Got your attention, did I? I was just talking to a fellow book lover the other day about how I started writing. I’ve admitted before that I actually started because I read a book that made me roll my eyes so many times my husband thought I was possessed. I thought, “If this crap...

Let me paint a picture for you. My husband and I are driving home from picking my daughter up from gymnastics camp. We’re talking about what’s for dinner tonight and about what movie we might go see (on this rare occasion we’ll be going out on date while father in law...

Sex and Young Adult Literature by Katie French Let’s not beat around the bush. Fifty Shades of Gray and all its replicas have made everyone hot and bothered. The erotica trend has hit the mainstream and everyone’s blood is pumping. Unfortunately folks in the industry are now scrambling to...

ETA For the Sake of Clarity: The message here is to CHOOSE NOT TO HAVE ENEMIES even if people chose to make you THEIR enemy. You will be happier and have more friends if you live your life without labeling people as your enemies. This is the advice I’m giving (feel free to disagree, take...

Rule#1 Don’t listen to anything I say. I’m the least interesting person I know. You really shouldn’t be taking my advice. However, it would definitely be interesting if you did. Interesting, you will learn, is almost synonymous with being someone who does things that...

If you’ve ever read a really amazing book with characters you just fell in love with, you know how books can change lives. You know how good characters, like good friends, can inspire you, and how good books, like good friends, can be there for you when you are lonely or bored or need...

The Twilight Saga took the reading world by storm, igniting passion in millions of readers across the world. Sometimes I wonder what those early reviews used to look like, before the book became so popular. I imagine a lot of people had good things to say about it, and that led to a lot more...

Do you have a case of reader fatigue? Have you been struggling to finish the books you’ve been reading? Do you find every book you read lacking, regardless of the glowing reviews of hundreds of other genre fans? Does this seem to be happening, book after book after book? Is this bog post...

An Introduction For years there has been a lot of discussion of authors going indie. Some say it’s career suicide. Some say it’s not. Some say it depends on how you define career suicide. For example, if you plan to stay indie, then it’s not really career suicide, is it?...

Vampire Fangs . . . Lateral Incisors or the Cuspids?                             Take Our Poll _______________________________________ Rebecca Hamilton writes Paranormal Fantasy, Gothic Horror, and Literary Fiction. She is represented by the ever-more-amazing Rossano...

Yes, the market became saturated. And of course, when something's been done 100 times before, it's safe to assume there's no new way to do it, no fresh spin that can be taken. Is this true?

And what is with attacking readers who like reading this genre? If a reader wants to read about snails on a sandwich, that’s what they want. If we have that, we should let them know.