She runs into the Theo at local restaurant called The Fish Camp, where the boy had painted beautiful realistic scenery on the walls. The strange thing is that the owners do not remember ever hiring him nor do they recall ever meeting him.
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
She runs into the Theo at local restaurant called The Fish Camp, where the boy had painted beautiful realistic scenery on the walls. The strange thing is that the owners do not remember ever hiring him nor do they recall ever meeting him.
I would have to say Abraham Lincoln has always been my favorite president. As a kid, I read books about him, and I did an oral report on Abe for my 6th grade history class, where we got to dress up like someone historically famous. Years later, I learned through genealogy that Abe is a distant cousin. Now it looks like Hollywood has become interested in him, again, with the upcoming horror flick Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, and Steven Spielberg’s bio Lincoln. In addition, The ASYLUM has released their own horror flick titled Abraham Lincoln VS Zombies, in which they have nicely sent me a complimentary DVD for this review.
It seems like zombie tales have been done to death since the success of The Walking Dead, but as I am a zombie and an Abe fan, I was intrigue by the title. The prologue shows that a young Abe had to kill his mother, after she was an infected with a zombie virus, with a sickle. (What a horrible thing to experience at a young age.) Years go by and Abe is now President of the Untied States during the great American Civil War.
Monday, June 4, 2012
Top 10 Kick-A** Women in Movies
by DV BeRkom
I
love to watch strong female characters in movies and read about them
in books. When I was growing up, I read spy novels and watched a lot
of James Bond movies. The Bond women were stunning but
one-dimensional. I wanted to be
the
female equivalent of James
Bond.
I searched, but couldn't find much in the way of this kind of female
character, so I contented myself with made-up stories of women
pirates and spies. Fast-forward to 2012. Everywhere you look, there
are more and more strong, capable and kick-a** women.
I
am so
stoked.
How to pick the right topics and audience
By
M. Anthony Phillips
I’m a new novelist with three
books under my belt. Picking a subject to write about to me has to not only be
something that is passionate to you, but also is marketable in an ever changing
audience. My genre of choice is fiction because I love a great story. When I was
a kid I used to stay up late at night with my father watching old movies. The
experience stayed with me, not just because it helped shape who I am, but also
because it gave my father and I a chance to bond.
I guess you can say every
fictional story has an audience, but if you’re just doing a story just because a
particular genre is the latest thing, and you’re not really passionate about the
story, then it could come off as not being believable. What defines you as a
person? What cartoons, or movies did you watch as a child? Do you find yourself
saying “That would make a great story?”
It’s okay to jump in on the
latest thing—children’s books are very popular, so if you do, become
educated—buy a book and read it to your kids to see their reaction. If it
doesn’t warm your heart, then maybe it’s not the one. Picking the genre you want
to become a genuine author in is the easy part. The hard part is finding a core
audience and how to market them.
Sunday, June 3, 2012
In Too DeepAUTHOR: Mary Connealy
PUBLISHED BY: Bethany House
ISBN: 978-0-7642-0912-3
RELEASED DATE: 2012
PAGES: 331
Book two of The Kincaid Brides series pickups where the last left off. Rafe and Julia are now married and Julie’s stepmother Audra doesn’t want to be a bother to them anymore. She plans on heading back east to care of her father. Rafe will not hear any of it and proposes a simple solution - Audra will marry his younger brother Ethan, whom is going to take over the Kincaid Ranch.
After a little work, Ethan and Audra are forced into marriage, where she is planning on being the maid of the household, which includes Ethan’s other brother, the troublemaker, Seth. Ethan doesn’t know how to be a husband or a step-father to Audra’s daughter Maggie, but with God’s help, the newlyweds may make the marriage work.
Friday, June 1, 2012
Gilmore Girls with Bite!
Helen Bocelli, along with her Goth daughter Ellie, packs up their stuff and heads back home to live with her mother, Helena, in a small town called Troy after leaving her husband. In addition, there is a great welcoming gift for the two - a dead body on the porch on Halloween Night. The site of the dead man does not spook Ellie, but she is more interested in the local boys who live nearby. Ellie has a strange dream of a young girl and is shocked to learn the next day that a local girl is missing. Ellie is not like other teenage girls as she knows what goes bump in the night, and in this case, it is a bloodsucking vampire.
When I read that this book was Gilmore Girls meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I had to review it as I have been watching the Gilmore reruns and I grew up watching Buffy. The three female characters are completely different from the Gilmores, but the quirky fast-paced dialogue is similar. The grandmother Helena is like no grandma I have every seen. She dresses and acts like a woman thirty years younger than her. I thought it was funny how the teenager Ryan was after her. The mother Helen has almost given up on her life and finding love. Now Ellie does remind of Rory Gilmore, except she dresses in Goth and has some supernatural elements to her. Ellie is smart, speaks her mind, and is more mature than most teenagers are.
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