2009 Muse Online Writers Conference

Sign up while there's still time: The 2009 Muse Online Writers Conference. Use the link, and not the pic, okay? Thanks go out to Lea Schizas for all the hard work she puts into this conference every year. Lea, you are awesome!

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Currrently Reading

After NaNoWriMo 2008 was over, I treated myself for finishing my novel by reading Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series. I finished the series in about five days. Now, let me just say that I love reading vampire fiction. Ever since the quintessential Anne Rice came upon the literary scene, I have devoured any kind of vamp fiction I could find.

I discovered Ljane Smith. If you liked Twilight you will like her work in the The Vampire Diaries and the Night World series. But for those of us who are a little older and would like our apple to have a little more juice, there's Charlaine Harris. The Southern Vampire series featuring Sookie Stackhouse is wonderful. It's juicy yet very tasteful and had just a subtle hint of eroticism. I'm on book three of this series, Club Dead, and it's very good.

So maybe I will pull that NaNo novel out soon and start editing. But right now, I'm reading.

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