Late Sunday night, I found myself at the San Jose airport with time to kill before a flight and a desperate need to while away those minutes. I broke down and bought a mass market paperback edition of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo — a book which, along with its sequels, has captured… Read More The Girl With The Really Long Blog Post
BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL is in the midst of a big story involving Stephanie and the plight of the homeless community on L.A.’s Skid Row, and I’d like to discuss the pluses and minuses. I was actually thinking of doing it in print, but I have so much going on in my head that I don’t… Read More Soap Opera Weekly: Blogging With Mala
On Sunday, I had the chance to sit in on the New York Comic Con press panels for NIKITA and THE VAMPIRE DIARIES. It was really cool. The cast and powers-that-be of both shows were incredibly fun and knowledgeable, and gave some great teases for what’s ahead. (Check upcoming issues of Weekly for the dish!)… Read More Soap Opera Weekly: Blogging With Mala
Trial By Desire, Courtney Milan’s second full-length novel, might just be one of my favorite books of the year. It’s so crisply written, with such effective characterization and wit and warmth, that every line means something. Milan doesn’t hyperbolize to excess or wax poetic about anything unnecessary. What the reader gets is a smooth, and… Read More Trial By Desire, by Courtney Milan
I think I’ve mentioned before that my “go-to” urban fantasy authors are two who were writing well before the market got oversaturated with Were-things and fairies and what-have-yous: Kelley Armstrong and Kim Harrison. They’re solid, consistent, and I’ve yet to be disappointed by one of their books. Heartbroken (thank you, Ms. Harrison), but not disappointed.… Read More Black Magic Sanction, by Kim Harrison
Jeannie Lin’s Butterfly Swords is a book that was generating major buzz even before it came out. One of Harlequin Historical’s October releases, Lin’s book is unique, in that it’s a historical romance set in Tang Dynasty-era China. The cover is absolutely beautiful, leaving no doubt as to the heroine’s ethnicity and the novel’s content.… Read More Butterfly Swords, by Jeannie Lin
It’s really easy to bury yourself in bubbles of pop culture, like it’s the ball pit at a Chuck E. Cheese. It’s comforting to hide amongst your fellow Trekkies and Browncoats and tell yourself, “I’ve found my people!” But then you poke your head out the window, peer around the door of the TARDIS, and… Read More I want to believe we’ll live long and prosper.
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