Halloween is tomorrow! Ack!  I’m not ready! I’ve got to buy candy, carve pumpkins, have an annual carving contest face-off, and watch more scary movies!

This month passed way too fast for me. Sigh.  So now I can only imagine how quickly Christmas will zoom up on me. The good news? I’m making nice progress on my story.  🙂  I’m looking to finish the rough draft on this one in the next two weeks.  I’ve got an idea (okay, 2) for the next story(stories). One is in this series, about a demon bounty hunter.  The second?  Totally unrelated, but one I’ve wanted to write for some time now.  Luckily for me, 70 Days of Sweat is coming up, and,  I’ve decided I’ll definitely participate in that.  (I saw 70 Days mentioned on the lovely Lauren Dane’s blog yesterday and I knew Sven would be perfect to keep me motivated and focused during the holidays.)

And hey, don’t forget–I’ll launch my SIN A LITTLE contest on Saturday!  Check back for awesomely sexy prizes.

But for now…let’s talk scary movies.  Uh, huh–I’m in a scary frame of mind today.  I’ve been trying to think about the movie I think of as *the* scariest.  When I was a kid, Children of the Corn totally freaked me out.  Poltergeist made me afraid of both fuzzy TV channels and toy clowns.  And, as much as I LOVE my Friday the 13ths and Halloweens, well, they didn’t make me scared–they just kind of entertained in a very gory, slasher fest style.  The Ring didn’t scare me. When the chick crawled out of the TV, I was just kind of like, um, what?   Although, there was one Buffy episode, “Hush” that  creeped me out. Very good–I’d definitely recommend that one.

I don’t know–I’m having some trouble here.  If you’ve got a movie that absolutely scared you, to the extent you couldn’t sleep at night, will you tell me about it?

And, hey–later, I’ll post the carved pumpkins and you can vote for the best one.  The hubby and I love to battle our pumpkins!

I’m giving away an autographed copy of MIDNIGHT SINS over at The Bradford Bunch today.  If you get a chance, stop by!

And I’d like to thank Amelia of Sensual for the wonderful review that she recently gave to MIDNIGHT SINS.  Thank you, Amelia!

Here’s a snippet of her review:

“Intensely depicted scenes, insightful dialogue and memorable characters are a given in any book by Cynthia Eden. The clever writing in MIDNIGHT SINS takes the reader to new levels of imagination…MIDNIGHT SINS is an exhilarating adventure where magic, passionate feelings and danger constantly collide.”

You can read the full review here.

Have a wonderful Wednesday!

I’ve received my first ever review in Publishers Weekly! Here’s the review for MIDNIGHT SINS:

“Eden’s latest brims with passion, obsession and demons as Det. Todd Brooks fights to keep Atlanta safe from a serial killer, an increasingly complex job as he discovers that his city is teeming with demons, vampires and an array of Others. It also doesn’t help that he’s smitten with beautiful prime suspect Cara. All the evidence points to Cara’s guilt, but Todd is certain that she has been set up, even as his colleagues warn that he is being swayed by lust. Cara, meanwhile, turns out to be a powerful sex demon struggling with her own issues of right, wrong and love. A cast of creative secondary characters rounds out this romp that all but vibrates with sexual energy. (Dec.) ”

You can read all the fiction reviews for the current week here.

I received my December 08 issue of RT over the weekend (sweet! I can pick out Christmas gifts for myself), and the issue featured an article on the rise of “thrillers.”

Now, I’m interested in learning exactly what folks think a “thriller” is.  In the article, Katherine Neville distinguished a thriller from a regular mystery by “explaining that in a mystery the chief concern is how to find a killer, while in a thriller it’s how to stop one.”  Interesting.  It seems that with thrillers, the focus is more on preventing the violent action (terrorist attack, bombing, assassination, etc) and the protagonists are racing against the clock–I figure this makes most thrillers very, very fast paced.

Ahem, this is the part where I admit that I haven’t read a lot of thrillers.  Yes, I have been trying to expand my reading areas, but, off the top of my head, I can’t name the last thriller I read.  Since I’m me :-), I’d say that I would most definitely enjoy some romantic thrillers–and if anyone has some great recommendations, I would love to add them to my Christmas-buy list.  So, share away!!

And, hey, do you agree with that definition of thrillers?

Sylvia Day is posting interviews with the American Title finalists on her blog—and she’s posting interviews with the characters from those finalist entries.  Today, she’s got an interview up with Edie Ramer–Edie is interviewing the main character from her novel, DEAD PEOPLE.  Go check out the interview. Fabulous prizes are being given away to commenters!