Kimberly Raye Writes the Dead End Dating Series with Lil Marchette
Lil Marchette is a fashionista vampire. Labels matter and she does like her clothes. But, keep reading. Lil wants her own life. She begins her own dating agency for paranormals like vampires and werewolves (who are real party girls). Lil struggles to keep her business afloat while keeping her vampire status from her friend and solo employee.
Lil meets Ty, of course there has to be a hunky vampire guy... but Ty is not for Lil. Ty isn't a born vampire and only born vampires are able to have children. Lil's parents would never approve and though she wants her own life she can't leave her family behind. Even though they are pretty high on the eccentric level. (Not by their own born vampire standards of course).
Dead End Dating is the ongoing story of Lil as she tries to balance her life, her business, help friends and dating clients and keep her family from intruding into what she has built as her own life, for herself. Plus, she is a vampire and has those kind of needs too.
I don't identify with the world of the fashionable types. It was a big plus for me that Lil is written as a woman who likes life, colour and being her own person. I like Lil because she wants to make something of herself and she doesn't give up. I also like her efforts to pay her bills and get her dating agency off the ground. Things don't always go her way, like someone in a romance novel.
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Certainly, electronic books have overcome their technological obstacles. Page turns are fast enough, battery life is long enough, and screens are legible in sunlight. Digital sales now account for 14% of Penguin's business. But there are reasons to reject the idea that the extinction of the printed book is just around the corner, just as there were reasons to reject the notion that e-books would never catch on because you couldn't read them in the bath and, y'know, books are such lovely objects.
Source: Is this the end for books? The Guardian.
I believe reading will be around in one form or another. Books have been a part of our world for such a long time they can't just fade away too quickly. But, things do change. Think of the current generation of teenagers. How many of them have every played a record, dialed a rotary phone...?
For me, reading a paperback book is my own style of comfort food (without the calories and concern about cholesterol). I read in bed, late at night. I read at the coffee shop. I never need to worry about a paperback book falling off my bed when I fall asleep reading. I don't feel too bad if I shove around a book in my purse and get it a little dog-eared. It's just been a bit more well read, enjoyed.
Digital technology is changing how we read as well as what we read. People are impatient, expecting near instant feedback to emails. Attention spans are getting shorter as well. How long will it take before people can't focus long enough to read at all? Everything will become visual in order to catch attention and keep it long enough to drill their message/ information into wandering minds. Already there is too much information, an overload of distractions.
I think we need to keep our brains able to read a good book. To wind down, focus on something for a longer time period and become more involved than just on the surface level.
I read about, Miranda, the ghost girl, about 30 years ago. I tried to remember who wrote the book, and the story, for years. Then I found it online.
I even ordered the book again and re-read it. But, it wasn't the same as reading it when I was a younger person. I liked it, but it didn't intrigue me as much. Proof that we do get older and change how we see the world.
The book was written by Wylly Folk St. John. The book art, as I remember it from my original book too, was from Trina Schart Hyman. You can see the names on this screen capture of the book cover. But, it doesn't hurt to type them out. Image files break and some people can't see image files, just text.
This book haunted me for years. I always remembered Miranda, but over the years I forgot why. The book itself became like a ghost, something almost remembered which lingered in my mind.
Write about a ghost book. Decide what a ghost book would be to you, it might be something with a different story from mine. What is the story of the ghost book as you think of it?
(http://readtheprintedword.org/)Found on Domestic Cherry while looking at bloggers I used to visit regularly when I was part of Entrecard.
Read the Printed Word - We support the printed word in all its forms: newspapers, magazines, and of course books. We think reading on computers or phones or whatever is fine, but it cannot replace the experience of reading words printed on paper. We pledge to continue reading the printed word in the digital era and beyond.
Do you ever read the preface in books? I do. It seems they should be read as a tribute to the writer, also, there is background to the stories and information about to be given.
Write a preface for whatever you are currently working on. What information would you like to add for the reader before they start to read? What should they know about the process of writing, the interesting things you learned along the way.