Happy Thursday All, We're almost near the end of the books I got for Christmas...however I still have today's and then one more (although the last one will probably be in one of next week's posts). I haven't seen a lot in YA, or Romance (I could be wrong, but it's not been my experience). But what I have read of dragons in YA and Romance, I've really liked. After reading Sophie Jordan's Firelight and finding out there was a sequel, I knew I'd want to read it. I put  Vanish on my wish list for Christmas and figured if I didn't get it I'd pick a copy up, myself. I was delighted to receive it from my sister (the one who gave me the really awesome lion ornament, which holds a particular significance for me, and I still need to take a picture of it!) Believe me, Vanish did not disappoint! If you haven't read Firelight , I strongly recommend you do that before reading Vanish . Jacinda finds herself back among her own kind (the draki...

Happy Thursday Everyone, Wednesday evening I finished reading Firelight by Sophie Jordan , which center around a type of dragon. Speaking of dragons, I've found out Ciara Gold just put out a new novel.  Dragon King is now available on Kindle . (It's got a gorgeous cover, by the way). Firelight was an interesting YA novel. It was based on the idea of Draki--a type of dragon shifter. They can shift into human shape (which they generally keep unless threatened or under the cover of night). Their main enemy are the hunters, who hunt them for their blood (which has incredible healing powers for humans), their ability to find jewels, and their skins. Jacinda comes face to face with a young hunter near her age one day when she's disobeying her pride when she "manifests" (as their shape shifting is called) into their dragon form and the hunters ambush them. The young hunter (whom she finds out is named Will) lets Jacinda go, but she never forgets him....

Happy Friday All, I'm sorry I haven't been around much. I've been editing and writing and reading and family life...so it's been busy on my end. However, I am happy to introduce to you a friend of mine, and commenter on this blog, Ciara Gold . Ciara writes everything from Sci-Fi Fantasy Romance to Fantasy to Historical. She's got quite the imagination (loved the idea of dragons--don't know it is, but sometimes dragons fascinate me). I've read one of her Sci-Fi Fantasy Romances called Celestial Dragon (which has dragons in it for all you dragon lovers). Anyway, without further ado I give you...Ciara Gold! Me: In Celestial Dragon you mixed Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Romance together, what made you decide to do that? Ciara: Good question. Is "dunno" a valid answer? Seriously, I was pressed for time and after cutting my writing teeth on a historical western, I wanted to write something where I wasn't constrained by facts. While I did do so...

Morning Folks, Wow. I didn't realize how popular dragons actually were until I reported on the Jennifer Scales series by MaryJanice Davidson and Anthony Alongi . ( Click here to go to the official website of the series ) yesterday. So I thought we'd go ahead and talk more about dragons today. I am actually writing a story involving dragons. I found out some interesting things about dragons clicking on Wikipedia (I looked up Japanese Dragons ). I found out some other interesting things, as well... In Asian cultures (at least in Chinese and Japanese legends) the dragon was revered as a deity. Generally something of good fortune. (Maybe I had a clue about that, but I don't know for sure). Another interesting thing you can find on this Wikipedia article is that dragons with 5 claws were imperial dragons (if you didn't know that, now you do :-) ) I saw a glimpse of this whole imperial 5-clawed dragon beliefs in Cameron Dokey's Wild Orchid: A Retelling Of The Balla...