A Matter of Matter
By: L. Ron Hubbard
Publisher: Galaxy Press
ISBN: 978-1592122394
Pub. Date: June 28, 2010
Running Time: Approx. 2 hours 30 minutes


Many famous writers got their start writing countless short stories that appeared in Pulp Magazines in the 1930s and 1940s. These magazines were made from pulpwood paper, which were the complete opposite of the higher-class magazines of the time period. Pulp magazines didn't need fancy designs as all they needed were amazing stories written by great authors. Times were tough back then with the depression, and readers were looking for cheap adventures to take their mind off their problems.

Galaxy Press was nice enough to send me five audiobooks last month from their Stories from the Golden Age collection. A Matter of Matter is my last audio from these five, containing four science fiction shorts - A Matter of Matter, The Conroy Diary, The Planet Makers and The Obsolete Weapon. The voice actors in these stories are Josh R. Thompson, Corey Burton, R.F. Daley, Jim Meskimen (He also was the director.), Tait Ruppert, and Michael Yurchak.

 

What inspired me to write about vampires and werewolves? 

Whether I am writing for Young Adult readers or Adult readers, I always seem to be writing about werewolves and vampires. Why? Well, the answer is: I’m not sure.

I know, and I’ve been told more than once, that this is a frustrating answer to readers and new writers. We always want to think that writers know exactly what they’re doing, know exactly why they do things.

This may be true of some writers—but for me a lot of things come to me because they come to me. I don’t know what inspired them but I’m glad they show up.

In the case of Subversive, and the entire Warrior series, I did have the desire to bring Vampires back to what they were when I was a young adult: scary. I loved the books that are out right now that have a vampire hero who is sweet and non-threatening but those were no the vampires I grew up with.

The Wicked Wives
By: Gus Pelaggatti
Publisher: Mill City Press, Inc.
ASIN: B005784LB4
Pub. Date: July 22, 2011
Pages: 304

The Wicked Wives is based on true events that took place in Philadelphia during the year 1938, in which seventeen women murdered their husbands. Giorgio DiSipio, an Italian lothario, gave each of the women a deadly substance to give to their husbands, which resulted in their deaths. The women were conned into believing that Giorgio loved them and that he would runaway with them once their husbands were dead.

One of these husbands was Reggie Stoner, who's death is first ruled as pneumonia, but later the cause of death is changed to arsenic poisoning, but was never ruled as a homicide until the First Assistant DA Tom Rossi discovered that Mrs. Stoner was to receive a hefty insurance check. Soon the Rossi learns of Mrs. Stoner's affair with DiSipio, and he places murder charges against her, but there is a twist. Her uncle happens to be the Deputy Mayor Bill Evans, who interferes with the investigation. Evans is corrupted and has ties all over the city, even in the police department. Now here is another twist, Mrs. Stoner was fooling around with her uncle in exchange for money.

In a blink of an eye, Grace becomes terrified as she notices that her five-year-old daughter, Mary, is not beside her. They had went into the mall to shop at a department store, to get a present for Grace's mother-in-law, when she went to pay for the gift that is when she noticed that Mary had disappeared. Just like any parent would do, she panicked and began shouting for Mary. The store manager and security become involve in the situation. After searching the entire store, there was no sign of Mary.

The mall's security guards could not find the little girl either, whom Grace says is special because she can heal the sickly and cheer up the depressed. The police are called in and Lieutenant Samuel Abraham of the Los Angeles police department. He interviews Grace and along with the other police officers, he searches the mall with no clue to where or what happened to Mary. Therefore, he calls the FBI into the picture.

Mary returns home with the police and FBI and her husband, John, arrives from work eagerly to assist them. The phones are tapped, but no kidnapper ever calls them.

A Hunter's Angel 
(The Hunter's Dagger Series)
Written by: Cera duBois
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
ASIN: B008MZ5ONS
Pub Date: July 18, 2012
Pages: 212

Twenty-eight-year-old Grace Wallace has recently been elected as the new Police Chief of Clayton, Pennsylvania. Normally, the small town is peaceful, but lately there have been a string of unsolved murders. Prior to moving back to her hometown, Grace was a homicide detective in Philadelphia, where she helped track down a serial killer who drank human blood. The Clayton murders were similar to her old serial case as the victims' throats were slashed and drained of all their blood. Maybe a copycat killer?

The case is too big for the young Police Chief to handle, so the FBI are called in to help track down the killer. Of course the FBI agent assigned to lead the case is Grace's ex, Ian McHenry, in which she still has desires for. Ian wanted to be assigned to case as he has a connection to the killer. Ian is a vampire!

Sweet Valley Confidential: The Sweet Life #5: Cutting the Ties
Written by: Francine Pascal
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ASIN: B007XSNGI0
Release Date: August 5th, 2012
Pages: 79

The drama continues for the Sweet Valley gang, as Jessica Wakefield is denying to herself that she still has feeling for her soon to be ex-husband Todd. She is now acting like her old high school self, by dating her boss Michael, while the actor Liam is out of town. After leading Michael on and turning him down, Liam returns and proposes to her. Despite rejecting Liam, the man won't leave her alone. To make her life even worse, Tracy Courtright continues to make her return to VERTPLUS.NET a living hell.

Lila Fowler Matthews had faked her pregnancy on the realty show True Housewives of Sweet Valley and in the aftermath her husband left, but now Lila find out that she is actually pregnant.

Caroline Pearce is now known for running a gossip blog on Sweet Valley and she doesn't care whose lives she ruins. Her newest scoop is the newfound pictures of Bruce Patman and his lawyer Annie Whitman getting a little too cozy together in France, and of course she had to post them online for the world to see.

Cross Stitch Art Nouveau
By Barbra Hammet
Publisher: D&C
ISBN: 9780715326985
Pub Date: August 25, 2008
Pages: 112

From the 1880s through 1915, Art Nouveau was a popular art style that included organic curves, natural forms, and vivid colors. Now author Barbra Hammet has brought out Cross Stitch Art Nouveau with over seventy inspirational designs for cross stitchers based on the famous painting and designs of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Alphonse Mucha, Gustav Klimt, Emile Galle, Frances MacDonald, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Charles Annesley Voysey, Walter Cane, William de Morgan,  and. Aubrey Beardsley.

Saved by the Bell: Seasons 1 & 2
Starring: Mark-Paul Gosselaar Mario Lopez, Dustin Diamond; Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, Elizabeth Berkley; Lark Voorhies; Dennis Haskins
Studio: Lionsgate
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Number of Discs: 5
Running Time: 750 minutes




I use to watch Saved by the Bell when I was a kid, well I think everyone I grew up with watched it. The showed aired in the mornings, in the afternoons and of course on Saturday mornings. I would run home after school as fast as I could so I won't miss it, even though I had probably seen each episode three times by then. I quit watching the franchise after The College Years ended, though I do recall coming across The New Class a few times while channel surfing.