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.

10000 Maniacs - Candy Everybody Wants

If lust and hate is the candy,
if blood and love tastes so sweet,
then we give 'em what they want.
Hey, hey, give 'em what they want.
So their eyes are growing hazy
'cos they wanna turn it on,
so their minds are soft and lazy.
Well, hey, give 'em what they want.
If lust and hate is the candy,
if blood and love tastes so sweet,
then we give 'em what they want.
So their eyes are growing hazy
'cos they wanna turn it on,
so their minds are soft and lazy.
Well who do you wanna blame?
Hey, hey, give 'em what they want.
If lust and hate is the candy,
if blood and love tastes so sweet,
then we give 'em what they want.
So their eyes are growing hazy
'cos they wanna turn it on,
so their minds are soft and lazy.
Well who do you wanna blame?

Lots going on here. There have been medical issues with medical bills; Chris has to have surgery on Halloween. Blood-sucking doctors. lol. It was a great relief to open the mail today and find 3 checks from publishers! Paid us back the money we had to spend at the CatScan place yesterday. Nice to be Even Steven. lol.

Other than that, writing and sewing. Fall Carnival coming up at the elementary school in November. Put together my new doll. I traded a Bleuette yahoo group member/friend a doll bed outfitted with antique linens that I sewed for 2 Bleuette heads. I have to save up for a body for the second head...but here is the new Bleuette: Belle:



Yay. I'm so happy to have her! Working on a new ensemble from antique fabric for the body-less head right now. Haven't come up with a name for her yet.

So, that's the scoop. I'm here, just not everywhere I am normally.



Oh, and BLOOD COVEN picked up another rec in Long Fiction for the Bram Stoker Awards...the pdf is still available free to all HWA members. The actual chapbook/novella is nearly sold out now.

Hey folks! Just wanted to let you know that Christopher Fulbright and myself
will be in a Live Chat at Lost and the Damned on Friday the 13th [that's tomorrow!] at 10 PM ET, 9 PM CT, 8 PM MT, 7 PM PT.

We'll be discussing our newest release, Blood Coven. This is a new 18,000 word novella from Dead Letter Press.

On the filthy streets of Victorian London’s East End, a centuries-old evil is amassing its forces. Only one man stands in its way: a legendary vampire killer called The Catcher. He’s been trained from childhood by a secret society within The Holy Church. He’s fast, efficient and totally professional. He’s also totally on his own … working undercover in the darkest quarter of the city … outside the law. Can he succeed where those before him have failed? Not even he knows for sure.

Cover art by Allen Koszowksi.
You can order Blood Coven at Dead Letter Press.

Two new reviews of BLOOD COVEN : 

* In his Maguszine review, David Montoya  of Magus Press calls BLOOD COVEN "a fast and thrilling read, instantly entertaining ... brutal, unrelenting...." Read the entire review at Magus Press.

* Brett Jordan, reviewing for the Monster Librarian, calls it "a fast paced story full of action and plot twists...sure to catch the reader by surprise." Read the complete review at the Monster Librarian.com.

"BLOOD COVEN is a grand, ghoulish tale of vampires and vampire hunters set in the seedy underground world of late 19th century England. It's an action packed ride as good battles evil and fangs fight knives in a last-man-standing free-for-all between the brood of an ancient vampire queen and the deadliest vampire killer in all London. Lots of fun for those with a taste for bloody adventure. My only complaint was that the story ended too quickly!"  -- Bob Weinberg, author of Vampire Diary: The Embrace, Vampire: The Masquerade of the Red Death, Vampire:  The Machiavelli Conundrum

We'll be giving away to one random winner a signed, lettered edition of BLOOD COVEN. Only 26 Lettered editions were published and are not available to the general public. Also being given away will be a DVD of The Satanic Rites of Dracula.

See y'all there!

ISBN 0-9796335-0-8

Blood Coven is limited to 100 copies and comes with a matching illustrated and blurbed envelope.

They're going fast!

Advance orders [w/ a $2 discount] are being taken until June 10. Blood Coven is projected to sell out before the Advance Order period is even over with...

Have you got your copy yet?