Okay, so I really don’t have anything to say about vampires and holidays, but it’s the day before Thanksgiving, so it seemed an appropriate title. It’s also a day I should be spending cooking all the pies and stuff that I will need to feed the people who will be here tomorrow. Instead of doing that, I’m...
read moreMany of us read for escape. It’s one of the reasons I’m never snobbish about what other people read. Until 2008 and Twilight, I read mostly non-fiction books, mostly about neuroscience and the brain and other really fun stuff like that. At that time, I didn’t read for the same kind of pleasure I do now. I edited...
read moreJust how much of the vampire genre can one girl take? If that girl is me, a lot. A whole lot. But even a vampire addict like me needs to throw other things into the mix once in awhile. MyVampFiction has been slowly incorporating more and more of the paranormal genre into our daily grind. We have faeries and fallen angels, and even...
read moreOne of my favorite things about October is the movies that run all month long. There are horror movie marathons almost all the time, and for me, that’s a heavenly television day. I rarely watch TV, so when the scary movies are on, I finally get my money’s worth from my cable company. This past weekend, Cujo was on. My...
read moreSo I’ve been writing now for two weeks and I’ve been making great progress. Chapter 8 is in full swing, so since my last column, I’ve written 7 chapters and a prologue. I’m very proud of myself and I’m not ashamed to say it. I’ve been told the story is a good one by Jules and Heather. I want to...
read moreI’ve said this dozens of times. I’m not a writer. I’m not a writer, yet I co-own a vamp fiction web site with four other people who are writers. I so often feel like the odd man out. When everyone else is in a WC, I’m sitting all by myself, no one to talk to. I know, boo-frickety-hoo, right? Yeah. I decided...
read moreThey 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 is actually vampire...
read moreI 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, The Darkest Lie by Gena Showalter, but since I...
read moreSo 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 sets me off. So what have I been...
read moreI 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 “The Zombie Survival...
read moreWhen 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 relationship that went with it, and in the...
read moreI 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 something useless again, but I...
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