Alright folks. I have to make a confession about the The Twilight series and why I shut down the Guys Can Read podcast. As many of you know, a couple of months ago we closed down Guys Can Read. It was a podcast series that focused on writing and sharing books for the “guy” reader, and where we condemned the Twilight series at every turn. I also haven’t written anything new in the last couple of months. There’s a reason for that, to which I haven’t been terribly honest about (Luke knows, actually). Though I’ve publicly denounced the Twilight series, I’ve been sneaking off to read it. I did it as a challenge to a female listener. And surprise, this series is AWESOME! I get it now. And really, I think Nikolas and Co could be more multi-faceted and benefit from a lot more romantic intrigue. It will probably move from the fantasy adventure market to the Young adult paranormal romance market, which has a GREATER audience anyway. And I really think the eleven-year-old boy reader is much more sophisticated than we give them credit for. I’m kind of excited to develop Nikolas’s love triangle between Helen and Constance (who happens to be a succubus, but hides it with her advanced form of jyn’uss). Here’s a scene where Constance confesses to Nikolas about her succubus past:
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Really? Did you really fall for another April fools joke?
Once again. All too easy. (and a little hurtful that you would think I’d jump the sparkly vampire bandwagon).
