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The Next Big Thing

My wonderful friend Linda Jackson contacted me and asked if
I’d like to take part in “THE NEXT BIG THING”.



Thank you, Linda. The Next Big Thing is designed to raise
awareness of my work, or work in progress. We do that by answering ten
questions about it. We graciously thank the person who nominated us, and tag up
to five other authors whose work could well be that Next Big Thing.


Without further ado, I give you a small taste of me and my
characters:






Q#1: What is the title of your book?
Blood and Passion





Q#2: Where did the idea for the book come from?
I wanted to write a story with a strong heroine who works in
a male dominated job but is also ultra feminine and super related/likable.




Q#3: What genre does your book fall under?
My favorite: science fiction erotica!




Q#4: Which actors would you choose to play your characters
in a movie rendition?
Oooo! Lucky me! Blood and Passion is a yummy ménage so I get
to pick two hot guys! Okay, for my men, I’ll go with Vin Diesel for my alpha
male Mikal Fabom and Tatum Channing for sweetie pie guy Rish Limaeve. The
actress who would best fit my kick ass heroine Xyla Devi is none other than the
cute little Kelly Osbourne.




Q#5: What is the one sentence synopsis for the book?
Prison guard Xyla Devi just got stabbed so she’s looking for
a little RnR not a yummy alien sandwich but when the opportunity for a fantastic
threesome presents itself, she’s ready to cuff the too-hot-to-be-legal hotties
to her headboard and throw away the key.




Q#6: Will your book be self-published or represented by an
agency?
I am writing Blood and Passion under the name Emma Abbiss to
be published by Ellroa’s Cave. I don't have the release date yet but we are in the middle of edits and the book cover is finished (don't you love it? Yay!)! I can't wait for the release. Don't worry. I'll give a shout to everyone once I know when it will drop.

Q#7: How long did it take you to write the first draft of
your manuscript?

Six weeks.




Q#8: What other books would you compare this story to, in
your genre?
Hell, I don’t know. You stumped me!




Q#9: Who or what inspired you to write this book?
This is the type of book I love to read. Science fiction. Ménage.
With a great twist at the end to make things interesting.




Q#10: What else about the book might pique the readers'
interest?
I’d say the surprise at the end will put a smile on my
readers’ faces. I’m having a hard time not revealing the surprise as I promote
the book. I want so bad to spill the beans!




I’d like to pass the torch to 3 deserving authors, and let
them tell you all about their work. Their posts will bear the same title and
will be live in a few days. When the authors confirm I will add their names and
web addresses here:



Desiree Holt



 
 

The Story of Vampire Blood

Please welcome back our talented friend Kathryn Meyer Griffith, who is here today to talk about:

 

The Story of Vampire Blood



Author’s Revised Edition by Kathryn
Meyer Griffith



A rerelease of my 1991 Zebra
paperback romantic vampire novel



Damnation Books Buy Link: http://damnationbooks.com/book.php?isbn=9781615724253



http://damnationbooks.com/people.php?author=79




All
Kathryn Meyer Griffith’s Books available at Amazon.com here: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Kathryn+Meyer+Griffith



 



In
1990 or so I’d just got done releasing my first three paperback novels with
Leisure Books, a romantic historical (The
Heart of the Rose 1985) and two romantic horror books (Evil Stalks the Night, 1984 and Blood Forge, 1989), and because I wasn’t making much money on them,
was looking, as most so-called restless young authors were doing, to move up in
the publishing industry.



So
I wrote snail mail letters to three established authors of the day – Dean
Koontz, Stephen King and Peter Straub – asking for a little advice and a little
help. What do I do next? I want to be one of the big dogs running in the big
races. I want to make the big bucks. Be famous like you. (Ha, ha. I was so
naïve in those days!) 



Well,
Stephen King and Peter Straub never answered my letters but one rainy fall
night I got a phone call from Gerda Koontz (Dean Koontz’s wife) and she said Dean
had gotten my letter and wanted me to have a name of a brand new agent who I
should call or write to and say I was recommended by him. If I thought it
strange that Dean Koontz himself wasn’t actually talking to me I was told by Gerda
that he was a shy man and had had a particularly hard couple of months because
of family problems (I think it had something to do with his father in a nursing
home or something, but can’t exactly recall now) and he’d asked her to call me.
She often did that for him, as well as helping him with the business side of
his writing career. He (through her…and I got the impression that he was actually
nearby telling her what to say the whole time) said I had to have an agent (I didn’t have one) and then he gave me the
name of an ambitious one, Lori Perkins, just starting out and his advice on
what I should do to advance as a writer.



I
do remember being incredibly touched that he, a famous busy novelist that I admired
– I loved his Twilight Eyes – would
take the time to talk to me, even through his wife. They were both so sweet and
we talked for nearly an hour all about writing, books and everything.



I
took their advice and contacted that agent and she agreed immediately to
represent me on my fourth book, Vampire
Blood, no doubt, because I said Dean Koontz had recommended her to me. Name
dropper! But Vampire Blood was the reason I’d contacted those famous
authors in the first place. I thought it was the best book I’d done so far and
wanted it to go to (what I thought at the time) would be a better publisher
than Leisure Books, which contracted and hog-tied their writers with a horrible
‘potboiler’ one-size-fits-all ten year contract with low advances and 4%
royalties. Yes, I got a whole whopping 14 cents a book in those days, but, I
must confess, they did print thousands of paperbacks each run and had a huge
distribution area.  I thought I could do
a lot better. Anyway, Lori Perkins wanted me to send her the book and she did
like it and eventually sold it, and then three others zip-zip-zip right after,
to Zebra Books (now known more as Kensington Publishing) at 6% royalties and
double the advances I was used to getting. They slapped a sexy blond vampire
with a low dress on the cover and a hazy theater behind her. Lovely colors. I
thought it was an eye-catching cover. I was so happy. I thought I’d made it! Again, so naïve.



Vampire Blood. A little story about a family of vicious killing
vampires who settle in a small
Florida town called Summer Haven and end up buying and fixing up an old theater
palace to run, and pluck their victims from, and a divorced, down-on-her-luck
ex-novelist and her worn-out father, who along with friends, help thwart them.



Now
to how and why I wrote it.



My
husband and I lived in this small Illinois town, Cahokia, at the time and there
was the neatest little hole-in-the-wall theater in a nearby shopping center we
used to go to all the time…run by a family of a sweet man, Terry, and his wife,
Ann, and sometimes their three children, two teenage boys and a girl named
Irene.  Such a friendly, but odd couple. The
run-down theater was their whole world it seemed. The kids helped take in the
tickets, pop the popcorn and sell the candy snacks.



Now
the minute Terry and Ann found out, in one of our earliest conversations, that
I was a published novelist they were my greatest fans. Terry went right out and
bought all three of my books and they all read them. Terry always thought
they’d make great movies. Next time my husband and I went to the little theater
Terry and Ann greeted us like old friends, so delighted to see us, and refused
to take a dime from us for anything. We got in free whenever we went from then
on. Now in those days my husband, my son, James, and I were pretty broke. I
worked as a graphic designer at a big brokerage firm in downtown St. Louis (across the Poplar Bridge from our Illinois town) but my husband was in between jobs. We lived
on a shoestring. Hard times. So I always was so tickled that we could get into
the local movies for free. We went a lot, too, as we loved movies, especially
science fiction and horror films.



One
night I was watching Terry and Ann and their joy in running that little
theater, with the kids bustling around doing their jobs, and I got the idea for
Vampire Blood. Just like that! Use
them and the theater as a backdrop for a vampire novel. Hey, wouldn’t it be
neat, I off-handedly mentioned to Terry one night, if I wrote a book about a
family of vampires that was trying to pass as a real human family, the man and
woman wanting so badly to fit in and lead a normal life for a while, renovating
and then running a theater together…but the kids are wild and, as kids always
do, make trouble for them in the town…killing people? Terry loved the idea and I
asked him if it’d be all right to use him and his family as a template for the
vampires. He was thrilled to be part of anything to do with my books and said
yes. So…I wrote this book about them (sort of), the theater (making it much
grander than it was, of course), a small town terrorized by cruel, powerful
vampires who can change into wolves at will….and a saddened lonely woman, her
brother, and her ex-husband (who she still loves and ultimately ends up with
again after he saves her life) who finds herself again, but loses a lot, as
well, fighting these vampires. Vampires she doesn’t believe in at first.



I
was very happy with the book when it was done and dedicated it to Terry and Ann
when it came out in 1991. Terry and Ann were thrilled, too.



So
Vampire Blood came out and did very
well for me, second only to my Zebra 1993 Witches.
As the years went by it went out of print and when, twenty years later, Kim
Richards at Damnation Books contracted my 13th and 14th
novels, BEFORE THE END: A Time of Demons
and The Woman in Crimson, she asked
if I’d like to rerelease (with new covers and rewritten, of course) my 7
out-of-print Leisure and Zebra paperbacks – and I said a resounding yes!



So…here it is…Vampire Blood…twenty years later, alive
again and better, I believe,  than the
original because my writing then was done on an electric typewriter, with gobs

of White-Out and carbon paper (I couldn’t afford copies), using snail mail; all
of which didn’t lend itself to much rewriting. And in those days, editors told
an author what to change and then the writer only saw the manuscript once to
final proof it. Who knew what those sneaky editors were slipping in inbetween
and before the final book was in an author’s greedy little hands. Hey, and I
was working full time, raising a son, living a life and caring for my big
extended family in one way or another, too. Busy, exciting, loving, happy and
sad times.



For this new version, Damnation
Book’s cover artist Dawné Dominique made me an
astonishingly intriguing cover of a lovely vampire (Irene the youngest vampire
who turns out to be the most brutal and ancient in the end)…but, thank
goodness, without the low sexy top. And my DB editor, April Duncan, helped me make it a
better novel.



A lot has happened to me and my family in these twenty years, as well.
Both my parents, and my beloved maternal grandmother, the storyteller of her
generation, have since passed away. Many people we used to know have. Old
boyfriends, old friends and relatives. I miss them all! I no longer have that agent;
she went on to bigger advances and bigger writers.  I lost my good job at the brokerage firm,
bumped around in lesser jobs for years, always writing in my spare time, and
now, at long last, write full time while my husband works way too hard in a
machine shop to support us.



Rewriting the book brought back so many good memories…and tears over
those no longer here. The theater closed sixteen years ago, the owner believing
it’d served its purpose and used up its time. Terry and Ann, heartbroken, were
never the same. They had other jobs, none they truly cared about.  Ann is still with us, but Terry died a few
years ago, I heard from someone. We lost contact once they stopped running the
theater and we moved from Cahokia to a nicer town miles
away.



But I’ll never forget those early days and the stories that came with
them. Days of high hopes and far distance future dreams…some of which have come
true and some which haven’t. I’ve never made the big bucks, never gotten truly
famous, but now, at long last and to my great delight, all twelve of my older
books, from Leisure, Zebra, and The Wild Rose Press are being rewritten and
reissued from Damnation Books and Eternal Press between June 2010 and June
2012. Better than ever after I’d rewritten them. I have plans to write more
books and short stories, too, when they’re done. Most importantly, I’m living a
good life with a husband I adore and brothers and sisters I love. Writing the
stories I was born to write and happy I am. I have my memories. All in all, I’m
a lucky, lucky woman.



So, all you writers out there…never
give up and never stop writing!



Thank you!



                                                               
***



About Kathryn Meyer Griffith...



Since
childhood I’ve always been an artist and worked as a graphic designer in the
corporate world and for newspapers for twenty-three years before I quit to write
full time. I began writing novels at 21, over forty years ago now, and have had
sixteen (eleven
romantic horror, one historical romance, one romantic suspense, one romantic
time travel and two murder mysteries) previous novels and eight short
stories published
from Zebra Books, Leisure Books, Avalon Books, The Wild Rose Press, Damnation
Books and Eternal Press.



I’ve been
married to Russell for thirty-four years; have a son, James, and two
grandchildren, Joshua and Caitlyn, and I live in a small quaint town in Illinois called Columbia, which is
right across the JB Bridge from St.
Louis, Mo. We have three
quirky cats, ghost cat Sasha, live cats Cleo and Sasha (Too), and the five of
us live happily in an old house in the heart of town. Though I’ve been an
artist, and a folk singer in my youth with my brother Jim, writing has always
been my greatest passion, my butterfly stage, and I’ll probably write stories
until the day I die…or until my memory goes.***



 



All
Kathryn Meyer Griffith’s Books available at Amazon.com here: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Kathryn+Meyer+Griffith



                                                                                                                                                



Novels and short
stories from Kathryn Meyer Griffith:



Evil Stalks the Night (Leisure,
1984; Damnation Books, 2012) 



The Heart of the Rose (Leisure,
1985; Eternal Press Author’s Revised Edition 2010) Eternal Press Buy Link: http://www.eternalpress.biz/book.php?isbn=9781615722327  



Blood Forge
(Leisure, 1989; Damnation Books Author’s Revised Edition, 2012)  



Vampire Blood
(Zebra, 1991; Damnation Books Author’s Revised Edition,
2011) 



Damnation Books Buy Link: http://damnationbooks.com/book.php?isbn=9781615724253



The Last Vampire
(Zebra, 1992; Damnation Books Author’s Revised Edition 2010) Damnation Books Buy Link: http://damnationbooks.com/book.php?isbn=9781615722075 



You Tube Book Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZU77j_q4S8



Witches (Zebra, 1993;
Damnation Books Author’s Revised Edition 2011) 



Damnation Books Buy Link:http://damnationbooks.com/book.php?isbn=9781615723553



The Nameless One
(short story in 1993 Zebra Anthology Dark Seductions ; Damnation Books
Author’s Revised Edition, 2011) Damnation Books Buy Link: http://damnationbooks.com/book.php?isbn=9781615723201  



The Calling
(Zebra, 1994; Damnation Books Author’s Revised Edition, 2011) 



Damnation Books Buy Link: http://damnationbooks.com/book.php?isbn=9781615725007



Scraps of Paper
(Avalon Books Murder Mystery, 2003…soon to be an Amazon Kindle Direct ebook)



All Things Slip Away (Avalon
Books Murder Mystery, 2006…soon an Amazon Kindle Direct ebook)



Egyptian Heart (The
Wild Rose Press, 2007; Author’s Revised Edition, Eternal Press 2011)  Eternal Press buy link: http://www.eternalpress.biz/book.php?isbn=9781615724437 
My self-made



You Tube Book Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cogCNYKzPqc 



Winter’s Journey (The
Wild Rose Press, 2008; Author’s Revised Edition, Eternal Press 2011) Eternal
Press Buy Link: http://www.eternalpress.biz/book.php?isbn=9781615724604)




You Tube Book Trailer address: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZYCs2DVhHg



The Ice Bridge (The
Wild Rose Press, 2008; Author’s Revised Edition, Eternal Press 2011)



Eternal
Press Buy Link:
http://www.eternalpress.biz/book.php?isbn=9781615725182  



You Tube Book Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28HZqu-my1g



Don’t
Look Back, Agnes novella & bonus short story:
In This House (2008; ghostly romantic short story out; Eternal Press 2012)



You Tube Book Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3q9rZryFMo



Eternal Press Buy Link: http://www.eternalpress.biz/people.php?author=422



BEFORE THE END: A Time of Demons (Damnation Books 2010) 



Damnation Books buy link: httphttp://damnationbooks.com/book.php?is...



You Tube
self-made Book trailer with original song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0-U9c2Lwfo  



The Woman in Crimson (Damnation Books
2010) 



Eternal Press Buy Link: http://www.eternalpress.biz/book.php?isbn=9781615721979




You Tube Book Trailer Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcRBvDI5G4Y



The Complete Guide
to Writing Paranormal Fiction:
Volume 1 (I did the
Introduction) 



Dinosaur lake (from Amazon Kindle Direct 2012)



 



My Websites:



http://www.myspace.com/kathrynmeyergriffith
(to see all my book trailers with
original music by my singer/songwriter brother JS Meyer)



http:// www.bebo.com/kathrynmeyerG  

http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.ph...



http://www.authorsden.com/kathrynmeyergriffith



http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pr...



http://www.goodreads.com/profile/kath...



http://www.jacketflap.com/K.Griffith




http://www.shoutlife.com/kathrynmeyergriffith



http://romancewriterandreader.ning.com/profile/KathrynMeyerGriffith



http://romancebookjunction.ning.com/profile/kathrynmeyergriffith



 



E-mail me at rdgriff@htc.net  I love to hear from my readers. ***



 

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Witches and Other Spooky Stuff

Happy Halloween, grrls! We have a special guest post on this special day. Please welcome Kathryn Meyer Griffith, who is here to talk about:












Witches and Other Spooky Stuff



(Originally a 1993
Zebra paperback and



now a Revised Author’s
Edition from Damnation Books)



By Kathryn Meyer Griffith



 



Buy Link: http://damnationbooks.com/book.php?isbn=9781615723553



http://damnationbooks.com/people.php?author=79
 



All
Kathryn Meyer Griffith’s Books available at Amazon.com here: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Kathryn+Meyer+Griffith




 



Now, first off, let me say, that by no means, am I or
have I ever been a…witch. Nothing against Wicca but I’m just not one. I have no
magical powers or cannot foresee the future. Nada.



I have seen a ghost, though. Right after my Great Aunt
Mary passed away, the night before her burial, I saw her ghost in my parent’s
hallway (I was sixteen and still at home) and, let me tell you, it scared the
bejesus out of me. But she was just looking for my grandmother, whom she’d
lived the last ten years of her life with, and I knew she meant me no harm. It
was still a shock. She appeared in a ghostly halo of mist at the end of the
hallway beckoning me…in German. I couldn’t spell German but I got the idea. She
was lost, didn’t know she was dead and was looking for my grandmother, whom
she’d loved so much in life. I ran, hid in my bed and pretended it’d never
happened. Hey, but I know it did.



I have, though, always loved the eerie, the unexplained.
The spooky. Horror.



Anyway, we’re talking about my book Witches -Revised Author’s
Edition.



In 1991 I’d already been writing for about twenty years,
on and off (though there was a long gap where I didn’t write because of a
divorce, the finding of a full time job to support myself and my son, and a
remarriage…life) when I contracted my fourth novel, my first of four to Zebra
paperbacks, a romantic horror called Vampire
Blood, about a family of vampires who ran a movie theater in a small town. I’d
already had a fifth novel, The Last
Vampire, completed and in with them when they asked me for another novel.



Got anything
about witches,
they asked. Witches are hot right now.
Hmmm.



For many years I’d played around with an idea about a
present day white witch who finds a diary of a long dead witch – either good or
bad, I hadn’t decided – in her old house’s attic, or basement, or under a
floorboard. The story would have been about the good witch reliving the other
dead witch’s life through the diary. I’d always called that possible book Rachel’s Diary in my head.



So in 1991 or 1992 I began the witch book and it quickly
metamorphosed into a story of a present day good witch, Amanda Givens,  who’s yanked into a perilous seventeenth
century past by an evil witch, Rachel Coxe, to take her place…and die a
horrible death as an accused witch. I had the idea then to actually send Amanda
into the past to live (for a while) the other witch’s life. Of course, being a
good witch, Amanda, changes the other witch’s unsavory reputation but still
ends up in a prison waiting to die for Rachel’s earlier crimes. The story,
simply put, would be how Amanda overcomes her trials and tribulations, finds
her lost eternal love again in the past, and finds a way to return to the
present alive. In the process, learning some important life lessons about
accepting what life has dealt her and the value of sisters, friendships and the
love of those around her. Or good versus evil and, in the end, good wins and is
rewarded. I also threw in a few touches of humor in the form of three precocious
witches’ familiars…a mind-reading and speaking cat called Amadeus, a mouse, Tituba, and a tiny bat, Gibbiewackett …all with feisty personalities
and quirks of their own.



I was excited about the book as I was writing it and when
it was done, pleased with it, but had no idea that over the years it’d become
the jewel of my writing career and the book that my fans would love the best of
all my books. I loved the cat face cover Zebra did for it (a rare occurrence as
I’d learned the hard way that covers weren’t always what I’d envisioned and in
the early days I had no choice but to accept whatever the publisher’s gave
me…and some weren’t so hot, let me tell you!).



Witches came out in 1993 and did
well. I noticed soon after as I went on to publish other books that I got the
most response and admiration for it. Readers loved the three sisters, Amadeus
and Amanda, Gibbiewackett
and Tituba. In
those days I was too busy working full time as a graphic artist, living my life
and writing new books to notice. It went into a second printing in 2000 and
after that, sadly, went out of print. But my fans never forgot it. I’d find
comments on it and discussions on the Internet…even customer reviews raving
about it years and years later. I tried talking Zebra into reissuing it but
after Zebra and I parted ways there was no talking them into it.



Then in 2010 when Damnation Books contracted my 13th
and 14th novels, the publisher, Kim Richards, asked about all (there
was 7 at the time) my out-of-print Zebra and Leisure backlist novels and if I’d
like to have them reissued as new paperbacks and, for the first time ever, in e-books.
Sure, that’d be great! I told her.
And, as they say, the rest is history. Between June 2010 and June 2012 all 7 of
them (and now another 3 of my Wild Rose Press novels and two short stories from
2007) updated, rewritten and with stunning new covers will be out again. All in
e-books for the first time.



Of course, that’s meant a heck of a lot of rewriting. A
lot of work. Those early novels go back twenty-seven years and were first
written in the days of snail mail and on an electric typewriter before the
Internet, e-mails and Windows Track Changes (for editing). Oh, boy, did they
need revising. As of today I can happily say they’re all rewritten now except
the very first one, Evil Stalks the
Night, 1984; yet even that one will be completed soon.



I’ve often been asked what I think of e-books and I have
to say it feels strange, all these years later, to be so into them. I think
it’s fantastic to be able to put thousands of books on one little lightweight
hand-held contraption and sell them as inexpensively as we do. I started
publishing e-books four years ago and have seen such great changes in even that
short a time. I love the editing process now. With Track Changes it’s truly a
collaborative effort between the editor and the writer and it’s taught me far
more about the craft of writing than the old way of just sending off the
manuscript, being asked to change certain things, but then never seeing any of
those changes or the basic edits until the book was printed and in my hand. Now,
no more pages added by an editor (That actually happened in Evil Stalks the Night. The editor, who
I never met, added three pages of his own and I didn’t even know about it until
I held the book in my hand. And the three pages didn’t make sense…ech!) that I
never know about or see until the book comes out. Yeah.



With a chuckle I recall a writer’s convention I attended
in 1990 – yes, that far back – and the main topic back then was…OMG the electronic books are coming! They’re going to make us authors obsolete!
Print books are going to die a terrible lonely death…etc., etc. Lack and alas, what are we going to do?
Ha, ha. It’s ironic that 21 years later I’m in love with e-books. They’re the
future. And I think there’ll always be room for print books as well as
electronic ones.



So Witches…(Damnation
Books) was rereleased 2011. I’m thrilled. The cover is still of Amadeus, the
cat, and Dawne Dominique did an amazing job on it. My editor, Alison O'Byrne, helped me make it a better
book than eighteen years ago. Of all my novels, I’m most proud of it. It’s held
up pretty well. I hope it finds many more readers and fans.



So that’s the story of Witches …the little book that wouldn’t die.



 



Thank you!   E-mail me at rdgriff@htc.net




                                                                ***



All
Kathryn Meyer Griffith’s Books available at Amazon.com here: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Kathryn+Meyer+Griffith



                                                                                                                                                



Novels and short
stories from Kathryn Meyer Griffith:



Evil Stalks the Night (Leisure,
1984; Damnation Books, 2012) 



The Heart of the Rose
(Leisure, 1985; Eternal Press Author’s Revised Edition 2010) Eternal Press Buy Link: http://www.eternalpress.biz/book.php?isbn=9781615722327  



Blood Forge
(Leisure, 1989; Damnation Books Author’s Revised Edition, 2012)  



Vampire Blood
(Zebra, 1991; Damnation Books Author’s Revised Edition,
2011) 





 
Damnation Books Buy Link: http://damnationbooks.com/book.php?isbn=9781615724253






The Last Vampire (Zebra,
1992; Damnation Books Author’s Revised Edition 2010) Damnation Books Buy Link: http://damnationbooks.com/book.php?isbn=9781615722075 



You Tube Book Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZU77j_q4S8



Witches (Zebra, 1993;
Damnation Books Author’s Revised Edition 2011) 



Damnation Books Buy Link:http://damnationbooks.com/book.php?isbn=9781615723553



The Nameless One
(short story in 1993 Zebra Anthology Dark Seductions ; Damnation Books
Author’s Revised Edition, 2011) Damnation Books Buy Link: http://damnationbooks.com/book.php?isbn=9781615723201  



The Calling
(Zebra, 1994; Damnation Books Author’s Revised Edition, 2011) 



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Scraps of Paper
(Avalon Books Murder Mystery, 2003…soon to be an Amazon Kindle Direct ebook)



All Things Slip Away (Avalon
Books Murder Mystery, 2006…soon an Amazon Kindle Direct ebook)



Egyptian Heart (The
Wild Rose Press, 2007; Author’s Revised Edition, Eternal Press 2011)  Eternal Press buy link: http://www.eternalpress.biz/book.php?isbn=9781615724437 
My self-made



You Tube Book Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cogCNYKzPqc 



Winter’s Journey (The
Wild Rose Press, 2008; Author’s Revised Edition, Eternal Press 2011) Eternal
Press Buy Link: http://www.eternalpress.biz/book.php?isbn=9781615724604)




You Tube Book Trailer address: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZYCs2DVhHg



The Ice Bridge (The
Wild Rose Press, 2008; Author’s Revised Edition, Eternal Press 2011)



Eternal
Press Buy Link:
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You Tube Book Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28HZqu-my1g



Don’t
Look Back, Agnes novella & bonus short story:
In This House (2008; ghostly romantic short story out; Eternal Press 2012)



You Tube Book Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3q9rZryFMo



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BEFORE THE END: A Time of Demons (Damnation Books 2010) 



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You Tube
self-made Book trailer with original song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0-U9c2Lwfo  



The Woman in Crimson (Damnation Books
2010) 



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You Tube Book Trailer Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcRBvDI5G4Y



The Complete Guide
to Writing Paranormal Fiction:
Volume 1 (I did the
Introduction) 



Dinosaur lake (from Amazon Kindle Direct 2012)



 



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Happy Halloween

Time for a sugar rush!!!















Love, light, and laughter!

Jocelyn Modo

www.jocelynmodo.com

Happy National Cat Day

The wonderful Colleen Paige founded National Cat Day in 2005
to help bring awareness to the public of the number of cats that need to be rescued as well to give all cat lovers a day to celebrate their kitties!







Approximately 4 million cats enter shelters each year and 1-2 million being euthanized. Sometimes cats can be overlooked  because they are as visible to the public as dogs. But cats offer the same benefits to their humans as dogs. They lower blood pressure, give unconditional love and companionship as well as alerting their owner of danger, becoming hero cats .














Even if you can't adopt a cat, you can volunteer to clean a cage or sit and play with a cat for a while at a local shelter. Who knows? You may just  save a life!








So visit your local shelter on today and give your love to a homeless cat who desperately needs you. The goal of National Cat Day is the adoption of 10,000 shelter cats nationwide on October 29th.














Love, light, and laughter!

Jocelyn Modo

www.jocelynmodo.com

Real Life Cyborgs

Oh, the sci fi dork in me is all geeked out about the little bug cyborgs that scientists at North Carolina State University are working on right now.



The potential! The ideas! The glee!



I want to cackle like a witch and rub my hands together all woo-hoo-like.



I mean, come on! Science fiction turning into real science? Talk about a geek grrls dream on true.