Guest Blog Up at Something Wicked!

New York Times Bestseller, Angie Fox, is a pretty cool chick.  She writes about a demon slayer, griffins, biker granny witches, and an adorable Jack Russell Terrier with his own pet dragon.  I stumbled across Angie's books when the first in her demon slayer series was a free Kindle download last year.  I had been reading some pretty heavy books up to this point and wanted to read something lighter.  

I ended up laughing out loud more than once when reading the first book and promptly bought all the rest  of the books in the series that were available.  I loved the sense of humor and the fun that was in the magic system Angie created.  I was also impressed when the story darkened and became quite frightening a few times.   The demon slayer series was a fun read that I thoroughly enjoyed.  It reminded me of two of my favorite shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed.

On a whim, I friended Angie Fox on facebook and she responded to a post I made about the last novel in her demon slayer series.  Due to complications with her publisher, she regained the rights to her best selling series and self-published them.  We ended up chatting back and forth and she was kind enough to send me a t-shirt supporting her series with the awesome tagline "Kiss My Asphalt!"

She was also kind enough to ask me to write a guest post for the release day for THE FIRST DAYS for a blog she shares with several other authors called Something Wicked.  After a girly squeal of delight, I said yes!


The guest blog post is now up at Something Wicked.  Please check it out.

And if you're a fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed, check out Angie Fox's demon slayer series.  It really is a lot of fun.

Blogs, Blogs, and more Blogs--Words of Wisdom from Around the Blogsphere

Ever since I started on this crazy journey, I have cruised the countless blogs associated with writing gleaning information in order to have a clearer vision of exactly what goes on in the publishing world.

I've decided to share some of my favorite links at least once a week.

Here are a few blogs I found intriguing this last week:

Starting with Lynn Viehl at Paperback Writer, here is a very interesting article on what not to do when you query an agent, editor or publisher.

The Creative Penn has a great blog about Simon & Schuster's push to have their authors blog and build social networks.

Alvina Ling, an editor with Little Brown Books for Young Readers, was a guest blogger at author Justine Larbalestier's blog, and wrote about her daily life as an editor. The post makes for fascinating reading.

Timothy Long has an interesting new article on how he was inspired to write The Zombie-Wilson Diaries at his blog.

Derek Goodman has started posting chapters to the sequel to his novel The Apocalypse Shift on his blog. You can also find short stories placed in the same world. I absolutely love the first chapter he posted this week.

At Genreality, Carrie Vaughn discusses the one ingredient in the publishing equation people do not like to discuss: luck.

Enjoy!