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."

The following product is on preorder or backorder. Our expected ship date / ETA: Aug 30, 2009 (all dates are tentative and subject to change).

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
 

Details
 
SKU     SKU19277
Store:     Bloodletting Books
Author:     Angeline Hawkes
Publisher:     Dark Regions Press
Edition:     Limited Edition Hardcover
Release Date:     August 2009
Page Count:     154
Print Run:     100
Cover Artist:     Tom Moran
Price:     $40.00

Happy Dance now....Tom Moran did the SPECTACULAR cover and interior art!!!

Ton of Bleuette [or other similar 10-12 inch doll] ensembles listed on ebay now.

I've kicked up the sewing as we're desperately raising funds now for the rest of the apprx $23,000 we need for the adoption program fees, travel for the infant and escort, Immigration services, and legal adoption bills here in Texas. I've been sewing since early winter but just now listing. We also have a ton of books, DVDs, VHS, other doll both antique and Barbie items, toys, outgrown children's clothing, and more books! lol....Will be getting those up over the next weeks.

The Home study visit went very well last night, and barring any complications with any of the other forms that we had to have mailed in from a gazillion sources, our social worker said we're approved. Yay! I didn't anticipate any complications or denials, but it's very nerve-racking all the same. Now we have a final payment to send them and we wait for the paperwork to be completed. As far as we know the only forms they're waiting on that we have yet to send our our 2008 taxes from our accountant. So, now we begin to raise money in earnest.

Tonight's a writing night. I'm finally in the 9th level of Hell in my Inferno:Tales of Hell and Horror collection [due out in Fall/Winter from Dark Regions Press].

Okay...off to do laundry! Windows open, it's a beautiful 75 outside!

I received notification that my novel-length barbarian collection will be published by Bad Moon Books in 2011!

Out of the Garden and other Tales of the Barbarian Kabar of El Hazzar features apprx 94,000 yummy words of All Barbarian Goodness!

The collection will feature 2 all new, unpublished novellas, plus 3 all new, unpublished stories, and 6 reprints that you may or may not have read in various anthologies and magazines. I *THINK* but not confirmed on this yet, that the cover will be an AWESOME work of art by Stacey Drum, of Cemetery Dance covers, etc etc. Years ago Stacey designed cover art for a novel that I pulled from a flailing publisher and the art is so striking that I wrote the novella, Out of the Garden, to go with it. I submitted the artwork along with Stacey's info to the publisher, I'll keep you posted when I find out if this spectacular cover will indeed be the cover art for the new collection.

This ain't chick lit, and it's not for the faint of heart....be prepared to slay creatures most foul, fight with mythical beasts of all imagined kinds, travel the ancient world, carry a big sword and rescue hot chicks! You'll meet all of the usual cast of characters in Kabar's world along with new ones! Sword & Sorcery in the traditional vein....Get ready....Kabar's coming! Blood, gore and mayhem. Can you handle it?

A reader hungry to mainline pure sword-and-sorcery adventure should flip to Angeline Hawkes’s “Lair of the Cherufe.” Barbarian hero Kabar goes forth to rescue a kidnapped princess — from sacrifice to a lava monster, no less — and generous portions of creative action ensue. It’s quite tasty; if you want the heroic goods delivered, this is the place to start. -- Ryan Harvey, reviewing anthology, The Return of the Sword, Black Gate Magazine

• Paperback: 104 pages
• Publisher: Daverana Enterprises (December 18, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0981662617
• ISBN-13: 978-0981662619
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.2 inches
• Price: $7.75 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. 
• In Stock.

Symphony for the Forgotten is a greatly entertaining foray into religious and spiritual horror, nicely balancing both sacred and profane in its quest for those universal truths we know are tinted in shades of dark. In this rousing collection, Angeline Hawkes travels time and history to tell sometime ambiguous but always exhilarating tales of sinners and occasional redemption. -- W.D. Gagliani, Author of Wolf's Trap

An entertaining, sweeping set of tales that radiate Angeline's pulse in every story. Be they far away places & times, her grasp of what lurks in the heart is clear...and quite dark at times. Truly, a fine read. -- Steven L. Shrewsbury, author of Hawg and Godforsaken 

In Symphony for the Forgotten, 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

From the biblical age to the cyber age, Angeline Hawkes is offering up a sometimes creepy, sometimes thoughtful, but always action-packed symphony that will not soon be forgotten. This is definitely a book you want on your shelf! -- Steven E. Wedel, author of Ulrik and Seven Days in Benevolence

Angeline Hawkes’ Symphony for the Forgotten conjures dark and dangerous experiences, satisfyingly horrorific stories seasoned with sly humor, historical epics slipstreaming into alternate realities mixed with tales modern as an internet killer, hellishly inspiring, fantastically inventive, a collection of dark fiction impossible to forget! -- C. Dean Andersson, Bram Stoker Finalist, author of I Am Dracula, Raw Pain Max, and the Bloodsong Saga

Symphony for the Forgotten is one of those rare collections where 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

"A wonderful collection. Most interesting are the unusual combinations of genres and story devices, such as historical literature combined with comedic splatter, the battle against Satan waged as a military operation, and a gore-drenched version of the David & Goliath tale. There's humor, sorrow, magic, and even a one-eyed Chihuahua. Very highly recommended."  --Jeff Strand, author of Pressure and The Sinister Mr. Corpse

From a modern chatroom dangerous liaison... to a ghastly scene of bewitched decay in revolutionary France; from a Civil War run-in with a hellhound to a retelling of the biblical David and Goliath story with a zombie chaser, in Symphony for the Forgotten, Angeline Hawkes takes her readers on a tour of commingled history and horror, usually wrapped in one neatly coiffed, if bloody package. Time travelers beware! -- John Everson, Bram Stoker Award winning author of Needles & Sins and Covenant

 

 

Christopher Fulbright and I [Angeline Hawkes] will be attending ConDFW 8 as guests and panelists this year. We will be arriving in the afternoon tomorrow. This year we have a light schedule which is good because we're wiped out from various commitments. I will have Advanced Reading Copies of Symphony for the Forgotten available for purchase at my panels and signing and reading. I will be reading one of my new stories from the collection during my reading time.

Saturday

Both of us:
3 pm DFW HWA Afternoon Lunch-Dinner Thing

Christopher Fulbright:
Panel Room 2 (Manchester)
5 pm Fools! I will destroy you all! - Creating Believable Villains

Angeline Hawkes:
Panel Room 4 (Churchill)
5 pm WWDD - What Would Dracula Do? - Horror in Modern Times

Reading Room (Winston)
6 pm Reading from the soon to be released horror collection from Daverana Enterprises, Symphony for the Forgotten

SUNDAY

Angeline Hawkes:
1 pm Autographs

The convention is being held in Crowne Plaza Suites Hotel, Dallas-Park Central at 7800 ALPHA ROAD in DALLAS, TX 75240. For more info and ticket prices, etc visit the ConDFW VIII website at http://www.condfw.org

Hope to see you there!

Sick sick sick....that's what Christopher and I are...hoping the kiddos don't get it. Ran to store before picking said kiddos up from school...man, craaaappppyyyy weather! They're predicting "freezing mix" tomorrow...Evan wasn't on Channel 4 news as usual, new weather woman...so no creative Arctic front names...last week it was Yukon Yeller.

Did you see the WEC fight Live last night? Poor Pulver. He had some rough things happen over holidays, loss of a friend. I don't think he was in the right mental frame of mind to be fighting. It was very difficult to watch. Faber beat him down in about 30 seconds. Faber was very gracious at the end. They had a mention of Pulver's legendary status, etc. Losing 4 fights in a row is tough to any guy...I hope he'll be back when he's mentally stronger.  On another note...we finally got to see the Couture vs Lesnar rerun Sat night...poor Randy! I loathe Lesnar...I can't wait to see Frank Mir kick that dude's ass. We were shocked to hear that The Natural was considering a continuing fighting career...at 45 I think it's time to hang it up...don't want to see him take a pounding again. He seems like such a nice guy. Anyway, disappointing fight weekend!

Got the line-edits for Shades of Blood and Shadow in the mail today from Dark Regions Press. Woot. Guess what I'll be working on soon? Probably not tonight as I have a muscle freezing up in my neck and I don't think I'll be able to move it here shortly....sucky vertebrae. I think God bought my whole spine on clearance at Family Dollar or something.

Okay...I pressed the children into household chore service on the promise of delivering Pillsbury Valentine sugar cookies [you know I'm sick when I'm buying the easy throw them on a cookie sheet and bake cookies, lol]....so I better go deliver before I feel any worse. The house is a wreck and a half on account of me doing nothing but lying in bed and reading all weekend...oh, with the few hour exception of us, sick as we were, running to Comicon and Chris getting Berni Wrightson's autographs on several books, etc. Then we ate at Fridays and promptly wished we had stayed home. However, the vanilla bean cheesecake I got to bring home to eat during the fight as my "fight night" snack was yummy.

We got our Homestudy packet on Friday...been filling out forms and calling government agencies to order certified copies of this and that all day.

Okay...off to bake cookies, finish laundry, and moan on the couch. lol. Don't get sick! Get your flu shots! [thank god we're all shotted up!]


"Savior, Please"
by Josh Wilson from the album Trying To Fit The Ocean In A Cup

Savior, please take my hand
I work so hard, I live so fast
This life begins, and then it ends
And I do the best that I can, but I don't know how long I'll last

I try to be so tough
But I'm just not strong enough
I can't do this alone, God I need You to hold on to me
I try to be good enough
But I'm nothing without Your love
Savior, please keep saving me

Savior, please help me stand
I fall so hard, I fade so fast
Will You begin right where I end
And be the God of all I am because You're all I have

Hallelujah
Everything You are to me
Is everything I'll ever need
And I am learning to believe
That I don't have to prove a thing
'Cause You're the one who's saving me

The contract terminated on Momento Mori, out of print 2003 collection....today is probably the last day the e-book will be available...the print version has been out of print since 2004 when it sold out of its limited run of 100.....going going going.... get it while you can...

 

3:34 pm...and it's gone!