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- Mood:
busy
We took him out on his first outing. The big kids are at their dad's on the weekend, so we had a lazy start to our day and then went downtown to our main street of our little Texas town. We went to our favorite little coffee/antique shop and Daniel "claimed" a plush Ty froggie, then we went to the park.
We're not sure if it 's the shoes or the woodchips, lol. He walks very much like a one year old when put in shoes...stomping and such. We've decided he probably didn't wear shoes very much. He wasn't too impressed with the little jungle gym and sat completely frozen in the swing...he didn't even move a finger! lol...when he had his hood on he also didn't move his head or neck! lol.
Chris and Daniel played ball for about 20 minutes and we got a ton of great video. THEN Daniel surprised us with yet another Daniel trick. He kept making his arm "disappear" into his sleeve and had these AWESOME completely animated expressions! Man...this kid is a charmer! He makes it soooo completely easy to love him.
He does do this thing that we are calling his "whale call", that we think is part of his grieving...pretty much non-stop, it's not really a cry, but it's annoying as all get out...it's more of a wail, not loudly. He stops doing it when he's engaged by something else. Chris's uncle is a marine biologist and we keep saying we're going to tape the whale call and send it off to Uncle Al to have the type of whale identified. Poor Daniel, lol.
After so much awesome sleep, I am now cooking our Christmas Turkey dinner, lol. It feels good to feel almost normal again.
As an aside, any members of HWA wishing to read a pdf of my horror collection, Shades of Blood and Shadow, from Dark Regions Press, for Stoker consideration, please give me an email at angelinehawkes @ yahoo.com..........close the gap. The collection has been recommended in the collection category. Or pm me through facebook or here, is fine too.
- Location:In the Hole Under the Stairs
- Mood: busy
Daniel's airport arrival was pretty terrible. He had just woken up from a nap and there we were. He physically fought Chris for an hour, before we decided to just brave the carseat battle and go home. Thankfully, he got right into the car seat, said bye-bye and fell asleep before we were even out of the parking garage.
The poor escort and her daughter were crying and kept reassuring us that he was a good boy on the plane...which he must have been! Tyanna Ogilvie sent us photos of the disembarking in San Francisco and Daniel's true personality was shining through...we hope the escort didn't think we'd think he would be this way for long.
We had hoped for a happy homecoming, but we were prepared for any outcome. This morning when we were waiting for him to wake up we were laughing and saying that instead of "what a wonderful world" or some happy, pretty music that people use for adoption homecoming videos, ours would have Drowning Pool's, "Let the Bodies Hit the Floor" and would have clips of the airport battle scene and then night vision cam shots of him beating the crap out of us all Tuesday night. lol. Man...it was ROUGH! The older kiddos were crying, Daniel was ticked off and we felt terrible for the escort to have to see such a sad thing! The first night home, we got 2 hours then 4 hours of consecutive sleep...he was just plain exhausted and crying, but it didn't really seem like grieving yet. He had a couple of bottles with no issues. No eating or digestive/diaper problems at all. As soon as you pull out a camera, he's all smiles!
Tuesday night was pure torture for all involved. He grieved HARD and literally beat us up all night…kicking, scratching, biting, pinching. We got one hour of sleep.
Wednesday he slept from 10:30 am to 5 pm, and we just let hims sleep. He's eating great, hasn't complained about the bottles which we have now transitioned to sippy cups (he was biting through his bottle nipples) mixed w/ 1/2 Korean formula and 1/2 milk. He LOVES speghetti. He has already begun to pick up English and now says: Daddy, E-N (Ian, his brother), bye-bye, Teletubbies, chair, cup, up, down, eat, Elmo, dishwasher, baby, and Santa.
He's so cute...he runs around says "Mueo-ya?" (What's this?) to everything...everyone is loving the "Helen Keller" moments! He tries to repeat most of what we tell him when we answer his What's this? questions.
He's also liking O's (cheerios) and cooked carrots… oh and rice pudding, lol.
We had a VERY GOOD night last night and he slept from 11 pm to 8 am. We're having some problems with sleeping as he wants to sleep ON me, which isn't physically possible, so we're having to wean him of that and he's not pleased. Full blown 2-year-old tantrums, lol. He has a very stubborn little personality, but that's okay, my other 2 are strong willed kiddos too and in this house Mama ALWAYS wins, lol. He kicks people when he wants something he can’t have it and pinches…so having to do subtle behavior modification. He’s very adaptable and very verbal/friendly when he’s having a good moment and some of the behavior problems are very much age-related and not adoption/transition related.
Today he's done great. He's been playing, posing for the camera, and eating very well. Really, the biggest problems, as expected, are at night. We're glad we've read all the books we could on attachment. AND we’re SO glad we have everyone here on the board!
Right now we're all really just enjoying him....Tuesday night was really really really rough...but we're pushing through...he's seeking comfort from both of us and I can leave the room for about 10 min without him melting down. His sister and brother are enjoying him and he's taken to everyone in the family.
From what I've read and listened to here, I think he may be one of those hard and furious grievers, and then he'll adapt and move on. He's a very good baby...we definitely see the light at the end of the tunnel today!
- Mood: busy
For those on Daniel Watch: we just got an update from our escort through our agency and Daniel did well on the flight, is "friendly" and "all boy" and "very active". The flight was a bit delayed departing from San Fran but is now shown as having departed the gate. Reason for delay: customer service. Answer to my question: Did he get sick? No. He did great. :) We're getting ready to head to the airport.
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anxious
We are so ecstatic. Our journey has been long and stressful, but the reward is at hand. We anticipate hurdles, but we know our goal will be reached at the end. We feel truly blessed to be given this wonderful baby boy to parent. God is good.
Kiddo #1 & #2 are eagerly awaiting the arrival of their new baby brother. I expect adjustments in the older kid department too. Making a family is a period of transition and patience. They are both old enough to understand sacrifice and the gift of love...maybe not old enough to always process the emotions they may encounter, but that's why we're here to help them.
We think it's no coincidence that our son was born in a region in Korea that is known for its artists, writers, embroiderers, and deep religious roots. Those of you who believe in god, whatever name you may address him (or her) as, you know that God does not work in coincidences, but has a distinct plan. We believe with all of our hearts, that this child is ours, was always meant to be ours, and completes a part of our lives. We look forward to continuing the journey as a family.
I find myself awash with contradicting emotions, all normal, all ones I've felt before. There's that moment when your labor pains reach a pain level that is no longer tolerable, when your brain registers with abject clarity the permanence of your decision. Joy and love fill your heart and flashing before you, you see visions of baby, childhood, adolescence and finally adulthood milestones that your child will reach. It's all one big Hallmark commercial....and then in that same instant, you feel fear, panic, absolute terror...that's the moment of "OH MY GOD! What am I getting myself into??" but you know you can't send the baby back now (and in childbirth that's all too real as you have something akin to a pot roast wedged in your regions) and you know this is a done deal.
And then, it's over. The baby's in your arms. And you KNOW you can handle it. You KNOW this was meant to be.
With adoption, it's much the same. Instead of 9 months of pregnancy, you have 1, 2, even more years for some people, waiting, filling out forms giving government offices money, sacrificing, allowing yourself to buy a few baby items to give yourself hope, talking to others who have gone through the process, feeding off their experiences to get yourself to the next marker. The next document. The next approval. You lose the tangible reality of pregnancy...all you have are a few photos, a baby doctor visit every month or every other month...you live for that email to come into your box from the agency...you cry when new pictures arrive and you realize how much time is slipping away, how much the baby is growing WITHOUT you as the parent.
But that ever-present desire to parent this baby or child keeps you going. Hope is a powerful thing. And finally, in the end, your baby is given to you and you know that everything was worth it, and that no birth or arrival happens without faith, pain, and devotion. In the giving of yourself, you gain more than you ever can explain.
This Christmas will be special for our family. I wanted to take the time to thank everyone who has given of themselves along our journey. To those who donated money at crucial junctures, to those who donated to Brittany's Hope Walk of Love in our names, to whole convention staffs FENCON!!! who allowed us a panel to discuss adoption and Brittany's Hope Foundation to fulfill our grant obligations, FenCon allowed us to have a fund-raising table along with our normal book sales, to those who have sent gifts, cards, emails, your words of encouragement have helped us find strength when we felt we no longer had any left, your words and arms have held us up when we were too weary to find hope. Thank you to all of you.
An old African saying goes, "It takes a village to raise a child." Sometimes, it takes a village just to bring that child home. You are our village and we thank you.
Thank you and Happy Holidays!
Angeline & Christopher
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grateful
Basket Case 1, 2, 3....god I love these movies! What I really really really want are a bunch of Baby Belial dolls from Basket Case 3! So, I say to Teh Hotness...I WANT a Belial!!
Cue the Almighty Google. Google tells me "There has never been an action figure of a hot dog-loving parasitic twin, and goddamn it, there really should be. The closest Belial (star of Frank Henenlotter's no-budget classic Basket Case) ever came to being captured in plastic was as a Japanese vinyl toy promotional giveaway for the film's sequels. Japan always gets the coolest stuff."
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
So I search some more. I come up with some sorry resin model that didn't do Belial justice. Then I find some chick posing a question on Yahoo answers about her boyfriend telling her there's a Belial throw pillow.
Great! So... now I find out there's a Belial throw pillow AND a cool Japanese vinyl toy of Belial neither of which I can find anywhere on the net. I can't even find photos of the figure or pillow that someone might be brazenly posting on their website or journal to tease the rest of us Belial fans with!
Maaaannn...even Ebay came up dry.
I'm now eyeing my bucket of latex...and fondly caressing a lump of clay...it's not a question of IF I can make a Belial...oh, I KNOW I can make a cute, squishy little latex Belial....I can make a bunch of cute, squishy Belial babies too...but now I'm faced with the "rightness" of making a Belial doll.
I suppose I COULD make one for my own personal use. I can't make them and sell them. That would be some sort of copyright violation. I could make a Belial of my very own and name him something else I suppose.
It would be a lot of work. Sculpting the clay Belial and making a mold of the sculpture...then pouring the latex and painting...probably more work than I have time for especially with Kiddo#3 coming soon...
But, gee whiz, Santa, it sure would be AWESOME if you popped a Belial doll down my chimney this year!
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Searching the net 4 Belial
My sci-fi story, "Beautiful Girl", will appear in Dark Quest publications, anthology, Dark Future: Tales of SF Dystopia, edited by Jason Sizemore. It has a spring release date.
In our adoption news: We are SO close to bringing our little guy home. His visa appointment date has yet to show up in the immigration computer system, but they can see his photo. Usually they can only see the photo of a person who has had their visa issued.....so the clock is running down. With a lot of prayers and a little luck, we'll have him home by Christmas!
In other news: When you head out to do your Black Friday Shopping for all those Holiday Goodies, pop over to Amazon and plunk one of these bad boys into your cart! Shades of Blood and Shadow would make a scrumptiously delicious holiday surprise for that historical or horror reader on your list! In doubt, read a great review at Hellnotes. And, if you need some more persuasion, there's a sample story at Dark Regions Press for your perusal.
The palette of history and horror mingle in the hues of crimson blood and blackest death. The ghosts of the past mourn for lives unfinished, vengeance unfulfilled, and loves lost. The heart beats in a cacophony of anticipation and fear, echoing with the memory of those that once were, once danced, once believed.
Hues of fear, of woe and dying. Shades of death, of blood and shadow. Fallen women, queens, and angels. Angry men, ghosts, and devils. Life is woven in a tapestry of joy and sorrow; painted in the colors of pain, and triumph, and love. What artistry is found within the soul of every man -- some perfection, some wretched -- painted words and pictures of things glorious and of things unspeakable.
Angeline Hawkes writes with the fatalistic poetry of unstoppable history gone disturbingly wrong. -- John Everson, Bram Stoker Award winning author
Shades of Blood and Shadow represents only a taste of the hundreds of short stories penned by Bram Stoker Award nominated writer Angeline Hawkes. From ancient Mayans to the horrors at Chernobyl, she pulls you into the hearts and minds of fiendish creatures and tortured man. History offers up the wayward and the monstrous in this collection of ghoulish hues.
“Angeline Hawkes's … imagination seems to tend toward a Lovecraftian-meets-George Romero-in-a-dark-alley sensibility.” -- Robert Butterfield, Necropsy: The Review of Horror Fiction
“…Angeline Hawkes conducts an orchestra of creatures that are both bloody and sexy. You won’t forget this tour through historical horror; it’s a sumptuous smorgasbord for beasts craving variety.” --Gregory Lamberson, author of Johnny Gruesome and Personal Demons
“…every story is unique, and every story works. Angeline Hawke's writing is sharp, elegant and satisfying in the most deliciously dark way.” -- Jonathan Maberry, Bram Stoker Award winning author of Zombie CSU and Patient Zero
“Angeline Hawkes…conjures dark and dangerous experiences, satisfyingly horrorific stories seasoned with sly humor, historical epics slipstreaming into alternate realities… hellishly inspiring, fantastically inventive, a collection of dark fiction impossible to forget!” -- C. Dean Andersson, Bram Stoker Award nominated author of I Am Dracula, Raw Pain Max, and the Bloodsong Saga
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Okay, kiddies...I'm off to make dinner (Easy Peasy Tacos) for my starving brood. I'll keep you posted on our adoption journey! Y'all have a wonderful Turkey Day!!
- Location:In the Kitchen, baby!
- Mood:
bouncy
HELLNOTES has posted a fabulous review of my horror collection, Shades of Blood and Shadow. Check it out.
Shades of Blood and Shadow is intelligent horror, which doesn’t mean it sacrifices emotional punch. Angeline Hawkes knows when to go for the gut, the jugular, or the heart; she does it with restraint and timing. There is a sense of place and purpose in her writing. She strikes the right balance between the blood and the shadow.
- Location:In the hole under the stairs
- Mood: busy
Good news! Daniel's paperwork is making its way through the Korean immigration system now. Barring any unexpected complications, we're looking at a probable arrival date of anywhere from 4 weeks to the end of December. The way things have been moving, we're hoping for somewhere around Thanksgiving!
Many people have asked so, since his impending arrival now seems like it's ACTUALLY GOING TO HAPPEN instead of the waiting waiting waiting, I broke down and did a gift registry at TARGET.com. I'm assuming it shows up at the actual brick and mortar stores too. I haven't registered at Amazon yet, though I will soon. Target and Amazon were the 2 places people suggested. It's been nearly 10 years since I had to scrounge up things for a baby, lol, back then baby registries were new and I never used one. At least I don't remember doing it, lol. Another thing that goes after 10 years...all the former baby gear one once possessed and whatever was left of your mind. The online registry ships automatically to our address.
Target Registry ID Registry ID: 014399700798550
All the way from South Korea! Adopting our Daniel!
Parent(s): Angeline L. Fulbright & Christopher H. Fulbright
Expected Arrival Date: December 1, 2009
Location: Wylie, TX
Message from Angeline L. Fulbright & Christopher H. Fulbright:
Daniel will be 18-19 months old when home. Toys for 9 months and up are great! We will be working on language skills so alphabet, numbers, talking toys are excellent! Summer clothes 2T. Winter clothes 3T. His bedroom is blue/red.
Thank you goes out to everyone who donated to BRITTANY'S HOPE in our names too. The grant we are receiving from this organization is helping us bring our baby boy home! We appreciate everyone's generosity. These donations go to help orphans abroad with schooling, food, medicine and housing. The grants given by Brittany's Hope are child-specific and so families don't have to be a certain church denomination or qualify based on race or income.
We want to thank FENCON once again for allowing us to have an informational panel on international adoption, Brittany's Hope Foundation, and adopting children with special needs and for allowing us to have our adoption fundraiser on half of our table :) The money we raised from books and dvd/vhs sales paid our immigration bill. We greatly appreciate the kindness of the entire staff of FenCon and the amazing attendees!
In other news, I'm hard at work writing the non-fiction. So far I've saved enough to pay for Daniel's post-arrival home study visits and am now working on saving enough for the legal bills for his adoption finalization which will be about 6 mos after he arrives.
Kiddo#2's School Pumpkin contest entry. She finds out on Monday whether or not she placed in the 1-3rd placement of her class. The judging was done by who received the most penny donations. This is the annual fundraiser for her class. Kiddo#1 did it many years ago as well. We wanted a pumpkin no one had done before as every year there are tons of the same themes: spiders, various monsters, pumpkins in hats...so I dug down deep in the dark recesses of my brain and cooked up something kid-appropriate. Well, okay, to us, appropriate is more gruesome than some families, lol. Kiddo #2 especially got into painting the knife and blood splatters. Hmmm, don't know where she gets it from. lol.
Okay, that's my scoop. Don't forget that SHADES OF BLOOD AND SHADOW paperback is shipping now!
- Location:In the hole under the stairs
- Mood: excited
It's coming! My horror story, "Virgin of the Sun" will appear along with the other fabulous writers mentioned in the new Dark Regions Press anthology, Nostradamus' Fate and Other Dark Prophecies.
Stay posted for release date and information.
- Location:In the Hole Under the Stairs
- Mood: productive
It's almost Halloween....everyone needs a bit of fright on Halloween night! Shades of Blood and Shadow is just waiting to fill that void! Paperback's on Amazon. Hardback from the publisher.
And, while I'm talking with you...in our adoption news, the next stage of the game we were waiting on, is now past. We received our I-600 application approval this week and are also logged into the National Visa Center! I'm hoping for more good news this week! Now we're waiting on the Korean Emigration Permit and to be logged out of the National Visa Center.
Send those prayers and good thoughts and vibes...we're still hoping to bring Kiddo#3 home in December [earlier would be fabulous!]
In the meantime I got a gig writing non-fiction copy which is doing great things for our Legal savings account for all the things we have to write checks for once we get our little man here! Busy as can be, but very grateful for the opportunity to earn some extra money.
Okay...so we're going to get some coffee and find a birthday gift for Chris's dad...it's a chilly Fall day outside!
PS. Christopher Fulbright announced his latest acceptance on his journal : Bad Moon Books will publish Chris' novella, The Bone Tree, in 2010. Yay!
- Location:In the Hole Under the Stairs
- Mood: CRAZY Busy
Okay all of my crazed and fabulous readers! The paperback version of Shades of Blood and Shadow is now available on Amazon! It begins shipping very soon! Fabulous illustrations by the talented Tom Moran and 13 delicious tales of terror to tickle your fancy! JUST IN TIME FOR HALLOWEEN and Samhain! Here's the backcover copy:
The palette of history and horror mingle in the hues of crimson blood and blackest death. The ghosts of the past mourn for lives unfinished, vengeance unfulfilled, and loves lost. The heart beats in a cacophony of anticipation and fear, echoing with the memory of those that once were, once danced, once believed.
Hues of fear, of woe and dying. Shades of death, of blood and shadow. Fallen women, queens, and angels. Angry men, ghosts, and devils. Life is woven in a tapestry of joy and sorrow; painted in the colors of pain, and triumph, and love. What artistry is found within the soul of every man -- some perfection, some wretched -- painted words and pictures of things glorious and of things unspeakable. Angeline Hawkes writes with the fatalistic poetry of unstoppable history gone disturbingly wrong. -- John Everson, Bram Stoker Award winning author
Shades of Blood and Shadow represents only a taste of the hundreds of short stories penned by Bram Stoker Award nominated writer Angeline Hawkes. From ancient Mayans to the horrors at Chernobyl, she pulls you into the hearts and minds of fiendish creatures and tortured man. History offers up the wayward and the monstrous in this collection of ghoulish hues.
And some general blurbage:
Angeline Hawkes's … imagination seems to tend toward a Lovecraftian-meets-George Romero-in-a-dark-alley sensibility. -- Robert Butterfield, Necropsy: The Review of Horror Fiction
…Angeline Hawkes conducts an orchestra of creatures that are both bloody and sexy. You won’t forget this tour through historical horror; it’s a sumptuous smorgasbord for beasts craving variety. --Gregory Lamberson, author of Johnny Gruesome and Personal Demons
…every story is unique, and every story works. Angeline Hawke's writing is sharp, elegant and satisfying in the most deliciously dark way. -- Jonathan Maberry, Bram Stoker Award winning author of Zombie CSU and Patient Zero
Angeline Hawkes…conjures dark and dangerous experiences, satisfyingly horrorific stories seasoned with sly humor, historical epics slipstreaming into alternate realities… hellishly inspiring, fantastically inventive, a collection of dark fiction impossible to forget! -- C. Dean Andersson, Bram Stoker Award nominated author of I Am Dracula, Raw Pain Max, and the Bloodsong Saga
Here's a sample story and the table of contents and list of illustration.
Other News:
We received our I-600A approval from immigration. We're now waiting on the next necessary approval, our I-600. Also waiting on Emigration Permit aka EP from the Korean end of things. The wheels are moving, slowly, but moving! This week we were surprised with 2 new photos and a medical report. We really hadn't expected any additional photos as we received 3 new ones from his first birthday well child exam...so we were THRILLED to have new photos. Getting new photos is a mixed bag. On one hand, we're elated to have a new look at his little face...heart aching to have him home...on the other hand, we're struck with the poignant reminder of how fast he's growing up without us around! It makes us want the wheels to turn even faster so we can bring him home and start the bonding process.
I got a mold for Sugar Skulls for this Halloween. I also got a mold for the Easter Sugar Eggs...but the skulls are going to be cool. The mold company left out the back of the skull, so I'm waiting for the other half to arrive. Should be fun. Making the skulls and eggs is something I've always wanted to try!
Well, that's my scoop for now.
BIG Congratulations to Christopher aka Christopher Fulbright for his honorable mention in Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the year 2008, for his story "Mechanix" which appeared in Bound for Evil, from Dead Letter Press.
- Location:In the Hole Under the Stairs
- Mood: busy
- Music:faint beats drifting from Chris's Man Room
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I should have copies of Symphony for the Forgotten. [Waiting for them to arrive via the mail] If not, I still have some Advanced Readers Copies that will be $5. We'll also have a few copies of the out of print, Blood Coven, by myself [Angeline Hawkes] and Christopher Fulbright. Our author table will also have copies of Spicy Slipstream Stories, Frontier Cthulhu and a few other books.
I won't have trade paperback copies of Shades of Blood and Shadow yet, but hope to have those next year for ConDFW in Feb.
In writing news: I've been busy querying agents and publishers for 2 novels. I have a 3rd ready to go out too, but I may wait awhile before sending that out as the other 2 are tying up all of the available parties that would also be interested in the 3rd. I'm also soon to be back at writing another novel that's about 1/4 of the way finished.
In adoption news: We're currently waiting on a September update on our kiddo. We're still hoping he'll be home in December. The cogs of the machine move very slowly and the wait is excruciating. Chris and I will have dvds, vhs, books, bunnies and lambs for sale at our author table as part of our fundraising this weekend too!
Some days all it seems like I do is wait...writing and adoption wise. lol.
In sewing news: I listed 2 holiday ensembles on ebay for Bleuette. And don't forget the adoption fundraisers of hearts, bunnies and lambs! I've got a Bambino gown set to list and am nearly finished with a dress from a 1930s McCalls pattern also for Bambino or 10 inch baby doll equivalent.
Yesterday I broke out the Halloween decor and decorated the inside of the house. Last year I was sick and we only really had decorations up for a couple of weeks, so since we got ripped in 08, I decided to start early in 09! lol. That and the end of this month is crazy busy with school and other commitments, so now was the best time!
Kiddo#3's bedroom is now mostly done. We have to do the closet rod/shelf, but for the most part the drawers are full, the toy box is getting filled up, the bookcase is getting stocked, and we can't wait to actually have the kiddo that the room is for!
So, that's my scoop. Come out and see us in Addison this weekend!
- Location:In the hole under the stairs
- Mood: Crazy Busy
BLACK MERCY FALLS Coming in 2010 from Bloodletting Press
Christopher Fulbright and Angeline Hawkes are proud to announce that their new horror novella, BLACK MERCY FALLS, has sold to Bloodletting Press for publication under their Morning Star imprint in late 2010.
About the book…
The small Colorado town of Black Mercy Falls has a ghastly past.
The folks who live there just call it Mercy Falls. And while the “black” part comes from the massive waterfall above the town whose waters run thick with black iron oxide, there are hushed suggestions that something diabolic is responsible. Tense whispers of the locals connect a list of missing children and teens with the old tale of Nehemiah Jacob, a mid-1800s pioneer who threw his deformed inbred children over the falls thinking that their deformities were caused by demonic possession, hoping the waters would cleanse their souls and release them to heaven. When he named the place Mercy Falls all those years ago, some say the waters were crystal clear. And when the darkness came, it came to stay. Is the waterfall haunted? Possessed? Or is the town cursed with something that stalks its children by night?
Now the town’s namesake waterfall and the land that it’s on have been bequeathed to Lance Evans by his estranged uncle. But when Lance brings his pregnant wife and son to explore the inheritance, they scarcely have a chance to marvel at its beauty and settle in to the rustic cabin when good fortune is overshadowed by the dark legacy of Mercy Falls. Pitting Lance against unknown forces, the truth is even more horrific than the rumors suggest as he fights for the lives of his wife and son, and mists of the past rise as tendrils from the shadow of tragedy that threatens to end it all, and take away once and for all the lives of those he loves.
BLACK MERCY FALLS is the third horror novella by Christopher Fulbright and Angeline Hawkes, authors of BLOOD COVEN, which was released in 2007 from Dead Letter Press, and their 2006 debut novella THEN COMES THE CHILD, which was lauded by Gary Braunbeck, who said “if all extreme horror had this much grace, style, and intelligence, I’d read a hell of a lot more of it”; James Moore, who said it was “beautiful, dark, and disturbing as hell”; and John Everson, who pronounced it a “bloody good read.” Please visit http://www.fulbrightandhawkes.com and the authors’ blogs for all the latest updates.
For more information about Bloodletting Press and all of their titles, please visit http://www.bloodletting-press.com.
- Mood: bouncy
SHADES OF BLOOD AND SHADOW, a collection of 13 stories by Angeline Hawkes, is shipping now!
Catch a review of the book at Pod of Horror
[if listening for review only, go to about 3/4 of the way through the broadcast]
Norman Rubenstein writes that the collection has "...relatable characters, interesting situations, plenty of conflict & drama...more than sufficient well-plotted & presented horror to keep readers sprouting goosebumps and running to turn on the lights no matter what time of night or day it is..."
He goes on to say: "The bottom line is that the book is filled with deliciously fun and chillingly entertaining stories that will provide hours of worthwhile reading at a most agreeable price."
- Location:In the hole under the stairs
- Mood: busy
First review...AWESOME review...of Shades of Blood and Shadow is in...Pod of Horror #55, if listening for the review by Norman L. Rubenstein, click a little past the half way mark. Very happy camper!!
Shades of Blood and Shadow ships this week!- Location:In the Hole Under the Stairs
- Mood: busy
More info to come!
- Location:In the Hole Under the Stairs
- Mood:
cheerful
Okay, so I couldn't resist to Squirrelize my photos. I even did Shades of Blood and Squirrel...hmm, Shadow! lol. By the way, have you got your copy of Shades of Blood and Shadow yet? Well....they're selling out fast....you better get you one! They start shipping next week!
Couldn't resist a Fulbright & Hawkes & Squirrel photo either!
- Location:In the Hole Under the Stairs
- Mood: busy
Bunnies, and Hearts, and Lambs...OH MY!
They say to do what you know to raise money for your adoption expenses. I know 2 things: writing and sewing. I'm writing up a storm. AND I sewed one too...Check out my fundraising auctions!
Created from vintage/antique quilt squares, quilts, and embroidered doilies, runners and such. This is a fun way to reclaim/recycle lovely pieces that some woman spent countless hours working on in ages past!
All proceeds go into our adoption fund to help bring our baby boy, Daniel Harding Gyeong-bin, home from South Korea!
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