Sunday, October 31, 2010

Review of Halloween Fantasies and House of Immortal Pleasures by Katie Salidas

Here are two stories by Katie Salidas that will put the spice in your Halloween cider. If you’re looking for a little something to get the blood pumping you’ll definitely want to check out this pair of saucy tales.




Katie’s new erotica release is called Halloween Fantasies. Roomates, Sasha and Angela, attend the Halloween Fantasy and Fetish Ball, looking to find some excitement. They get a little more than what they bargained for in vampire twin brothers, Dante and Trevor. The brothers also have night of mischief on their minds, and each sets out to captivate his chosen lady without the use of supernatural powers, just good old seduction and sex appeal. Sasha, who has always had a fantasy about making love with a vampire, is quite taken with tall, dark and sexy Dante. They go to her room and the sparks ignite into an erotic bonfire. However, Trevor and Angela don’t hit it off, and the other twin joins Sasha and Dante for a little trick or treat fun. This tale is sure to please anyone who enjoys things that go bump in the night.






Katie’s earlier erotica book is  House of Immortyl Pleasures. Daphne is just coming off of a bad relationship when her girlfriends kidnap her and treat her to a night at the House of Immortyl Pleasures, a vampire brothel outside of Vegas. There she encounters Conner, a vampire bad boy, who has been working off a ten year sentence for losing control and killing a mortal lover. It’s Conner’s final night of captivity, and he’s pleased to find lovely Daphne is his last client. He sets out to make it a memorable evening for both. His sensuality and skill win over the reticent Daphne, and he gives her not only a night she will never forget, but reaffirms her belief in her own powers of attraction. I enjoyed the sin city backdrop of this story, which takes the reader into a dark and exotic atmosphere. Conner’s edge made him more than just another hot guy to titillate the senses, but an interesting character driven by his personal demons. If you’re looking for a way to dial up the thermostat, you’ll want to check out this one.

Katie was my guest back in July and talked about self-publishing and forming her own publishing company.  Please follow the link to read what Katie had to say.  Read Katie's Guest Blog

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Guest Blogger at The 31 Days of Halloween

I did a blog on vampire lore at this site.  http://www.read-all-over.net/.  Don't forget to enter my drawing! Enter! You can win both books, a t-shirt and posters.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

A Day Of Mystical Bloodlust

I'll be appearing Saturday at this great werewolf and vampire event in Lexington Kentucky.  A Day of Mystical Bloodlust.  I'm presenting a talk on sci fi vampires.  Check it out!

Friday, October 15, 2010

Live at Bitten By Books

I'm now live at Bitten By Books.  Stop by anytime between now and tomorrow at 1PM Central.  You can enter to win my both of the books at the chat.  Please join me! 


You also can enter another contest that I'm running on this blog if you opt to follow me.  Follow to enter here.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Guest Blog/Twilight of the Gods giveaway at Fang-tastic Books!

Hop over to visit Fang-tastic Books to read my guest blog and enter to win a copy of TOTG.  You can also enter to win both books, a t-shirt and posters on this site.  Enter my Twilight of the Gods Launch Contest.

Monday, October 11, 2010

Author Appearances this week

I'll be featured tomorrow at Fang-tastic books.  On Tuesday at 7PM, I'm in person at the Mt. Vernon Public Library at 201 N. Mulberry St. in Mt. Vernon, OH for an Ohio Author's event.  I'll be presenting a program called Vampires: Lore, Legend and Literature at the Pataskala Library on Thursday at 7PM.  The Library is located on Vine St. in Pataskala, OH.  Friday I'm doing a live chat at Bitten By Books.  Links to follow!  I hope you can join me!

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Ren Garcia, Sci Fi Author, Feature and Giveaway

DV: I'd like to welcome Ren Garcia back to Immortyl Revolution.  He's going to tell us a little about his series, The League of Elder.  Ren has graciously offered to sponsor a drawing for his first book. 

RG: The original cover of The League of Elder was a bit of a bad idea on my part. The artist, bless her heart, did what I asked, however, what I asked for didn't properly convey the mood and general atmosphere of the story. "It's a pirate story, right?" people often asked.  Nope, not a pirate yarn. It's sci-fi/fantasy. It's a space opera. Yo-ho-ho.

So, I've a number of books printed in the original cover and I'd like to see them off, free to a good home, like a puppy at the shelter.

DV: Okay kiddos, this is what you must do to enter:  Leave a comment for Ren after this post saying who is your favorite sci fi character and he will choose winners at random.  Contest ends Tuesday 10/11/10 at 6PM EST. Also don't forget to check out my Twilight of the Gods launch drawing as well! Enter Denise's drawing

This is the edition featured in the drawing

About The League Of Elder Series

The League of Elder was created in 1994. I was freshly graduated from college with a degree in literature, floundering, still living with my college chums and reveling in the last few days of my childhood.

I created it not for myself, but for someone else, as a catharsis. I'd become obsessed with a character on television. Yes, obsessed is a good word. Nothing wrong with a little obsession I suppose, if properly confined and tempered. Obsession, when kept to one's self, can be a good thing.

I created the basic outline of the League of Elder for said TV character whom I was devoted to, and, hence, the original concept was merely a teleplay I banged out on an old 8088 PC using WordStar (you'll notice I've not mentioned the name of the character in question, and I shall not).

As I said, my childhood was ending, my roomies were heading their separate ways and life caught up with me quickly. Cut off from the parental tithe, I found myself in need of gasoline and other such trifles, and I spent the next thirteen years trying to get by, plying a trade as a telephone technician. The years went by and thinking technically became a bad habit-all the creative things stuck in my head got swamped out and lost, forever it seemed.

Flash forward in time. I—now married, with mortgage and with pet— was recently digging through my filing cabinet looking for tax documents, of all things. There, under all the filed stuff and out-sized legal documents, was a copy of the teleplay I wrote back in `94. I pulled it out, opened it, read it, and found myself remembering everything. The characters I'd created all bobbed to the surface and floated there, crying out for me to do something with them.

For some reason I couldn't forget these characters, they were always there, bubbling about in the rear of my skull. Finally, one day I found an old miniature golf score card in my coat pocket. It had been there for some time. I made to throw it away, but as I did so, I looked at the empty squares meant to fill in the shots for each hole.

I felt inspiration come on. I grabbed a pencil and wrote in the slots: SYGILLIS OF METATRON. 

And that was nearly a million words ago.

The League of Elder, stifled for all those years, came busting out of me, and there was no stopping it. It's a science fiction series, but an admittedly weird one. It contains, all at once, all of my fears, joys, sensibilities, taboos and fantasies. It is, at the same time, continental and demure, techno-punk and Blade-Runneresque. What you get in the League depends on the road you take-go one way, and you find yourself in a wooded villa right out of the 1700's populated by coat-tailed gentlemen and corseted ladies, go another and you might find yourself on a steamy street watching blood sports on 4-D vid screens and witnessing people getting robotic arms and legs installed right there on the sidewalk as ripcars fly overhead.

Ren, thanks for joining me today!

You can visit Ren at his website: http://theleagueofelder.com/hotoo.html
Friend him on Facebook: LOE on Facebook

Friday, October 1, 2010