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Blood Feud is available now in multiple formats at Smashwords! And is still available at Amazon for Kindle and Barnes & Noble for Nook. I hope to have the story in the Sony Store, Kobo, and Apple among others. I’ll update when it’s up. Now on to Troll Bridge!
Last year, I wrote a short story for The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance 2, called Blood Feud. Until now, it’s only been part of the full collection and I wanted people to be able to buy it on its own if they only wanted to read my story. It took me a little while to find the time to figure it all out, but Blood Feud is now available in Kindle format!
Demons and vampires have always been enemies, but they reached an uneasy truce. A truce now threatened by a demon who is murdering vampires.
Isobel is a troubleshooter for her vampire clan and she’s ordered to work with a demon to find the killer. She never expected her new partner to be Seere, the demon lover she’d abandoned.
The last thing Seere wants is to fall under Iso’s spell a second time. But as they work together to find the murderer, Seere learns that what burns between them is more explosive than any Blood Feud.
If you’ve read my Nocturne Bites story, Demon Kissed, Blood Feud is set in the same world. In DEMON KISSED, when Andras makes reference to the demon prince being in love with a vampire, he’s referring to Isobel and Seere from BLOOD FEUD. There’s a third story in this world coming out in 2011 from Nocturne Bites as well. I think the title is going to be SHADOW’S CARESS, but I have no idea on the release date yet.
Anyway, I’ve been working on this plan to upload Blood Feud on my own for a while. I had this awesome cover made and then procrastinated on the actual conversion for Kindle upload. It was a little tedious to format, but it went much easier than I expected.
I know not everyone reads on a Kindle. I’m going to try to format for the other readers as well, but I can’t promise when I’ll manage to get it done unless I can upload the file in the same format that Amazon took. Somehow I’m guessing it won’t be that easy.
And as I’m typing this, I’m working on getting The Troll Bridge uploaded for Kindle, too. TROLL BRIDGE was part of The Mammoth Book of Time Travel Romance and is set on Jarved Nine. It takes place about seven years after the end of Eternal Nights, Wyatt and Kendall’s story. I know a lot of fans of the Jarved Nine series have been asking for this to be available as a stand alone, so I’m excited to get this out there.
I mentioned earlier that I was going to get the two short stories I wrote for the Mammoth Books collections out in ebook format. I have the electronic rights to those stories, so I decided to get covers made and take the plunge. Well, my covers turned out utterly awesome and I have to share here even though I haven’t finished writing the book description blurbs yet or even started formatting.
First up is the cover for The Troll Bridge. This is a time travel where the heroine, Lia Stanton, goes from 2010 to 2050 and meets up with Troll Maglaya, a Special Ops soldier stationed on the planet Jarved Nine. He’s the one assigned to guard Lia.
The second cover is for Blood Feud. This story is about a vampire heroine, Isobel, and her former lover, demon prince Seere. Unfortunately, for Isobel and Seere, their romance was doomed 200 years earlier because demons and vampire are enemies. But when a demon starts killing vampires, the two sides have to work to find the killer before war erupts. Again. Isobel and Seere are assigned by their respective leaders to work together and get the murderer.
Totally awesome, yes? Now I have to get moving on writing the book descriptions and formatting so I can get this up on Amazon and other places.
Y’all know I wrote two short stories for Mammoth Books. I only contracted for non-exclusive print rights and have my electronic rights. I’ve decided to take the leap and self-publish the E version myself.
I’m having covers created as we speak. I’m writing the “back cover” copy that describes the book right now, too. This is forcing me to flex writing muscles that have mostly been unused since my college days when I was an advertising copywriting major. When I have these two things finished, I’ll have to work on getting the stories formatted correctly for upload. This is the part I’m concerned about.
My plan is to start with Kindle and then figure out what to do with the other formats. If other authors have done it, I can, too. Especially since I’m more tech savvy than most writers are. (Don’t even get me started on “I want an XP computer because Windows 7 is too different.”)
I know that I want to clearly label these stories as being short so that no one is surprised when they read one. I also want to label them as being previously published in Mammoth Book collections so no one gets a repeat when they expected something new. As a reader, I sure would want to know these things ahead of time.
I’m excited about getting these stories out there on their own. I know there are people who want The Troll Bridge (it’s a Jarved Nine tale), but who don’t want to buy the entire Mammoth Book collection to get it. Also, I want to get Blood Feud out on it’s own because it’s the first story set in the same world in which my Nocturne Bites take place.
When the covers are finished, I’ll share them here, of course. I’ll also post when the stories are available. If this goes awesome, I might try to slip a few more Jarved Nine short stories into my schedule. I’d love to do Flare, Gravedigger, and Z-Man’s stories. What would be most fun about it? They happen before Troll’s story so I’d get to see his character when he was younger than in Troll Bridge.
Patti O'Shea's passions are writing, airplanes and traveling. Fortunately, she's been able to enjoy all three. Find out more about Patti.
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