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- Are you an Author, Reader, Publisher, Editor, Agent or Other?
- I'm a paranormal fiction author. I also write erotic paranormal romance under a pen name.
- Do You Have A Website?
- www.LyndaHilburn.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com/lyndahilburn
- About Me:
- Lynda Hilburn writes paranormal fiction. More specifically, she writes vampire books. After a childhood filled with invisible friends, sightings of dead relatives and a fascination with the occult, turning to the paranormal was a no-brainer. In her other reality, she makes her living as a psychotherapist, hypnotherapist, professional psychic/tarot reader, university instructor and workshop presenter. Her first novel, “The Vampire Shrink,” will be released by Medallion Press, October, 2007.
- Do you have a blog site?
- http://paranormalityuniverse.blogspot.com
- Favorite Books:
- So many vampire books, so little time! I'll list favorite authors: Laurell K. Hamilton, Charlaine Harris, Kelly Armstrong, Anne Rice, Christopher Moore, Jim Butcher, Elaine Bergstrom, Mick Farren, P.N. Elrod, Lynsay Sands, Jeanne C. Stein, Marta Acosta -- so many more! I also love J.D. Robb's "Death" series, Stephen White's and Jonathan Kellerman's psychologist series. Kay Hooper's psychic series is great, too.
- Favorite Bookstores on land or cyberspace
- Boulder Bookstore, Boulder, Colorado
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I added a few slides of my books to my blogspot. I'm not sure yet if they should stay on or not.Do you have more trouble loading my blogspot with the slides up? Do you like them or are they too distracting?
A Christmas Tree Already
On the way home from work yesterday, I passed a house that already had a lighted and decorated Christmas tree up and showing by the window.Is it not too soon for that? In my mind, the day after Thanksgiving is when the Christmas Season starts. That's when it's fair game to put up a tree and decorations and start shopping. The way things are going this year, I'll be lucky if I get organized enough to decorate a few days before Christmas.
With our dog, Rascal, who lives up to her name, we'll probably go with a fiber optic small tree on top of an end table. One of these days I may pull put the larger tree from the box in the basement and set it up, but not until our doggy is a little more sedate. I don't feel like chasing her to get ornaments out of her mouth. I will be putting up knick knacks, lights inside and decorations on the walls, so it will still look Christmasy. No lights outside because for some reason we have no outlets outside.
While we're on the subject of Christmas trees and such, be sure to add holidays in your books. You can mention decorations and lights or Easter eggs and baskets, or even mattress sales in your descriptions to ground the reader as to the season.
Now, back to that tree I saw. What about you? When do you decorate for Christmas? What do you put up?
Winners and Losers at the CMAs and Life
I love country music and almost every country performer. While watching the CMAs, I enjoyed seeing the winners accept their awards. On the other hand, it was hard for me to see the losers do their best to appear gracious and for the most part succeeding.For every winner, there's a loser. In life and in books, it's the same way. How people react to their good and bad fortune shows what their characters are made of. You don't have to tell a reader who the good guy or bad guy is. Let their actions speak for themselves. The readers are smart enough to figure it out.
PS Can't finish this blog without saying - You Rock, Taylor Swift! You are one smart, talented teenager! Congrats on all your awards, especially, Entertainer of the Year!!!
CMA Awards Tonight and Twitter
One of my favorite shows is on tonight - the CMA Awards. If you're a country music fan, you're probably like me and will be glued to the TV 8pm EST, or in my case 7pm, in the flatlands of Illinois.Almost all my favorite performers will be there, except I hear that Rascal Flatts can't make it.
I'll be on Twitter during the show also. That's part of the fun of it - discussing and dissecting outfits, performers, songs and even commercials, kind of like I'm at a giant party with people who all go for the same thing and want to share.
What about you? What kind of music do you like? Do you tweet during a favorite show or event?
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Cheers, Mark
My book release falls right around that time, so I'm brainstorming an event (or events) I can organize in my hometown here in Colorado to draw attention to my vampires!
Lynda
"Everyone has their favorite holiday. Mine happens to be Halloween. There’s just something about the dark side that has always fascinated me. When other kids were putting model airplanes and race cars together, I was covering my room with little plastic likenesses of Frankenstein’s monster, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and Dracula. To me, these guys were cool. Dracula was the coolest. Maybe it’s because he always got the girl, or the fact that no matter how many times he was killed, he always came back for more. Just a “never say die” kind of guy. I admire that."
Lynda
Vampires, huh? You've got a fan here. When other kids had heroes like ball players and cowboys, I had posters and models of Dracula (both Bela and Christopher Lee) decorating my room. Love the old vampire movies, and even like a few of the new ones (Dusk 'til Dawn, Vampire Chronicles and even Love at First Bite) Can't wait to read your novel.
Michael
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