Part of the description ("...scattered survivors hide behind fortified walls and raid deserted stores for supplies as they plan to fight back.") is one I haven't seen since the book came out-- that line was something a Chicago neighborhood newspaper cooked up after receiving one of my press releases. Go figure. But another part:
The tale is set in Chicago's downtown Loop two years after a vampire uprising has decimated the human population and turned the city into a mausoleum ruled by the undead. These are not the sophisticated killing machines of other vampire apocalypse stories, but a headstrong, impulsive lot who have all but depleted their food supply and must feed sparingly on a small herd of human cattle penned up in the abandoned Merchandise Mart. This sets the stage for a Dirty Dozen scenario in which a troop of guerrilla mortals, most of whom assumed he or she was the last living human, unite to liberate the captives.
...is wording I find quite funny. I never pictured any of the characters looking like Lee Marvin or Charles Bronson, but now I can hear the danged music in my head!
- Location:Beneath Thunder Mountain's Cloudcover...
- Mood:
amused
My heart-tugging (and I mean that in only the most gentle way-- really) little tale in here is called "Dad Brings a Deader Home." It's a melting of horror and science fiction. Click on the photo to get a readable view of all the fabulous company I was privileged to have in this book, and Tina's hysterical intro is not to be missed. (Teaser: "So let the idiots die in a cadaverous, cannibalistic orgy...") If you'd like to have more details, they can be found at TwilightTales.com. I don't think purchase details are up on the site yet, but I'm sure they'll be there any day. And there's always that "Contact" link at the top of the page.
- Mood:
dry-eyed
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westonochse and I started off this weekend with Chicken Ranch Pizza (and oh woe to the diet, too!), added sushi to that on Saturday night, then BBQ chicken on Sunday. It's really amazing how our lives center around food. I actually baked a loaf of cheese jalapeno bread, from scratch, to go with the chicken. It didn't come out half bad, quite edible if not a little on the dense side. My loaf pan was a bit too small, and there's always the nearly mile-high altitude to futz with. But still... not too shabby. I've gone all techno-geek (okay, so I read about it in the Amazon.com destructions, er, instructions, and just followed them) and added my LiveJournal as an RSS feed to my Amazon blog. Thus endeth forever the days of the Amazon blog being sadly neglected-- everything that I post here goes there. I don't think reply comments do, so folks who're reading the Amazon news and want to see the remarks (sometimes serious, sometimes sarcastic) will have to come to the LJ to do it.
For the folks right here, something I've already announced on Amazon is the release of The First Name Reverse Dictionary, Second Edition. Yep, after all those months and months of work, the work is not only finished, the book is out. And look -- it's purty!
It might not be as cool as
faustfatale's Snakes on a Plane, but I can honestly say it has a sort of Snakes on a Book look (ha ha). The link above goes to Amazon, which has free shipping for it. You can order it straight from McFarland if you like, although there you'll have to pay four bucks S&H. Something worthy to note, however, is that McFarland has some of the absolutely coolest books on the planet, reference books about topics you'd never think about until you see it in writing. Anyway, full info is HERE, with links that will take you to excerpts and, if you like, reviews. This is the reference book I created for myself because I was tired of putting so much time into naming my characters. Somewhere along the line, way back in the late 80s, I wondered if other writers might like it, too. So it began, and it took years to get it all together. Who knew it would someday even be a second edition with 44% more entries in it than the first? Okay, the weekend endeth. So sad.
- Mood:
tired
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