Love on the Edge
We’ve all heard that there are degrees of shock. Like any strong emotion, our brains seem incapable of handling the full dose all at once, so we’re forced to endure the entire range from one end of the spectrum to the other. We draw it out far longer than what seems rational, yet we’re incapable […]
A.C. Melody
The first ‘vampire’ novel I ever read was the children’s book Bunnicula by Deborah and James Howe. If you’ve never heard of it – or had children who read it – the story is told by a dog, who suspects that the new family pet is a vampire. The evidence seems to support his suspicions […]
A.C. Melody
Classically, erotica could only be pulled off by the best of authors, because it was everything that wasn’t said. It was the tease of those subtle details. Sex wasn’t graphically described, it was merely implied in ways that for some, is far more erotic than a smut magazine. It was the difference between burlesque and stripping. […]
Somewhere along the line, something happens to a writer who spends entirely way too much time conversing with their own fictional characters. To outsiders – those non-writers – this probably looks a lot like a case of split-personality disorder. They simply cannot grasp the idea that fictional characters can run away with themselves, forming personalities […]
A.C. Melody