Aidee Ladnier spins the wheel today! One of your characters has a guilty favorite TV show. Tell us about it. One of the villains in a story I collaborated on, LAWRENCE FRIGHTENGALE CHECKS IN, used to watch an old 1960’s sitcom called The Family Carr. In it a Hollywood couple made their home in …
It’s T.J. Nichols’s turn at the wheel! Write a story—no more than 100 words–based on this prompt: When the levee failed…. When the levee failed there was nothing to stop the red diablo from invading. As the sea rushed through the gap it brought them in on a tide of angers. The diablo had …
It’s Rebecca Buchanan’s turn today! If you could be any other living person for a single day, who would you be? Ooohhhh. That’s a toss up between Cleopatra VII and Hypatia of Alexandria. If I could be Cleopatra, I would make sure that Egypt did not fall to Rome. If I could be Hypatia, I …
Today Morgan Elektra takes a spin! If you could choose anyone on the planet to narrate an audio version of your latest book, who would it be? ME: James Marsters. Aside from the fact that I loved him as Spike in Buffy, but his reading of the Harry Dresden books is amazing. Plus, …
It’s Ava Haydn’s turn today! One of your characters has an allergy that’s proved problematic. Tell us about it. In “The Timpanist and the Stagehand,” Christoph, an American now playing in the Oilton Philharmonic Orchestra up north in Alberta, Canada, has had a lifelong allergy to Girl Scout Thin Mint Cookies. (No, not explicitly …
It’s Meghan Maslow’s turn at the wheel! What are you wearing right now? At the moment, I’m freezing my butt off! So, I’m in a pair of jeans, a sweater, a jacket, and a big fuzzy pair of slippers. All I need is a scarf and mittens and I’m ready for winter. I really wanted …
It’s Dale Cameron Lowry’s turn at the wheel today. What is your superpower? Your Kryptonite? My superpower is being able to take any song and make it bawdy. My kryptonite is an interruption in my sleep schedule—that and colds. Both trigger migraines, so they’re almost literally kryptonite. 2. A tourist lands in your town. …
Gus Li joins us today! What were your favorite childhood books? The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame Watership Down, Richard Adams Tolkien (I was a nerd early) I also read everything our public library had about history and mythology. I’ve always loved reading about battles, strategy, and the evolution of weapons. Which …
New release! Blog tour! General excitement! Exclamation points! My newest novel (my 18th!) releases from Dreamspinner Press in two days. Ante Up is part of the Dreamspun Beyond line and offers vampires and a variety of other paranormal creatures. There’s danger, there’s humor, and of course there’s romance as well. It was hugely fun to …
Nicki J. Markus joins us today! If you had to spend a week snowed in at a mountain cabin with one of your characters, who would you choose and why? Loki from The Ragnarök Chronicles of course. I would happily be snowed in anywhere with him. We’d find plenty of ways to keep …