Top Ten Tuesday (Yes I am late) - Characters Who Should Get Their Own Books

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and Bookish  . This week we are show casing that top ten characters who should have their own books.

1) Morwen from the Dealing with Dragon Chronicles-
By Patricia C Wrede

She has a SECTION in one of the books told from her POV, but she should have a WHOLE book devoted just to her and her talking cats and magical house with the door to every where. She is an unconventional witch and if you have't read this series yes do so very fast.


2)Dracula-
Okay bare with me...This novel is told from everyone's POV but the title character!! He should have his own book all from his own perspective.


3)Delia Peabody from the In Death series- by JD Robb

This series is from Eve Dallas POV and they are super great, futuristic murder mystery....Some of my favorite books. But a book about Peabody all by herself fighting crime or her family and WHY she wanted to become a cop, maybe her time at the academy would be awesome

4)The House in The Fall- by Bethany Griffin

The book was great, but it's POV Madeline and she talks about the jealous killing house....I would love to see it all from the House perspective, why did the house drive members of the family crazy and want them to breed?

5)The Marauders from Harry Potter by JK Rowling-

Self Explanatory I think.

6)Simi- the demon girl from the Dark Hunter Series-

She lives on Ash's body...but what else? I think this would be a fun novella....What does she do when Ash banishes her while he humps Artemis?? Etc...

7)The Vord Queen from Jim Butchers Furies of Calderon Codex series-

She's like a scary giant bug woman who looks like Tavi's beloved, but how she was written makes me think there might have been more to her than straight evil bug queen.


8)Mr. Stab from Simon R Green's Secret Histories novels-

Immortal serial killer, Jack the Ripper? Hells yes please.

9)The Nightside (A users guide...or travel book) From the Nightside Novels by Simon R Green-

Unconventional I know, but I keep a list of all the people and places in a notebook and think that would be a fun companion novel to this series.


10) Elizabeth Bathory's victims in ANY book about her.-

I mean seriously we always hear from Elizabeth and her servants, why not her victims? Maybe one who got away.

Another Story About an Author Acting Badly....great

I hate the fact that I have to again address this.

As an author and a blogger I can say with all CERTAINTY. You do not argue with someone who has given you bad reviews (status updates) or who didn’t like your book.
Once you put something out there, it is out there, forever. You have given the population the right to judge your work how they see fit, whether they like it or not. You do not have the right to stalk or harass an author or reviewer.

There has been a giant bru ha ha on good reads….again. Kathleen Hale wrote an essay where she tries to paint a blogger, Blythe, in a really bad light, http://www.donotlink.com/framed?565100 but all she succeeds in doing is chronically the fact that she basically stalked this blogger for months, going as far to pay for a back ground check and lie to obtain her address. Also note that this author was told not to engage and did so any way.

This has caused many good bloggers that I have been friends with for years to place this author and her books of DNR lists and refuse to review. I am one of them. I try hard not to help out authors who attack reviewers; it is, in my opinion, in really bad taste. Possibly something Weird Al should have put in his song Tacky.
Kathleen Hale has gone into the black hole that STGRB has. A place where all I can have for her is pity and disgust.

Stalking is a crime and I think Kathleen Hale should be held accountable for spending months online and physically stalking this blogger. This is tacky behavior from any author. Think about it this way: the blogger spent maybe a few days reading this book and then moved on…the author wasted months of her life obsessing over something as trivial as one bad review.

Publishers need to really tell their authors to let this go and that they will not support any sort of contact between a reviewer and their author unless it is in a positive way (like giving away free book copies.) Maybe even teach a class on it.

My support for this particular blogger stands.

Wanna see other bloggers who wrote about this?
http://dearauthor.com/features/essays/on-the-importance-of-pseudonymous-activity/

http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/blog/the-choices-of-kathleen-hale