Nice drop, it was 9$+ last I look! 

#amwriting; still 5-6K words away from finishing POISON GARDEN and started a new thing, very excited about it. It has 4 cover mock-ups already, 4 synopses and 5K+ words in one manuscript and 1K in another. We be rollin'!

Ice Demon: A Dark Victorian Penny Dread is now LIVE at Amazon, B&N, Smashwords, and Kobo! *CONFETTI*

edit to add: AMAZON GEOLINK. This will take you to any Amazon in the 'verse: http://getbook.at/ICEDEMON

I have to work on the print version, and also on a bit more artwork to put together the digital download card for the latest Dark Victorian books. It won't be ready for my next event, but hopefully by the one after that.

Meanwhile, I've 5 manuscripts queuing up, one of which I just started. I'm hoping, like Ice Demon, it will be a very tidy novella of 25K+ words for a very tidy horror/mystery. ( tee hee ). :D

!!!!!!

I've STan Lee's Comikaze Expo 2014 this coming Hallowe'en! And it's a very big media show. Besides comic book folk, Elvira, Stan Lee, and so forth being present, there will be actors from Game of Thrones, Kevin Smith (the director/producer), um, more media people, and then many indy exhibitors like myself. I will be in Artist Alley, AA-914!

I was an exhibitor at the first Comikaze---when was that, 2011? Wows. I was taking a chance, this itty bitty, full of heart, first time event being organised by the siblings Carpinelli (Regina Carpinelli being co-founder and CEO). It had all the makings of a possible snooze-ville, with heartfelt organisers. But it was in LA, I'm in LA, so I thought what the heck. And it was a rough little barebones show, yet the energy! The level of engagement, of something positive happening, was more present at that show than at any show I'd been at. There were Star Trek actors, there were tabletop gamers, steampunks, goths, lgbt, indy comics, and indy filmmakers. The show brought excitement back. :)

But shows do change--that can't be helped. The needs of the public create that change, and I think the best events have the ability to be organic. The latest phenom with media events/conventions is that they are growing Rapidly. New York Comic-Con just recently broke San Diego's for attendance---San Diego Comic-Con, which is actually a *temporary city* of geekdom for about 7 days. Those are scary numbers. I don't doubt Comikaze will keep growing---as will Wondercon, and others. Whether I continue to be a part of them as exhibitor remains to be seen. Because at this point it would be nice to come full circle, and just be an attendee . . .

Hm.

And now . . . COVER REVEAL! To be seen in public for the first time at San Diego Comic-Con 2014, booth 2144, hosted by the gracious Prism Comics! Thanks to everyone involved in the making of this gorgeous cover! ^,.,^

I'd shared some of the 'making of' earlier in the blog. I just want to say again how wonderful everyone was who worked on making my character, Artifice, a reality. Isn't the model pretty? :D

And the dress!! I can go on and on. Instead, here are the credits:

Photo cover credits:

Phatpuppy Art http://phatpuppyart.com/

 and Elizabeth Watasin a-girlstudio.com

Typography: Tom Orzechowski http://serifsup.com/

Model: Elizabeth Worth (http://www.modelmayhem.com/3122503)

Custom Wardrobe Creation: Cavalyn Galano (https://www.facebook.com/CavalynDesign)

Makeup/Hair: Nadya Rutman (www.bynadya.com  )

Photography: Teresa Yeh Photography (www.teresayeh.com)

Just finished with Comikaze Expo 2013, now to catch up on a myriad of things, like---

Dropping the price on one of my e-books! My Gothic steampunk mystery avec a very cool gaslamp superheroine, The Dark Victorian: Bones, is now only a dollar more than Sundark: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B58ZGFK

Though 2nd in the series, it's written to be self-contained and is (yes), hefty, as is often commented to me at events! ;) That's because more characters, more sub-plots, a more dense immersion into this alternate world of a supernatural, mechanical 1880's London.

"I am made of this."

In a mechanical and eldritch Victorian London, a black arts surgeon is ripping out the bones and organs of the healthy poor to transplant into the afflicted bodies of the wealthy. Anti-vivisectionists battle with medical doctors, medical doctors condemn supernatural practitioners, and amidst it all the Bone Stealer hunts for his most elusive prize yet: the skeleton of a woman over six feet tall. Secret Commission agents Art, the artificial ghost, and Jim Dastard, the animated skull, rush to stop him before another woman dies. And Art, only six days living after being resurrected to serve the Secret Commission, might be that woman.

Experience female detective mysteries with a Victorian superheroine:
A gaslamp fantasy in a steampunk, paranormal London, follow the dangerous adventures of an uncanny female sleuth and her senior skull partner set in the same alternate world as Elizabeth Watasin's Victorian Gothic series, The Elle Black Penny Dreads.

Enjoy! :)

"Elle Black, an unconventional psychic detective in an unconventional Victorian marriage, leaves her housewifely duties to answer a desperate plea. Guests are vanishing in a mechanical hotel known as the Sundark, and Elle must use her 'anomalous perturbationist' gift--the ability to moves objects with her mind--to save herself and the remaining hotel residents from malevolent, sidereal powers. But with apparitions appearing, magnetic lines disrupted, and clairvoyant guests lurking, who is the true murderer---or murderess?
Gaslamp, steampunk, Gothic Victorian horror and mystery; bringing you an uncanny heroine in a mechanical, paranormal, alternate world London. Join Elle Black, female sleuth, in her supernatural adventuress tales!"

ENJOY. ^v^