Is it just me, or are there a few too many snarky-heroined open-ended first-person paranormal series out there? I can’t buy books because I am broke, so I picked up Karen Marie Morning’s latest fairy-flavored offering from the New Books shelf at the local biblioteca. She’s not my usual style…
I like grammar. Don’t know how it happened. I hated it in grade school and high school. I break the rules hither and fro in my blog posts and personal email. I sprinkle commas across my prose like flakes of pepper on Cajun style catfish. And yet, for all the…
The Rest Falls Away, by Colleen GleesonI give up, I give in. I’ve seen a bunch of good reviews for this book, and the comparisons to Buffy intrigue me. What better book to read while I’m baking on the beach than a book about vampire slayers. God is Not Great…
Sometimes, I wonder why I want to write publish novels. Writing I will always do, because I like a good story and no other author ever tells quite the story I want to hear. Sometimes, I wonder why I work and polish and rewrite ’til so late at night that…
Almost every girl goes through a stage where she doodles names on her notebooks. Sometimes, she writes her name. Sometimes, she writes the name of a boy she likes. Sometimes, she writes her first name with his last name. She may or may not add the title “Mrs.” I want…
