Keith B. Darrell's Blog, page 27
March 1, 2016
Pandora - An Excerpt from Flashbacks
Chicago, 1923:
Pandora returned home. Poppy was asleep in her bed. The blanket rose and fell with her breathing. Pandora smiled. She approached her younger sister’s bed and bent to kiss her cheek. Her eyes alighted on Poppy’s neck. The girl’s carotid artery seemed to throb, beckoning Pandora. She bit her lip. Just a little nip, she thought. A nightcap. Poppy won’t miss it. I only need a bit; I know when to stop. She opened her mouth. Her fangs popped out, dripping saliva on...
Pandora returned home. Poppy was asleep in her bed. The blanket rose and fell with her breathing. Pandora smiled. She approached her younger sister’s bed and bent to kiss her cheek. Her eyes alighted on Poppy’s neck. The girl’s carotid artery seemed to throb, beckoning Pandora. She bit her lip. Just a little nip, she thought. A nightcap. Poppy won’t miss it. I only need a bit; I know when to stop. She opened her mouth. Her fangs popped out, dripping saliva on...
February 26, 2016
Fangs & Fur – A Bold New Fantasy Series to be Published Next Week!
Nest week, Amber Book Company will publish
Flashbacks
, the first book in my new fantasy series,
Fangs & Fur
. You may recall my four-volume fantasy series Halos & Horns in which a demon and angel on the lam from their respective realms find refuge in Las Vegas disguised as private eyes. The series had a large cast of supporting characters, including some vampires and werewolves. While they played an integral part of the story, we never really learned where they came from or what happen...
February 25, 2016
Cover Reveal - Fangs & Fur: Flashbacks
The Vampires & Werewolves You Only Think You Know!
Coming Next Week!
Coming Next Week!
February 22, 2016
The Vampires & Werewolves You Only Think You Know
Flashbacks is the first book in my new three-volume fantasy series, Fangs & Fur. To the casual reader, it’s a collection of stories about vampires and werewolves. But more discerning readers will notice these characters were supporting characters in my four-book fantasy series, Halos & Horns. (Some might even consider it the unofficial fifth book in that saga, but Flashbacks can be read by itself.) Each chapter showcases the origin of a prominent supernatural supporting ch...
February 19, 2016
Where Do You Get Your Ideas?
On the way home, I stopped at the grocery store – ostensibly to pick up a few items, but in truth, I needed to use their restroom. But once inside the bathroom I found it occupied, so I stepped outside to wait. As I did, another man entered and I knew I was going to have an even longer wait. To take my mind off it, I glanced down at the display items in a bin. I was reading the ingredients on a package of peppermint bark, discreetly doing the “I need to go to the bathroom” jig easily recogniz...
February 11, 2016
Shame on John Lewis!
Shame on John Lewis! His comments today prove he is nothing more than a political shill bought and paid for by the Clinton machine. This is how political cronyism works. Backroom politics at its finest – you grease my hand and I’ll grease yours. This so-called hero of the civil rights movement was a young black man who got beat up protesting for civil rights. Guess what? A lot of young black men got beat up protesting for civil rights, doused with fire hoses, bitten by police dogs, and attack...
February 10, 2016
E-Storybooks on the Move
More than five years ago, I coined the phrase “eStorybook” for individual short stories published in eBook format. I made them available for purchase in Kindle format through the Amazon.com website but at that time Amazon wasn’t set up to handle short stories. Amazon prohibited me from offering my e-Storybooks for less than 99 cents – which I felt was too much to charge for a single short story – and its pricing structure was such that any e-book price at less than $2.99 yielded only a 30 per...
February 1, 2016
7 Reasons Why 2016 Will Be a Banner Year!
2016 is on schedule to be a banner year for myself as an author, and for my publisher, Amber Book Company. January marks the release of a special 10th anniversary edition of Issues in Internet Law: Society, Technology, and the Law available exclusively on Amazon.com. Two months earlier, the same edition was published in paperback and hardcover mass-market editions, and in digital format from VitalSource. Over the past decade, Issues in Internet Law has grown from an obscure 250-page book to a...
January 29, 2016
Available Now: The 10th Anniversary Edition of Issues in Internet Law
Want to find out more about how the NSA is spying on American Citizens? There's an entire chapter devoted to that topic in the new 10th edition of Issues In Internet Law: Society, Technology, and the Law.
Here's what else is in this edition:The 10th edition of Issues In Internet Law: Society, Technology, and the Law has been updated for 2016 with the latest cases and trends in Internet Law. The new edition also has an expanded glossary and expanded statute and case indexes.Topics inc...
January 27, 2016
Swept under the Rug
The thing about news is that it has to be new. The term newsimplies information that is fresh, virgin to the eyes and ears of readers and listeners. Newspapers and television news shows know that their customers don’t want to see the same thing they saw the day before. So the stories must keep changing, because otherwise news organizations would lose readers and viewers, and that means losing advertising dollars. Thus, what you see all boils down to money… What will make suppliers of your new...
