We started the annual Villantine’s Day celebration with the Baddest Bad Guy of the series: Kurgan. As we ramp up to releasing the audiobook of Blood Eternal this year, I wanted to bring back the first batch of Villaintine’s cards back for a rematch ⚔️
The winner last time was “The things I’ll do to your heart, Valentine” — and while I do love the threatening nature of that one, I also love both the other options just as much…
The results from the first round…
Also, there are a lot more readers of this newsletter now than when I first ran this poll, so I think it’s only right that I run this one again, and let our new friends have their input on this deeply important matter. So here are your choices:
OK, now, here’s the poll. Let the best card win!
If you would like any of the images to send to friends, just let me know and I will send you the image, sized for easy email sharing 💌
I’ll announce the winner in the next newsletter, so stay tuned to this great channel 📺
Something kinda exciting has happened 💥
I now have a wee guest spot over at Warren Ellis’ newsletter (the comic book writer, novelist, and screenwriter), sharing “Raven Belasco’s Bizarreries” every week. His newsletter is one of the few I make time for regularly (along with Cecilia Tan’s and Tiffany Trent’s) so I recommend it highly to you.
Book Recommendation: Bound by the Blood 🩸🩸🩸
Two members of The Big Glasses Brigade 🤓
So, you all know my life has been subsumed by becoming the caregiver to my mother and needing to move in with her for the foreseeable future. But I did manage to get out yesterday to my salon for a very overdue haircut and color, and then after that to Cecilia’s book launch, which was conveniently at my beloved Pandemonium Books
I just frickin’ adore Cecilia. She is one of those people I can talk for hours with and then, when we have to go do other things, be sad because the conversation felt all-too-short.
Getting to be friends with Cecilia is one of the wonderful perks of having become an author. I’ve been a fan of C. Tan since, I dunno, college or right after? Pretty sure I found her in Blue Blood Magazine? This is a person whom I idolized from afar, and who I now get to be friends with?! I am a writer for many reasons … but the perk of getting to hang out with authors you adore is not to be sneezed at 😉
There was real excitement about this book, which is described as “An Urban Fantasy BDSM Romantic Suspense“ (so if you like those things, GO GET IT)
It’s on the top of my to-read pile, but you don’t need my review, because Cecilia has only gone and gotten a review from Anne Muthafuckin’ Rice’s son (I’m what you could call painfully jealous) and I probably couldn’t do a better review than this anyway:
“Cecilia Tan has always been ahead of her time. She was bringing us sophisticated stories about BDSM and the BDSM community before it became popular. With the Vanished Chronicles she may well have invented an exciting new genre. This book blends urban fantasy with erotic romance, using soulful intelligence and elegant prose as glue. The relationships are compelling and rich, but they’re accompanied by a supernatural world that offers a fascinating and unforgettable take on the cosmic and spiritual significance of eroticism.”
—CHRISTOPHER RICE, New York Times bestselling author and showrunner of Interview with the Vampire
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