The A to Z Challenge's Here. A...

I can't believe how fast the years is going, already April!! And what a month it will be. My first A to Z Challenge ever. So, my plan is simple, I write mostly horror and I love the genre so I'll share with you a movie and a book based on the letter of the day. Now, I'll try to stay away from the classic movies and books that show up on every list. The idea is to help those of you interested in the genre to find a few new pieces you might haven't come across before. Please, do share your own favorites as I'm always looking for things to read and watch.


Here. We. Go. (drum roll, please)...

LETTER A

Movie.


The Abandoned (2006)
Director: Nacho Cerda
Country: Spain/UK/Bulgaria



Blurb: An American woman searching for her birth parents learns she has inherited a house in the middle of a forest in a remote area of Russia. It is the house where she was born. Abandoned and uninhabited for 40 years, it stands in total disrepair and neglect. What she finds is more than an old house. She meets a mysterious man who claims to be her brother, a twin she never knew. Together they find the house holds secrets to a past they don't remember. Soon they are haunted by ghastly apparitions as they're forced to confront a tragic family secret and a destiny they cannot escape.


Review: This movie is beautifully filmed, the photograph is amazing and eerie in such a way that I couldn't turn my head away from the TV even though I was thoroughly confused through most of the movie. The story is not linear, hence very confusing when watching it for the first time, however, mystery surrounds everything, the ghosts are so disturbing and incredibly scary, and then there's the pay off of a very intelligent ending. I promise you will be flabbergasted with the final twist. On second view, the story is clearly a lot more logic, though there are a few gaps that I couldn't really explain. But who cares, right? This is a movie completely off the traditional path, haunting, super creepy, intelligent, and well done. Definitively a must see for all horror lovers.


Book.


American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.
Published: 1991 by Vintage Books.

Blurb: Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.


Review: Though I haven't read this book, it has been highly recommended to me by several well trusted friends and connoisseurs of the genre. This book is, by all means, a modern classic that scares us because we have actually seen this kind of violence-for-no-reason type of people really exist. They are well adapted and can very well live in that pretty blue house next to yours. You'd never know it until he's killed you or the police knocks on your door to ask for what you might have seen over the past decade. What can be scarier than that?


Well, there you go. I hope you liked this recommendations, can't wait to read your thoughts. And remember to keep hopping!

About My Good Luck

Today I won't write about me or my latest projects or ideas. Today I want to tell you all about the great place that gave me my first chance. Post Mortem Press.

PMP is a small press under the great direction of Eric Beebe who took a leap of faith in himself, left behind corporate America, and invested in his own dream. Barely in its infancy with only two years under its belt, it has achieved huge success in its short life. First, there were the anthologies, SHADOWPLAY, UNCANNY ALLEGORIES, ISOLATION (with my first short story ever, FRANCIS). The beginning was promising and the next step was obvious, novels. I'm somewhat proud to say that the first novel on PMP's catalogue was my own PERPETUAL NIGHT (also my first novel. How karmic!), soon followed by incredibly talented authors like Jessica McHugh, Kenneth Cain, Brad Carter, Chris Curry... the list has now grown so much, it is impossible for me to name all of them, but rest assured, their time to shine will come when I tell you about PMP's Featured Author.

Like every independent small press a heck of a lot of effort has gone into putting PMP in the winning path it is on. A lot of touring and visiting conventions, mingling with the best, and having more than a little faith. I'm also sure Eric has signed some kind of a pact with a horned creature... if only for PR at a convention. You can follow the detail soap opera of learning the ropes of editor and head of a small press in Eric's blog, here. But lets just say it wasn't easy.

Now, we've came to present day where this amazing company is now fully in black numbers and growing. A new tour around the best conventions and even more exciting news with a few of the most prominent names in the industry like Jack Ketchum (Dark Doorways), Jonathan Maberry (Dead Souls), and Clive Barker (Torn Realities) now being part of the family. There's another big name that has me particularly excited, but I can't still give you the details...

As you can see, I've been very fortunate to have landed in the mist of such talent. I'm also very fortunate because Post Mortem Press is genuinely interested in helping us, the less than famous names, grow. One of the ways to do so is this new 'Featured Author' thing. Let me explain. Through the course of two or three weeks PMP's web page has a whole page dedicated to one of its authors, his/hers works (even if published by someone else) and a few interesting details about him/her. Then , of course, enters Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and every other social media where the rest of the family tries to turn the lime light to shine on the Featured Author in turn.

Now you know. I have this incredible group of friends and colleagues that I very much wish to see being successful and it is because of that that I ask for your help. Take a few minutes to check PMP's page, check the feature author in turn, and if you feel like it, share it with your friends. You'll make someone happy and good karma is a great thing to have with you.

Without further ado, the featured Author:

Jessica McHugh

"Writing doesn't make me who I am.

It just makes me have to drone on and on about myself at parties."

"I am not a voice of my generation.

I am the twisted mental whisper that precedes the 'right' thing to say."

Jessica McHugh is an author of speculative fiction that spans the genre from horror and alternate history to epic fantasy. A prolific writer, she has devoted herself to novels, short stories, novellas, and even playwriting. She has had ten books published in three years, including "Song of Eidolons", "The Sky: The World", "Rabbits in the Garden", and the first three installments in her "Tales of Dominhydor" series. http://www.jessicamchughbooks.com/

 For a short time get this great book for only .99 cents!! Click Here

Ringu, My Review

The story is quite famous. I mean, who can forget the image of the creepy girl crawling out of the TV coming to get you? Back in 1998 The Ring, and the Japanese Ringu, broke every kind of record and won the status as the most horrifying film to date. It spawned two sequels and then died a not so peaceful dead. Everyone knows the movie and most people is fascinated by it. The Japanese version, that is. The American one caught all the buzz in the western world but paled in comparison to the original. Hollywood messed with greatness and got one big hot mess with awesome visual effects, as always.

Now, you might even have watched Ringu 2 and Ringu 0, and though they are good, they're not as great as the first one and didn't answer all the questions the original left. You know why that is? Because the following two movies were not adapted from the original books! After Ringu's huge success, the studio was in a hurry to put something out there with the label so fans would flock to the movie theater. At the time, the book sequels weren't even finished and that's why some airhead studio executive decided to concoct a story that featured the same characters and was freaky enough.

There are four books in the Ringu series, Ringu, Spiral, Loop, and Birthday. The first one pretty much follows the story you all know and love with a few key changes that will blow. your. mind. But I'll get to that in a few.

Spiral, the second in the series, manages to turn the whole story upside down without sounding completely ridiculous and steers the series into the sci-fi ground but still scaring the bejeezus out of you.

Then comes Loop. Here the saga has clearly become a sic-fi fest with a few scares. Imagine The Stand meets Tron. The third book is slow, confusing, and close to the end the premise was too far fetched for me to go with it.

I haven't read Birthday, mainly because of my dislike for Loop, but I'll get my copy soon enough and I'll let you know what I think of it.

For the sake of being thorough I'll review each book separately and you can make your own conclusions. But lets go back to the beginning...

RINGU by Koji Zuzuki

• Blurb: A mysterious videotape warns that the viewer will die in one week unless a certain, unspecified act is performed. Exactly one week after watching the tape, four teenagers die one after another of heart failure. Asakawa, a hardworking journalist, is intrigued by his niece's inexplicable death. His investigation leads him from a metropolitan Tokyo teeming with modern society's fears to a rural Japan--a mountain resort, a volcanic island, and a countryside clinic--haunted by the past. His attempt to solve the tape's mystery before it's too late for everyone assumes an increasingly deadly urgency. Ring is a chillingly told horror story, a masterfully suspenseful mystery, and post-modern trip.

As you can see, there are a few changes right off the bat. First, the reporter is a divorced man, not a woman, thus taking out the 'bad mother' taint the movies had. Zuziki makes clear emphasis on the striking difference between the metropolitan live where every modern idea thrives and superstition seems to have no place, against the countryside Japan, where every possible horror or ghost can lurk behind you. Details as such make the narrative easy to rely on and the suspense much more plausible. Little by little the reader steps into Zuzuki's web and soon you are devoured by the monster in the pages without questioning the chances for it to be real.

Asakawa is a very interesting character and most of the story is told through his eyes. Then he teams up with a Dr. who is supposedly one of the most brilliant minds in Tokyo, but has more than a few flaws. These two characters complement each other and Zuzuki uses the professor masterfully to hide information from the reader or to reveal the exact amount of truth in any given moment, perpetuating the sense of mystery and allowing his main character to be more human, as opposed to omnipotent, since he doesn't have all the answers and most of the time, is the last one to get it.

The central part of the book is, of course, the tape. Here the movie also took a few liberties that directly impacted on the final resolution of the story. Not only it is scarier in your mind's eye, but there's a reason for the tape to exist. And there was a saving-clause but someone erased it!

There will be a heck of a lot of surprises for those who saw the movie, as the second half of the story is completely different (and so much better). Of course, I won't ruin the final twist. I'll just say it is clever and gives resolution to every question the book raised, unlike the movie.

I recommend Ringu completely. It is smart, original, and spooky in a way that would cause Clive Barker to have nightmares. If you enjoyed the movie, you have to read the book. And if you didn't, I guarantee this time you'll get your money's worth.

A Stephen King Complication

Another friday has come our way and I promised I'll go with fun and entertaining stuff on these days. First off, I'm dedicating this post to my idol and inspiration, Stephen King (not that he'll read this or even cares, but nonetheless). I'll share with you a list of my top five most favorite books/stories of his.

5 Best Stephen King Books/Stories Ever

• Pet Cemetery. I mean, really, this book made cry like a baby. So scary and tragic! And I wasn't even a mom back then. I do not dare read it again until my kids have reached a ripe-old age.

• The Shining. This one is a classic and we all know the movie version which is up there with the greatest ever. The book, however, explores many human themes besides the obvious supernatural ones and that gives it a deeper, more frightening sense. I had nightmares for weeks!

• Jerusalem's Lot. A short story from SK's anthology, NIGHT SHIFT. This story is sort of a prequel to Salem's Lot. It takes place decades (possibly even centuries, but the details are foggy since I read it such a long time ago) before the novel, it goes to show the reader how evil the land itself was, way before vampires got there.

• Salem's Lot. This is one of my favorite books because it is the only novel-length story SK has entirely dedicated to the vampire myth. It is so effective and human that, again, it goes beyond the paranormal scares and into our own inner monsters.

• The Boogeyman. Another short story from NIGHT SHIFT. I own my paralyzing fear to open closets at night to this one. Not only that, I cannot let my feet hang out the side of my bed and into the fangs of whatever thing might lurk under it. Seriously.

Of course, it is always hard to choose among so many great stories and books and these ones are the ones that spoke to me, personally. I'd love to hear all about your favorite five!

A Satan Carol, My Review

Just last week I wrote all about my plans for the future and how I was sticking to my guns and blogging two times a week for sure. The first deadline came and went and I didn't even notice until last night when I realized I hadn't written my review as promised. Well, I'll be damned if I don't follow through and post it even if it's a day later. So, to my patient and adoring fans (I have a lot of family, what can I say?) and to you my lovely friends, here it is. My review of A Satan Carol By Alan S. Kessler.


This book was given to me by Robert Leyland, the great mind behind Dark River Press and its awesome magazine where I'm a proud staff reviewer. At first sight and after reading the synopsis, I wasn’t so sure this would be a nice fit for me, nor a proper horror book. Boy, was I wrong. Let’s start by saying that A Satan Carol is a very original story and Alan Kessler may very well be the next big thing. I loved this book with its twisted characters and offbeat pace. It’s been a while since a book has kept me guessing until the very end. But it’s not only the story that’s original, the way in which the author tells it added much to my sense of not really knowing what was happening, that I needed to get my bearings somehow. Delightful indeed.

The book starts in 1848 Ireland and tells the story of a mother desperate to find food to save her very special son from the famine sweeping the whole country, except for the rich landowners and the British aristocracy. The tone is very bleak and though there is no monster hiding in the dark, I felt the impending doom, fear, and desperation. The story then jumps a hundred and forty years into the future to a series of characters with highly varied backgrounds. Kessler keeps jumping from one time to another, from character to character without revealing too much about their connection or where he’s going. He relies on his mesmerizing narrative to keep pulling the reader further into the actions of what seems like a bunch of crazy, dysfunctional people.

The pace is slow but always interesting, very dark and atmospheric; so much so, that after a few pages, a truly disturbing feeling got under my skin and stayed there. As the book advances, the pace picks up and the tone becomes lighter; as if the more the reader understands, the more we can peek under Kessler's dark veil. Then the story turns even stranger and the characters more twisted. More than a few times I found myself flinching away from the pages or closing my eyes and rubbing my forehead in a fruitless attempt to erase from my mind the horrible image Kessler invoked.

A Satan Carol is a piece with so many qualities that it's a must for anyone craving an intelligent story that will make them think, cringe, and sweat. It is very well thought through, extremely original with a great mix of religious ideas and horror traits. And let’s not forget the powerful narrative that never releases you from its grip. Remember The Devil’s Advocate? Well, if you enjoyed that movie –and who didn’t?-- this book is right up your alley.

I have a couple of minor complains, though. First, there were a few problems with punctuation. Usually, of all possible editorial mistakes, punctuation would be the thing that bothered me the least, but because the author chooses to be so cryptic, and his style is very dark and hardly traditional, these small mistakes can make for a very confusing paragraph. My second complaint? The book’s ending. Now, is there ever a truly satisfying ending? I don’t know. We all think we can do better than what was done, so it is all very subjective. In my humble opinion, the book is three chapters too long. Right at the end of chapter eighteen there’s resolution for each of the issues raised throughout the story. The need to go on, I think, is merely that need deep inside every author to be the one who dictates the fate of each of his characters. The thing is, sometimes the openness of an ending suits a story better. 

Now, with that out of the way, I cannot emphasize enough how much I enjoyed this book and how much I recommend you to read it. You’re really missing out if you don't read this book. 


For purchase information, click on this link. Don't forget to leave a comment for me in the blog or at my Author Facebook page, I always love to hear from you. Now, if you're intrigued enough about the book or if you simply want to hang out and share your thoughts with us, I'm planning to run a discussion group on Dark River Press Facebook page next week, so get ready! More details soon to come!

Moving Forward

I'm sure you can remember from all my whining that the last few months my life has been out of whack. Well, now finally I'm building a rhythm and I can't foresee great disturbances that will cause a new pandemonium around here. So what to do now? Develop a plan.

I don't know about you, but I always work best when I feel organized. Feel being the operative word here. What I mean is, I'm not necessarily achieving more or following my scheduled as programed, but the closer I get to it, the greater my sense of completion. So, here it is:

I, hereby pledge to blog two days a week.

• Tuesdays I'll go back to my reviews, haven't done that in a while and I miss them, for one. It can be movies or books, maybe even a theatrical piece if one good enough crosses my path. No genre exclusivity this time around. 
• I'll also be blogging every friday. Fridays are fun for most everyone and we want to start the weekend with a nice, entertaining thought. For this reason I'll do lists on this day. It can be best movies, best books, places to go, vacations to take, and occasionally, I'll just share with you a picture that's made me laugh.

I also will blog a few extra times a month, like the first wednesday of each month for the Insecure Writer's Support Group, or when I have some exciting news to share. And I'll take a break from this schedule during the month of april, when I'll be blogging everyday about horror books and movies going down the alphabet, courtesy of the A to Z challenge.

About my book writing, I currently have two short stories being considered for two different anthologies. They've been rejected before, so I don't want to have high hopes; however, my spirits are kind of high. I also have another short that needs work but could be perfect for the new Dark Moon Anthology only for ladies. And I'm working on my new novel, Deliverance.

The plan there is to work on the ms until about chapter five or six, then let it breath while working on that short for Dark Moon. When that one's ready to go, go back to Deliverance and keep working.

I have plenty of stories that I can edit or expand and I think I'll do one at a time whenever I hit a roadblock with the novel. It has proven to work for me before, taking some weeks off the ms releases my anxiety and allows me to work better and fluently.

By the end of the year I should have a complete first draft of the novel and at least two more short stories... may I say published?? I sure hope so. But it's the level of production that I'm aiming to increase this year, so that's where my mind should concentrate. I have no control over the other stuff and I'll do my best not to fret over it.

So what do you think? It might not be too much for many, but keeping up with my girls and traveling with the family is something I wouldn't want to miss. Not even for the love of writing. In the mean time, have fun. Go read something exciting!

To blog hop or not to blog hop...

The month of march has come and found me, as always, up to my nose in plans. I'm very good at those. It is getting to complete them that gets me.

Between being a mom, having a personal life, trying to organize everything in our new house, writing, cooking, promoting my book, reviewing novels, and keeping my blog... it seems I barely have any energy to see at least one project through the end. Which is all kinds of depressing, but then I remind myself that the most important for me is not missing a thing of my girls childhood. Then, of course, I tell myself those are all pretexts. I sermon myself and I promise to be better organized... then I run to do a hundred more things and end up going to bed without having accomplished A THING.

Ahg. But that wasn't really what I wanted to share with you. (It is a blessing to have a trapped audience to free your soul). Assuming you're still reading this (please, don't go. I promise I'll get to the point now), I'll talk about blog hopping as a mean to promote your blog and, thus, yourself. Is it really worth it?

This humble place I call my blog has existed for a little over a year. Now, there is a difference between existing and being active. No, I'm not trying to go all Nietzsche-esque on you. What I mean is, it requires a certain amount of work to be noticed in the sea of blogs out there and it took me a long time to realize that.

From the rant up there you can see I have a lot on my plate and I'm not very organized. I've always been like that and that was the way I started this blog. I wasn't sure I had any 'talent' to write a real novel and I didn't want to invest the time to write one only to discover I sucked. Cue my wonderful husband. He convinced me to take up a blog as a mean to explore the possibilities. I did and my life changed forever.

Everything happened very fast for me and soon I saw my first novella published. With that came the realization that my blog had but a single follower, a good friend of mine. That was it. But my blog was important now; I needed it to get to know more people and to get others to know me. I started writing more frequently and the first blog hop opportunity came to me. I jumped in without having any idea of what it was or how it worked. Oh, the surprise I got. It is hard work! I failed miserably, only getting like five extra followers.

Since then, I've participated in at least five more hops with varying degrees of success. For me, the hops have become a way to challenge myself to write more, to find interesting subjects and to run original contests. In that sense, I've learned quite a lot and I can say that most of the short stories I'm currently working on, started as flash fiction I posted on my blog.

At the moment, I stand at a hundred and some followers, as you can see =D; I'm happy of where I stand and what I have accomplished but I'm still looking for a way to increase the traffic without becoming a slave.

About a month ago, I got wind of the very famous A to Z blog hop in april. The challenge is to blog about something related to the letter of the day (I know. This is NOT Sesame Street, though) every day of the month. Feeling like a slave already? Fine, sundays are free. What. A. Relief.

I hesitated a lot about getting in but I finally decided to do it. There are more than a thousand participating blogs and previous participants promise you'll see the traffic go through the roof. I had to try it! I'm going with a simple idea: feature a horror book and movie that begins with the corresponding letter. Nothing complicated or I won't make it but it has to be enticing enough that people will come back for more after the hop ends.

I'm already selecting the movies, that's easy, but the books are proving to be hard and I want to run a simple contest but I still don't know what to do. It is a lot of preparation, but I'm really excited to see how this goes. If nothing better, comes may I'll know I can get to my goal no matter how hard it seems to be. And that is a pick-me-up I really need.

I'll let you know how the experiment went. If you're interested, here's a link to the A to Z Challenge; it'd be neat to find some of you there. I also ask for your help. Any ideas of book titles or contests to run will be greatly appreciated.

Well, guys. I'll see you next month for our fond Insecure Writer's Support Group meeting. In the mean time, don't forget to visit all the other awesome blogs to get more tips, stories, or simply make friends.

Just a small note. I love to visit the blogs of those who comment on my blog; not that I don't visit other blogs of the hop as well, but these are my first clicks, so please leave a link to your place. See ya there!

This is a Blog Hop!

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1. Ninja Captain Alex J. Cavanaugh	2. Isis Rushdan, Apprentice
3. Jessica Bell: The Alliterative Allomorph	4. Christines Journey
5. The Blutonian Death Egg	6. Heather M. Gardner
7. Tonjas Musings	8. Tell Great Stories - Sommer Leigh
9. Christine Murray	10. Summer Ross
11. Following the Whispers. . . author Karen Walker	12. L. G. Smith at Bards and Prophets
13. Stephen Tremp	14. Liza at Middle Passages
15. tara tyler talks	16. Tyreans Writing Spot
17. Untroubled Kingdom	18. My_Publishing_Diary
19. M. J. Fifield	20. Writings, Musings and Other Such Nonsense
21. Confessions of a Watery Tart	22. Socially Awkward
23. Michelle Gregory at beautiful chaos	24. Mary Pax
25. Sarah McCabe- The Aspiring Sub-creator	26. Spunky L. Diane Wolfe
27. Clarissa Draper	28. Lynda R Young
29. Jamie Burch	30. Susan Says
31. Damyanti@ Daily (w)rite	32. Gypsy in my Soul
33. Empty White Pages	34. Michael @ In TIme . . .
35. Coming Down the Mountain: A Writers Blog	36. My Not So Secret Writing Life - Suzie F.
37. Ciara Knight	38. Play off the Page
39. Dan @ Sanguine Musings	40. Youngblood Blog: writing weblog
41. EllasEdge	42. Analog Breakfast
43. The Ramblings of Amy	44. Writing, Reading, and Life
45. ali cross	46. albertas sefuty chronicles
47. Jan Morrison	48. Chandara Writes
49. Melissas Imaginarium	50. LAussie
51. Been there, done that	52. Life by Chocolate
53. PK HREZO	54. Kari Marie at Writing By Heart
55. Jamie (Mithril Wisdom)	56. Nicki Elson
57. Empty Nest Insider	58. Pocketful of Playdough
59. Michael Offutt - SLC Kismet	60. daily drama of an aspiring writer
61. Nancy S. Thompson	62. Just Following a Dream
63. Cruising Altitude 2. 0	64. Patricia Lynnes Journey Through the Pages
65. Cally Jackson Writes	66. Cheap Therapy
67. J. B. Chicoine--Novelist & Practicing Writer	68. welcome to my world of poetry
69. Marshas Musings	70. Will Burke
71. The Eagles Aerial Perspective	72. Donna Hole
73. Wake up, eat, write, sleep	74. My Demon Spirits
75. Magpie Writes	76. Wendy Tyler Ryan
77. LosingSanity	78. W is for Writing
79. Real World on Writing	80. Daily Dodo
81. Habitual Hobbit	82. Chris @ The Kelworth Files
83. Angela Orlowski-Peart	84. Super Happy Jens Super Happy Blog
85. Excuse Me While I Note That Down	86. Jabberwockery
87. A Coffee Driven & Adventure Bound Life	88. ROFL Initiative
89. Mel Corbett	90. WRITING IN THE CROSSHAIRS
91. Guessing and Keeping Still	92. Nadja Notariani ~ An Authors Adventures
93. Sia MyKyes Thoughts Over Coffee	94. Author Siobhan Minty
95. Michelles Musings	96. Author KH LeMoyne
97. Aspiring Novelists	98. Jen Chandler
99. Writing In A Nutshell	100. Amity of Dreams. . . .
101. Susan Kaye Quinn	102. Imagine Today
103. Beths Blog	104. Kates Blog
105. Sarah Ahiers (Falen)	106. All About Growing up and Becoming a Famous Author
107. A Chronicle Of Dreams	108. Green Monkey Tales
109. Marta Szemik	110. Arlee Birds Tossing It Out
111. [sic]	112. Donea Lee
113. Catch the Rush	114. dreamersperch. blogspot. com/
115. Tricia Clasen: Vociferous	116. N. R. Williams
117. RaShelle Workman	118. From Pen to Paper
119. Have You Heard	120. Pensuasion
121. Madeleine	122. cluelesseve. blogspot. com
123. Cutest Landing	124. A Clever Whatever
125. Words Rhymes and Rhythms	126. Ashley Nixon
127. Simple Clockwork by Nancy Cudis	128. Amity
129. Brinda Berry Blogs	130. Diary of a Writer in Progress
131. Lovely Light- An American in South Africa	132. MISH @ WRITER~IN~TRANSIT
133. Far Away Series	134. A Southpaws POV
135. A Hogwarts Sabbatical	136. Working My Muse
137. Kit Courteney Writes	138. Kicks in the Pants
139. Mom On the Edge. . . of a Breakdown or Breakthrough	140. Novel Addiction
141. A Book, A Girl, A Journey	142. Cate Masters
143. Carrie - Where I Get Wordy	144. Suze Reese author of ya fiction
145. Angela Brown in the Pursuit of Publishness	146. A Certain Book
147. Jennifer Groepl - My Real Life of Make Believe	148. Charissa- Day In The Life Of An Aspiring Author
149. Dad Who Writes - Gabriel M Clarkes Blog	150. Indie Designz
151. Candy Lynn Fites Trail to Publication	152. Romance, She Wrote
153. A Splash of Ink	154. Imagination to Publication
155. Real Life According to Emma - Culcha Vulcha	156. An Authors Ramblings
157. trains in my thoughts	158. Margo Kelly
159. Aloha, and Hi from HI	160. Rantings of a Writer
161. Jacqueline Howetts Blog	162. Rittys Adventures in Writing
163. Reflection on things fantastic	164. Blush of Dawn
165. Write Game	166. Publish Novels or Bust
167. unearthing and discovering stories from within	168. A Writers Ramblings
169. Geek Banter	170. A Little DVersion
171. Our Gal Cal	172. Hunter Emkay
173. Patsy Collins	174. Angeline Trevena: Horror & Fantasy Writer
175. Starting Out by Aurelia B. Rowl - aspiring author	176. My Words and Me
177. Birgit	178. Anne K. Albert
179. Cherie Reich - Author	180. Writing on the Wall
181. Wordstream	182. Sherris Graphomania
183. Tasha Seegmiller	184. Colleen Chen
185. Jess- Write. Skate. Dream.	186. Cassie Mae
187. Alberta Ross	188. Angela Quarles - time travel romance
189. What Else Is Possible?	190. Fairbettys World
191. Kristy Leigh Logan	192. For Science!
193. Wise Words	194. Sankofa Me Lately
195. A Writers Muses	196. Jamie Ayres
197. Tania. F. Walsh	198. Being a Writer is A Lot Like Being in Love
199. JenUnedited	200. My First Book
201. How do I tell if this is real life?	202. May Contain nuts
203. The Brand Gazette	204. Tessas Blurb
205. SheilaScribbles	206. Creative Therapy - Tizzy
207. BragonDorns Asylum	208. C. M. brown
209. Karen Elizabeth Brown	210. A Scenic Route-Ramblings of a Rookie Writer
211. Poppy Taylor	212. Emma Lauren - Writer
213. Dont Bother Me Im Writing	214. Blog, Tweet, & a Magic Wand
215. Shakespears Stage	216. Memory, Misplaced
217. Steeven Orr Else	218. Jeremy Bates Books - New
219. Metz Kelly	220. Birgit
221. Dream Write Publish	222. Charlie Quillen @ Life Happens
223. Callie Leuck | Write On!	224. J. A. Bennett
225. A Certain Book	226. Life on the Muskoka River
227. A Shift in Dimensions	228. Kittie Howard
229. Susan Roebuck	230. Creative Type
231. Under the Tiki Hut	232. Alyssa Reyans- a writer unread
233. Ute Carbone	234. Adrianne Russell @ The Writers Republic
235. Wayfaring Scout	236. Blog Book Tours
237. Vicki @ Twenty Something Fiction Writer	238. Sylvia @ Playful Creative
239. Mama J	240. Run Gwen Run! Write Gwen Write!
241. Brand New Day	242. Natural Living Mamma
243. Grumpy Bulldog	244. Rebecca Bradley
245. Shocks Randoomblog	246. candyforbreakfast
247. Write Here, Write Now	248. Kevin Hiatt - Graphophobia
249. Sand Castles and Snow Forts	250. Lan @ The Write Obsession
251. The First Original Garretts Writing Blog	252. Rachels Ramblings
253. Laura Eno	254. LORD DE CROSS
255. Author Elizabeth Mueller	256. Author Keta Diablo - Ketas Keep
257. Writing With Hope	258. Write Me
259. Tricia Suttons Blog	260. Today In Shenya
261. Michael Pierce Books	262. Cecilia Roberts Written Word
263. Inner Owlet	264. Ann Cory
265. Em-Musing	266. Just You Wait, One Day I Will. . .