Juno Books News

10.27.08

IN THIS ISSUE:

Treat! (No Trick!)
Latest Books'n'Authors
Thither and Yon
Submissions
Juno'ween
Quotation

TREAT! (NO TRICK!)

As a special Halloween treat, Juno Books has a FREE ebook (PDF format) for you! Five frightening classic tales--all written by women--that should send a shiver or two down your spine. FIVE CLASSIC GHOST STORIES: A HALLOWEEN TREAT FROM JUNO BOOKS includes "Let Loose" by Mary Cholmondeley (1890), "The Striding-Place" by Gertrude Atherton (1896), "The Lost Ghost" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1903), "Kerfol" by Edith Wharton (1916) and "Spunk" by Zora Neale Hurston (1925). Enjoy!

Download now: http://www.juno-books. com/Juno_ghost_stories.pdf

(...and post the URL on your blog or Web site or wherever and share the goodies!)

LATEST BOOKS'n'AUTHORS

BRIMSTONE KISS by Carole Nelson Douglas is now available everywhere and getting great reviews. You can find out more about it here: www.juno-books.com/brimstone_kiss.html. There's an excerpt to read (http://juno-books.com/brimstone_ex.html), a bookmark to download (http://juno-books.com/i/brimstone-bookmark.pdf) and, of course, the Brimstone Kiss Cocktail Page (http://juno-books.com/brimstone_kiss_cocktail.html).

The ebook will probably be posted on Fictionwise on November 1.

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The MATTERS OF THE BLOOD mass market paperback is now in stores. There's an updated Web page (http://juno-books.com/matters.html) and its hot new sequel BLOOD BARGAIN will hit the shelves in November.

Maria's posted an interesting "Twenty Bits of Personal Canon" with various bits of information about her Blood Lines series characters Keira Kelly, Adam Walker, Tucker Kelly, Niko and Bea. (http://www.thelima.com/i_write_dead_people/20-bits-of-personal-canon.html)

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Matthew Cook NIGHTS OF SIN came out at the end of August. (You can read an excerpt and find out more from the NIGHTS OF SIN Web page. (http://juno-books.com/nights-of-sin.html). Matt's having a "Spot the book, and take a photo of yourself with it!" Contest. Everyone who sends him a photo will be entered in a contest for a set of autographed cover flats for Nights of Sin and Blood Magic. For more info: http://bloodmagicbooks.blogspot.com/2008/10/spot-nights-of-sin-contest.html.

HITHER & THITHER

I had a great time as editor GOH at CONTEXT 21 in Columbus, Ohio last month. Linda Robertson, whose VICIOUS CIRCLE will be out next year, lost her "con virginity" and learned that being on panels and promoting herself and her book weren't so bad after all. She did have to make her debut on a panel with TANYA HUFF and me -- and we both tend to, uh, talk a lot.

Linda's started a blog, too: http://www.wolfsbaneandabsinthe.blogspot.com/. She's blogging a Tarot card a day and all jazzed up...or would that be "rocked up"?...for a reunion gig with her former band. Yes, we've been promised photos!

SUBMISSIONS

Submissions are still closed. There's a good reason for this. Really. I just can't say what that reason is yet. It's Halloween -- we're being mysterious!

JUNO'WEEN

Many of our novels make excellent Halloween reading or gifts: Carole Nelson Douglas's DANCING WITH WEREWOLVES and BRIMSTONE KISS are a lot of fun, but they also have some scary werewolves and vampires. There's fun, vampires and horrific events in Maria Lima's MATTERS OF THE BLOOD and its sequel, BLOOD BARGAIN (out soon), even has a scary cemetery.

You'll meet demons and witches in Stacia Kane's PERSONAL DEMONS and an ancient necromancer raising an army of the dead in SEABORN by Chris Howard. Another sort of necromancer fights the inhuman Mor in BLOOD MAGIC and NIGHTS OF SIN by Matthew Cook.

Lauren must confront the dark energies of the past in the romantic and atmospheric, BLACKNESS TOWER by Lillian Stewart Carl. In Margaret Lucke's HOUSE OF WHISPERS, Claire's paranormal powers help solve a bloody crime in a haunted house. The entire world is threatened by a malevolent deity in APRICOT BRANDY by Lynn Cesar.

You'll also find dark thrills and chills in MASTER OF SHADOWS by Janet Lorimer, DARK MAIDEN by Norma Lehr, RAGS AND OLD IRON by Lorelei Shannon, and TWELVE STEPS FROM DARKNESS by Karen E. Taylor. We also re-published the classic historical horror novel A MORTAL GLAMOUR by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.

All our books are available for direct sale: http://www. wildsidepress.com/Juno-Books_c_31-1.html

QUOTATION:
"For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me." -- Danny Elfman (1953-) American musician and composer