is there life after “Twilight”??? OF COURSE THERE IS!
as some of you know, i’m involved with the awesome website Bitten By Books.  this week, it’s week 3 of the Paranormal Author Polls, and one of the choices is Stephenie Meyer. between a tweet from the awesome Macbeaner, and my own silly thoughts, i decided to do a blog entry on how people who are suffering the end of the “Twilight” series can go on with their reading lives with other series by even more awesomer authors. first of all, yes, THANK YOU Stephenie Meyer for making Urban Fantasy/vampires cool again. we went through a stage where we kinda had to hide out our lov

so many changes, so little time.
first off, congrats goes out to Alejandra from Toronto for winning the “Shiver”/Maggie Stiefvater contest.  i’ll be sending out the ARC as soon as possible. second off, i’m getting married! i know, i know, WHAT?! yes, really. most of you that visit this blog already know, but yeah. my lovely boy Anthony and I decided about a month ago, at the very end of his visit here, that we couldn’t live without the other, and wanted to be together forever. we’re not actually going to get our piece of paper that says we’re married untill 2011, but

Ilona Andrews Contest @ BBB!

interview and contest with Maggie Stiefvater; win a copy of “Shiver”!!
how does music influence you as a writer? I have to have it. That’s basically how it influences me. Heh. Actually, I need it to set mood and to focus. Without music playing, all I can think of is all the other things I could/ should/ might be doing. how do you go about choosing your playlists for a certain book/story? do you choose the songs beforehand, or afterwards (meaning, do you go back and look at what you listened to the most when you were writing?) Definitely beforehand. Before I write a novel, I have a vague idea of the mood I’m going to try to convey, and then I go hunting. I hit iTunes, Amazon, Youtube, my