Books – Page 9

I won an Eppie Award!!! EPIC, the Electronically Published Internet Connection, is a professional organization that holds annual awards to recognize “outstanding achievement in electronic publishing.” There are a lot of categories. This year I entered my book, A Wolf at Her Door, in the Paranormal Erotic Romance category. There were eighty other books entered in that category. Out of that eighty, eight finalled. Out of that eight, mine WON!!!

I really didn’t expect to win because paranormal fans usually like their paranormal dark and disturbing. Werewolf heroes are typically brooding, tortured. My Adam was not either of these things. He was just a nice, albeit very sexy guy, who happened to be a wolf shifter. No one was trying to get him with silver bullets or wipe out his clan, of which he would, of course, be the alpha. Nor was he trying to protect the heroine from dark forces.

So, after getting the news this morning, I felt like I was walking taller all day, but I realized that was an illusion when, at the market, I still could not reach the soup I wanted on the top shelf. LOL

After you go buy the Eppie Award Winning book, A Wolf at Her Door, (LOL) do check out this week’s Woman’s World story analysis/review on my other blog.

Someday I plan to write for kids. That’s how I started writing seriously. I wrote a story intended to be a picture book. I was so green, I think I submitted it to a publisher without a cover letter. But it occurs to me that to make my mark in history, I should write something for kids. If a children’s book becomes really popular, it never goes out of print. When kids grow up, they end up buying it for their kids.

Anyway, I went off on a tangent. I mean to give a list of three series that I have enjoyed.

1. The Vampire Plagues by Sebastian Rook. These were fantastic, historical fiction that was somewhat gruesome. But that’s to be expected when you’re dealing with vampires. My boys loved these books.

2. Molly Moon’s Incredible Book of Hypnotism, by Georgia Byng. How can you not buy this book when there’s this wacky pug dog on the cover? While the book starts out with a cliche–an orphan in an orphange where she is unhappy–it veers away from that soon enough in unexpected twists and turns.

3. Lastly, there are the Artemis Fowl Books by Eoin Colfer. If you have boys, they must read these books. They’ve got Bond-like gadgets, magic, fart jokes, and a young anti-hero who is very flawed, but for who you can’t help but root for.

Do you ever read children’s fiction on your own? Got any recommendations for me?

Out of the Blue!

Thursday 3: Juvenile Fiction