Goodbye 2011
Another year has almost passed us by, and my what a year it has been.
The MVF family has grown to include a host of talented new contributors with diverging opinions and fresh views on everything vampire, paranormal and more.
I could not be prouder to be associated with such a fabulous group of women who continually...
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Last year at this time I wrote about my personal New Year’s resolutions for MVF in 2011. I thought it would be a good idea to look back and see how well I did in meeting my goals.
1. My goal is to read and review fifty books. It might be a lofty goal, but I think I can achieve it.
By my count, I read and reviewed 49 books...
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“Reading is the mind what exercise is to the body.” ~Richard Steele
“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.” ~Anna Quindlen
Few gifts are as precious as the gift of reading. All children learn to read in school, of course, but unless that skill is...
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A Year in the Life of a Novelist
or
How I Wrote a Great Deal Without Saying Much
by Sandi Layne
I am sitting here with my new laptop computer. Actually, it’s a refurbished MacBook Pro. I used to have a MacBook, when I started writing here for My Vamp Fiction. Then, in September, my computer took an unexpected trip to The...
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This is a bit of a different type of the “What’s on my Bookshelf” post, but since the year is winding down I thought I’d list my favorites.
Once SarahBella proposed the 50 Book Challenge at the end of 2010, I knew I was going to have to step up my reading game. I am not sure if I completed the challenge, but...
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Now, before I go any further, I should make it clear that I hate Twilight. I hate both the books and the films.
(I recommend, if you are going to form an opinion on the saga, you at least read/watch it. Too many people offer opinions with no experience of the saga. Stop saying it’s crap because you’ve heard other people...
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For this month’s column, I had to tell you about an excellent collection of nineteenth-century vampire stories. Several months ago, I picked up Dracula’s Guest: A Connoisseur’s Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories. The title is a bit limited, because this volume begins with stories that come before the “Victorian”...
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Mortal Obligation
Book One of the Dark Betrayal Trilogy
Nichole Chase
Reviewed by Megsly
Ree will face the darkest form of betrayal before the year is out.
Seventeen year old Ree McKenna has three goals: get through high school, convince her crush she is more than his best friend’s little sister, and save money for...
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Nothing thrills me more than a good story. A story that I can involve myself with. Because that’s what a good story does to me. I become part of it. I know the characters like my friends and family. They become real as does their world.
Whether it be a FF author or a published author. A good story is a good...
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I took in Breaking Dawn Part 1 opening weekend at the 10pm show on Saturday night. I went with THE friend, the one who actually first told be about the Twilight series. I would say it had almost come full circle, but it’s only Breaking Dawn Part 1, so I have to hold off on that phrase for awhile.
Breaking Dawn was…well,...
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Ashes, Ashes
by Jo Treggiari
Reviewed by Megsly
Epidemics, floods, droughts–for sixteen-year-old Lucy, the end of the world came and went, taking 99% of the population with it. As the weather continues to rage out of control, and Sweepers clean the streets of plague victims, Lucy survives alone in the wilds of Central Park....
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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
Remember that phrase from when you were a kid? I do. It was then, and remains now, a ridiculously wrong statement. Think of all the hurtful words we utter: “retard”, “that’s so gay”, “homo”, “bitch”,...
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