Mortaine's Blog » Books http://www.mortaine.com/blog Blog for Stephanie Bryant, a 30-something writer who travels full-time. And her husband, Johnnyb. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:54:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 February Media http://www.mortaine.com/blog/2010/03/01/february-media http://www.mortaine.com/blog/2010/03/01/february-media#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:12:53 +0000 Mortaine http://www.mortaine.com/blog/2010/03/01/february-media Books

#6 One Night with a Prince

#7 Bastard Husband: A Love Story

#8 The Third Heiress

#9 With Extreme Pleasure by Alison Kent

Movies

#7 But I’m a Cheerleader

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#1: The Beauty Bride by Claire Delacroix

#2: And then He Kissed Her by Laura Lee Guhrke

#3: Summer of the Dragon by Elizabeth Peters

#4: Sunshine by Robin McKinley

#5: Beyond Scandal by Brenda Joyce

In 2010, I’ve decided to also track my movie-watching.

Movies:

#1: Ocean’s Thirteen

#2: X Men Origins: Wolverine

#3: Alien Nation

#4: Into the Wild

#5: Alien3

#6: National Lampoon’s Vegas Vacation

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#44: The Lady Chosen by Stephanie Laurens. Regency romance, first in the Bastion Club series.
#45: The Little Lady Agency and the Prince by Hester Browne. Chick lit.
#46: Hotter After Midnight by Cynthia Eden. Erotic werewolf with murder mystery thriller thrown in.
#47: The Cold Ones by Elizabeth Donald. Absolutely chilling novella with a zombie theme.
#48: Scroogenomics by Joel Waldfogel. The only really accessible economics book I’ve ever read.
#49: Zombies v Robots – graphic novel about zombies, robots, and amazons. I read and forgot to log it earlier this year.

That’s it. I fell short of the 50 book challenge by 1 book this year. I would feel bad about that, but since I also wrote 2 comic books…. the sting is lessened.

]]> http://www.mortaine.com/blog/2010/01/01/december-books/feed 0 Yeah. I’m a fan. http://www.mortaine.com/blog/2009/12/02/yeah-im-a-fan http://www.mortaine.com/blog/2009/12/02/yeah-im-a-fan#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:31:59 +0000 Mortaine http://www.mortaine.com/blog/2009/12/02/yeah-im-a-fan Elizabeth Donald is a writer. A good one. She writes horror and sexy stuff and more horror. Her most recent book is a zombie novel called The Cold Ones (review here), which I’ve been anticipating reading, but couldn’t justify for shelf space until I recently won it in a charity auction.

Like most good, not-bestseller-yet authors, Ms. Donald doesn’t have an enormous market for her short stories. But she deserves one.

I could argue right now that we all deserve one, but I’ll leave it at this: Elizabeth is a good writer who writes stuff that’s enjoyable to read.

This week, she has posted some of her short stories for sale on her website. They’re $2.50 each, about the price of some spendy coffee.

I encourage you to buy one of her short stories. If you’re a NaNoWriMo participant, right now you’re probably looking for two things: 1) something to take your mind off the exhausted draft you’ve just finished, and 2) some hope that a freelance writer can still make it in this world. If you’re a holiday shopper, you’re probably looking for something not-too-time-consuming to relax after shopping and wrapping up presents.

For $2.50, you can have that.

If you do download one of Elizabeth’s stories, please feel free to drop me a note here and let me know what you thought. I’d love to hear, and I know she’ll be checking comments to see who bought and what they think.

Note: I have no financial relationship with Elizabeth except as a satisfied consumer of her work and as a personal friend. We’ve gone out to dinner once in St. Louis. She’s lovely in person as well as on the page.

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#42: The Princess by Claire Delacroix. Medieval-set romance novel.

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