I love the oldies from the sixties through the eighties; Tom Petty and Journey are my favorites; the powerful love ballads of the eighties; some country and bluegrass. And please look at http://www.jimmeyer-songwriter.com for my brother Jim Meyer's available CDs....listen to my book trailers to hear samples of his music.
Movies
I love well-made science fiction movies and heart-warming family and love stories. I love the best of the horror movies... but the traditional older ones - ghost and vampires and werewolves - without all the blood and gore of the newer slasher kind. Give me a good story and believable characters I can care about before you start the killing. Give me a reason to care about them before they're in danger.
Television
I love old movies from the 40's and 50's...loved Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Charmed...and I love Smallville and Supernatural. I adore all kinds of mystical programs as well as good-hearted stuff like Gilmore Girls. Anything that's written well.
Books
I have no favorites actually or too many to name. I read Stephen King and Dean Koontz but I also read the top-rated mysteries and romances. Time travel. I'm also very partial to well-written ghost, vampire and werewolves stories...and I still write about them myself sometimes.
Heroes
My heroes are anyone in this world that works to make the world a better place. Good cops, good politicians (not many of them around, I tell you) good-hearted people who give of their time and money to help others.
About me: My newest romantic suspense novel, WINTER'S JOURNEY (paperback Oct. 3, 2008) is now out at THE WILD ROSE PRESS!! My first e-novel EGYPTIAN HEART, an ancient Egyptian time travel romance, is NOW out in paperback from them as well. As well as two ghostly e-short stories - IN THIS HOUSE and DON'T LOOK BACK, AGNES - available as well at www.thewildrosepress. While my contemporary romance e-novel with a touch of murder mystery, THE ICE BRIDGE will be out on September 12, 2008 (paperback March 3, 2009).
See all my self-made book trailers HERE BELOW!!! Most (except Egyptian Heart, which needed middle Eastern music) with original song soundtracks from my musician/songwriter brother, Jim Meyer. BELOW!!! LOOK at http://www.jimmeyer-songwriter.com for my brother Jim Meyer's available CDs....listen to my book trailers to hear a sample of his music.
I’m a published author of ten (soon to be twelve) novels: Evil Stalks the Night (romantic horror), Leisure 1984; The Heart of the Rose (historical romance) Leisure 1985; Blood Forge (horror), Leisure 1989; Vampire Blood (romantic horror), Zebra 1991; The Last Vampire (romantic horror), Zebra 1992; Witches (romantic horror), Zebra 1993 & Pinnacle 2000; The Calling (romantic horror), Zebra 1994 and Scraps of Paper (romantic hardcover murder mystery), 2003 and a second mystery in the series, All Things Slip Away, 2006 from Avalon Books. Egyptian Heart; Winter's Journey and The Ice Bridge all from www.thewildrosepress - as well as two ghostly short stories, In This House and Don't Look Back, Agnes.
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I began reading Science Fiction (Ray Bradbury and Robert Heinlein), historical romance, mystery (Sherlock Holmes) and traditional horror very young and, a storyteller, I always had stories going around in my head - when I wasn't drawing pictures. I watched Twilight Zone and Spook Spectacular; loved the Waltons (I had a big poor family as well) and after my first child was born, bored silly, I began to write. My first novel, EVIL STALKS THE NIGHT, 1984, was an old-fashioned something evil's in the woods ghost story and I've been writing about vampires, ghosts, supernatural beings and murder mysteries (most with a touch of romance) ever since. I always had to write, I had no choice. It's me, a way of life, second-nature and my greatest passion. I was once a graphic designer (23 years) in the corporate world but now write full time.
Any of the really well-established horror writers of the day...Stephen King or Dean Koontz or, well, just about anyone who's lived the writing life for many years so we could discuss what it's like to hang in there for so many decades. I'd also like to meet Johnny Depp or Helen Mirren....both whom I greatly admire as actors.
