Category: Behind the Scenes
Behind the Scenes: The Official Game of Thrones Cookbook
Games of Thrones started as an epic fantasy novel, became an award-winning HBO series, and now it’s a cookbook. As soon as I found Chelsea Monroe-Cassel and Sariann Lehrer’s blog The Inn at the Crossroads (with the awesome logline, “In the game of food, you win, or you wash the dishes…”), and found out they’d [...]
Read moreWhat’s the Point of Fairy Tales?
Last weekend I sat down with a long-awaited treat—The Tales of Beedle the Bard. If you’ve read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows or watched the movie, then you’ll recognize The Tales of Beedle the Bard as the book of wizarding-world fairy tales containing “The Tale of the Three Brothers” (who owned the Deathly Hallows). [...]
Read moreBehind the Scenes: Angela Wallace and Elementals
Today I have the privilege of interviewing Angela Wallace, author of suspense-filled urban fantasy, to go behind the scenes on her Elemental Magic series. Dry Spell, the second book in the series, has just been released. Aileen Donovan is an elemental with magical control over water. When Aileen finds a mummified body at a scientist’s [...]
Read moreThe Missing Hunger Games Line
Even though I loved The Hunger Games movie that released Friday, I couldn’t help but notice that the screenwriters left out one of the most important lines in the book. The night before the Games begin, Katniss finds Peeta on the roof of their hotel, watching the Capitol celebrate. Peeta tells her, “I keep wishing [...]
Read moreBehind the Scenes: Randy Ingermanson and Mars
Today I have the privilege of interviewing award-winning novelist Randy Ingermanson, author of “Genius in Jeopardy” books and creator of the Snowflake method. He’s taking us behind the scenes on his fast-paced science fiction novel Oxygen (co-written with John Olson). An explosion on the first mission to Mars leaves four astronauts with only enough oxygen [...]
Read moreDid I Eat All The Bertie Bott’s Beans Flavors?
Earlier this week, in my Behind the Scenes post on Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans, I let you vote on whether you wanted to know how my box of Every Flavor Beans tasted and whether I ate them all—even the vomit-, booger-, and rotten egg-flavored ones. Since I received a resounding “yes” . . . [...]
Read moreBehind the Scenes: Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans
[Harry] finally tore his eyes away from the druidess Cliodna, who was scratching her nose, to open a bag of Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans. “You want to be careful with those,” Ron warned Harry. “When they say every flavor, they mean every flavor—you know, you get all the ordinary ones like chocolate and peppermint [...]
Read moreThe Hunger Games Movie
This week, Lionsgate released the first full Hunger Games movie trailer. As a huge fan, I’m already counting down to the March 23, 2012, release date, and saving up my credit card rewards points so that my husband and I can see it in theaters. In case you missed it (or are like me and [...]
Read moreBehind the Scenes: Kait Nolan and Werewolves
Today I have the privilege of interviewing Kait Nolan, author of action-packed paranormal romance, to go behind the scenes of her latest novel, Red, an urban fantasy twist on the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale. Every fairy tale has a dark side… Elodie Rose has a secret. Any day, she’ll become a wolf and [...]
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