Sorry for the month without updates. This has been a particularly hectic month for Charlotte and I – she’s busy with schoolwork and establishing a translation business (for which I’m designing and building the website), not to mention learning to drive and occasionally substitute teaching at the International School. I’ve been busy with work, and [...]
I’m guest-blogging for the first time in my life today, over at Reading with a Bite, an independent book news and review blog dedicated to vampire fiction and more. Here are the first few paragraphs:
Much ado has been made over the current “vampire trend” and its potential longevity. People are curious: why and how have [...]
It was a lot of work, but I’ve finally launched TheBloodThatBonds.com. The site is dedicated to promoting my novel, which I’ve released as a free eBook in a variety of formats (with more coming). Please check it out and forward it to anyone you think might be interested!
As some of you may know, but most of you don’t, The Blood That Bonds just spent a year in submission over at St. Martins Press. The editor to whom I had sent it recently got back to me, and they unfortunately won’t be buying the book – the basic gist was “you can certainly [...]
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
My review
rating: 2 of 5 stars
I’m going to go ahead and guess that my review of Twilight is going to sway neither the book’s legion of fans, nor its serious detractors. In all honesty, I’m kind of torn about reviewing the book at all. Its first-person protagonist is a seventeen year-old [...]
Let the Right One In: A Novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist
My review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
Like many Americans, I saw the movie version of Let the Right One In before reading the book, and enjoyed it quite a bit. This led me to pursue the book and, as is almost always the case for [...]
Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.
My review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
Hubert Selbey Jr.’s Requiem for a Dream is a hard book to read … not due so much to its sensitive subject matter, which is frankly riveting, as to Selby’s unconventional, stream-of-consciousness prose. The guy barely believes in basic punctuation marks, let [...]
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
My review
rating: 3 of 5 stars
One has to remind one’s self, while reading the Harry Potter series, that they’re meant for children in the 10 – 14 range, give or take, and not for a married guy in his early thirties who’s simultaneously reading Hubert [...]
His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik
My review
rating: 3 of 5 stars
His Majesty’s Dragon is a tender story about the beautiful, homosexual, inter-species love between the protagonist and his gigantic black dragon.
Ok, so that’s not really what it’s about, but seriously … the homoerotic undertones in what is otherwise a fun, if not particularly challenging, [...]
Did you think I was lying? I wasn’t! It’s Voices Week here at cDebris and we’re rocking in the New Year like Dick Clark, only with words instead of music. Also fewer celebrity guests. Ok, so it’s really not much like Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Year … but you get the idea.
I’ve managed to put [...]
