Category Archives: Real Life Chatter

Posts in which I step away from my work to talk loudly (sometimes angrily, sometimes cheerfully) about real life stuff.

Vampires ARE Still Cool – Books

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Ileandra Young

Right. So… I’ve done films. I even touched briefly on TV shows in my last ROAR-FEST about vampires, but this one is about books. And this one is the point of where that last one began. After all, I’m not … Continue reading →

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An Eloquent Rant

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Ileandra Young

Well, I like to think its eloquent. It might not be, though to be honest, I sometimes feel that perhaps I could just give up on the ‘sounding-like-I-know-what-I’m-talking-about and instead go for brutal honesty. Then a part of me realises … Continue reading →

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Vampires ARE Still Cool – Films

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Ileandra Young

Call it research. Call it boredom. Whatever you want to call it – I choose to call it ‘getting to know my genre’ – I’ve been reading a lot of vampire books lately. I’ve picked up with some of my … Continue reading →

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Ooops!

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Ileandra Young

Well that didn’t go quite as well as I had hoped. -_- Ah well. I can make it up again as I go on; a post a week really shouldn’t be that hard to do. Though I will use the … Continue reading →

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Meeting The Literary Agent

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Ileandra Young

Well that was interesting. I can’t think of another word for it really, I want to say useful, but it was only to a small degree. I went to LWC today; its Thursday, that’s what I do. And forgetting that … Continue reading →