Friday, October 26, 2012
Mommy Bear Media is giving away a Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted Combo Pack, which would make the perfect Christmas Gift! They are also giving away ten $5.00 gift codes. Remember shipping is always free!
To enter visit http://www.mommybearmedia.com/blog/news/enter-win-20-5-gift-codes-mommybearmedia-com#a_aid=coffeeramblings
Rules:
Grab a book, any book.
Turn to page 56.
Find any sentence,
(or few, just don't spoil it) that grabs you.
Post it.
Add your (url) post
below in the Linky at http://fredasvoice.blogspot.com/.
My Answer: 1. Shelfari - I have all the books I own on there. I love the shelf widgets that I can display on my blog. 2. GoodReads - a great book community. It also has giveaways you can enter to get free books. 3. Book Blog Ning is a community for book blog reviewers. I have made several publisher/agent contacts from there.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
SCARY MOVIES AND BOOKS
by KC Hilton
When it comes to
horror movies and books, I stay clear of them. I’m a regular
scaredy-cat! I even sleep with a nightlight! Ohhh, but there
are reasons for my fear, but I’ll get to that in just a moment.
Recently, I’ve tried to break the scary feelings and have read a
few books. I’ve always wondered how a person could read a
scary/horror book without shutting their eyes, lol. I started with
reading Graveminder by Melissa Marr. OK, this was a great book
and I got through it, without any permanent damage, so I decided to
read another book, Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter. I made it
through the Twilight series, so I thought I could handle this book.
OK, it was a great book! I seriously loved it, but let me just say,
it took me four days to read it and the first two nights I was scared
to go to bed, lol. When I did finally go to bed, I pulled the covers
nearly over my head! With all the facts woven into a Vampire story,
well… It had me believing in Vampires! Yeah, it took me a while to
get over it but I’m still here. Now, I want to see the movie! I’m
not sure how that’s going to go, but I’m willing to give it a
try.
On television, there is a channel that
has a series about Ghost Stories. Now, I can watch those during the
day, but not in the evening. Why? Because it’ll be the last thing
on my mind when I go to bed! Needless to say, I wouldn’t get much
sleep.
But why am I so afraid of scary books
and movies? It goes back to my childhood. I blame it all on my
father. It’s true! It’s funny really, but it seeded something in
my mind and I can’t break it. When I was a young girl the horror
movies like, Halloween (Michael Myers), Friday the 13th
(Jason) and Nightmare on Elm St. (Freddy Krueger) were big hits. My
brother and I had an early bedtime, like most kids do, but the
problem was, my bedroom wall shared with the living room wall. In
fact, my headboard was on that same wall. My father would watch the
scary movies at night, thinking it was fine because the kids were in
bed. I heard all the scary music, which usually lead up to the
horrible screams. I started sleeping with a nightlight!
During the late 1980s to the middle 1990s, the horror genre was very popular in the middle grade and young adult market, many thanks to Point Horror, but there where other publishers that released horror books as well. Archway Paperbacks tried to release a new series titled "Tombstones", but only two books were brought out in 1995.
Jared Irving is determined to find out if the Full Moon Enterprises is dumping toxins into the local streams in Tombstones: The Last Drop. The Full Moon Enterprises is breaking federal laws by using deadly chemicals, but the town people seem to ignore it, or they just don't want to believe it as the company has brought in many new jobs for the area.
While getting samples at a nearby stream, Jared meets a creature of the night and it will be the last thing that he will ever see.
Killer's Law
By L. Ron Hubbard
Directed by Jim Meskimen and Tait Ruppert
Voice Cast: Jennifer Darling, Brooke Bloom, Corey Burton, Bob Caso, R.F. Daley, John Mariano, Jim Meskimen, Enn Reitel, Richard Rocco and Tait Ruppert
Studio: Galaxy Press
ISBN-13: 978-1592122769
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Running Time: Approx. 2 hours
Review:
The 1930s and 1940s were known as the golden age, a time when many unknown writers published their work in Pulp Fiction magazines as they were paid around a penny a word. Unlike the higher-class magazines that were printed on glossy paper with higher production values, pulp magazines were published on cheap brown pulp paper and featured adventures, science fiction tales, mysteries, and many other stories.
Galaxy Press has been releasing the short stories written by author L. Ron Hubbard that were published during the golden age under the Stories of a Golden Age line of paperbacks and audiobooks. They nicely sent me a free audiobook of the "Killer's Law" for this review.
"Killer's Law" was originally published in the September 1947 issue of New Detective Magazine, where Sheriff Kyle travels from Deadeye, Nevada to Washington D.C. to personally deliver evidence against a rich copper king to Senator Meringue. Suddenly, Kyle is knocked unconscious. When he awakes he is surrounded by policemen asking questions and reporters snapping pictures. It seems that the Senator was murdered and Kyle is holding the murder weapon.
