On the Soul of a Vampire, Book I in the On the Soul series is FREE on Amazon Kindle Tuesday and Wednesday, August 21 & 22. Just click on the book cover link below:
The solution to the mystery has always been in the human soul.
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Showing posts with label horror. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
On the Soul of a Vampire FREE on Kindle August 21 & 22
Read a vampire novel that's much less about darkness and death than it is about light and life.
On the Soul of a Vampire, Book I in the On the Soul series is FREE on Amazon Kindle Tuesday and Wednesday, August 21 & 22. Just click on the book cover link below:
The solution to the mystery has always been in the human soul.
On the Soul of a Vampire, Book I in the On the Soul series is FREE on Amazon Kindle Tuesday and Wednesday, August 21 & 22. Just click on the book cover link below:
The solution to the mystery has always been in the human soul.
Sunday, August 5, 2012
On the Soul of a Vampire FREE on Kindle Tuesday, August 7
On the Soul of a Vampire, Book I in the On the Soul series, will be FREE on Amazon Kindle this Tuesday, August 7, 2012. Discover how the truth behind the legend has always resided in the human soul. Just click on the link below to start the journey towards a secret as old as mankind:
Friday, July 13, 2012
The Next Big Thing: Part 3
Today it’s two more questions in The Next Big Thing (TNBT),
a blog event consisting of 10 questions about an author’s current WIP (work in
progress) and links to more awesome authors.
My big thanks again to authors Karin Kaufman, for inviting me, and Gail M. Baugniet, for the event.
Question #4: Which
actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition?
As far as the translated story I’m working on, The Red
Bridge Murder, I haven’t really had any time at all to consider that, but the
characters in the story are fairly young, so I think it would need to be actors
in the under 30s group, with whom I’m a bit less familiar.
With Genesis, despite that I actually played out the first
book, On the Soul of a Vampire, in my head as a movie before writing the story
down, I truly can’t imagine any well-known actor portraying Valéry. I think it would be a difficult role to play,
considering he’s emotionally and intellectually 800 years old, has both
witnessed and experienced a lot of suffering, but still has quite a bit of the youthful
scamp aura about him and he’s physically still 19 years old. There’s also the matter of bringing across
what it would be like to have the complete empathy with and intimate
understanding of another that would come from knowing human souls and his
conflicted, seeker type personality.
Very similar challenges would be involved with playing Angelina and a
number of the other characters in the story, so it would be quite interesting
to see what an actor or actress would do with that.
Question #5: What is
the one sentence synopsis of your book?
The Red
Bridge
Genesis: Fallen angels
don’t fall to earth, though in them resides the clue to why the incarnate were sent,
and a sublime truth hidden for centuries within a suffering soul could well be
the key to long-misunderstood and love-filled divine intent.
Some more awesome authors to keep an eye on:
Michelle Sutton: http://apps.michellesutton.net/Blog/
Robbi Bryant: http://www.robbibryant.com/
LeAnn Neal Reilly: http://www.nealreilly.com/
Catherine West: http://thisisablogaboutbooks.wordpress.com/
For those who would like to participate or follow along,
here is the full list of 10 questions:
1. What is the title
of your book/WIP?
2. Where did the idea
for the book come from?3. What genre would your book fall under?
4. Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie rendition?
5. What is the one sentence synopsis of your book?
6. Is your book published or represented?
7. How long did it take you to write?
8. What other books within your genre would you compare it to?
9. Which authors inspired you to write the book?
10. Tell us anything else that might pique our interest in your book?
A very happy Friday to all!
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Celebrate Bastille Day/La Fete Nationale with a Free French Twofer (Sort of)
In honor of
And my dual language story, The Lion Hunt, an English
translation of Alfred Assollant’s parody/adventure La Chasse aux Lions, which
includes the original French story, will be FREE on Kindle Saturday, July 14 (Bastille
Day), 2012.
Monday, May 7, 2012
Pro Luce Habere FREE on Kindle Tuesday, May 8
Get Pro Luce Habere, the two volume prequel to On the Soul of a Vampire, FREE on Amazon Kindle Tuesday, May 8. That's two full-length novels, combined in one edition, for free and, as a prequel, it can be read before reading On the Soul of a Vampire.
Just click the book link below:
What does a vampire see when he dies?
The death, destruction and darkness rife in human history…
and the living light in the human soul which somehow shines through it all.
A horrific deception that just may lead to the ultimate truth he’s sought for eight centuries…
and mystical visions of a little girl who could hold the key to the mystery of a legend as old as mankind.
Dying isn’t the end of knowledge; it’s only the beginning.
Just click the book link below:
What does a vampire see when he dies?
The death, destruction and darkness rife in human history…
and the living light in the human soul which somehow shines through it all.
A horrific deception that just may lead to the ultimate truth he’s sought for eight centuries…
and mystical visions of a little girl who could hold the key to the mystery of a legend as old as mankind.
Dying isn’t the end of knowledge; it’s only the beginning.
Sunday, March 4, 2012
On the Soul of a Vampire FREE on Amazon Kindle Mon. & Tues., March 5-6
On the Soul of a Vampire, Book I in the On the Soul series, will be FREE on Amazon Kindle Monday and Tuesday, March 5th and 6th, 2012.
Just click on the book link below:
A vampire's desire isn't blood or life; the key to the mystery is in the human soul.
Just click on the book link below:
A vampire's desire isn't blood or life; the key to the mystery is in the human soul.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Pro Luce Habere FREE on Amazon Kindle TODAY thru SAT.
Pro Luce Habere, the prequel to On the Soul of a Vampire, is FREE on Amazon Kindle today (2/23) through Saturday (2/25). Just click on the book link below:
Look beyond fiction and folklore and believe again.
Look beyond fiction and folklore and believe again.
Monday, February 20, 2012
Pro Luce Habere FREE on Kindle Feb. 23 through Feb. 25
This Thursday through Saturday, February 23-25, 2012 get Pro Luce Habere Volumes 1 & 2 combined edition FREE on Kindle.
Just click on the book cover below:
The power’s not in the blood, but in the sacrifice made in spilling it.
Just click on the book cover below:
The power’s not in the blood, but in the sacrifice made in spilling it.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
See History Through the Eyes of an Immortal Legend
Pro Luce Habere Volume I only $0.99 on Amazon Kindle.
From now until December 30, 2011, get Pro Luce Habere Volume I on Kindle for only $0.99. And check out the just released Pro Luce Habere Volume II on Kindle for only $1.99. Both are full-length novels and Pro Luce Habere is a stand-alone story that can be read before Book I, On the Soul of a Vampire. This dark epic tale of eight hundred years of human history through the eyes of an immortal is also available in a combined Volume I & II e-book edition for only $4.99 on Amazon and Smashwords.
In the place between life and death, the soul is exposed to the light. Relive the memory of an 800 year old vampire's descent into darkness as he does, from child of faith who set out on the Children's Crusade in 1212 to desperate 14th century creature of the night. Sometimes the key which unlocks the secret of what's to come is hidden in the past. Book II of the On the Soul Series.
Volume I on Amazon
After an earth-shattering revelation, vampire Valéry seeks a new world, free of the Old World's pain. Trapped in the darkness he can't escape, his attempt to determine who really is the monster further leads to him becoming one whose greatest deception is the lie he tells himself. Until the illusion is shattered to behold an enigmatic mortal girl.
Volume II on Amazon
From his departure on the Children’s Crusade of 1212 at fourteen through his remaking as a creature of the night, Valéry seeks answers to the mystery and meaning of his existence over the course of eight centuries of human history. Forced to kill so he might live, but cherishing the lives he knows intimately in death, he is both shaped and haunted by the battle between light and darkness within his victims and within himself. See the inquisitions and witch hunts of the Middle Ages, two history-changing revolutions, world war and modernity through the eyes of this living myth, before the final unfolding of the mystery in the legend’s origin and purpose and the incredible revelation of how profoundly it is linked to that of every human soul.
Volume I & II on Amazon
The On the Soul Series on Smashwords
Excerpt from Pro Luce Habere Volume I:
“I see Heaven,” he breathed to me, his voice soft and distant and, it seemed, filled with joy. I tightened my hold on him as he grew more relaxed against me, and I felt his heartbeat speed up in his chest, to a rate even beyond that which my touch had provoked.
I closed my eyes and I knew him. All he was, this man not much older than my own nineteen years, who had nevertheless lived a life just as long. His wish to be free of the family that did not understand the passion in him was my wish, and the music he made to ease his pain and celebrate life, was also for a moment mine. His faith in God gave me back my own faith and for those brief moments that I held him, I believed again with all the fire of my mortal youth. All his dreams, all his hopes, his every wish and fear and desire, they were all mine and they were touchable, somehow made a reality I could hold in my hands. All the pleasure he had ever known and all the sorrow in his knowledge filled me; and I knew the answer to it all was there. Not close, not painfully near and just out of reach, but right there, and a light penetrated my entire being. A light brighter than any sun and a living force of shifting color more beautiful than anything I’d ever seen.
His heart stopped with a final violent beat like an explosion, and his lifeforce seemed to remain there for a moment, uncertain, while I reached out with a part of myself I barely recognized, trying to touch it. Wanting desperately to make it mine as it merged into that light and so make its knowledge and final acceptance my own.
And then it was gone. I held his inert body in my arms – a shell now, it seemed, which no longer contained the thing I’d so badly wanted of it. The thing in him I’d loved with a love I’d never even imagined could exist.
He is dead, a meek, numbed voice spoke inside my head. Dead, dead, dead, and you are the reason.
I lowered his body away from me and rocked forward on my knees, lowering my head to his chest. I stroked it in the place over his heart, as if my touch could make it beat again. Then I lifted my head a fraction, staring at his face, still and serene and at peace. The peace Sebastian should have had, I thought, but he hadn’t, and it did not matter that I’d tried to give it to him through this young man. However I might want to justify what I’d done to recognize I’d taken him to death in great pleasure and erased every fear a dying man might hold in his heart, it changed nothing. He was dead and I was the reason for it and as much as I wished it, I could not bring him back.
I gathered his lifeless form into my arms and I rocked him. For minutes or hours, I didn’t know. All I knew was that this was going to be the result with every human being I touched – for eternity, if Lukios had not lied.
“Oh God, oh please… make it stop,” I whispered once or twice or a hundred times.
My heart constricted so tightly it was excruciating; my breath came in ragged gasps. Then I leaned forward over the man I’d just murdered, the human being whose very life I’d experienced the greatest pleasure I’d ever known to feed on, and I vomited up the blood I’d not long ago drunk with no qualms. The blood that had tasted so sweet in its promise of fulfilled desire.
“Make it stop!” I screamed, rising to my feet and lifting my arms to the sky in desperate supplication. “God, my God, strike me down. Kill me. Please, kill me now!”
But no bolt of lightning struck me; no fiery death rained down from the sky. God did not answer in voice or in action, just as He never had before this monstrous desire made me the killer I’d never believed I could be.
I fell to my knees, vomiting again, and as I fell forward, my hand landed on the dagger I’d just taken a life with – an innocent, beautiful life that I had known so intimately it might have been my own.
Screams were torn from me again, but this time there were no words – just terrible sounds that could not convey the horror which provoked them – and I raised the dagger above my head then slammed it down, driving it through my wrist so forcefully, it pierced my arm completely and pinned it to the ground beneath it.
I pulled it back out and, watching the blood gush from it, I wondered dazedly if I’d have enough strength to do with my right hand what I’d just done with my left.
But then someone was rocking me as I’d rocked the young troubadour’s body, clamping my bleeding wrist in his hand. And as a blessed darkness descended, I heard a soft sob that sounded like “I’m sorry.”
Pro Luce Habere Volume I is also available in paperback. Volume II and the combined edition coming soon in print format.
From now until December 30, 2011, get Pro Luce Habere Volume I on Kindle for only $0.99. And check out the just released Pro Luce Habere Volume II on Kindle for only $1.99. Both are full-length novels and Pro Luce Habere is a stand-alone story that can be read before Book I, On the Soul of a Vampire. This dark epic tale of eight hundred years of human history through the eyes of an immortal is also available in a combined Volume I & II e-book edition for only $4.99 on Amazon and Smashwords.
Volume I
In the place between life and death, the soul is exposed to the light. Relive the memory of an 800 year old vampire's descent into darkness as he does, from child of faith who set out on the Children's Crusade in 1212 to desperate 14th century creature of the night. Sometimes the key which unlocks the secret of what's to come is hidden in the past. Book II of the On the Soul Series.
Volume I on Amazon
Volume II
After an earth-shattering revelation, vampire Valéry seeks a new world, free of the Old World's pain. Trapped in the darkness he can't escape, his attempt to determine who really is the monster further leads to him becoming one whose greatest deception is the lie he tells himself. Until the illusion is shattered to behold an enigmatic mortal girl.
Volume II on Amazon
Volume I & II Combined Edition
From his departure on the Children’s Crusade of 1212 at fourteen through his remaking as a creature of the night, Valéry seeks answers to the mystery and meaning of his existence over the course of eight centuries of human history. Forced to kill so he might live, but cherishing the lives he knows intimately in death, he is both shaped and haunted by the battle between light and darkness within his victims and within himself. See the inquisitions and witch hunts of the Middle Ages, two history-changing revolutions, world war and modernity through the eyes of this living myth, before the final unfolding of the mystery in the legend’s origin and purpose and the incredible revelation of how profoundly it is linked to that of every human soul.
Volume I & II on Amazon
The On the Soul Series on Smashwords
Excerpt from Pro Luce Habere Volume I:
“I see Heaven,” he breathed to me, his voice soft and distant and, it seemed, filled with joy. I tightened my hold on him as he grew more relaxed against me, and I felt his heartbeat speed up in his chest, to a rate even beyond that which my touch had provoked.
I closed my eyes and I knew him. All he was, this man not much older than my own nineteen years, who had nevertheless lived a life just as long. His wish to be free of the family that did not understand the passion in him was my wish, and the music he made to ease his pain and celebrate life, was also for a moment mine. His faith in God gave me back my own faith and for those brief moments that I held him, I believed again with all the fire of my mortal youth. All his dreams, all his hopes, his every wish and fear and desire, they were all mine and they were touchable, somehow made a reality I could hold in my hands. All the pleasure he had ever known and all the sorrow in his knowledge filled me; and I knew the answer to it all was there. Not close, not painfully near and just out of reach, but right there, and a light penetrated my entire being. A light brighter than any sun and a living force of shifting color more beautiful than anything I’d ever seen.
His heart stopped with a final violent beat like an explosion, and his lifeforce seemed to remain there for a moment, uncertain, while I reached out with a part of myself I barely recognized, trying to touch it. Wanting desperately to make it mine as it merged into that light and so make its knowledge and final acceptance my own.
And then it was gone. I held his inert body in my arms – a shell now, it seemed, which no longer contained the thing I’d so badly wanted of it. The thing in him I’d loved with a love I’d never even imagined could exist.
He is dead, a meek, numbed voice spoke inside my head. Dead, dead, dead, and you are the reason.
I lowered his body away from me and rocked forward on my knees, lowering my head to his chest. I stroked it in the place over his heart, as if my touch could make it beat again. Then I lifted my head a fraction, staring at his face, still and serene and at peace. The peace Sebastian should have had, I thought, but he hadn’t, and it did not matter that I’d tried to give it to him through this young man. However I might want to justify what I’d done to recognize I’d taken him to death in great pleasure and erased every fear a dying man might hold in his heart, it changed nothing. He was dead and I was the reason for it and as much as I wished it, I could not bring him back.
I gathered his lifeless form into my arms and I rocked him. For minutes or hours, I didn’t know. All I knew was that this was going to be the result with every human being I touched – for eternity, if Lukios had not lied.
“Oh God, oh please… make it stop,” I whispered once or twice or a hundred times.
My heart constricted so tightly it was excruciating; my breath came in ragged gasps. Then I leaned forward over the man I’d just murdered, the human being whose very life I’d experienced the greatest pleasure I’d ever known to feed on, and I vomited up the blood I’d not long ago drunk with no qualms. The blood that had tasted so sweet in its promise of fulfilled desire.
“Make it stop!” I screamed, rising to my feet and lifting my arms to the sky in desperate supplication. “God, my God, strike me down. Kill me. Please, kill me now!”
But no bolt of lightning struck me; no fiery death rained down from the sky. God did not answer in voice or in action, just as He never had before this monstrous desire made me the killer I’d never believed I could be.
I fell to my knees, vomiting again, and as I fell forward, my hand landed on the dagger I’d just taken a life with – an innocent, beautiful life that I had known so intimately it might have been my own.
Screams were torn from me again, but this time there were no words – just terrible sounds that could not convey the horror which provoked them – and I raised the dagger above my head then slammed it down, driving it through my wrist so forcefully, it pierced my arm completely and pinned it to the ground beneath it.
I pulled it back out and, watching the blood gush from it, I wondered dazedly if I’d have enough strength to do with my right hand what I’d just done with my left.
But then someone was rocking me as I’d rocked the young troubadour’s body, clamping my bleeding wrist in his hand. And as a blessed darkness descended, I heard a soft sob that sounded like “I’m sorry.”
Pro Luce Habere Volume I is also available in paperback. Volume II and the combined edition coming soon in print format.
Monday, September 12, 2011
Damascus Road by Ellen C. Maze
5 *****
With Damascus Road, author Ellen C. Maze continues her fascinating Corescu Chronicles, and in this fantastic sequel to The Judging, readers are not only plunged into darker twists and turns, but into some profound and thought-provoking spiritual questions as well.
Mark Corescu, horrified by how he has used the excuse of judging the wicked acts of sinners to justify satisfying his bloodlust, has fled to a remote location in Europe to protect humanity, leaving newly-made vampire, Paul Black, without his mentor. For this, Paul blames Tony Agricola, and his revenge on this man of God who helped open Mark’s eyes is a most terrible one. Despite his repulsion and Paul’s constant torment, Tony succeeds in convincing Paul to feed his bloodlust on only him and preacher Big John Jenkins, who reluctantly agrees in order to keep others safe and for reasons of his own. But Paul and Mark have left a trail of bodies that have set two detectives on a mission to solve the mysterious case and, finally, Tony and Paul are forced to flee to Germany in search of Mark, with the abandoned woman who loves him, Hope Brannen, hot on their heels. But will finding the ancient vampire really lead to the answers they each seek?
Damascus Road is another amazing story by Ellen Maze that doesn’t just offer non-stop suspense and fascinating characters, but also provides an extremely unique way to look at human spiritual dilemmas. I loved the development of the characters Tony and Paul in this sequel. It’s possible to sympathize with the two in both their strengths and their weaknesses and their complex relationship is absolutely spellbinding. Even when Paul’s cruelty and constant sarcastic barbs and Tony’s often too patient suffering soul make the reader want to shake them, it’s still impossible not to feel for them and see them as simply human – fallible and redeemable, both. The questions their story poses about selfishness and self-sacrifice, temptation and faith offer great depth, raising a suspenseful paranormal horror story to a wonderful piece of speculative fiction, as do the challenges and struggles of new characters, Big John Jenkins and the pursuing detectives.
Another excellent work by an author who has become one of my favorites for her incredibly imaginative and well-written stories that don’t just entertain, but give me so much to think about. I can’t wait to read the next book in the Corescu Chronicles. If you haven’t read any of her two series or short stories yet, don’t miss out!
Thursday, August 25, 2011
ECFL Blog Tour Stop 23: Teric Darken
It's time for the next stop on the 2011 Hot Summer Reads with Edge Blog Tour and today's visit is with author Teric Darken at:
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Teric's four featured books include two of his own fantastic thriller novels, Wickflicker and K-I-L-L FM 100: Music to Die For, Kevin Maze's eerie, WISP: A Small Town Nightmare, and Teric was also kind enough to choose my debut novel, On the Soul of a Vampire. (Thank you, Teric!) As I've also been fortunate enough to read all of these unique novels and they're some of my favorites, I can second the recommendation that they make fabulous summer reads!
Check out Teric's great reviews of these exciting books and continue following the tour at:
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[/caption]Teric's four featured books include two of his own fantastic thriller novels, Wickflicker and K-I-L-L FM 100: Music to Die For, Kevin Maze's eerie, WISP: A Small Town Nightmare, and Teric was also kind enough to choose my debut novel, On the Soul of a Vampire. (Thank you, Teric!) As I've also been fortunate enough to read all of these unique novels and they're some of my favorites, I can second the recommendation that they make fabulous summer reads!
Check out Teric's great reviews of these exciting books and continue following the tour at:
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