Welcome to StoryHeaven.com
Welcome to the site! Story Heaven is simply a compilation of favorites: favorite authors, favorite books, favorite series, favorite stories.
I love to talk about books, and there are no better books to talk about than the ones I love. From my favorite novels and series to my favorite characters, these pages are intended to share my love of these authors’ universes with you.
At the moment, the focus is books, but stories don’t just live in books…
I also love the stories I find in television series. TV series have a depth of stories that rival the best book series, so I do plan to add information about television stories too, over time.
See you around!
Do you want to contact me? Read this.
Are you hoping to ask for a review? Read this first.
About Me
I have a lot of favorite stories. Here are a few.
Favorite Authors of Romance
- Historical Romance
- Contemporary Romance
- Paranormal Romance
- Jayne Castlealso writes paranormal romance as Amanda Quick and Jayne Ann Krentz in the Arcane Society series
- Kresley Cole
- Sarah McCarty
Favorite Authors of Fantasy & Science Fiction
- Fantasy
- Science Fiction
Favorite Series
Many of my favorite authors write series and I have a page just for my favorite series. Below are some of the series you’ll find there.
- The Saga of Recluce (L.E. Modesitt Jr.)
- The Corean Chronicles (L.E. Modesitt Jr.)
- Immortals After Dark (Kresley Cole)
- The Arcane Society (Amanda Quick and Jayne Ann Krentz)
- The Curtain (Lost Colonies: St. Helens, Harmony; Ghost Hunters) (Jayne Castle a.k.a. Jayne Ann Krentz)
- The Malorys (Johanna Lindsey)
Favorite Television Series
I adore many TV series, but here’s a short list of my favorites, those I either own on DVD or know I will own someday.
- Castle*
- Leverage
- Monk
- Psych
- Warehouse 13
- Eureka
- The Good Guys
- Merlin*
- Stargate Atlantis*
- Stargate SG-1*
- Star Trek Voyager*
*already own all available DVD Sets
Even the loosely connected series tend to build on each other after a while, developing a depth to the overall story arc that the casual viewer won’t recognize. That’s the fun in watching a television series develop over time, following the episodes in the order created, as they were meant to be seen.
Library Building
My emphasis on library building is based on the premise that the best stories are worth revisiting. Building a library of great stories, whether in print, ebook, DVD, or digital, is the best way to collect these stories.
Build your library with hardcover copies of favorites by getting them while they’re bargain books. I use this method myself by watching the releases of my favorite authors’ hardcover books.
I try to keep these updated frequently because the bargain copies sell out quickly.
I try to catch sales on DVDs, because when you do, you can get an entire season of episodes for about the price of a hard cover novel (comparable in the time it takes to watch to reading a massively long novel or a short series – about 20 hours worth).
Visual Appeal
I find video ads for books strangely appealing, so I have a section where I’ve added the video book trailers for the books of my favorites.