One of three blogs where I'll post updates on my own writing work and also contain frequent updates for Lachesis authors and editors, along with other staff and our Lachesis readers.
For Lachesis, LBF Books, and Sinful Moments Press Authors: Staff Groups
Current mood: busy
Category: Writing and Poetry
If you are staff or an author of Lachesis Publishing, LBF Books, or the upcoming Sinful Moments Press and you have not received or signed up to our staff groups yet, could you please e-mail me at: louise@louisebohmer.com or blackfaery76@yahoo.ca ?
If you have received a repeat invite to the Lachesis / LBF / SMP Update group recently, I apologize for this. Effective immediately, rules for the staff groups have changed, and the staff chat group is optional to sign up to. As for the Staff Updates loop, we ask that you please do sign up to this group. Rules have changed for the Staff Update group, so now only senior staff can post and only highly important updates for authors and staff will be sent through this list. We apologize if this list's larger e-mail volume in the past forced anyone to leave, and we ask you do resubscribe. Send me an e-mail right away, and I will get that invite over to you.
Also, Sinful Moments Press authors, as you will note, your staff update loop will be combined with the other two imprints.
We also have a Sinful Moments Press page over at Facebook now, if any erotic romance readers and authors would like to fan us:
Lachesis: Andrew Tisbert Book Signing
Current mood: anxious
Category: Writing and Poetry
Hosted By: Andrew Tisbert and Attic of Love When: Saturday Jul 05, 2008 at 2:00 PM Where: Borders Books 395 Broadway Saratoga Springs, New York|33 12866 United States Description: Andrew Tisbert will be signing his Lachesis Publishing release The Rise and Falling Out of Saint Leslie of Security July 5. He and his alternative metal band, Attic of Love are also on tour.
The United States of America has fragmented under the pressures of terrorism and religion. Christian and American heritages have merged into one mythology.
Presidents are referred to as Father Washington, and considered God's mortal avatar.
Cyborg security agent Leslie thwarts an Atheist assassination attempt, Congress awards her official Sainthood. From the outside, her future couldn't look better: She's a hero, an instant celebrity. But on the inside, Leslie is miserable.
Leslie's memory has been artificially suppressed, her supervisor has impregnated her, and her own organization is spying on her. Her only friend is her talking gun -- and she'll lose that after the beatification.
Commiting herself to investigate the Atheists, Leslie unknowingly casts herself into a discovery of her concealled past that threatens to bring down the very man she saved. For the Atheists are led by "The Antichrist", an illegal clone of Father Washington, hell bent on one objective: the destruction of the U.S.'s Theocracy.
Will Leslie survive her own awakening?
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About the Author: Although new on the science fiction scene, Andrew Tisbert has been nominated for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History alongside such luminaries as Harry Turtledove and Paul Reed. His fiction has appeared in Paradox Magazine, Talebones, Son and Foe and the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future anthology. Originally from Vermont and Upstate New York, a series of dubious decisions have left him currently exiled in Los Angeles, where he divides his time performing as a flutist in an alternative metal rock band, finishing his next two novels, arguing politics and working with the homeless.
Euro Reviews has given Dance With Deception, Five Stars!
"Spectacularly written is this well put together tale of love, hope and passion. Tracy Goodwin has managed to rekindle a sense of joie de vivre into my being with the colorful characters of Sebastian and Gwen as they find each other and find love in the process.Dance with Deception is truly a keeper."
Have you danced with deception?If not, this is the perfect time to do so!Dance With Deception is currently on sale at Amazon.com for $10.85 (a 32% savings)! It is also available at Barnesandnoble.com, Biggerbooks.com, Chapters.indigo.ca, LBFbooks.com, Target.com and select Barnes and Noble and Borders Book stores.Prefer eBooks?Dance With Deception is available at Allromanceebooks.com and Fictionwise.com.
My own little stock of Embezzled Love arrived in the mail today. Now that I've quit hugging it and can type, I wanted to share. I'm so thrilled with the high-quality appearance. I have six other books out, and they pale in comparison to this cover and binding. I have to say this was well worth the wait. I'm over the moon happy with the final product and I hope all those who enjoy my readers will order their own copies and delight along with me.
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New Ebooks in our FW store
And if you are looking for a new e-read, check out the latest additions to the Lachesis / LBF FW bookstore. We are found at:
Embezzled Love by Ginger Simpson, Dangerous Depths by G.K. Kruszka, and By Right of Will by Lorrieann Russell, are now available for purchase.
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Congratulations to Cover Artist, Tina Adams
Another tidbit from Tracy Goodwin. Congratulations to cover artist Tina Adams, and many thanks to Tracy for posting this news to the staff groups.
I just received word that DANCE WITH DECEPTION won Honorable Mention at Love Romances Cafe's 2008 Golden Rose Awards for Best Cover Art! This is our second cover prize, as DANCE WITH DECEPTION placed Fifth in the Houston Bay Area RWA's JABBIC contest earlier this year.
Quick Pimpage -- Apex and Fifteen Minutes
Current mood: busy
Category: Writing and Poetry
The kindly redhead, Jason Sizemore, e-mailed me to let me know my 'naughty story' has resurfaced on the Apex Online site. Click the link below to read. It has erotic elements, I'll warn you now, if that offends you.
VCon Panels / Bits and Bobs
Current mood: eccentric
Category: Writing and Poetry
Printed out my panels today, and here is what I'll be on at VCon 33.
(Writing - 2583) Summoning Your Horror Muse
(Literary - 641) Dark Fantasy - Is it Just Another Name for Horror?
(Publishing - 74) Alternate Routes to Publication
(Literary - 1306) Horror: Where is the Line?
(Publishing - 809) E-Publishing: Pros and Cons and Who Reads it?
I don't know if the numbers assigned will help any of you folks who might be attending find my panels any easier, but I thought I would stick them in, just in case. (Hint, hint, John R. Little, if you are reading, I'd love to see you there. lol)
I still have to finish Courting Morpheus edits tomorrow. Jodi Lee is going to whack my behind. I'll start running now. In the meantime, go take a peek at the CM My Space, read some of the tidbits there to tempt those of dark inclinations, and friend CM.
I am hunting down interviews, e-mailing unsuspecting victims, and Jason Sizemore just happened to be curious enough to reply, with a positive response I might add. Poor redhead. I'll let you know where else you will find me pimping TBA as more victims, I mean interviewers, bow to my whims. (Oh, I am kidding. Tongue in cheek, people!)
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That's about all for now, folks. Have a good week!
Lachesis: Stone Masters A Vampire’s Reckoning -- Review
Category: Writing and Poetry
It is late, and I forgot this one. Apologies, Ness, and congrats from all of us on the great review for Stone Masters!
Louise xox
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Stone Masters A Vampire's Reckoning --- Review
"This is one of the best novels of the undead that I've read in ages – and I've read a lot of them!It's elegantly and impressively written, and the author weaves her compelling tale back and forth between the centuries as effortlessly as a vampire steals a kiss.The characters, human and other, are fully realized and even the most monstrous among them is driven by all-too-human emotions and desires.The highest praise I can give Stone Masters is that the author is now on my "must read" list.I can't wait for her next book."
Lachesis Publishing Author News -- Michael Louis Calvillo and Steven C. Levi
I Will Rise recommended for British Fantasy Award.
Our very own Michael Louis Calvillo has been recommended for the BFS Award for Best Novel (The August Derleth Fantasy Award). Please feel free to show your support for Michael by spreading the banner below, and linking it to the awards page, found at: http://www.britishfantasysociety.org/awards.html
Please note, you must be a member of the BFS to vote for the various categories. Lachesis Publishing would like to extend a hearty 'congrats' to Michael on the rec, and on his new publication deal with Bad Moon Books.
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Cadzow wins 1st in the 2008 NFPW Communications Contest.
Congratulations! You have won First - 73 in the 2008 NFPW Communications Contest.
Results from a few of our judges are still outstanding, so if we learn that you have won additional awards, you will hear from us again in the next few weeks.
We hope you will make plans now to attend the NFPW Conference September 11 - 13, 2008, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, to receive your award in person at the Saturday evening Awards Banquet. The registration form is available at www.nfpw.org.
Lachesis extends our congratulations to Steven C. Levi on this recent win.
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Lachesis June Releases -- War Paint, Return to Life, and more
War Paint W.R. Benton Genre: Western / Adventure ISBN: 1-897370-47-4 Pages: tba
Blurb: Young George Alwood the Third heads west to the Rocky Mountains, following an argument with his wealthy father. He has no idea what fate has in store for him.
Teaming up with two experienced mountain men, Jeb and Hawk, he soon finds himself with an unwanted Indian wife, Falling Leaf. When the group spends the winter high in the mountains, he learns to love her, and then discovers she is pregnant with their child.
Returning to Fort Atkinson in the summer, George sells a small bag of gold to a sutler, which brings out deep greed in more than one man who witnesses the exchange. Soon after, with a brutality rarely seen out west, his wife and unborn child are killed, and this sets him on a bloody trail for revenge. The killers have not murdered just any woman, and he will not stop until he achieves payback for his lost family.
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Return to Life Jacqueline Druga-Johnston Genre: Paranormal Romance
ISBN:1-897370-86-5 Pages tba
Blurb: When strangers Julian Harrison and David Colter agree to marry in order to save his inheritance, they haven't a clue it's not their first time around. Through a series of horrific dreams and paranormal activities, and with the help of an eccentric psychic, the pieces come together.
For centuries, they have loved in many past lives and, for centuries, their love affairs ended abruptly, with Julian's brutal death. The pattern will continue unless they can figure out a way to stop the cycle. To do that, they must figure out when and how Julian will die.
Will this return to life be their salvation, or will it end in another bloodbath?
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The Gallows on Warlock Hill David Hough Genre: Historical ISBN: 1-897370-79-2 Pages: tba (EiC's Top Pick)
Blurb: Priest's Cottage, Fiona Greenwood's home on the south coast of England, is the scene of a gruesome discovery. A skeleton is unearthed in the garden, the remains of a seventeenth century woman who was shot through the head.
Who was this woman? Why was she killed? And could her death be linked to a seventeenth century landmark on Warlock Hill, where a priest died on the gallows?
As Fiona digs deep into the past, she begins to uncover the story of her family's blood-soaked history in England and Ireland. And the closer she gets to the truth about the dead woman, the more the past comes back to haunt her, putting her own life in terrible danger.
David Hough's latest novel for Lachesis Publishing is a gritty story of human suffering and survival that switches between the present and the seventeenth century, drawing upon a long history of conflict between England and Ireland.
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Kaitlyn Wolfe: Crown Attorney (Revised and Expanded) Jacqui Morrison Genre: Contemporary / Crime drama ISBN: 1-897370-14-8 Pages: 236
Blurb:
Teenager Kaitlyn Wolfe, of First Nations descent, barely surrvives a drugging inflicted by a racist. She later overcomes stigma and painful odds, becoming an Assistant Crown Attorney, only to face off against a well-known defense attorney dubbed "The Barracuda".
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Don't forget, readers, also available this month from Lachesis.
The Infinite Instant Danielle L. Parker ISBN: 1-897370-53-9
Stone Masters: A Vampire's Reckoning V.M.K. Fewings ISBN: 1-4196-4267-8 First Printing ISBN: 1-897370-75-X Second Printing
Brushed Back Richard J. Paloma ISBN: 1-897370-45-8
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Also Coming Soon from Lachesis
Consuming Entities - Maxwell Lewis All the Wrong Reasons - R. Roland Hartman Out of Time - Mike McCarty and Connie Corcoran Wilson Crashers - Lindy S. Hudis Cop's Daughter: Victoria (Book 1) - Laura Marie Henion
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Enjoy the summer and fall with lots of great reading material from Lachesis and LBF Books.
Support Clive Barker and the Midnight Meat Train!
Current mood: annoyed
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
If you are a diehard Barker fan as I am, this will annoy you. Support Clive and his work, and let's try and get The Midnight Meat Train the release it deserves. Horror is not wimpy PG-13 all the time, folks. We need variety. And when did we become such wimps? Yes, I am not a fan of gore without purpose, but the gore and story Clive Barker can wrap together create a gut-wrenching tale, indeed. Let the horror people police themselves, and let us decide what is too brutal for us to see in the theater by simply choosing not to attend. Support Clive and The Midnight Meat Train!
Louise xox
----------------- Bulletin Message ----------------- From: Benjamin Bussey Date: Jun 18, 2008 3:31 PM
Horror fans, take note... in a time when a PG-13 'Prom Night' remake tops the box office, but movies like 'Trick 'r Treat' and this one struggle to even get released, these are getting to be worrying times for our beloved genre.
----------------- Bulletin Message ----------------- From: HORROR-FANATICS. COM Date: 18 Jun 2008, 12:05
This is a damn shame. I'm sure most of you have read this piece of news already. It's pretty apparent that Lionsgate isn't going to give this film the wide release that we've all been expecting. Now they're trying to rush it for the DVD release. Hopefully, we can help make a difference. We want everybody to have a chance to see this baby on the big screen.
"My Dear Friends, As you may or may not have heard, due to certain politics, "Midnight Meat Train" is in danger of Lionsgate not giving it a wide release. The below email was brought to my attention earlier today and shows a movement, of sorts, in order to get the picture the proper support and release it deserves. I'm asking you to please help spread the word in order for all to enjoy this film. I want to passionately encourage everybody who cares about my work to use this chance to change the minds of the folks at Lionsgate. I'm excited at the prospect of a movement of people who care deeply enough to initiate a campaign such as this.
Anything any of you can do - be it emails, web postings, word of mouth, and the like - to help encourage this movement would be deeply appreciated. The film is worth the effort in my mind, and I do not want to see my work fall by the wayside.
If any of you have any further ideas, thoughts, or suggestions to help with this effort, please let me know. Thanks, as always, for your help and support.
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