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As promised, here is the first round of photos of the hand-bound (in leather that is as soft as butter…) edition of Vintage Soul.  This will be a prize for one lucky reader / collector who pre-orders the signed limited edition of Vintage Soul from Bad Moon Books…

These are the photos that Chris Hedges, master book binder and all-around good guy sent me.  I have the book in hand, and am working on embellishing, adding content, (scribbling in the book, okay?  Also drawing.  It’s what I do, and I had Chris add extra pages, just so there’d be room).

More photos will follow:

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I saw today over in Lisa Snellings’ Blog that she is working on a new edition of “Resonant Kiss,” a sculpture that I own one of the early editions of…back when I bought it, it inspired me to write a poem…when I saw her post, I pulled that poem back out:

You can see her post (and an image of the sculpture) HERE …

Resonant Kiss

By David Niall Wilson

Inspired by the sculpture of the same name by Lisa Snelling

8:14   February 12, 2002

She sat rigid,
Legs curving gently as
The arched spine of the chair
pressed to her back.
The light was dim – and deep,
It seeped about her, curling with
The smoke of three dozen candles
flickering . . . dancing . . .
No music, and yet, they danced.
The sound floated softly on the breeze,
swirling in through a window,
Dropping from somewhere far above,
or rising from below.
He played for her each night,
and each night the sounds resonated
within her soul….
Each night she felt him nearer,
wrapping tightly
Binding with the subtle ties
of sound, and passion
brushing through her mind to
Erase thought and
Replace it with heat.
The feather brush of fingers,
flying note to note to skin to soul
and steady, rhythmic strokes
of soft bow strings
Teased her relentlessly
With whispered words
Just out of reach,
And a face that wavered
On the periphery
of consciousness.
He played
And her head dropped back,
Long hair draping over the chair,
nearly to the floor,
Her eyes closed to the lonely night
Her world an echo of notes,
Drifting
In the arms of the night.
Somewhere far above,
or below,
he caressed the curved neck of his instrument,
eyes closed and fingers lingering
against the vibration,
bow flinging his heart to the sky
He acknowledged her sacrifice,
clasping the wooden frame of his magic
Tightly between his thighs,
and dreaming – -
of her eyes.

When a gorgeous, three hundred year old vampire is kidnapped from her lover’s top floor, high-security suite, the city’s underground community is shaken.

The abduction seems impossible, and when things seem impossible, there is only one man in the dark, underground society of San Valencez, [...]]]>

When a gorgeous, three hundred year old vampire is kidnapped from her lover’s top floor, high-security suite, the city’s underground community is shaken.

The abduction seems impossible, and when things seem impossible, there is only one man in the dark, underground society of San Valencez, California who can be trusted to unravel them. Donovan DeChance is a collector of ancient manuscripts and books, a practicing mage, and a private investigator.

Called in to investigate, he soon finds that there is much more to the case than a simple abduction. There will be no ransom, and if he doesn’t prevent an ancient, forbidden ritual from reaching its culmination, far more than a single vampire’s undead life will be at stake.

Donovan, his fiery, sometimes lover Amethyst, and a troop of supporting characters follow the ghostly trail of the kidnapper through a winding maze of intrigue, always a step behind, through magical battles, murders, and confrontations with a rogue band of young vampires intent on beating Donovan at his own game.

Vintage Soul is a dark, urban, supernatural mystery. Set in a fictional underground society, a city within a city, it opens portals to the unknown darkness that surrounds us. Fast-paced, strewn with clues, investigation, and magic, this is a book sure to slake the appetites of fans of mystery and the supernatural. Welcome to the darkness; welcome to the world of Donovan DeChance. Vintage Soul is Book I of the DeChance Chronicles.

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION – COVER ART BY DON PARESI: PREORDER NOW



For any who never heard that I was doing it, but are interested in hearing it, I was interviewed live on Sci-Fi Saturday night’s podcast this weekend.  We talked about e-Books, Vampires, and a lot of other things…  They’re a fun group, and I had a blast (while my kids listened and provided commentary on [...]]]>

For any who never heard that I was doing it, but are interested in hearing it, I was interviewed live on Sci-Fi Saturday night’s podcast this weekend.  We talked about e-Books, Vampires, and a lot of other things…  They’re a fun group, and I had a blast (while my kids listened and provided commentary on Twitter…

The link is here : Sci-Fi Saturday Night

Stop by…give them a listen.  Great folks, contests, and more.

DNW

In honor of Read an e-Book Week, Macabre Ink Digital Publishing offers the following coupon code: eBOOKWeek

If you use this to buy e-Books from Macabre Ink Digital and use that code, you will receive a discount of 50%. That’s right. $1.00 stories for .50 – $5.00 novels for $2.50. All week, from the 7th to [...]]]>

In honor of Read an e-Book Week, Macabre Ink Digital Publishing offers the following coupon code: eBOOKWeek

If you use this to buy e-Books from Macabre Ink Digital and use that code, you will receive a discount of 50%. That’s right. $1.00 stories for .50 – $5.00 novels for $2.50. All week, from the 7th to the 13th of March.

If you’ve been wondering when would be the time to start checking out e-Books, this is your week – particularly if you’re after books from Ronald Kelly, Steve Savile, Steve & Melanie Tem, or – well – David Niall Wilson. Now go…browse…BUY…but buy tomorrow if you want to save some cash.

DNW

PS – don’t forget that every $5.00 spent between now and midnight on the 8th (EST) gets you an entry into the other contest for free books. What a deal!

Ed offered to email the soldier all 13 of his ebooks, for free. The soldier gratefully accepted.

Following the [...]]]>

The other day on the Amazon Kindle message boards, Smashwords author Ed Patterson met a U.S. soldier stationed in Iraq who wanted to download ebooks for his Kindle, yet Whispernet (Amazon’s wireless download service) didn’t work in Iraq.

Ed offered to email the soldier all 13 of his ebooks, for free. The soldier gratefully accepted.

Following the chance encounter with the soldier, Ed, himself an Army veteran, queried other indie authors on the Kindleboards message boards, asking if they too would be willing to offer their ebooks for free to troops deployed overseas.

In a matter of days, about twenty authors volunteered their books. Almost immediately, Ed began receiving additional requests for ebooks from soldiers and their families.

Ed and some of the authors started using Smashwords as the platform for distributing the ebooks to soldiers. Using the Smashwords Coupon Generator feature, authors are emailing 100%-off coupons to the soldiers.

READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT THE SMASHWORDS BLOG

I think this is a wonderful idea – something for the troops, and a way to connect with new readers across the world.  Viva la Smashwords.

DNW