Buffy's Ramblings

Thanks to Book Monster Promotions for hosting this blog tour. I have Nicola Cameron, author of Storm Season here today talking about villains. Welcome! ***************************** Beautiful Yet Cruel: Reasons To Make Your Villain Attractive So I was cleaning my pool the other day and thinking of Mads Mikkelsen, as you do. Tall, Dark and Danish was on my mind because I'd just read a rather cogent post on Tumblr about fans who were gushing over the newest incarnation of Hannibal Lecter in a big way and kind of forgetting that, you know, Dr. Lecter kills people. And eats them. And serves them to other unsuspecting diners. And zestfully screws with Will Graham's mind and health as a hobby. And is what we in the writing dodge like to call a Really Bad Guy. The original poster was rather concerned that a lot of fans seem to be thinking with their ovaries and not their heads, as they are insisting that Dr. Lecter had Reasons™ for doing all those bad things, and that...