Ilona's World

This has been an interesting week. I've been interviewed (twice) and I also got a new Author Profile page at Novelspot. It's here .

A new short story by Frank Zafiro , Be My Santa Baby has appeared in Mysterical-E mag's winter issue. Read it here .

The Unearthly Companion contest has ended at the TCM Reviews website. The winner will soon receive a pdf copy of my book.

This is me with the book. See how good it looks. Remember, poetry books make great Christmas gifts.

Check out the brand new European Reader website , a site for readers and writers in Europe and beyond . (I am the editor).

The new Novelspot poll has just started. You can also vote for your preferred author here . (My choice was Karen Koehler .)

It will be on Friday (Dec 9./ Nagy Vita /17:50/M1).

Visitors of the TCM Reviews website can win a pdf copy of my book, Unearthly Companion . Details here .

Two of my poems got published today. One is Refuge in the December issue of Between Kisses , and the other one is In Command in this month's KidVisions (one of Samsdot Publishing 's magazines for kids).

Clarissa , one of my previously published poems is online again and can be found in the free reads section of my site. It used to be online in an older issue of BK , but then the link became dead. People really like this one, so I decided to include it at my site and to keep it there. Read this poem here .

Rammstein 's new album entitled Rosenrot won't cause you disappointment. It starts with the much loved song Benzin and has many other good songs. My favourites include the fascinating Spring and somewhat later Stirbt nicht vor mir (a duet with Sharleen Spiteri from Texas ), but Zerstören and Hilf mir also have to be mentioned. (Quite surprisingly, there's also a song in Spanish.) An excellent album. (Visit the Rammstein website .)

For those who are looking for a good fantasy book for small children, I can recommend Mary C. Fairbanks ' The Affairs of Dragons . It contains a collection of wonderful dragon tales. (Actually, this is the title of the new printed edition ' Dragon Tales '.) I have recently reviewed this book for SQ and I really enjoyed it. For poetry lovers, I can recommend Second Opinion , an excellent collection by Tony Thorne who is also known as science fiction and non-fiction writer. Second Opinion is both entertaining and thought-provoking, and it has to be read multiple times.