In a recent post about YA Paranormals, I questioned why a vampire (or anyone, really) would want to pose as an adolescent and attend high school forever. My reaction was that it was highly, highly unlikely that anyone would do this. Why endure high school multiple times if you don't have to?

That was before I heard about Frédéric Bourdin, a serial ( Read more... )

One of the reviewers over at bookfails is doing something called the Sparkle Project--reviewing a ton of YA books featuring human girl/stalkerish paranormal boy-shaped-being-who's-hundreds-of-years-old. None of them so far have been any good (which doesn't surprise me, considering that most of them sound like they're ripping off a series that sucks on toast ( Read more... )

greyladybast is having problems--economic and housing ones. She's going to be losing her place to live as of July 1, and she needs to stay in the area for the sake of her son. Any help would be wonderful. So would boosting the signal.

ETA: I don't know how to post someone else's Paypal link, but her Paypal link is here.

You may not be able to see it; lee_rowan said ( Read more... )

dearauthor_com has a discussion today about whether or not vampires and vampire stories were going mainstream. Obviously, there's a market. But one of the questions DearAuthor asked was this:

It seems to me that vampires are less popular amongst romance readers with more and more emphasis on the shapeshifters. The question, I suppose, is whether the paranormal ( Read more... )