This post is part of my Blog Orgy Tour in support of Charactered Pieces, which is currently available from OW Press (or Amazon.com ). This post appears simultaneously at Pela Via's blog.

I've known Pela Via only a short time, but when a person becomes part of the pack as quickly as she did, you're forced to either embrace the new face, or find a different crowd. Luckily, I didn't have to be forced at all to take to her. Her fiction aside (which is great, by the way) she has a willingness to...