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Writers Who Read: Elizabeth Cole

November 15, 2015 by GGAndrew 1 Comment

The Writers Who Read series continues this week with historical romance author Elizabeth Cole.  Who are you? I’m Elizabeth Cole. I write kissing books—mostly set in the past. They are also very sexy and witty, and have smart, scientifically-minded ladies who are way ahead of their time. So if you despise pithy dialogue or steamy … [Read more…]

Posted in: Writers Who Read Tagged: Agatha Christie, Alex Bledsoe, Anne of Green Gables, bad movies, Beowulf, books, Brothers Grimm, cats, Cordelia Underwood, Daredevil, Dark is Rising, Elizabeth Cole, English literature, fairy tale adaptation, fairy tales, fantasy, graveyards, He Drank And Saw the Spider, historical romance, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, maps, Mary Jo Putney, mystery, Netflix, Perrault, pithy dialogue, reading, Regency romance, rereading, romance, Romance Writers Who Read, Sherlock Holmes, snarky narrator, steamy sex, The Rake, The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England, Tolkien, Writers Who Read

What’s the Creepiest Creature in Literature?

October 13, 2015 by GGAndrew 2 Comments

Fictional creatures have the power to intrigue us, amuse us, delight us–and terrify us beyond belief. I asked the authors in the Writers Who Read interview series a simple question, What is the creepiest creature in literature? Here are their choices for the scariest non-human entities, drawn from classic horror to children’s books, that are trapped (we hope) … [Read more…]

Posted in: Book Nerdery, Horror in Our Culture, Writers Who Read Tagged: Andrea Cumbo-Floyd, Ann Gelder, Ann Patchett, best Halloween stories, Bigfoot and the Baby, Black Aperture, Bloody Mary, books, clowns, doppelgangers, Dracula, Eddy Webb, Edgar Allen Poe, evil, Frankenstein, Fugitive Colors, ghost stories, Ghosts, ghouls, Halloween, It, Jabberwocky, Karina Sumner-Smith, Laura Madeline Wiseman, Lisa Barr, Mary Worth, Maureen O'Leary Wanket, Michelle Falkoff, Monsters, mummies, nightmares, Original Sinners, Peter Straub, poetry, Poltergeist, rabbits, reading, Rita Arens, Rosemary's Baby, scary, scary reads, Sherlock Holmes, Sir John Tenniel, spooky reads, Stephen King, The Exorcist, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Jaunt, The Mirror Empire, The Obvious Game, The Raven, The Shining, The Slaves Have Names, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Time Traveler's Wife, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Tiffany Reisz, Wake, Who's Afraid of Mary Worth, witches, Wonderland, Writers Who Read

Writers Who Read: Kieran Lyne

September 23, 2015 by GGAndrew Leave a Comment

The Writers Who Read interview series welcomes Kieran Lyne this week. Who are you? I am Kieran Lyne, author of The Last Confession of Sherlock Holmes and the youngest writer to be endorsed by the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate. I live in the middle of nowhere in Suffolk, England, where I work for a local … [Read more…]

Posted in: Writers Who Read Tagged: 50 Shades of Dorian Grey, A Clockwork Orange, A Sicilian Romance, actors, Al Pacino: The Authorised Biography, Aldous Huxley, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Ann Radcliffe, Anthony Horowitz, Arthur Conan Doyle Estate, Birdsong, books, Brave New World, Brideshead Revisited, Cosa Nostra, Elizabeth George, England, Harry Potter, James Herbert, John Dicke, Kahil Gilbran, Kieran Lyne, Lewis Carol., Mystery and Suspense Writers Who Read, nonfiction, On Writing, Philip Pullman, reading, Roald Dahl, Robert Goddard, Sebastian Faulks, Sherlock Holmes, short story, Somerset Maugham, Stephen King, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, The Fantastic Mr Fox and the Fog, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, The Great Gatsby, The Last Confession of Sherlock Holmes, The Magician, The Picture of Dorian Grey, The Prisoner of Azkaban, The Prophet, We, Write Away, Writers Who Read, writing, Yevgeny Zamyatin

Writers Who Read: Eddy Webb

August 4, 2015 by GGAndrew 1 Comment

The Writers Who Read series is back! Joining us for the new interview is Eddy Webb. Who are you? My name is Eddy Webb, and my job description is… complicated. These days I’m a freelance writer and game designer working in fiction, non-fiction, role-playing games, and video games, sometimes all in the same day! I’ve … [Read more…]

Posted in: Writers Who Read Tagged: character, character complexity, Chuck Wendig, Codename Cygnus, Dashiell Hammett, Dresden Files, ebooks, Eddy Webb, ereading, freelance writer, game designer, iPad, Jim Butcher, Netflix, Nonfiction Writers Who Read, Raymond Chandler, Robert E. Howard, role-playing games, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Who Read, Sherlock Holmes, short stories, tea, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon, Vampire: The Masquerade, Victorian literature, video game narration, Writers Who Read

The Method in the Monster

October 17, 2014 by GGAndrew Leave a Comment

Today I welcome a guest post by Kieran Lyne discussing Sherlock Holmes and the longevity of ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ as part of the Halloween 2014 series.  Some words possess a quality, a magic spark which instantly conjures certain images to our minds. If I were to say ‘Halloween’ for example, what would come … [Read more…]

Posted in: Book Nerdery Tagged: BBC, books, British television, Dale Winton, Halloween, Halloween 2014, horror, Hounds, Kieran Lyne, Logic, Mysteries, Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Conan Doyle, television, Victorians

Writers Who Read: Amy Thomas

July 15, 2014 by GGAndrew 2 Comments

Our Writers Who Read series continues with novelist Amy Thomas, author of The Detective and The Woman mystery series. Who are you? My name is Amy Thomas, and I write The Detective and The Woman mystery series about Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler. As a podcaster with the Baker Street Babes, I’m always meeting new people who … [Read more…]

Posted in: Writers Who Read Tagged: Amy Thomas, Baker Street Babes, books, C.S. Lewis, Dostoevsky, Hilary Mantel, Irene Adler, mystery, Mystery and Suspense Writers Who Read, NaNoWriMo, Nook, reading, Rudyard Kipling, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Detective and The Woman, The Secret Garden, Wolf Hall, writing

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Crazy, Sexy, Ghoulish: A Halloween Romance Crazy, Sexy, Ghoulish: A Halloween Romance
reviews: 7
ratings: 21 (avg rating 3.95)

Screwing Mr. Melty: A Romantic Comedy Screwing Mr. Melty: A Romantic Comedy (The Complete First Season)
reviews: 7
ratings: 25 (avg rating 3.72)

Somewhere Warm: A New Year's Eve Short Romance Somewhere Warm: A New Year's Eve Short Romance
reviews: 7
ratings: 13 (avg rating 3.92)

Taste Me, Tempt Me: Eight Tales of Sweet and Spicy Romance Taste Me, Tempt Me: Eight Tales of Sweet and Spicy Romance
reviews: 4
ratings: 5 (avg rating 4.20)

Screwing Mr. Melty: A Romantic Comedy Screwing Mr. Melty: A Romantic Comedy (Episode One)
ratings: 2 (avg rating 3.00)

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