Bella Street Romance Goes Retro

So what does Transylvania and an Irish romance have in common? The Urban Dictionary says that an Irish Dracula is a paragon of slow execution, physically or mentally. This must be an inside joke unknowable to a Hungarian like myself, so we'll move on to the idea that Dracula was an Irishman. W as Dracula really based on an Irish legend? Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, himself was an Irishman who grew up playing in graveyards , and there's a fascinating legend that the Irish version of a vampire was more Stoker's inspiration than Vlad the Impaler: Abhartach was either a dwarf or a small, deformed man who was a tyrannical Celtic chief over his people and thought to have magical powers. The legend goes that the local people were so afraid of him that they hired a warrior to kill him. The warrior succeeded, but Abhartach rose from the grave, demanding a blood sacrifice to drink from his subjects. The warrior killed him two more times, and two more times the Celti...

Sarah is one of my Almost Famous crit partners and I'm so pleased to host her here and let her share about her newest title, Techo Crazed ... Thank you for having me here today, Bella! Techno Crazed is by no means the first thing I’ve ever written. That novella, Jungle Heat , is coming out at the end of next month. *grins* But anyways, I wrote Techno Crazed in January, so it’s one of my most recent projects. But back to the point... First of all, it’s important to keep writing and moving on to the next manuscript once you’ve finished something. It can be hard to let go of a story you’ve written and edited over and over, and you should definitely send it out on submission, but I can say the two most helpful things I’ve done in getting published is writing a lot and finding a fantastic critique partner, Kinley Baker . She helped bring my skills to a whole new level. Something to consider when you look for a critique partner(s) is to find someone on, or close, the same ...