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4-2-09, Thursday, 9 PM Central

Author Sarah Bansone aka Sara Saint John with Trust The Night.

TRUST THE NIGHT by Sara Saint John
ISBN: 1-60504-118-1
Length: 68,395 words
Price: 14.00
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Publication Date: February 24, 2009

Tagline: Bullets won’t bring down this killer. It’ll take a vampire.

Mad Jack is back and he's killing the women of Oklahoma City.
In homicide detective Beth Andrews’ eyes, murder is the ultimate abuse. She vows to bring the Ripper to justice, even if it costs her life.

When Beth is paired with a sexy criminal psychologist, he's a distraction she doesn’t need, but he gets under her skin in more ways than one. Sam Jordan knows he's two things Beth doesn’t trust: A shrink, and a man. He also knows "Bullets won't stop this killer. It'll take a vampire".

About the author:

My writing deals with the struggle of good versus evil, horror and the healing power of love. My poems and short stories can be found under Sarah Wilson or Sarah Basore at darkmoonrising.com, horrotica.com, and theworldofmyth.com.

I have two stories in an anthology from The World of Myth, (ISBN 978-0-6151-8339-2) available at Dark Myth Productions. My story "Sins of the Fathers" is included in Sinister Landscapes, a new gothic horror anthology. It's available now! Editor Alan Draven and the authors of Sinister Landscapes are proud to announce:

BLOOD ATONEMENT, a historical vampire tale, is available at Samhain Publishing, Ltd. (ISBN:1-59998-359-1) TRUST THE NIGHT, a contemporary vampire tale, is also available at Samhain. (ISBN:1-60504-118-1) Both are written under the pen name Sara Saint John.

http://www.myspace.com/sara_saint_john

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4-6-09, Monday, 9 PM Central

 

Famed Author Nicholas Grabowsky with Black Bed Sheet Books and Red Wet Dirt.

Red Wet Dirt:

Introducing three short stories & three novellas: While on vacation, a young man's fiancé becomes a heart-collecting Yuletide Thing on Christmas Eve. Get stuck in traffic when The Freeway Reaper claims another soul. A suburban family is plagued by a horde of were-rats. Special Agent Sam Cross, mortally wounded by a Jamaican specter, journeys into a psychedelic Festival of Fallen Souls in search of a supernatural healer whose lover's touch brings in contrast instant death. A legendary flesh eater arrives on the shores of an ancient Minoan city, infecting its population, beginning with a teenage boy's father who's summoned by the pompous king to become an undead garbage disposal. In Red Afterworld, an ex juvenile preacher gets his childhood wish of becoming a vampire when he's recruited into a male-only biker fraternity and finds himself one of the few survivors of global nuclear war, discovers a time portal in the Arizona desert with the hope of saving the world, and finds true love. Including extra minor works from the author's youth and the short screenplay Cutting Edges, the basis for an upcoming film and the author's directorial debut, Red Wet Dirt is to die for and is destined to become a classic way beyond its genre!

Black Bed Sheet Books

01/2009:  We at Downwarden.com are proud to announce the birth of a small independent publishing firm with the means and determination to kick ass......at least, as far as small independent publishing firms are concerned.

BLACK BED SHEET BOOKS is what we call ourselves, and we'll have achieved our goal when one day our titles will infest the literate world to the extent that someone you know will own a book with our "arrow-through-circles" logo stamped upon its soul. 

We value our distributors, so we don't take orders directly through this site.  But buying any one of our titles is as simple as clicking on the cover image, or use the navigation at the top of this page and it'll direct you everywhere

Nickolas Grabowsky:

I am a delusionalist; I’ve been delusional since as far back as I can remember, around 1968 when I was just a tike and Captain Kangaroo was in black and white. In kindergarten, I convinced myself that I was a vampire, ran around at recess flapping my jacket around the playground like I was flying. My kindergarten teacher warned my mom that I was always after the girls. I would bite them on the arms. Around the third grade, I started writing stories, belting out church hymns at the top of my lungs on the playground swinging on the swings without an ounce of care, while in the next instant breaking a playmate’s arm for not believing that I was a vampire. Later in life, I was a Penticostal preacher, so to speak, and I tried to be a rock star at several points. I directed choirs, played in piano bars. My sister’s abduction and death ironically rescued me from a cluster of downward druggie years, but immersed me in karaoke hell for awhile. I love gardening. I used to sneak out of my parent’s house regularly when I was twelve to streak naked through parks at one in the morning when the automatic sprinklers turned on and I could run through them. I made it a monthly ritual growing up that I pretended my house was a grocery store and I made my family shop through it. I was a camp counselor, a religious counselor, a phone room sales manager, a college actor, lived in a car, and currently live in a nice home with my fiancé Phyllis and 2-year-old son Charlton John near Sacramento, CA making a living as a horror novelist, something I’ve been doing professionally for a couple of dozen years now with a few ups and downs but a good fan base around the world, something I’ll always be greatful for. I mean, no matter what I’ve done, I’ve always been a writer, through and through, since the day I became literate, and I’ve always had an audience of readers who really dig what I write, as dark and disturbing or fantastical as it’s always been. That’s been my life-long delusion, though it’s always seemed pretty real to me, and I’ll keep writing for others to read until the day I die. NOW LET ME HEAR FROM YOU ALL A HEARTY "AMEN" TO THAT!

HERE'S A GENERAL AUTHOR BIO FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO GET TO THE POINT: Nicholas Grabowsky’s novels of horror/fantasy and mainstream pulp fiction, both as himself, as Nicholas Randers, and as Marsena Shane, have generated worldwide acclaim for over two decades and praised by many of today’s most popular horror gurus as well as a multitude of writers outside the genre in the literary world. He began his career in traditional publishing houses with brisk sellers in mass market paperback horror and romance, and the last ten years have seen him hailed by many as a mentor and advocate to the smaller presses, which has become to him a passion. His body of work includes the award-winning macabre aliens-among-us epic The Everborn, The Rag Man, Pray Serpent’s Prey, Halloween IV (and its special edition), Diverse Tales, Reads & Reviews, The Wicked Haze, Sweet Dreams Lady Moon, and June Park, numerous anthologies, magazine articles, and self help books, with projects extending to screenplays, poetry, songs, film, and a wide variety of short fiction and nonfiction since the 1980’s. He’s a veteran special guest at numerous genre conventions and makes appearances and signings across North America. He has been in the limelight as a radical gospel preacher right out of high school and in the following years a rock vocalist, teacher, lecturer and activist, editor, publisher and founder of the Sacramento-based Diverse Media small press, which has recently blossomed into the subdivisions of Black Bed Sheet Press, which publishes local talent, and Black Bed Sheet Productions, which produces independent film. Currently, Nicholas is at work with numerous anthologies, graphic novels and comic books, an Everborn sequel and the novels The Downwardens and The Sirens of Knowland. His independent film projects include the upcoming slasher creature feature Cutting Edges, as well as co-writing the independent film Into the Basement, for Triad Pictures.


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4-9-08, Thursday, 9 PM Central




Christine and Ethan Rose with Rowan of the Wood

Rowan of the Wood, a Finalist for the 2008 National Best Books Award in the Young Adult Fiction category, tells the story of a young boy Cullen who meanders through the redwood forest every day on his way to school, losing himself in books and fantasy worlds full of elves, fairies, and wizards. He loves to escape to these magical lands because reality for him is not fun at all. Cullen and his two misfit friends, Maddy and April, are terribly unpopular amongst the other kids, and they regularly endure ridicule and bullying. Cullen's life changes incredibly one day when he uncovers an ancient magic wand that is inhabited by a powerful wizard, Rowan. Inadvertently, Cullen releases Rowan from the wand and finds himself possessed by the wizard, with a great power and an obsessive need to find a lost love. When danger is near, Rowan emerges from the frightened child to set things right. He and Cullen try to understand what has happened to them, only to discover a deeper problem. Nearly fourteen centuries ago, Rowan and his bride Fiana were separated on their wedding day. Rowan manages to survive, trapped in time, until Cullen releases him from the wand. Fiana uses dark magic to stay alive as she continues searching for Rowan. Over the centuries, Fiana descends deeper into the darkness becoming something evil and eventually giving up her search...until a young boy brings Rowan back to her.

About the Author's:

www.rowanofthewood.com

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4-13-09, Monday, 9 PM Central

 
The Great Short Story Writer Ben Eads with his view on horror and writing short stories.

List of published Dark Fiction short stories: ..