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Jaye Valentine

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About nine months ago, our local Borders bookstore was one of the first locations of the company to close during their attempt to restructure after filing for bankruptcy protection. Another business finally took over the building a few weeks ago,…

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Our House is Haunted. For Serious.

October 31, 2011 29 Jaye Valentine

Jaye and I spent our first three years together in a cramped little apartment in the congested, rundown city of Fall River, Massachusetts. Although accused ax murderess Lizzy Borden having lived less than a mile away back in 1892 had…

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Jaye’s Twitter-Sized Movie Blurbs, or Why Reno Writes Our Book Blurbs and Not Jaye: The Halloween Edition

October 30, 2011 35 Jaye Valentine

Welcome, baseball fans/scary movie buffs! Anyone who followed this past Boston Red Sox baseball season will understand the correlation. For those who don’t know/don’t care—it was ugly, brutal and bloody, but there’s always next year. We in the Northeast are…

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Vampires and Werewolves and Demons, Oh My! Supernatural Creatures and Why We Like to Write About Them

October 28, 2011 45 Jaye Valentine

Jaye: Okay, let’s jump right into this, Reno. Why do you like writing paranormal characters? Vampires, demons, therianthropes? Reno: You took the easy route asking me first! Jaye: I have to edit afterward. Cut me a break here! 😆

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“Stiletto Heels: Need I Say More?”

September 30, 2011 32 Jaye Valentine

Call me Imelda Marcos, call me Marie Antoinette, but please don’t call me late for a shoe sale. I’m crazy about shoes in general—colorful sneakers, boots of all lengths and styles, sandals, moccasins, even flip-flops—but I’m totally obsessed with high…

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Jaye’s #2 Reason for Loving the Internet

September 2, 2011 34 Jaye Valentine

Acid-washed jeans strategically ripped at the knees. Perfectly distressed bomber jacket left open to reveal a plain white T-shirt. A diamond stud in my lone pierced ear (the right ear, naturally). My hair-metal mullet expertly coiffed and held in place…

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How to Not Stick Out Like a Sore Thumb at a Gay Bar

July 29, 2011 49 Jaye Valentine

With a cold beer in one hand and the television remote in the other, I had just planted my ass on my comfortable sofa after a tiring week that had lasted a day longer than normal. The phone rang before…