It’s Wintertime, and the living is–increasingly terrifying! Explore legendary spiders with my guest, L.T. Getty, for a dose of spidery tingles. L.T. Getty will be awarding a $25 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner. Enter the contest below. Be sure to check out all the stops on the tour–enter at each blog to raise your odds! Shameless self-promo #1: If you are an author in search of an experienced editor–I have availability in early 2025. Take a look […]
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Like my guest, I love to revisit the past and watch old movies. Over the summer, my son pushed a bunch of 50s and 60s sci-fi and horror. Even the bad ones are strangely good! And Vampires are ageless, right? Jump in the Not-So-Way-Back Machine and head for the 80s with my guest, Author Kate Hill, with her list of 80s vampire movies. 10 Vampire Movies from the 80s by Kate Hill While working on re-edits for the Immaculate, a […]
Are you in the mood for a little spook chasing? Novel Magic guest Pia Manning shares the real-life ghost-hunting inspiration for Hometown Spirits, her latest erotic paranormal romance. The Ghost Hunt by Pia Manning In Hometown Spirits, the heroine, Emily Slater, buys what most of the Pinecone Creekers believe is a haunted cabin. Emily decides that 1 murder + 1 bloodstained cabin + strange sounds = 1 Haunted by Real Ghosts Home. So, she arranges to have paranormal investigators come […]
It seems we all come to Writing by different paths–even those of us who always planned to be writers. Nothing works as expected in life, but–in the end–we get where we were going. Novel Magic guest, Christina Lambert, shares her story. Words, Worlds, and Possibilities by Christina Lambert My Unexpected Journey into Writing I have always loved writing. For years, I wrote poetry and essays for fun, then stored them in a folder, never to be seen again. I never […]
Writing about magic doesn’t happen by, well, magic. IMHO, fantasy writing takes an astounding amount of forethought and planning. I mean, you have to invent the world, the rules that world operates by, as well as the plot of your tale. Novel Magic guest, Lisabet Sarai, adds to the discussion and shares her insights. Oh and by the way, score more than 50 FREE stories by Lisabet by visiting her website. FYI–Lisabet’s books fall in the paranormal erotic romance subgenre. […]
Ahh, How I love the smell of revenge in the morning! My guest uses Spite to fuel her writing–at least for Flame and Shadow, a spicy urban fantasy–or as she calls it, a Romantasy! Read all about it and score a FREE story by AK Nevermore. Writing with a Vengeance: How Flame & Shadow Was Born By AK Nevermore Fun fact, my first book, Flame & Shadow, was written totally out of spite. Yep. You read that correctly, and I’ll […]