Buffy's Ramblings

Thanks to Bewitching Book Tours for hosting this blog tour. I'm promoting The Chronicles of Kerrigan today while the author, WJ May talks about watching the waves at Myrtle Beach. Welcome!
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Watching the Waves
It’s March Break in Canada (well, in Ontario) and our family heading down to Myrtle Beach for the kids spring break. It’s awesome, in so many weird and memorable ways.

As a kid my folks took us here for years during every spring break. Other families from the area I grew up in came also. The first year we came, my folks didn’t have a ton of money. I was a kid so I never knew but it’s neat to look back at it now. My dad’s passed away and I would give anything to go back to the first trip.

It’s about a fifteen hour drive so we stopped half-way and stayed with six of us in a motel that probably had seen more murders than Agatha Christie. We didn’t know (though my sixteen year old brother probably did :-) He was pretty ticked. My other brother b…

Thanks to Juniper Grove Book Solutions for hosting this blog tour. I'm promoting The Odin Blood Series today while the author, Ronnell D Porter talks about his cast for Dagger Heart. Welcome!
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Your book has just been contracted (hypothetically) to become a movie. Who would be your first choice to play the lead role(s)?
If I had to pull a cast for Dagger Heart out of my pocket, it would be:

Erica: Scout Taylor-Compton (who was fantastic as Lita Ford in The Runaways) or Kat Dennings.

Paul: Dane DeHaan, Ezra Miller, or Grey Damon.

Finn: Thomas Dekker or Douglas Booth.

Krieger: Dean Geyer or Michael Graziadei.

King Úlfur: Anthony Hopkins or Ian McShane - it is a fantasy cast, after all... ;)

Mother Selma: Tilda Swinton, though a huge part of me (mainly the Twin Peaks fan) would love to see Mädchen Amick or Sheryl Lee return to the big screen...

Folkvar: I'd like Thore Schölermann, but he's still quite young (28) and looks it. But by the time the …

Thanks to FMB Promotions for hosting this blog tour. I have James Calbraith, author of The Shadow of Black Wings, here to talking about women of Japanese history. Welcome!
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GREAT WOMEN OF JAPANESE HISTORY
I strive to have strong female characters always present in my books, so I found it very inspiring to discover that, for a society so stereotypically patriarchal, Japan has had its share of great and famous women, almost from the beginnings of its known history.

AMATERASU

The legendary history of Japan begins with a woman: the goddess of the Sun. The chief of the second generation of Japan’s Gods (born from Izanagi the Creator’s tear), Amaterasu is the most important of Japanese Gods, her Sun mirror worshipped in the famous shrine of Ise. But her main claim to fame lies in being the legendary progenitor of Japan’s Imperial Dynasty, through her grandson Ninigi and his great-grandson, Jimmu, the first Emperor of Japan. According to official mythology, even…

Thanks to FMB Promotions for hosting this blurb blitz. Here's a spotlight on Vallory Vance's Cheers. Happy reading!
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As a successful Sales and Catering Manager for the posh Hayden Court Hotel located in New Orleans’ famed French Quarter, Darcey St. Claire is absolutely thrilled to be working on New Year’s Eve. The commission and bonus, she’ll receive from the two day Guidry Construction event will not only fund her spring trip to New York City, but buy a cute pair of shoes for the plane ride!

Her enthusiasm quickly turns to barely disguised irritation when Vincent Guidry arrives hours early for his scheduled check-in demanding access to his suite. After he slashes the budget for the event, not even the crystal blue eyes of the former quarterback can quell the anger surging in her chest. That is until he walks into the Chat Noir where she is trying to regroup after her irksome day.

In the private enclave known as the Cristal Room, Vincent willin…