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  • Review–Glimpse, by Stacey Wallace Benefiel

    Recently, I stumbled across the website of Stacey Wallace Benefiel. She’s an indie author like me, and she writes YA paranormal romance. Now, I’ve seen lots and lots of indie authors out there, but most of them write for an adult audience, and recently, more...

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  • Get free ebooks!

    Get free ebooks!

    help me spread the word and get free ebooks! Strapped for cash? Can’t order on the internet? I’d still like you to read my books. If you can’t provide me money, you can help me with word-of-mouth publicity. Here’s the deal. Do four of the...

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  • Video Blog

    Video Blog

    Here’s my very first video blog. The show I’m talking about in the first couple of minutes was called Moonlight. The sound seems to be a little off… Don’t know why that is. Anyhow, enjoy for what it is. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATqwos5hGNs]

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  • The Vampire Blogs: Underworld

    The Vampire Blogs: Underworld

    This is part of a series of blogs I’m writing on vampires in literature and film. This is not a review, per se, so SPOILERS may be revealed. Read with caution. I saw Underworld in the theaters, and I don’t remember exactly how it came...

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  • The Vampire Diaries, Season 1 Episode 14

    The Vampire Diaries, Season 1 Episode 14

    Just a few thoughts upon finishing the episode. The TV show has long played hard and fast with the source material, so that it really doesn’t much resemble the original books. This new twist–Katherine, alive, roaming the earth but unconcerned with the Salvatore brothers–really kind...

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  • The Vampire Blogs: Near Dark

    The Vampire Blogs: Near Dark

    This is part of a series of blogs about vampires in literature and film. This is not a review, per se, so SPOILERS will be discussed. Proceed with caution. If The Lost Boys loses ground because it fails to take itself seriously enough, then Near...

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  • Dreamland by Sarah Dessen

    Dreamland by Sarah Dessen

    Wow. I really liked this book and then I hated it. I should say that I went into it with very little in the way of what it was going to be about. So I was completely surprised when it turned out to be a...

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  • Gossip Girl: The College Years

    Gossip Girl: The College Years

    We’re two episodes into the new season of Gossip Girl, and I’m still watching it, so that’s saying something, right? There’s no claiming that Gossip Girl is excellent television. It’s fluff, and I know it. We all need some fluff though, right? Guilty pleasures? With...

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  • The Vampire Diaries

    The Vampire Diaries

    I’m not really posting blogs very often, am I? Not cool on my part. I think that once summer starts, and I’m no longer teaching, I’m going to try to get in a rhythm of posting at least one or two blogs a week. Anyway,...

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