Tell us about your most recent book. Captive of the Cattle Baron is an abduction story done right. In this sweet contemporary romance, the hero, Baron Selkirk, wants to help Addie Jelleff overcome what he suspects is a bad involvement with drugs. He takes Addie to his huge, isolated ranch and refuses to let her…
Zombie Week Starting Soon
Zombie Week starts Saturday July 25th. Guest authors include Sam Cheever, Paige Tyler, and August Kert. We’re highlighting zombie protagonists and zombie characters who are more than mindless monsters. Hope you can stop by!
Excerpt from Immortal Relations by G. D. Ogan
Immortal Relations by G. D. Ogan Blurb: When Gary Logan discovers an old black-and-white photograph of his father in Prague with a woman’s handwriting on the back, he flies there to investigate where his father had worked, only to meet and fall in love with a beautiful lady who he believes to be a vampire….
Five Scary Shower and Bath Scenes
Taking a shower or bath should be a relaxing experience, but after watching certain scenes from the following movies, you’ll think twice about letting your guard down while washing up. Stephen King’s It – Poor Eddie tries to take a shower in the locker room at school, but the evil clown Pennywise finds a way…
Interview with Houston Havens
Tell us a bit about yourself. What my author Bio doesn’t tell you is…I’m a woman very much like my heroines in that I won’t give up. That doesn’t mean you can’t knock me down…that you can, but you’d better run like hell when I do get up. Yes, I’m feisty and determined. You have…
Villain Recommended Movie: Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Reviews and recommendations on the Compelling Beasts blog are my honest opinion. I purchase the books, comics, and movies that I recommend and review and I do not accept free copies for review. Rosemary and Guy have just moved into their dream apartment, but for Rosemary it soon becomes a nightmare. What happens when your…
Interview with Malak from The Incubus Saga
What is your main purpose in life? Same as everyone else: to accomplish my goals. Which in so many words is to reshape this unfortunate earth of yours into something more pleasing, more…orderly. I’ve had chances in the past to accomplish this, and have always been thwarted, but this time…this time I am going to…
Classic Characters: Hop Frog – Justice or Revenge?
One of my favorite themes is revenge. There’s something incomparably satisfying about a person getting even with the one who wronged him. Edgar Allan Poe’s Hop Frog is a great revenge story. It delivers the expected appalling behavior of hateful tormentors and the pleasure of the victim getting even, but it also raises interesting questions….
Character Profile: Pietas ap Lorectic
Who is Pietas ap Lorectic and what makes him a villain worth knowing? In my story world, Pietas is known as the Bad Boy King of the Immortal Sempervians. He is a twin. His parents were Mahikos and Helia ap Lorectic, the last genetically created “Ultra Beings” (aka Ultras) created by humans. They were…
Top 5 Scariest Horror Villains
I love watching horror, but not all horror villains are frightening enough to make me look over my shoulder after the show ends. The five on this list are disturbing enough to give me the chills every time I think about them. Freddy Krueger (played by Robert Englund) from the Nightmare on Elm Street series-…
Antihero Recommended Movie: Late Phases
Reviews and recommendations on the Compelling Beasts blog are my honest opinion. I purchase the books, comics, and movies that I recommend and review and I do not accept free copies for review. A werewolf stalks the citizens of a retirement community and it’s up to a blind Vietnam vet to stop it. Late Phases…
5 Great Romantic Horror Movies
As a fan of horror and romance, there’s nothing I like better than movies that combine the two. Romantic subplots show up often in horror movies, but in these five, the romance is as important to the story as the horror. Mutants – This is both a tale of terror and a touching love story….