Happy Monday All, I hope everyone had a wonderful and very Merry Christmas! We sure did. Christmas Eve we attended church and then came back and relaxed a while before friends of ours came over for a brief visit.  On Christmas Day, we slept in, (yes, Offspring does sleep in from time to time--which is lovely, especially when didn't have to get up early!) We got up, Offspring and I ate breakfast, then we opened gifts (Husband opted to wait until after gifts to eat breakfast because he was going to have oatmeal and he said that took him a while to eat, and Offspring was going crazy wanting to open gifts LOL). We spent the rest of the day just relaxing. Offspring and husband played in the backyard--I went out there for a while. I spent most of the day reading one of my new books, Katie McGarry's Crash Into You (She writes contemporary/romantic YA novels. I've enjoyed everything she's published so far). Husband had to work the next day. I was supposed to be...

Happy Thursday All, Is it really Thursday already? Gosh, time flies when you're sick. Or slows down, depending on who you are. That's right. I've been sick. Allergies laid me up in bed with my computer and Christmas gifts in the form of DVDs of Seasons 5, 6, and 7 (final) of Sabrina The Teenage Witch. Good news--I got through all the episodes (I just have to watch the TV movie special feature on the last disc of the final season). The bad news? Didn't get a lot done in the way of writing, reading, or pretty much anything else. For the most part I've finally quit imitating Sneezy the Dwarf (from Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs ) and I found that turning off the heat during the day has kept some of the problems from flaring. Namely, my eye finally stopped tearing and my nose quit running and I started feeling a little better. I've got some medicine and a nasal spray and I'm doing better than I was, but I'll tell you what...I hate allergies. Fortunately...

Happy Thursday Folks, Two announcements: 1.  Tomorrow, Nov. 11, I will be posting the author interview. Yep, you read that right...it's FINALLY going to be posted :-) 2.  Also, tomorrow, author Josephine Angelini , the author of the amazing and awesome YA Paranormal novel, Starcrossed is having an ARC give away of her sequel, Dreamless . Dreamless isn't supposed to come out until 2012, in MAY if I'm not mistaken. This is quite an opportunity (yours truly is totally ecstatic about this...desperately wants ARC of Dreamless so she can read it and review it on her blog, but that shouldn't stop you from throwing your hat in the ring).  (If I was feeling totally better I'd be jumping up and down...as it is, I'm doing that mentally). By the way...how did I find out about Josephine's give away? I was on Twitter. You can either follow me on Twitter @WriteByBethany (Bethany Averie) or you can check out my Twitter Feed in the margin of this blog. Oth...

Happy Monday All, Last week Robin Badillo put out the 3rd novel in her Blood Hunter (adult*) Paranormal Romance series, The Return available from Extasy Books . * I put this there as a reference to a post I posted last Friday about genre age groups. This Thursday I'm having an (adult Romance) author interview and a giveaway, so be sure to come back on Thursday, July 21, 2011. I'm on an Oreo kick again...the Reduced Fat ones actually taste like the regular (even though the fat is a little lower). Currently I'm reading Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini (a YA fantasy/paranormal novel--that has Greek Mythology mixed in it). Just released this year from HarperTeen. Pretty good so far. What are you reading? Have A Mythical Magical Monday! So what are you reading now? 

Happy Tuesday All, Raise your hands if you like Greek and/or Roman Mythology! *raises hand and waves it* I first was exposed to Greek and Roman Mythology when I was in Middle School. I was homeschooled at the time by my parents (5th through 8th grades). We listened to a dramatization on tape (yeah, this was back before CD players were the norm) of the Odyessy , Agamemnon and of Socrates death. I read about the Greek and Roman gods and goddesses (essentially the Greeks and Romans had the same sorts, just different names and the Roman ones tend to be fiercer, which is actually saying something considering how tempramental the Greek ones could be).  My favorite myth is Cupid & Psyche (yes, I have a romantic heart). I've read a couple of re-tellings of this story:  Cupid by Julius Lester (pretty close to the original myth, mostly from Cupid's point of view) Mad Love by Suzanne Selfors (offers a different pespective and told from a third party's point of v...

Happy Monday All, Sunday evening I finished reading Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson And The Olympians: The Lightning Thief .  After having seen the movie , my husband and I were curious about the series. They're marketed as mid-grade, but I'll tell you what, I think YA and adults will like it, too. The details are just enough that you get a sense of where you are and what's going on, without slowing down the pace. (And also what people look like). Greek Mythology is sprinkled (liberally) throughout the book, and it all comes alive through the action and dialogue. Growing up I was very fascinated by Greek Mythology (I still am). Being a romantic, I really liked Cupid And Psyche ; but I also read several of the others. I also listened to a dramatizations of The Odyssey and  King Agamemnon . Lately, I've read some retellings of Greek Myths. I've read Cupid by Julius Lester ; I read one that had several retellings, but I can't reember the title of the boo...