Author: ejurus
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What is it with romance and monsters?
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I truly didn’t know I was jumping on a bandwagon about monster erotica when I wrote The Summer Door. I’d introduced the attractive but twisted Fae character Hoodwink in my Chaos Roads trilogy as one of the villains who’s messing things up in the town of Llithfaen, and when I…
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Roswell and Close Encounters
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Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. — H. G. Wells (1898), The War of…
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How horror affects your body if you enjoy being scared
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My hubby and I are not the target market for haunted attractions, if I’m being honest. We don’t get startled by jump scares. The first time we visited the Hudson River Valley in NY state, the home of Washington Irving’s famously haunted stories, and attended the best attraction we’ve ever…
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The macabre lure and folklore of graveyards
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The wind was blowing heavily, pelting me with rain from darkened skies as I made my way up a narrow path to find the Hill of Tara in Ireland. My hubby elected to remain in the parking lot, safe and dry in our rental car, but I was determined to…
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On hiatus this week
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I’ve been out of commission for several days due to a bug that’s been making the rounds. Will be back next week, looking at our fascination with old graveyards, as well as some of the lore around them.
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Faeries in history: cute / dangerous / erotic
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If you lived in medieval times, you were constantly trying to ward off all the evil that fairies, magical beings who lurked in the woods, could foist upon you. Legends portrayed them as looking human, with a decided bent for trickery. They might be any size from tiny to our…
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The best season, and here’s why!
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“I’m here to stand up for Autumn!” That was my declaration at the beginning of my winning Table Topics Speech in Toastmasters one week. First, a little background: Toastmasters is a world-wide program for learning how to do public speaking. And I did. Before I joined the in-house club at…
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Why conventions and book festivals matter
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I wrote my first novel during the COVID lockdown and experienced the surreal situation of getting vaccinated in a crowded arena, all while staying home to avoid infection and worrying about a friend’s son who was critically ill, as well as waiting in long lines for groceries. How did that…
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On hiatus this week
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Back next week with a look at the origins of faerie eroticism, the super-popular trend in fantasy sub-genres at the moment.
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Some of us prefer darkness
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Maybe I am a vampire. My hubby’s been insisting for a while. For the most part, I don’t like sunny days – except for photography, and in the winter when they perk up the weeks of dreariness. I prefer my days cloud-covered and moody, and if there’s a bit of…