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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!
Hunter’s Prayer
I think–now I’m not absolutely sure, but I think Barnes & Noble is shipping Hunter’s Prayer now. It’s odd, but usually Amazon is the first to start shipping.
If you can verify whether or not BN’s shipping the book, can you let me know? I’m just curious.
Yeah. Nail-biting curious. That’s all. I’m not, you know, ATTACHED to knowing or anything. Course not. Me? No way.
*grin*
ETA: My local indie bookstore tells me the distributor’s got it. They also say that they’ll be happy to mail signed copies for cover cost plus reasonable postage. This is the bookstore I volunteer at, so they can have me in to personalize books too, if you’ve got a hankerin’. Come to think of it, they stock pretty much all my books except for the Anna Beguines; so you can probably get a signed copy of just about all my books.
Head. Exploding.
Flesh Circus is moving right along.
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But my brain feels like it’s being squoozled dry every day now. I have the next couple of chapters plotted out, I know what happens next, and this is the part of the creative process that is most emotionally and physically exhausting–but so intensely rewarding.
*takes deep breath*
*dives*
More zombies than usual…
This?
more cat pictures
This is what it’s like waking up in the morning with a book burning in your head. I got 3k out yesterday and am settling down to get more out today. So far we’ve had supernatural erectile dysfunction, an exorcism gone wrong, the circus coming to town, and a fight in the sewers.
I love this job. I wonder what’s going to happen today?
The Current Stack
I haven’t done a book post for a while, have I?
Currently I’m reading a lot of Cormac McCarthy. I’ve finished off All The Pretty Horses (on the train from San Diego), No Country For Old Men (a while ago), Blood Meridian (which got me started on the McCarthy kick), and Child of God. I’m currently working on Outer Dark and The Orchard Keeper; planning on the next two in the Border Trilogy after a while.
I also finished Duras’s The Little Horses of Tarquinia on the train to San Diego, and an annotated Jane Eyre. I took a whack at Crime Scene Chemistry For The Armchair Sleuth, which is very well written and which I eventually gave to the Chemist, my middle sister. I was also working on a huge honking new history of Nazi Germany, mostly because of my interest in the Eastern Front of both world wars. Finished that and a couple other works on the Soviet army in WWII (thank you, DreamLabyrinth!) I’ve started on a secondary interest–the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union.
I don’t know what I’ll be attempting next, unless it’s finishing the next Kismet book. Which I’m rather successfully avoiding working on a sex scene for. *sigh* Ah, the life of a writer.
So, off I go. I’m listening to Zimmer and Howard’s soundtrack for The Dark Knight, which is atmospheric and creepy for the next Jill book.
I know what the problem is: I’ve been in those relationships where the edge of physical violence and sexual attraction is always there. It’s a fine edge, a cutting edge, and you need to be careful where you hold it. Putting it on paper is, well, thought-provoking. And dangerous.
So I’ve put it off long enough. A civil adieu to you, dear Reader.
