[Spotlight Post] Morganville Vampires and Rachel Caine
I know I’m a day late and probably a dollar short with my Spotlight post, but I am trying to be good and still get everything in. [asa]0451219945[\asa] This week Rachel Caine – whom I’ve spotlighted before – launched a Kickstarter program to finally get her Morganville Vampire book series turned into a web series. […]
[Spotlight Post] HAVE You Met Rachel Caine?
I realized last night as Jimmy and I plowed through the Hurst, TX Barnes & Noble to the Teen Paranormal section to get Bitter Blood that I hadn’t yet done a spotlight on one my favorite authors and – honestly – people, Rachel Caine. BAD!!! Bad, Rhonda!!! [asa]0451238117[/asa] If you haven’t read Rachel Caine yet, […]
[Writer Post] Crowdsourcing a New Title for Novel
On Easter Sunday, I had the impromptu opportunity to converse and have a writing session with the beautiful and talented, Rachel Caine. I happened to be between a rehearsal and an Easter Service. She was on deadline. Starbucks was the common–and necessary–element to this crazy, random, happenstance. And now, this post is a recommendation on […]
[From the Archive] The Greatest Backhanded Compliment to Authors
No matter what your opinion is of used bookstores (and there are good arguments for and against them) their existence can be a great backhanded compliment to writers. What weird backhanded compliment would that be? When you can’t find them in the stores. Okay, here’s what I mean by that. A lot of us in […]
[Writer Blog] Series Books vs. Sequence Books
Last week I read Texas Gothic by Rosemary Clement-Moore. For a reader of any age who enjoys smart and funny paranormal romance (think more ghosts and demons rather than vampires) I highly recommend Rosemary. When it comes to vampires – you can’t go wrong with Rachel Caine. Both authors are “Young Adult” but (as any […]
[Writer Blog] – Guilty Pleasures
Guilty Pleasures. We all have them. Mine are musicals: SCRUBS: MY MUSICAL, DR. HORRIBLE’S SING-ALONG-BLOG, Man of La Mancha, Forever Plaid, etc. I also love shows that are music intensive without being musicals, like Phineas and Ferb and MegaMind. Most of those I can probably get a “what’s so guilty about THOSE? Those shows ROCK!” […]