s all swollen on the back, which will likely turn into a nasty-ass bruise, but I can type comfortably. I just can’t, like, press on it (which I did, just to see, and because I’m an idiot). Reading:
(Okay, not really.) Somehow or another, my latest hero is turning into a cowboy. A guy from the Old West, turned Guardian. That, I didn’t expect. And onto more research now. Perhaps a reacquaintance with my ol’ friends Louis L’amour and Max Brand and Zane Grey, just for flavor. In other news, I was running […]
(Okay, not really.) Somehow or another, my latest hero is turning into a cowboy. A guy from the Old West, turned Guardian. That, I didn’t expect. And onto more research now. Perhaps a reacquaintance with my ol’ friends Louis L’amour and Max Brand and Zane Grey, just for flavor. In other news, I was running […]
Rosario just wrote a review of the HOT SPELL anthology (coming in mass market in November, if you don’t want to splurge on a trade /end shameless promo). As with most anthologies, the reviews are mixed, but she did really like Falling for Anthony — woot! As I said above, this one was really, really […]
“… I have besides a personal dislike to ‘Poets,’ and the little acquaintance I have with them would by no means induce me to divulge my secrets.” –Colin Ames-Beaumont, in a letter to John Polidori, January 1816.** I found THE MONSTERS: MARY SHELLY AND THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN in Fred Meyer’s today, while purchasing a […]