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Juno News10.07.09 IN THIS ISSUE:
FALL FELICITATIONS & A FREE HALLOWEEN TREAT Fall is here and Halloween is just around the corner. We hope you are taking a break from raking leaves, sewing costumes, carving pumpkins, and preparing various occult rituals we don't want to know about to read some Pocket Juno books. If you like to keep your reading seasonal, both AMAZON INK by Lori Devoti and VICIOUS CIRCLE by Linda Robertson take place in October. And, as we did last year, we have a special FREE Halloween ebook treat for you. This year, download SCARY FAIRIES: FOUR FEARFUL TALES of the FEY. The contents: "The Child That Went With the Fairies", Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu "The Adventure of Cherry of Zennor", Robert Hunt "Ethna the Bride", Lady Francesca Speranza Wilde "Tamlane" and "Tam Lin", John Joseph and Anonymous Why fairies? We realized that two upcoming releases -- BLOOD KIN by Maria Lima and HALLOWED CIRCLE by Linda Robertson -- featured some fairies that were, well, not "good" by any means. Download the FREE PDF of SCARY FAIRIES now and enjoy! (And pass the word. Post the URL on your own blog or Web site.)
BOOKS: LIMA LIMELIGHT Since the last newsletter, Maria Lima's MATTERS OF THE BLOOD and BLOOD BARGAIN have been released. Technically, they are re-releases. MATTERS OF THE BLOOD had a trade paperback printing, then was published last fall in mmp as was its sequel, BLOOD BARGAIN. But neither had very many copies printed. So few, in fact, they practically didn't exist. This is the first time either book has been widely and easily available. And, come October 27, the brand-new, never-published third book of the Blood Lines series -- BLOOD KIN -- will be released Don't miss it! -- And here's a special Sneak Peek from Chapter Three of BLOOD KIN -- A few hours later, misery had been replaced with sheer joy as I ran-for the first time in my short-by-family-standards life-on four legs in the bright sunshine of a Texas day, wolf fur rippling in the breeze. This, _this_ was part of what I'd just inherited, this freedom and elation, the pure brilliance of ability. No wonder my brothers loved it so much. I hadn't known what I was missing. I turned to look at the wolf loping along next to me, in all his red furry glory, mouth open in what only could be called a shit-eating grin. _C'mon then_. I jerked my muzzle in the direction of the small copse of oak trees across the clearing, and nudged my brother's flank with my own furry nose. With a sharp yip he bit playfully at my pale fur and took off running. I followed, barely a few paces behind, soon to catch up. Being a wolf was so _easy_.
WEB SITE UPDATES & RECIPES Updating the Web site this week we discovered a woeful lack. Stacia Kane's heroine Dr. Megan Chase is an excellent cook (and so is her creator, Ms. Kane). At the end of PERSONAL DEMONS we included a recipe for Meat Pies that Megan made in the novel. The Cockney demon guards in the Megan Chase series might call a meat pie a "dog's eye" and have a ship in full sail (a pint of ale) to wash 'em down. Somehow or another we didn't manage a recipe for DEMON INSIDE. Megan (and Stacia) came through with Peanut Butter Cake for DEMON POSSESSED. The yummy Sexton Blake (Cockney rhyming slang for "cake") is posted on the Web site. It is sinfully rich. [Hope we didn't make a jaffa in the attempts at Cockney.] As long as we are on the subject of recipes and updating -- there are now pages for HALLOWED CIRCLE by Linda Robertson and VAMPIRE SUNRISE by Carole Nelson Douglas. And, as she did in the first two volumes of her adventures, Delilah Street invents a new cocktail in VAMPIRE SUNRISE. Although we wouldn't try them with Peanut Butter Cake, consider trying the new Vampire Sunrise Cocktail, or its predecessors the Brimstone Kiss or Albino Vampire Cocktail.
CONTEST? FEH. Last issue we tried a contest. Once again we've proven a failure at such. No one entered. We can't take the crushing, overwhelming sense of rejection this sort of thing engenders. Sniff. No more contests.
SUBMISSIONS Submissions up to August 4 should have received a reply. For some reason we've been getting a lot of teen/YA submissions lately. Since we've never accepted such, it is odd that we get so many. Always check ANY publishers most recent guidelines before submitting.
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QUOTATION: "Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary and dungeons for the overbold... The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords. In that realm a man may, perhaps, count himself fortunate to have wandered, but its very richness and strangeness tie the tongue of a traveller who would report them. And while he is there it is dangerous for him to ask too many questions, lest the gates should be shut and the keys be lost." -- J.R.R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973) English writer, poet, philogist, professor
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