Blood Shackles

WHAT ARE THE BEST VAMPIRES…EVER?

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Christmas is coming…and who wouldn’t want a vampire under the mistletoe..?

Wait, you wouldn’t?Oh, the bitey thing? Light’s redeemed – off the crimson – so imagine him…Yeah, that’s better.

Assuming the eternal lovers of night aren’t getting snack happy on your neck, which vampire would you like to cozy up to this Christmas? OK then – what vampire series do you want to escape into?

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teaser-1964-triton I ran a Christmas contest to discover your favourite vampire…and it turned out Light in Rebel Vampires was high up on your list to appear tied up pretty in a bow under the Christmas tree.

Here are the other vampires who rock your world:

Amanda Morgan: ‘Tage in the Frenzy series.’

Nicole Nixon: ‘LOVE Theo (David) and Kate (Selene) from the Underworld series. I love the dark brooding semi snark nature.’

guilty-pleasures And the winner? Mary Brannian

‘Jean-Claude. Tall, dark, handsome, and he seems the perfect blend of man and “monster”.’

Man v Monster – that battle of the demon v humanity. Light struggles with it in Rebel Vampires. It’s at the heart of a vampire anti-hero.

Stephanie L Herman: ‘Light is my favorite… He’s strong, compassionate and sexy. What’s not to love? He fights for those he loves.’

Who’s your favourite vampire?

Blood Shackles is at the Christmas Book Fair 23rd-26th December. All books $2.99 or less. Browse and find your Christmas read.

Happy Christmas reading!

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December 18, 2016 0

SCIENCE FICTION AND GRAPHIC NOVELS – Lab 99’s Brand New Comic Book Series

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Fantasy and science fiction fanatic here. I write it. I read it. And great graphic novels? Best of all worlds. I’ve even sneaked references into my third book in the Rebel Vampires series – Blood Renegades. I’m on that delicious mind exploding first draft stage. Expect the thrilling release June 2017.

So when I hear about a new indie graphic novel and soon to be movie blockbuster? I don’t need asking twice.

Lab 99 is visually stunning. Thoughtful and thrilling, with an edge of romance.

Throw in aliens, parallel universes and hidden dimensions? Sorted.

To go to Indiegogo’s page click here.

***Bestselling Rebel Vampires***

Dive into the spellbinding series…and discover a new world.

blood-shackles-set-2 “One of the most unique & ingenious vampire books I have EVER read …reminded me very much of Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles…Pure genius.” Leather and Lace Reviews.

~Blood Dragons: click here.

~Blood Shackles: click here.

*****‘You want to know how I was captured? Enslaved? Defanged?’

blood-shackles-being-read My brand new release Blood Shackles: a gripping dark fantasy, which puts a new twist on vampires, paranormal London and secret conspiracies. When your whole species is enslaved – and it’s the humans who are acting like the monsters – how far would you go to free your family?

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December 12, 2016 0

THE BEST VAMPIRE NAMES – Events, Contests and Giveaways

There’s magic in a name. The giving of it. Knowing of it. Taking it from someone.

If you could be rechristened into a glorious dark new world, what name would you choose?

blood-dragons-christmas-x-2 ‘We have the name they wetted us with when we wailed all bloody from the womb but we also get the one we select, when the blood elects us from the ranks into something else. Me? I chose Light…it wove me to the best of my First Life and everything I never wanted to lose.’ (Blood Dragons)

blood-shackles-set-2 In Rebel Vampires, which has been compared by both readers and critics to ‘Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles’, every Blood Lifer name has a story behind it: Light, Ruby, Alessandro and Hartford…

And that’s the contest in the Bloody Big Giveaway this weekend. For the chance to win my brand new release Blood Shackles: a gripping dark fantasy, which puts a new twist on vampires, paranormal London and secret conspiracies, decide on your alter ego vampire name. Then click here and post it in the comments.

Set your dark side free…

blood-shackles-being-read Today I’m hosting Infinity Book Blog’s 25 Days of Christmas Giveaways. Fancy a signed copy of Blood Shackles? Choice of e-book? Fun and games? Q and A? Exclusives? Banter? Better see you there then. 3 – 4 p. m. EST (8 – 9 p.m GMT).

Dive into the spellbinding bestselling new series…and discover a new world.

“One of the most unique & ingenious vampire books I have EVER read …Pure genius.” Leather and Lace Reviews.

~Blood Dragons: http://viewbook.at/BloodDragons

~Blood Shackles: http://viewbook.at/BloodShackles

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December 11, 2016 0

BLOODY BIG GIVEAWAY ADVENT BLOWOUT – fantasy, science fiction, horror and thrillers

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Books. My favourite Christmas gifts. Just saying.

Signed paperbacks? Either by authors you love or new ones to discover, freshly unwrapped from gleaming paper? Perfect.

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A signed Blood Dragons is featured in the Bloody Big Giveaway Advent Blowout.

With the best fantasy, science fiction, horror and thriller writers donating paperbacks and hosting Facebook events into the New Year this is the Event of the Year.

Eliza Green, Ben Galley and Vered Ehsani. And that’s just three of them…Oh, and me.

So when am I let out to play? Join me on the 10-11th December here for even more giveaways. And banter. Did anyone mention the banter?

fall-of-redemption As a fantasy fanatic I’m giving you the heads up on a fantasy freebie set for the 5 – 6th: Justin Sloan’s Falls of Redemption Book One. Fast-paced action, a love triangle and bitter revenge.

Justin Sloan’s Narcel is enslaved like Light in Blood Shackles. Two men fighting for their freedom. Family. Lives.

Why not treat yourself to a little dark romance…with a thriller edge? Click here to escape into Blood Shackles today.

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December 3, 2016 0

THIS IS THE END… Sales, Book Fairs and Blog Tours

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There were thrills. Laughter. Tears… A roller coaster of a… All right, bit carried away there. Point is my blog tour is over. Finito. At an end. Thank you to Marieanne and all the hosts – you were blinding! So here are the highlights of last week.

Jane Davis’ Virtual Book Club: ‘I slithered bloody from my mother’s womb with a head full of other worlds…’ blood dragons and me 2

Readeropolis: ‘I see a novel happening in my mind; it’s like I’m translating it down. Tarantino has said he does the same. Apart from he probably said it in a cooler, more American way.’

Laurie’s Paranormal Thoughts and Reviews: ‘I know the end of a novel before I’ve even written the first line. It’s like being a chauffeur of a Limousine full of VIPs (the readers) – I don’t set off on a journey without first checking the car’s not going to breakdown and I know the route!’

For all my interviews click here.

For all my guest posts click here.

Blood Dragons Cover LARGE EBOOK And right now? Blood Dragons is featured in the Thanksgiving Book Fair. It ends tomorrow. So have a nose through the books on sale and grab yourself some bargains.

Blood Shackles Cover MEDIUM WEB Talking of sales… This is the last week of Blood Dragons’ and Blood Shackles’ sale. They’re at 0.99 until 30th November. Then they’ll be returning to original price.

This week Blood Dragons also broke Best Seller Lists in multiple categories in both America and the UK for the first time. So now’s a good time to escape into Blood Life…

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“One of the most unique & ingenious vampire books I have EVER read …reminded me very much of Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles…Pure genius.” Leather and Lace Reviews.

Escape into a supernatural world of love, revenge and redemption, where vampires are both predator and prey.

Click here to buy Blood Dragons today.

Click here to buy Blood Shackles.

5* “This novel was gut twistingly intense…the suspense will drive you wild.”– SLH Reviews

It’s a dangerous game to love your slave. When your whole species is enslaved – and it’s the humans who are acting like the monsters – how far would you go to free your family?

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November 27, 2016 0

THREE ORIGINAL FANTASY HEROINES – A Witch, A Sorceress And A Monster…

I love original characters. Complex, unique, powerful. Male or female.

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That’s why I wrote an anti-hero in Blood Dragons, yet there are also two powerful women. And not a damsel in sight. Ruby – her role..? Now that’s an interesting question. But Kathy’s the heroine. Because bravery comes in different flavours.

In Blood Shackles Grayse is as much the anti-hero as Light.

Here’s Three Original Fantasy Heroines:

Jaenelle Angelline in The Black Jewels Trilogy: Anne Bishop. A witch. Outcast. In one of the most complex and original matriarchal based fantasies. Ever. Plus there’s unicorns…
Lillian in A Gargoyle and Sorceress Tale series: Lisa Blackwood. A sorceress and Avatar in an unusual urban fantasy coupling. The clue’s in the title.
Ashley Currigan in Dying Ashes series: Annathesa Nikola Darksbane & Shei Darksbane. What do you do when you’re dead? Your only allies are a wizard and a vampire? And your best friend is missing? Turn a little monster…

Blood Dragons and Blood Shackles are on sale at 0.99 until 30th November. rsz_1blood_dragons_cover_medium_web-1-small

Click here to dive into Blood Life today…

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November 20, 2016 0

A WEEK IN BLOGS – Or How To Cook And Eat Like A Vampire

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In another blinding week of touring, here’s Five of the Best Guest Posts and Interviews:

Inside the Mind of a Slave: This Is No Bridget Jones’s Diary – Long and Short Reviews. If you knew your private thoughts were being read by your captor, how would it change what you wrote? And who can face the flayed truth without flinching?
Blood, Fantasy and Why Never To Have Regrets. My Interview with Queen of All She Reads.
Photo by Flickr User Patricia Guzman-Moreno: Chocolate Ganache Cupcake

If You Want To Cook and Eat Like a Vampire – Books Chatter. Blood Lifers nosh human food. Light? He loves Italian. The pics are so gorgeous, you’ll be licking the screen.
My Scariest Moment, Best Ever Fan Letter and Sneak Peek at Blood Renegades – My interview with The Pen Muse.
Creating an Anti-hero – Fabulous and Brunette. Dark, complex, struggling on an individual journey of redemption..? You may have an anti-hero on your hands.

Oi, hang on a tick, you’ve missed one…

And that would be An Interview With a Vampire…and His Name Is Light – Archaeolibrarian. Light frees himself from my shackles (couldn’t resist), and gets his own interview. Only seems fair…

Blood Dragons and Blood Shackles are both on sale at 0.99 throughout the blog tour.

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November 19, 2016 0

THREE FANTASY WRITERS WHO MAKE YOU THINK – Dark Fantasy, Suspense and Vampires

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With Blood Dragons on the Dark Fantasy Amazon Best Seller List and both Blood Dragons AND Blood Shackles booting their way onto Vampire Suspense Best Sellers this last week has been… exciting.

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All right..understatement. If I was Light right now? I’d be on a wild whirlwind of joyous crimson carnage. Me? I settled in to write the third book – Blood Renegades. Any excuse to listen to its music…seriously, you’re going to love it.

Whilst I’ve been peeking in on the Lists and sauntering into events (yeah, there is an online saunter), still being as much a fantasy fanatic as ever, here’s Three Fantasy Writers Who Make You Think:

C. J. Rutherford: Souls of the Never. YA fantasy/science fiction as it should be. Alternate realities? Time travel? Dragons? All present and correct, sir.
John G. Hartness: Heaven Help Us. Urban fantasy just how I like it – dark – with a side order of immortal demon hunter, werewolves and Homeland Security.
Patty Jansen: Icefire Trilogy. Did I say I liked dark? This is gritty, shocking and don’t take the warnings lightly… But the world building? Class act.

Blood Dragons and Blood Shackles are both out now at 0.99 until 30th blood-shackles-cover-large-ebook November.

It’s a dangerous game to love your slave… When your whole species is enslaved – and it’s the humans who are acting like the monsters – how far would you go to free your family? Click here to buy Blood Shackles today.

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In a divided paranormal London, one bad boy vampire’s dangerous hidden love could bring about the end of the world – unless he can play the role of hero and save both species – and maybe even himself.

“No ordinary paranormal romance…the beginning of something new.” – Vamped Magazine.

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November 13, 2016 0

ROSEMARY A JOHNS HITS FANTASY BEST SELLER LISTS – Blood Dragons and Blood Shackles

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Fantasy Rebel announces that Blood Dragons has now spent its second week high in the Amazon Best Seller Lists in America.

This is both in Dark Fantasy. A highly competitive category: this includes writers like Stephen King, Tad Williams and J.R.Ward.

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And in Vampires (Suspense) with Deborah Harkness, Justin Cronin and Lynsay Sands.

Blood Shackles is in the Hot New Releases List for Dark Fantasy.

blood-shackles-autumn-teaser The tour for Blood Shackles continues with giveaways, interviews, events, reviews and guest blogs: click here for a list of events.