SAINT SANGUINUS is the featured book at Everyone Loves a Sinner

Everyone Loves a Sinner hosts SAINT SANGUINUS as the featured Book of the Day, wrapping up my month-long blog tour hosted by Bewitching Book Tours. 


Thanks to all who joined me for the journey!


Special thanks to Roxanne Rhoads, Tara MacDonald and Shawna Romkey for all your support.

2012 Movie Madness Challenge - June Report

Time for my fifth status report for the Movie Madness Challenge.


Here is my code for the films:


New to me - N
Repeat viewing - R


I'll also be including how I viewed the films:


DVD
VHS (yes, we have a lot of those, and a VCR)
Network TV
Pay TV
Internet
In theatre

Game of Thrones season 2
Pay TV
N

My iz budushchego (We Are From the Future)
Internet
N


I watched this Russian time travel film on You Tube without any subtitles. I did pretty well! My Russian is getting better and better.


Here's the link if anyone else is so inclined:


We Are From the Future


It follows a group of modern 20-something jaded Saint Petersburg residents who dig on old WWII battlegrounds for military memorabilia, which they sell on the black market.


One of the group is a Neo Nazi thug, who tries to use an unearthed skull for target practice. This sets up the time travel portal for this group of young men to meet the men whose grave they just disturbed.


Really enjoyed it. My interest in actor Daniil Strakhov led me to this one, as it is leading me to many excellent projects.

Snow White and The Huntsman
Theatre
N

The Borgias season 2
Network TV
N

Abraham Lincoln : Vampire Hunter
Theatre
N




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Total movies for June - 5


Total movies for 2012 - 43


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Seven films away from Movie Fanatic status.

Believe it or not, I'm re-watching the Russian historical drama Bednaya Nastya (Poor Nastya) now that I've discovered the fully-subtitled version on Viki.com.

My husband and I are gobbling up this show like starving maniacs. What I love most about it: the good guys don't have to be shiny, although the bad guys don't show too many Save-the-Cat moments to make them more agreeable. In this show, even the good guys do things that truly shock the viewer, and then have to pay a karmic price for their wrongdoing. It's awesome.

Brad and I watch one episode per day, which tends to eat up my movie-watching time, but I'm having too much fun in Imperial Russia.

Just want to say a massive shout-out to subtitler Agatha for helping me to understand what they were saying! *kiss kiss kiss*

25 Movies: Movie Newbie


50 Movies: Movie Fanatic


75 Movies: Movie Critic


100+ Movies: Movie Master

SAINT SANGUINUS is reviewed at Books, Books and More Books, and is the featured book at Coffee Addicted Writer / 5 on Friday - Set 125

SAINT SANGUINUS is reviewed on Friday the 29th at Books, Books and More Books.

It's also the featured book at Coffee Addicted Writer.

Meanwhile...

Travis at Trav's Thoughts invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.

Happy Canada Day weekend to all of my fellow Canadian bloggers and readers!

To celebrate, here are five Canadian chanteuses to get this party started.

1 - In Perfect Dreams (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues soundtrack) - k d lang 

2 - Possession - Sarah McLachlan

3 - Basement Apartment - Sarah Harmer

4 - Chances - Jill Barber

5 - All Good Things (Come to an End) - Nelly Furtado 

I'm blogging at The Popculturedivas

I'm blogging over at The Popculturedivas today, where I share my admiration for Russian-born director Timur Bekmambetov as I look forward to seeing his latest release, Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter.

I'm guest blogging at Black Hippie Chick's Take on Books & The World

I'm guesting over at Black Hippie Chick's Take on Books & The World.

5 on Friday - Set 124

Travis at Trav's Thoughts invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.

Remember my set last month where I shared the exciting adventure of acupuncture-induced detoxing?

Well...I'm back at it again. All for a good cause, but I think I need a little Leon Redbone to cheer me up.

1 - Seduced

2 - My Little Grass Shack - with Ringo Starr

3 - Mama's Got a Baby Te Na Na

4 - Ditty-Wah-Ditty

5 - Ain't Misbehaving and Big Time Woman - with Jonathan Dorn 

CLICK HERE to watch video clip

I'm interviewed at Books, Books, the Magical Fruit today

I'm interviewed over at Books, Books, the Magical Fruit today, where I chat about which section of the bookstore I race towards first, why I have a Russian phrasebook in my purse and where I describe my very first 'novel' written when I was in grade five.

Review of SAINT SANGUINUS at VampireRomanceBooks plus interview, as well as featured book at A Dream Within a Dream

SAINT SANGUINUS was reviewed over at Vampire Romance Books on the weekend.

I was also interviewed there:

Interview at Vampire Romance Books

SAINT SANGUINUS is also the featured book at A Dream Within a Dream for Wed, June 20th.

I'm interviewed at SJ Clarke's Paranormal Romantic Suspense, and guesting at The Full Fang

After some slight technical difficulties, my interview at SJ Clarke's Paranormal Romantic Suspense blog is now available.

Please drop by--she has lots of guest bloggers and interviews galore.

Today's scheduled stop on my Bewitching Book Tour is at The Full Fang:

The Full Fang--A Twice Bitten blog has me in the moonlight, where I so love to be...

5 on Friday - Set 123

Travis at Trav's Thoughts invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.

...phew...

The pace of life in Julialandia is starting to slow down a little bit. SAINT SANGUINUS is the featured book over at The Full Fang today.

The link is here:

Julia Phillips Smith is in The Moonlight

This week, in honor of the girl for whom I was once the nanny--and who just celebrated her 27th birthday!--here's a Neil Diamond set.

Once upon a time, after I'd moved out of the Toronto home where I'd been the live-in nanny and then moved in as roommates with my employer's brother, we had his sister/my friend and her then-fiance-now-husband over for dinner and a games night. By this time I was engaged to Brad and he lived in our apartment with the brother/my roomie as well.

We played a music trivia game where you had to give clues about songs and then finally hum part of it if necessary. This first song always reminds me of Donna, the mom/my former employer/housemate/friend and her finger-snapping version.

Me with Donna on my 2007 trip to Toronto.

1 - Cracklin Rosie

2 - Cherry, Cherry

3 - Dear Father

4 - Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon

That's me with Claire, back in the day.

Claire--woman version.

5 - Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show

Review of SAINT SANGUINUS at Aobibliosphere today

Aobibliosphere reviews SAINT SANGUINUS today.

I'm also blogging at The Popculturedivas, where I'm showcasing trindiebooks and StoryFinds, two ebook browsing sites run by women from my writers' group.   

SAINT SANGUINUS is the featured book at Bornean Bookworm, BOUND BY DRAGONSFYRE is the featured book at Shawna Romkey's blog and at Storyfinds

SAINT SANGUINUS is the featured book today at Bornean Bookworm, all the way over in Indonesia.

Bornean Bookworm, aka Vanessa lives in Malaysian Borneo, likes ghost-hunting reality TV, hates porcelain dolls and clowns, and invites bloggers to stalk her blog.

My newest release, BOUND BY DRAGONSFYRE drops by YA paranormal author Shawna Romkey's blog today, as well 

BOUND BY DRAGONSFYRE also makes a stop at Storyfinds, a new ebook browsing site for Kindle. Authors, check it out! It's a great place to showcase your releases. 

  

SAINT SANGUINUS is the featured book at Aobibliosphere today

SAINT SANGUINUS is dropping by Aobibliosphere today, where it will also be reviewed on Thursday.

I'm interviewed @ Simply Infatuated

Join me at Simply Infatuated where I'm interviewed about favorite childhood toys, something I would never eat, and which five people I would most love to invite for dinner. 

5 on Friday - Set 122

Travis at Trav's Thoughts invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.

I wanted to take this moment to thank my 5 on Friday posse for continuing to drop by with comments this month when I've been so busy with my book launch. I want you to know I've been dropping in to listen to everyone's sets while I worked on getting BOUND BY DRAGONSFYRE released.

1 - Diga Diga Doo - The Mills Brothers

2 - Fanfare Ciocarlia (Asphalt Tango) -  Gypsy Caravan

3 - Willkommen from Cabaret - Joel Grey and 1966 Original Broadway Cast

4 - Avalon - Django Reinhardt

5 - Zvezda Rok n Rolla from the Everything is Illuminated soundtrack - Leningrad

I'm guest blogging at Roxanne's Realm

Join me at Roxanne's Realm where I share the inspiration for my two main characters from SAINT SANGUINUS, Welsh warrior Peredur and his beloved, Tanwen the chieftain's daughter.


Be careful what you wish for


Both characters should have heeded that advice.


Roxanne has included an excerpt from Tanwen's point of view, as well.

SAINT SANGUINUS is the featured book at Lisa's World of Books today

SAINT SANGUINUS is dropping by Lisa's World of Books today.

Another Michigan blogger like yesterday's Creatively Green Write at Home Mom, Lisa has been book blogging since 2010 and enjoys every minute of it.

I'm guest blogging at Faerotic Prose

Join me at Faerotic Prose for a discussion on shiny heroes, dark villains and my favorite--the gray character.

I'm also appearing at The Creatively Green Write at Home Mom with an excerpt from SAINT SANGUINUS, which briefly hit the # 9 spot on Amazon's Top 100 Horror list over the weekend.

These blog stops are part of my tour with Bewitching Book Tours.

5 on Friday - Set 121

Travis at Trav's Thoughts invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.

Release Day for Scorpius!


BOUND BY DRAGONSFYRE is now available at Amazon and Smashwords!

Thanks to model Bobby Rossong, DOP and editor Caroline Ruyle and producer Tara MacDonald for superb work on this book trailer.


Let's partay!



1 - Super Taranta! - Gogol Bordello

2 - Don't Stop Me Now -  Queen

3 - Timebomb - Beck

4 - Holiday - Green Day

5 - Rock n Roll Queen - The Subways