Author Interview ft. Yours Truly

Liz Meldon is a Canadian author who grew up in the Middle East. She has a degree in Bioarchaeology from Western University, and when she isn’t writing about her own snarky characters, she is ghostwriting romance novellas, loitering on social media, or taking care of her many animals. As a […]

via The Authors’ Shelf: Liz Meldon — Books That Wander

TBR Thursday: The Beast of London by L.D. Goffigan

I have such a soft spot for Mina Murray books. I fell in love with her in the film versions of Dracula when I was younger, then she became my personal queen and savior in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. If she’s a lead, I’m there!

34615862.jpgAn electrifying retelling of a classic tale, THE BEAST OF LONDON is the first book of the Mina Murray series.

Mina Murray once lived an adventurous life, but after a tragedy in the forests of Transylvania, she left it all behind. Now she has settled into a quiet routine as a schoolteacher in London, engaged to the respectable solicitor Jonathan Harker, attempting to fit into the stuffy upper class London society to which he belongs.

Her dark past comes careening into her present when Jonathan is abducted by a group of vampires from a society ball. Determined to rescue him, she teams up with her former paramour Abraham Van Helsing and his colleague, Scotland Yard Inspector John Seward.

As they pursue Jonathan’s abductors from England to the Low Countries and beyond, Mina realizes that Jonathan’s abduction is tied to a larger threat against humanity…

If you love adventure, romance, and mystery with a paranormal twist, then this is the book for you.

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Pinterest Descriptors: Lovers and Liars Serial

So, if you know me at all, you know I’m OBSESSED with Pinterest. Each of my books has an inspiration board, and I’ve pinned some 32K pins in my time there, and the number grows every day.

One of the new features on the Pinterest mobile app is that at the top of each board, there are little buttons that categorize themes (etc.) for the pins you’ve added to that board. You can click on the word bubbles, and it will show you all the pins associated with that particular word. My new guilty pleasure is looking through those description words and seeing how Pinterest, based on what I’ve pinned, would describe my books.

Let’s check ’em out, shall we? First is my largest board — the Lovers and Liars serial. Pinterest describes it as:

NORSE MYTHOLOGY, NYMPHS, CHARACTER INSPIRATION

GODDESSES, BOOK SERIES, FAIRYTALES, HEADDRESS

GREEK MYTHOLOGY, WRITING INSPIRATION, APHRODITE

FAIRYTALE FASHION, CLARY FRAY, ETHEREAL, RED HAIR

GREEK GODS, ZUHAIR MURAD, ARTEMIS, DARK BEAUTY, WITCHES

Sooooooooooo cool! Click to see the full board!

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