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Selene Is Now Live!
Psst! Wanna read a free serial novel?
Readers of the Dante Valentine series will remember their favorite Nichtvren duo, Selene and Nikolai. Plenty of you wrote in wanting to know more about them. Well, back when I was writing for AnotherChapter.com, I did write a book about the deadly duo, illustrated by the awesome Andrzej Karwacki.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, Orbit and I are offering the book for free in serial form. Chapters will be posted every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. And did I mention it’s free?
Selene
Life isn’t easy for a sexwitch. Even your own body betrays you. It’s bad enough that Selene is part slave to Nikolai, the Prime Power of Saint City, but she’s got her brother Danny and she’s got her job at the college. In the postwar wreckage of an uncertain world, it’s pretty much all she’s ever allowed herself to want.
Then Danny ends up murdered, and Selene finds herself a pawn in a dangerous game. Indentured to a bloodsucking Nichtvren and helpless, told to stop trying to uncover the identity of her brother’s killer, Selene has nowhere to turn. If she’s a good girl, Nikolai will leave her a little bit of freedom. He’ll take care of her, and she’ll be safe–if she obeys.
But Selene hasn’t survived this long by being obedient to her cursed powers, or to the men who buy her time. Her brother was all she had, and now she’s ready to borrow, beg, lie, steal or kill–whatever it takes to avenge him.
And if Nikolai gets in the way, Selene will use every tool in her arsenal to make him regret it…
Enjoy! Comments on the chapters are turned off for obvious reasons, but there’s always the Saint City Street Fair, which has a forum just for Selene.
Enjoy!
Win A Copy Of HP
I’m guest-blogging over at Paranormality today, with 10 Things About Worldbuilding. You have a chance to win a copy of Hunter’s Prayer by popping over there and commenting.
Stay tuned for an announcement about a free serial novel. It DOES feel like the book that just will not release, but I’m told Wednesday is our new unveiling day. Srsly, I’m really hoping it goes this time…
Video Restrospective
So it’s Monday, and I’m thinking that I’ll need the next two days as a weekend from, well, my weekend. It was a busy one. And it made me stop and look back. Not like Lot’s wife–or maybe like her, viewing an orgy of destruction. She might have crumbled free of that salt, denying angry fathers and men their control.
But that’s another story. Let’s start with Linda Ronstadt. I’m a big fan since childhood, of her and Carly Simon.
Video Thursday!
Here shall be a bulleted list, for I am crunchy and good with ketchup this morning. Heh.
* A big shout-out to about a quarter of my f-list, and about half of all their f-lists, who are currently attending Portus even as I type this. From the Selkie to Cavalaxis and D. Macabre, not to mention D. Labyrinth and Yanniconny, vaya con Dios! Have a great time, everyone!
* I’m judging a writing contest over at Empire of the Cat. The deadline for submission is July 16th (I believe) and the prizes are signed books by yours truly. The subject is fairytales. Enjoy!
* I love this song:
I especially like the video, where Annie Lennox dresses up like a superhero. Each time I listen to the song I find more in it.
* I am often struck by how kids “fix” themselves when they have a congenial environment. I’ve often said you can’t save someone who wants to be saved, but when someone does honestly want to be saved, miracles are possible. Which leads me to the question, how much of a miracle is just allowing it to happen?
* I also love this song:
It’s kind of how Saul feels about Jill.
* Since I’m apparently on a video kick, how about some Stranger Than Fiction?
I LOVED this movie. I just can’t say enough good things about it. And that’s rare, for me.
* I have become totally enamored of the Comics Curmudgeon. He just can’t mock those comic strips fast enough for me. More! More!
* Oh, Fantes.com! Look kindly upon this, your humble kitchen-addicted servant! Please do not tempt me more with brotforms and herb mincers! Avert! Avert!
* One of the great joys of my childhood, bleeding through into my adult life, is the Harriet Carter catalog. It’s an event in our house. The kids gather round, and we snark the entire catalog from soup to nuts. By the end of it I’m usually laughing too hard to breathe, the UnSullen One is on the floor clutching his midriff, and the kids are all excited because everyone’s having such a good time.
And I believe that is all for today. Except I could link to the White Stripes’s Ball and a Biscuit, which I listened to a LOT while writing Weasel Boy and will probably go back to when I start revising.
But for right now, I need a shower. And to pack a lunch since we won’t be home today. Happy Thursday, everyone!
NIGHT SHIFT extract!
Just a quick note to let you know: you can find an extract from the just-released Jill Kismet book Night Shift over here on the Orbit site. Enjoy!
