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A second snippet of Skim Blood and Savage Verse - because next Tuesday is Launch Day!  Skim Blood and Savage Verse
Offbeat Crimes 3 General Release date April 4, 2017! Pride Publishing Amazon Kobo Barnes and Noble When a ferocious book attacks Carrington at his own birthday party, he believes it’s an isolated incident. But similar books soon pop up all over town, menacing innocent people with harsh bits of poetry and blank verse that deliver damaging physical blows. It’s a frustrating case with too many variables and not enough answers, and the stakes go up with each attack. With the help of his misfit squad mates at the 77th and the public library’s Rare Books Department, the missing pieces decrease but not Carrington’s vexations. His commanding officer rakes him over the coals at the beginning of every shift. His police partner has lost patience with what she sees as his delusional relationship choices and his inability to pick the right man in a vast field of two. City Hall demands that the books be stopped immediately. It’s enough to put a nutritionally challenged vampire off his skim blood.
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Or various sightings of various things. So - what do I have to tell you this week? First a teensy bit of sad news - no Rainbow Con. I'm sorry about not being able to see some of you in July. Hoping to get some different cons organized for next year. I will still be at Yaoi Con in October, though.  Offbeat Crimes News! Skim Blood and Savage Verse has its general release on Tuesday, April 4! Anyone waiting for Amazon, Kobo, etc. etc. to go live, we're almost there! Links if you need them! https://www.pride-publishing.com/book/skim-blood-and-savage-verse https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Savage-Verse-Offbeat-Crimes-ebook/dp/B06X9B8GQH https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/skim-blood-and-savage-verse http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/skim-blood-and-savage-verse-angel-martinez/1125829811?ean=9781786515520 Also - a free prequel to Skim Blood here on the blog, Hunter Green Pea Coat. You'll understand when you read it. Working feverishly on Offbeat Crimes 4 now. Feral Dust Bunnies will make it by deadline or very shortly thereafter. Closing in on the end here.  ESTO News!
Vassily the Beautiful, I'm very excited to say, will be coming to audio late spring/ early summer. And who picked up the audio contract? The marvelous Greg Tremblay! Very excited about this project. :) Vassily is a science fiction fairytale retelling of the old Russian story, Vasilisa the Beautiful, available from Mischief Corner Books and all the usual distributors. :) An Offbeat Crimes Short (Some time ago, a reader requested a love story for LJ, the animated leather jacket we first meet in Lime Gelatin & Other Monsters. This was my response. Which only got me in hot water and had readers demanding more for LJ. Look for more in Skim Blood & Savage Verse. ;) ) The rain covered everything like a dirty gray blanket. A see-through dirty gray blanket. It was a stupid metaphor, but he was in a noir kind of mood. He wished he could smoke. Noir detectives always lit up when they were pensive and melancholy. She stood beside him as the train pulled in, motionless, maybe thinking noir thoughts as he was. With a gesture at the slowing train and back to her, he indicated, Do you have to go? A little shrug as she stuffed her sleeves in her pockets. We've been through this. He pointed to her, to him, back to her. What about us? Her shrug was slower this time, sadder. Beyond that, she didn't answer. She'd blown into his life just two weeks before. Had it only been two weeks? Gorgeous hunter green pea coat with big dark buttons and a mountain of attitude. Their sleeves had met over a bin of shiny glass beads, though he'd just been looking. She'd been stuffing them in her pocket. Petty stuff as thefts went. Still, he warned her off lifting things in that part of town. He wasn't just some punk anymore; he knew police officers. Even liked some of them. Instead of taking offense, she touched his zipper, seemed fascinated by it like it was the first one she'd seen up close. Maybe it was. She was like that, this strange recipe of jaded and innocent all wrapped up in a beautiful package of trouble. They spent hours together just drifting through parks, making smartass observations about people they saw, feeding the birds, playing hide-and-seek around the statues like they were kids. They haunted chocolatiers and ogled the selections. They snuck into a film festival to watch anime, tossing popcorn at each other and laughing silently. He'd never had such an intense connection to anyone and she felt it too. At least, he'd thought she had. But something had changed in the last couple of days. She said she never planned on staying so long. Just passing through. The harder he tried to convince her to stay, the more stubborn she was about having to go. He tugged on her sleeve as the train doors opened. Don't go. Gently, she patted his lapel, took out pen and paper and wrote something. When she boarded, she turned and pressed the paper up to the window for him to see. See you, Space Cowboy. Leather Jacket turned his collar up against the rain and watching the train until it disappeared in the gray pall of rain.  Skim Blood and Savage Verse
Offbeat Crimes 3 General release coming 4/4/17! Pride Publishing Amazon Kobo B&N When a ferocious book attacks Carrington at his own birthday party, he believes it’s an isolated incident. But similar books soon pop up all over town, menacing innocent people with harsh bits of poetry and blank verse that deliver damaging physical blows. It’s a frustrating case with too many variables and not enough answers, and the stakes go up with each attack. With the help of his misfit squad mates at the 77th and the public library’s Rare Books Department, the missing pieces decrease but not Carrington’s vexations. His commanding officer rakes him over the coals at the beginning of every shift. His police partner has lost patience with what she sees as his delusional relationship choices and his inability to pick the right man in a vast field of two. City Hall demands that the books be stopped immediately. It’s enough to put a nutritionally challenged vampire off his skim blood. It's Friday, and by special request, I'm reading one of the ficlets from The Brimstone Journals: Collection One. The Brimstone series - if you're not familiar - is science fiction that can't be taken too seriously with an exiled demon prince as the ship's captain, a drag queen AI, and an ever-stranger cast and crew. The Brimstone Journals are supplementary flash fiction pieces for the series, a new one every Tuesday on the Mischief Corner Books blog. The first year's worth was gathered up and published in convenient book form in chronological order with some extra charts and explanations and a bonus holiday story that did not appear on the blog. The journals live here: Brimstone Journals And on to today's reading - This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: The Brimstone series - four stories and a prequel - are, in order: Potato Surprise: A Brimstone Prequel Hell for the Company Fear of Frogs Shax's War Beside a Black Tarn And the flash fiction collection: The Brimstone Journals: Collection One  Just for a wee bit so I can catch my breath. It can't possibly be the end of March already. :o
My time management issues aside, just a couple of quick things this week:
Hello Friday! A little something different today. I'm reading an excerpt from Tanya Huff - a writer who I think doesn't get enough recognition. I do not own, in any way, the content, but I do own the paperback that I'm reading from. :) Just so we're clear. I would suggestthat you start with the Blood series if you're interested in Tony but you don't have to. You do get background sketched in enough to understand who Tony was and his relationship to a certain princely vampire.  Smoke and Shadows
When Tony Foster relocated to Vancouver with his vampire Henry Fitzroy, he knew it was his chance to get his act together. In an example of art echoing life, Tony landed a job as production assistant for the syndicated TV show Darkest Night, a series about a vampire detective. And except for his unrequited crush on the show’s handsome costar, Lee Nicholas, Tony was pretty content. Until everything started to fall apart on the set. It began with shadows—shadows where they didn’t belong, that almost had an existence of their own. Tony tried to ignore it—until he found Nikki Waugh’s body, and felt the shadow’s touch, and a stunt crash went wrong for no discernible reason—and Tony knew that he had to find out what was threatening everyone on the set. Hi all! Time for the news portion of the week. In personal news, my spring garden has been pretty much smooshed by our late season ice storm. It started out as just heavy, wet snow, but turned into clingy ice by sunrise. We've lost half of our tallest pine and the pine branches have done a lot of damage to other plants in their falling. I'm hoping that's the last gasp so the snow will clear and we can see how bad it really is. You can sort of see the mess in this pic:  My stint as Author of the Month continues over at My Fiction Nook today with the focus on Offbeat Crimes - yaaaay! Plus a personal story from me - one I've told before but I feel it's relevant now. Skim Blood and Savage Verse is included in the rundown - though for an excerpt, go to the Pride Publishing page. We didn't have the official excerpt when I sent all the stuff to Sandra at MFN. (Skim Blood is available at Pride - general release is coming April 4!)  Not Offbeat Crimes related - Uncommonly Tidy Poltergeists is up for Book of the Week over at Love Bytes. So, you know, if you have a chance and you'd care to vote... Love Bytes Book of the Week Poll  Last but not least - I'm working. Promise. Feral Dust Bunnies is moving along, finally. Anyone who's been with me a bit knows I struggle badly at the beginning of writing a story and it gathers momentum like an avalanche of doom as I progress. Should hit about the halfway point before the end of the week. :)
Thought I read a bit from the WIP - Feral Dust Bunnies. This will be Offbeat Crimes 4 - slated to release in the summer if all goes well and I can get my butt in gear: In case you're interested -the first three Offbeat Crimes books are available at Pride Publishing and all the nice distributors on the web. :) (Don't they look pretty together.)    The lovely folks at My Fiction Nook invited me over to be their Author of the Month for March. Pretty darn chuffed about that. :D Last week featured Uncommonly Tidy Poltergeists and Brandywine Investigations with a bit about my 5 Favorite Biology Things. Author of the Month - Angel Martinez - Week One This week features the demon owned and operated ship, Brimstone, and 5 Little Known Facts About Angel. (Yeah, some of you have heard some of these before. Maybe. Possibly. ;) ) Author of the Month - Angel Martinez - Week Two  Writing nearly came to a standstill for Bishounen Con. I'm back on the word count horse this week, though. Feral Dust Bunnies (Offbeat Crimes 4) is coming along slowly - on chapter 2. Should look better in the next couple of days. Pack Up the Moon (Brandywine 5) is waiting for me to finish the Dust Bunnies. I did get to read from it at Bishounen to a wonderfully appreciative audience, though. Always fun. We're also coming to the end of the Marionettes in the Mist story arc. (The weekly blog serial written with Freddy MacKay, J. Scott Coatsworth and Toni Griffin.) Everyone's on their last two to four chapters. We'll wrap up the postings on the blog and then work on getting the story out in novel(s) format. Yay! Some of the lovely character art from Mila May below so far!         Hi everyone! I've reached the stage in packing now where I'm counting stuff off on my fingers, certain I'll forget something. I will. I always do. Trying my best. (Toothbrush, socks, underwear...pants! Need pants...) But this morning as soon as son come over, we're off to New England! It's about a 5-6 hour drive depending on what traffic we hit. I know that's not a lot, in the grand scheme of things, but I'm not a great long-distance driver. We'll make it. While there, we'll be stopping first in Rhode Island at the Crowne Plaza Warwick to see if they'll be nice and let us check in. Then we'll head a little farther north to Worcester and Annie's Book Stop, where we get to visit with the Rainbow Readers of Massachusetts. I'm so excited! I do have a reading ready and will be there to chat and sign stuff if folks so desire. Annie's Books Stop 65 James St, Worcester MA  Then back to Warwick and the Crowne Plaza for Bishounen Con! This should be tons of fun - lots of familiar faces, Vendor's room, tons of fun panels. Panels? Oh right! I have panels! All on Saturday, as it happens. Author Readings Noon on Saturday 3/4 Jordan Hawk, Freddy MacKay and I will have an hour of readings! Come join us for some fun excerpts. Character Development in Fiction 2pm 3/4 With Jordan and the lovely Jill Marie Hackett of Magical Boy Basil. We'll be talking about queer character development. Queer Paranormal: You Thought It Was All Shifters! 9pm 3/4 With Freddy and Jordan again! (Jordan will be quite sick of me, lol) The panel will be what it sounds like it is. :D This is getting past my bedtime so it might be more hilarious than we mean it to be.  Finally, I get to be the Author of the Month over at My Fiction Nook this month! First post is today and there will be all sorts of fun questions and I may tell a personal story or two. :) Today's post includes a couple of books and my Five Favorite Biology Things at the bottom of the post. Yay! My Fiction Nook, Author of the Month  |
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Angel writes (mostly) Science Fiction and Fantasy centered around queer heroes. Currently living part time in the hectic sprawl of northern Delaware and full time inside her head, she has one husband, one son, two cats, a love of all things beautiful and a terrible addiction to the consumption of both knowledge and chocolate. |
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