Bella Street Romance Goes Retro

A just got my cover for my new book, arriving next month, called The Z Word . It's book one of a series called Apocalypse Babes . Woot! The Z Word follows Seffy Carter and her longtime friends Gareth, Addison and Lani. The four besties share a past dysfunctional and dark enough to keep them bound together under do-over identities. But rends develop in their relationships from the flesh-eating pressures of ending up in 1980, in a Montana desert, surrounded by zombies wearing dated disco duds. The Z Word is a mix of light and dark, truth and lies, and life and death. Check the Apocalypse Babes site on 7/6/2001 for a fun contest celebrating the book's release. Think Juicy Couture, Victoria's Secret and Amazon, and the best word of all, 'free'!

"... it's the lies that we tell ourselves, they introduce us to him ." You can't mention M. Night Shyamalan's name without getting a strong reaction. I'll be honest--I'm a fan. Few directors push the boundaries into spiritual matters like he does. No matter what anyone thinks of his films, there's always a lot of thought, layers, symbolism, and special touches added to his work that always resonates with me. Devil is no exception. From the first frames we know things will not be what we expect. As we're introduced to the principal players, we know all is not as it seems and masks quickly begin to fall when the lights go out. But what really spoke to me was the spiritual questions. What is forgiveness? Is there a spiritual realm? Is there a devil, real or imagined? Even more, is there something even worse than the devil to fear? Devil is a dark, suspenseful look into the heart of man. What you find there might surprise you.

Dealing With The Guy Who's Clearly Hiding a Zombie Bite  Zombies are breaking out all over the net and I wanna celebrate with them. Smart Girls Love Sci-Fi blog for Zombie Week . There are prizes! Check out Tor's Learning to Love Zombies: 5 Places to Start . Zombie love at Pink Ray Gun. Zombie Ants! A zombie proof house! For realz! (I wonder if the zombie ants could get into the zombie house...) Enjoy all the brain-crunching goodness!

I can't enough of Twilight spoofs. I have so many favorites , but this one is awfully cute. It's about a year old, so I'm a bit behind on the times. Either way, I've enjoyed the Twilight phenom from a cultural point of view. As a Buffy fan, the books weren't really my taste, but I enjoyed the first movie the way any lady of uncertain years remembering her youth does, and it's been even more fun to see the response--from the financial empire of the books, to celebrities created overnight, to tongue-in-cheek spoofs. Happy Friday.

Of course most all the adaptations of Jane Eyre have been pretty good, but often one thing is sacrificed for another. Purists want as much as the prose as possible so the result translates a bit clunkily to film. Then some films rewrite the dialogue to some degree and focus on the acting (especially over-acting) , or try to modernize it into something it was never meant to be. Somehow director Cary Fukunaga managed to compress the story without losing anything, and by allowing particular bits of prose, the sublime acting, the lighting and directing, even the silence and wind, to help tell the story, it allows the soul of Jane Eyre to come through in a way that is breathtaking and riveting to behold. This was, to me, by far the most brilliant treatment of the novel I have ever seen. Mia Wasikowska is Jane. Michael Fessbender is Rochester (and also this guy ). Dame Judi Dench was just the cherry on top. The story was set up in a different way that gave it a fresh feel witho...

Isn't that such an enticing question? How many Irishmen have gotten away with it? I'll bet LOTS. And Liam Jackson has the same effect on women, even one from another time. Emily Musgrave has been banished to a convent in Cornwall for what her great aunt calls wayward behavior. The year is 1813. She manages to escape her certain fate during a storm, but falls into a circle of stones and sees a piskie. And every Cornish girl knows what that means--big trouble. When she wakes up, she meets a strange blonde girl who has a way with a fiddle and her brother, a moody Dobro player on the run from unhappy fans. From escaping the convent to joining the musical duo to escape with their lives in the modern day, Emily embarks on a new world where hems are high and morals are low. But all she can think of is kissing the delicious Dobro player, Liam Jackson--even if it means it might send her back to the past. An Amazon reader had this to say: " I loved this story! Bella Stre...

Last night's ep Know Thy Enemy was pure awesomeness covered in crazy sauce, and a great episode to plunge back into the guilty pleasure that is Vampire Diaries . We had Mandy , Mr. Sark , Boone , Steve McQueen's grandson , and almost Mr-Elle who might now be evil, oh my! Check out the web's best recap for even more fun.