They say music calms the savage beast, and what beast needs more calming than a vampire? Last week I talked about music and playlists that authors write their stories to, and a little about the music that shows up in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. What I didn’t talk about was what music I think [...]

I was going to do a book review today, but instead of reading this weekend, I spent it doing other things – like taking my 18 year old for his first tattoo and driving my daughter back and forth to work. I did get in some reading of the book I’m going to review eventually, [...]

So typically we write these columns with some story in mind. I like to spout off about things that are affecting me at the moment (thus the name – Mouthing Off with Meesh). Some weeks I have a lot of pissy feelings to get out. Sometimes it’s sadness or just some weird quirky thing that [...]

I was walking through the local Barnes and Noble the other day and almost walked right by the “buy 2 get one free” table. Those tables are typically killer for my budget so I try not to even look. I’m so glad I looked this time. There, sitting up front and center, was the book [...]

When I was 17, I found Harlequin romance novels. Before that, I read horror stories. Lots of horror stories. Stephen King and John Saul were two regular reads for me, and I’m not sure I really knew much else existed outside of horror and teen angst. But then I had a baby and a rotten [...]

I thought tonight I’d make a list of my 10 favorite vamp/paranormal authors and their web sites. Sort of a self-serving list of “who does Meesh read the most and how can she make a list in one place so she doesn’t have to Google them anymore” list. I could go on and on about [...]

I got my reading mojo back! I lost it for awhile, a few months that felt like years, but it finally returned and I’ve been reading every weekend for the past few weeks. It feels good to get lost in a story again, really good. It’s funny how the loss of something like the urge [...]

Before I start writing, I want to apologize to the readers and the other staff at MVF. I’ve been an amazingly airheaded ditz the last month or so and I completely spaced on my blog post that was due this past Thursday. Sue was nice enough to let me know and offered to remind me [...]

I can’t believe how fast time slips by these days. I looked at the calendar and realized that it was my day to post at MVF. I can’t believe it’s been two weeks since my last post, two weeks since Peter Steele died (still can’t believe he died, to be honest). I’m not prepared to [...]

Wrath has died, or at least that’s how it feels to me. Any Black Dagger Brotherhood fan who follows the WARDen’s board knows Peter Steele is Wrath in the flesh. If you don’t know who he is, he’s the lead singer of Type O Negative, a goth metal band. He’s 6’7″ tall, long black hair, [...]

It’s April. April 1st to be exact. 26 days until Lover Mine is in my hands. 26 days until I’ve devoured the latest in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series, my most favorite soft core vamp porn of all time. Oh, and I coined a phrase, it seems, as everyone in my office uses “soft core [...]

Believe it or not, for a co-owner of what is considered a fandom site, I rarely follow fandom news. I’m a huge Twilight fan, but I’m a Twilight book fan and most of the fandom sites are full of Twilight Saga movie and actor news and quite frankly, that stuff just doesn’t interest me. I [...]

Before I begin to write about my chosen topic, I have to do a shout out to Megsly. Yesterday MyVampFiction got an email from JR Ward to thank her for her thoughtful post about authors and their choices regarding fan fiction. JR Ward. Really and truly. Megsly, you gave me my first fan girl moment. [...]

Female Character Discussion by Meesh We’ve spent quite a bit of time talking about the male side of the vampire world. What it is about males that make them so attractive. Why we fall in love with them – or at least the idea of them. But what about the females in the world of [...]

Black Dagger Brotherhood: Xhex Character discussion by Meesh Yesterday there was a small exchange on Twitter between Sue and me (a kind exchange, nothing tense), as well as a few other BDB fans, about Xhex, one of the female characters in the Black Dagger Brotherhood. No one seems to be able to stand her except [...]

We had plans for posting tonight, but because of a slew of illness flying through what must be the entire country, we didn’t have a chance to get together and discuss the things we needed to discuss. C’est la vie, right? I know Sue has been terribly sick for several days and then this morning [...]

The last column I wrote, I discussed Edward and the flaws he would have if he was real. He isn’t real, so all the perceived flaws aren’t either, but if he was a living, breathing man, then he’d be a royal pain in the ass. But in love, as in many things, there is never [...]

I think I’m just going to keep on with the topic of Twilight. A few reasons for that. First, because it really does seem that it’s what people want to read about, but also because it’s just so easy to find things to discuss about it. Being the pop culture phenomenon of the day, it’s [...]

So here’s a new one. The Twilight Saga is full of stereotypes and sexism. Yeah, I guess it’s not really new, is it? Ever since I read the series in 2008, I’ve been reading discussions, debates, even arguments that the series perpetuates stereotypes – like a female doing all the cooking – and it is [...]

I’m a non-writer in a writer’s world. A year ago, I didn’t know what fanfiction was. Hell, I didn’t even know fanfiction existed. I was so pleasantly surprised when I found all the good stories about Twilight that were out there, especially since it meant I could continue my obsession about the saga, but I [...]