Every now and then you’ll hear an author speak, read his or her blog or stumble across an interview.  Somewhere in all the chit chat and self-promotion someone will ask the author where his or her book ideas come from and the author will take a deep breath (this is harder to see in a [...]

Helen Oyeyemi had the typical kid’s life in high school - hanging out, partying, studying, writing a novel and getting it published….oh, wait. 
She’s the author of The Icarus Girl and her backstory is straight out of a PR fantasy.  Oyeyemi wrote the book at age 18, without her parents’ knowledge, when she was supposed [...]

I have a theory that when people are asked to name the best books of all time they lie.  Lie, lie, lie.  They rattle off titles of books from their 10th grade summer reading list.  They talk about great works of literature they were forced to read for a class somewhere sometime years ago as [...]

A few months back I made a joke about the movie March of the Penguins.  I suggested this would be the movie no one saw.  I was wrong.  Again.  According to this, the movie has exceeded all expectations and despite opening on a limited number of screens was the highest gross per screen winner.  And, [...]

I have this deadline and no pressing need to go into work this fine holiday weekend for my non-writing day job.  So, naturally, instead of working on my book I decided to update and redesign my blog.  How’s that for a good use of my time…..?   
Right now the amazing and talented folks at DreamForge [...]

Every now and then a book title or cover will catch my attention.  Once this happens I tend to see the book in question everywhere.  Everywhere.  So, on Saturday I walk into one of the 3,000 B&N stores near my home.  First, I paged through People magazine  - Angelina & Brad were on the cover [...]

Most romance readers probably know that Tori Carrington is actually the pen name for married couple Tony and Lori Karayianni.  They’ve written something like 30 hot romances for Harlequin.  Their newest novel Sofie Metropolis is not brought to you by Harlequin and is not in their usual style.  The book is described by this article [...]