It’s virtually impossible for a writer to come up with completely new creatures, situated in a completely new world, without drawing some sort of knowledge from the fountain of information currently available. Let’s take myth as an example. We’ve seen a lot of myths used as examples in Harry Potter. Werewolves are most commonly depicted …read more!

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine told me about a concept album the band Of Montreal put out called “Skeletal Lamping’ which featured a character, the lead singer’s alter ego, called Georgie Fruit. Georgie is a person who has been through multiple sex changes, from man to woman and back again many times. …read more!

Ok, this is the second time I’ve written up this blog. Let’s hope it save properly this time. Let’s that the title of this blog literally and figuratively. Vampires are pop-culture. It is no secret that Twilight has launched vampire-literature into the spotlight. But what is it about these types of books that make them …read more!

Literally or figuratively. You be the decider. For some reason vampire literature has become popular, more so with Twilight. So it seems almost like for a series to be popular, it has to have a good vampire storyline as a part of it, right? WRONG! (you knew I was going to say that!) Harry Potter …read more!

Here is the deal. I’m doing this BEDA thing, right? I’ve decided that I need to update BOTH of my blogs all the time. I was going to just post the same thing on both blogs, but to be honest I don’t use this blog enough for it’s proper purpose, which is to talk about …read more!

Have you seen the new trailer for the next Doctor Who special? I’d thought it wasn’t supposed to be on until today, but apparently there was something on BBC last night. I don’t have a link for you, but I do have a synopsis, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know. Scroll …read more!

Wow. This blog kinda got left behind a bit. Summary of my life since the last blog? Ok. I went to uni, and I worked my socks off all year round and I’m still not finished! Seriously my life has been all about work. And one other thing.Books. I have become hugely obsessive over books. …read more!

size=”3″ face=”Times New Roman”>Monday morning, I arrive at the office, eat my morning muffin, refill my water cup (I don’t drink coffee), open my computer. As I was a bit early, I put the finishing touches to my present to Cat, our dear Aussie Crafty Witch who had to step down because Real Life was …read more!

size=”3″ face=”Times New Roman”>Monday morning, I arrive at the office, eat my morning muffin, refill my water cup (I don’t drink coffee), open my computer. As I was a bit early, I put the finishing touches to my present to Cat, our dear Aussie Crafty Witch who had to step down because Real Life was …read more!

size=”3″ face=”Times New Roman”>Monday morning, I arrive at the office, eat my morning muffin, refill my water cup (I don’t drink coffee), open my computer. As I was a bit early, I put the finishing touches to my present to Cat, our dear Aussie Crafty Witch who had to step down because Real Life was …read more!