I have a guest post up on Boom Baby Reviews where I wax a little poetic about the vampire myth and whether or not we should be changing our monsters as we create new tales.
It was really fun to write! Thanks to Bella for giving me the change to talk about this subject!
Another review? So soon? Stormi over at Boundless Book Reviews took a look at Leech yesterday and I just stumbled across it! What a treat!
Wow!
Asking someone to read a book is a big request. It can take a lot of time to work through a book and it sometimes requires an emotional investment that feels like too much to ask of another person, especially when we have so many other things demanding our attention. Leech just got a review from The Ardent Reader and I'm overwhelmed!
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As I mentioned in my earlier Leech Trivia post, Leech began as a training wheels-style NaNoWriMo challenge last year when my writing buddy Terry Taylor Hobbs and I decided to write 30,000 words in November (20,000 short of the official goal).
So, you spend months or even years laboring on your book. You fill it with observations on life that might be your own, interject ideas or themes that horrify you, and add bits and pieces of your own life that are precious and sacred to you. You mine current events, overheard antidotes, dreams, fears, and slices of your own experiences in order to craft something new and speak to something you think no one else has said. It's not an accident when a writer refers to his or her work as their "baby," and like a proud parent, a writer imagines and hopes for their creation's future.
Did you see? Leech was given the Spotlight treatment over at Book Wormie Spot. Check it out and if you get a moment, thank Joselyn for her terrific site!
I thought it might be fun to share a little of the backstory for Leech, so here are a few trivia items about the book, the characters, and the logic behind it all. This list is broken into two parts, so as not to spoil anything in the book for people who haven't read it yet. Don't read beyond the break if you haven't read the book!