Sirantha Jax is my Hero

I am such a fan of Ann Aguirre it's not even funny.

I've always had a problem with buying books based on their covers, and then I go home and open them up and hate it.  I've discovered over the years that most of the book covers that attract me contain stories I have no interest in, or the writing style turns me off.  Aguirre's Sirantha Jax series was not like that at all for me.

I totally bought her book because of the cover art.

How fucking awesome is that cover?  I want to be Sirantha Jax so bad.  I'm also going to hound this cover artist when I'm ready to publish my novel.

Today I was so excited because I came across her last book in the Jax series over at B&N, and I immediately snatched it up.  And then I got all sad, because it's the end of a great series with great characters.  I'm sure most of you can relate.  Kind of like how you felt when Harry Potter came to an end.

So then I tinkle around with the idea of grabbing her fantasy series, because she is such an awesome writer, but I tend to stay away from urban fantasy novels, because there's only so many hot girl being a total bad ass and running from her past because she has a special power books I can take, which, of course, is what Blue Diablo is all about.

Kinda wish all of Aguirre's novels had the same artwork.

Who knows?  I'm hoping this series will pull me in like Jax did, and there are some awesome urban fantasy series that I love, like the Cal Leandros series by Rob Thurman.

 This cover is so emo.  Look at him up there, perched high above the city in the rain, thinking dark thoughts about the troll under the Brooklyn bridge.

This series is awesome, one of my favorite fantasy series, and I was so happy to find out that Rob Thurman is totally a girl.  And might I just add that Cillian Murphey is 100% Cal Leandros, and I expect a movie to be made some time in the future.

 How can a man possibly look so good?

Anyway, can't wait to dig into these books.  If you haven't read any of her stuff yet, go for it!  <3 br="br">

I know Nothing about Blogging....

And yet, I'm going to go ahead and blog for the next 365 days. Well, I'm going to try anyway. Maybe by then it will just be habit, and this blog will just keep going forever.

Work is overloading me know, which financially is what I need, so I'm going to say it's a good thing and leave it at that. Although I will add that I've also discovered 5 Hour Energy shots to work fantastically for me (expensive, though! $18 for a six pack?!!), so I chug one every Monday after I get back from school and head into work. Then I'm ready for an evening of crazy karate kids and private lessons.

Getting in an extra flow of cash is always good. However, as I stated in my last post, I just don't have the time to write. Really, I go home, eat and then lay down. I can rarely find time to read now, I'm so tired and busy.

I'm going to talk a little about the book The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis, which I'm in the middle of reading right now. The book is science fiction and deals with time travel. A Historian is sent back to the 1300's (middle ages) and something goes wrong, but we're not sure what. In fact, I'm 200+ pages in, and I still don't know what went wrong when she was sent back.

The historian gets sick as soon as she gets there, but I still don't know exactly why or how. They never fully explain it (yet), and I'm beginning to get frustrated.

Don't get me wrong, it's still a clean, good read, and I'm dying to figure out what happened and how the heck she's going to get back. The only problem is I'm finding only minutes at a time to pick up the book and read, so it's slow going. This is killing me, because I'm a fast reader.

I'm inspired to start working on my novel again, now if I could just find the time to do it...