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We’re back!! First, I’d like to welcome back everyone who has been writing their masterpieces during NaNoWriMo. Congrats to you whether you wrote 500 words or 50,000 words. To those who are waiting to read another great review, they are coming soon as well as blitzes, blog tours, cover reveals, and giveaways. Thank you so much for being understanding about our… Read more »
As far as creatures go, most wouldn’t think a mermaid would be a part of that group. However, the mermaid we think of today thanks to Hans Christian Anderson’s fairy tale, The Little Mermaid (1836), isn’t the mermaid known throughout history. When you think of a mermaid, you often think of flowing hair, a beautiful face -and body for those… Read more »
You’re about to learn that all that flutters are not fairies. Pixies – also known by a plethora of other names like pixy or even pigsies – originate from Celtic roots. The mischievous pixies, in today’s world, are often confused with sprites or fairies, but throughout history, there were said to be even wars between the groups of fluttery ones. … Read more »
When I first began looking into a creature I love, zombies, I thought I knew quite a bit. I thought I’d read and watched enough that I had my bases covered. Ha! Boy was I mistaken. Not only did I learn that there are different types of zombies, but there are tons of zombie myths and legends around the world…. Read more »
Being disabled, television has become my lifeline to the outside world. Be it the news, a 30-minute sitcom, or an hour-long drama, they occupy a majority of my free time – which is more than I care to admit. So, to think of television is a seamless thought that runs as smoothly through my mind as if discussing or thinking… Read more »
Love it or hate it, it’s impossible to deny that The Walking Dead has left a mark on the popular psyche and isn’t going away anytime soon, especially since it’s been renewed for at least twelve seasons. At first, that news made me roll my eyes. After how bad season two was, I wondered how they could keep up momentum… Read more »
This week’s inspiration series deals with television. I was about to jump out there and say TV shows spur very little in the way of ideas for my books. However, no sooner did I start to type that, when I realized the topic is “Television”, not just TV shows. While TV shows don’t bring to mind many ideas for my… Read more »
When it comes to getting the scientific details right in fiction, the clichéd advice to “write what you know” is one of the best pieces of literary advice. Why? Because if your actual background is well-grounded in science and you can turn a proper phrase, your science-based novel is going to be a hundred times more authentic than even… Read more »
Music has always been a huge part of my life since I was very young. My mom tells stories about how to get me to go to sleep at night, she often had to put me in the car and drive around listening to music. In our house, music was always playing. And despite the fact that I couldn’t sing… Read more »
I don’t remember a single day of my life that wasn’t surrounded by human speech. If I wasn’t talking to family, I was talking to friends. If I wasn’t talking to friends, I was listening to teachers. If I wasn’t listening to teachers, I was listening to music or nearby chatter. If I wasn’t listening to music or chatter, well,… Read more »
Does music inspire me to write? I guess you could say it inspires me to do just about everything. Okay, almost everything. By that, I mean that music puts me in a certain mood and place, and that, often guides whatever I’m doing. If I’m trying to decide what color to paint a wall and a lively song comes on?… Read more »
Since before I left home and went away to college, I can always remember having quite an avid interest in anything pertaining to the way the mind works. I tended to always enjoy the “whydunit” (to coin my own new phrase) rather than the whodunit type of movie. It always came quite easy for me to quickly solve the mystery… Read more »
A quick diversion if I may. What I think you will love about this series is that Tay, Ash and I are very different. We think differently. We were raised differently. We write in different genres. We live in different areas of the country. We have different likes and dislikes. We are not ALL female. (Hee hee.) I know… Read more »
I lived off a steady diet of cartoons growing up. Disney, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Dream Works, Don Bluth, Studio Ghibli, and probably more I don’t remember. If it was animated, odds are I watched it or at least knew about it. I liked plenty of live-action stuff too—I watched Jumanji a million times, despite the nightmares, and Disney Channel… Read more »