Vampire Blogs
The more you search, the more blogs you find on vampire books. I just discovered
Patricia's Vampire Notes, which has reviews, links to other sites, and links to articles about vamp and paranormal fiction. Patricia also has a website called
Vampire Readings, which lists vamp books and descriptions.
Another cool discovery is
Kayleighbug Books, a science fiction and fantasy bookstore owned by Nathan Barker. Nathan also owns Scrybe Press. I exchanged a few emails with Nathan and learned that more horror is being published under romance imprints than in speculative fiction imprints. The reason? Romance outsells all other categories five to one. Which means, dudes, that you're going to have to venture to romance publishers if you want a scary
werewolf story.
One thing I really like about Kayleighbug's listings is that they often include the cover artists' names. A little research and you can find out why
one book's cover is almost identical to
another book's cover.
Writer stuff: I had the pleasure of meeting author
Kyra Davis at our Kepler's event this week. Kyra was funny, smart, and I wish I had her wonderful skills at reading aloud. Her two novels have great titles,
Sex, Murder and a Double Latte and
Passion, Betrayal and Killer Highlights.