I’ll agree, the title annoyingly plays on the popularity of That Despised Book. That alone almost made me pass this one by, but I’m glad I didn’t. This Fifty Shades is a modernized parody that has nothing to do with tortured billionaires and their implausibly virginal obsessions. Nope, this book is lively romp through the […]
I’m over at Indie Author Land, doing an interview about my Imp Series, and specifically A Demon Bound. Come on over!
The short story had decent prose, interesting plot, and a neat twist to the ending, but I just didn’t buy it. I mean, I paid money for the story, but I found the plot premise and, more importantly, the main characters’ motivations lacking. I hovered on the edge of suspended disbelief, but just couldn’t make […]
When I wrote my young adult short story, Love Magick, I carefully screened it for language, determined to keep it clean, but with other stories, I’ll the bad words fall where it may. Profanity has become a part of our culture, and it often delivers great meaning. A curse word can show a well-mannered character […]
Lord of Vengeance by Lara Adrian With the ease of self-publishing, readers are seeing authors purchasing rights back on early, out-of-print novels and releasing electronic versions as well as paperbacks under their own imprints. Kudos to them! What may be low sales to a big name publishers is a tidy income stream to an author, […]