“In Vein” is a vampire charity anthology
book where 100% of the proceeds will go to St. Jude’s Children’s Research
Hospital! With over 18 Authors, you’re bound to find a few vampire stories
you’ll love. From devious vampires, to vampire moms, a child vampire, teenage
vampires, King and Queen vampires, a vampires’ slave girl, a vampire mob, a Red
necked vampire, driving vampires, an Eastern European angel of pain, a vampire
poem, a dug up coffin, a Dental Hygentist, a sad vampire tale and a vampire
that helps a young cancer boy. Like I said, something for everyone! Did I
mention it’s all for charity? The kids, people, the kids!
The participating Authors are:
Total Eclipse of the Heart, by Tara Fox Hall
Heather meets
her dream man in a karaoke bar. They sing together and have great sex, but even
better is the feel of his fangs sinking into her neck.
Mom, by
Mark Knight
Twelve-year-old Caleb starts at a new school. He tries to keep to
himself, but finds an insistent friend in Anthony, and arouses the suspicions of
the school's guidance counsellor.
The Inimitable Vampire Child, by
Ann Snizek
Emma loves catching moths and butterflies, but her uniqueness both
makes her dangerous and endangers her.
Blood Genesis, by Mark
Mackey
Two day-walking vampire brothers move to Mason, Nevada, to look for
eternal mates.
Meet the Sun, by Zoey Sweete
World-weary vampire
Serena and aging alpha wolf Lux unite in their hatred of Serena's maker
Daniel.
An Arranged Marriage, by Autumn Starr
A wedding banquet
with a gothic twist.
The Nutmeg Gang, by Geoffrey Porter
When
Jessica takes Z. to a party at a haunted house, things get deliciously spicy...
but then they sour.
The Vampire and the Slave-Girl, by Francis
James Franklin
When Carolyn arrives at a remote mansion for a job interview,
she is horrified to discover herself trapped and enslaved by a perverse
mistress.
Space Vampire, by Mark Mackey
When Elizabeth Axelmore
indulges in a fantasy of vampire seduction and transformation, the powerful
necklace she wears creates a real vampire.
Step In, by Jay
Wilburn
In a house of horror lives a vampire ancient and senile. It's up to
Vance to confront the ancient one and rescue the humans trapped within - if it's
not too late.
We Should Meet, by Errick Nunnally
When you're a
hundred-year-old vampire with the body of a sixteen-year-old girl, where better
to hunt for dinner than on... Twitter!
Redneck, by Samuel
Southwell
Michael and Marie are driving across the country when a gang of
local rednecks decides to play with them and things get
deadly...
Kristen's Sad Goodbye (or: 'Kristen Flemings in the Sad
Goodbye'), by Mark Mackey
Kristen's parents announce that the family is
moving to Mason, Nevada, and an alien shapeshifter has taken the place of her
evil dead sister.
Vampire Driving School, by Lorna
Dounaeva
Desperate for cash, Mandy takes a job as a driving instructor - for
vampires.
Behind Frozen Woods, by Mathias Jaanson
A poem...
about love for a cold and passionate mistress.
The American Dream
Never Really Dies, by TP Keating
A cheerleader coach takes a short cut
through a dark, narrow alley and meets a strange young
woman.
Katrina, by T.G. Reaper
Virginia finds a body in a
coffin buried in the back garden, and her friend Jimmy makes the mistake of
removing the wooden stake through the corpse's heart.
Just One
Bite, by Laurie Treacy
Dental hygienist Ada feels an increasingly strong
attraction to her eccentric patient Mr Ulach.
Nothing is Forever,
by Charie D. La Marr
A romantic end to eternal love.
Spontaneous
Remission, by Jodie Pierce
A vampire uses his powers to
heal.
About the Authors:
Tara
Fox Hall
Tara Fox Hall’s writing credits include nonfiction, horror, suspense, erotica,
and contemporary and historical paranormal romance. She also coauthored the
essay “The Allure of the Serial Killer,” published in Serial Killers -
Philosophy for Everyone: Being and Killing (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). Her first
full-length action-adventure novel, Lash, published in April 2012. Her vampire
series begins in June 2012, with the 1st novel Promise Me. Tara divides her
free time unequally between writing novels and short stories, chainsawing
firewood, caring for stray animals, sewing cat and dog beds for donation to
animal shelters, and target practice.
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Mark Knight
Mark Knight grew up in Massachusetts, USA, and wrote his first novel at the age
of 16. Settling in the UK, Mark continued to write stories of differing genres,
including horror and television scripts. As well as working as a scriptwriter
for children's television, Mark has scripted two horror speculative screenplays
for Hollywood’s Little Slices of Death production company and one for Illusion
Studios for which he has signed an Option Agreement.
Mark has won several short story competitions, and has had his work featured in
published anthologies. Mark now concentrates on Young Adult urban fantasy
novels.
Ann Snizek
Originally from Vermont, Ann Snizek now lives in Virginia with the members of
her family still at home. As a home-schooling family, Ann and her husband have
tried to nurture the love of books in their children and now their grandchildren
-- always encouraging their imaginations. Ann is active in her community,
supporting literacy by facilitating a creative writing club and volunteering as
a tutor at the local adult learning center.
Mark Mackey
Mark Mackey, living in Chicago, started writing during the 1990’s when he
submitted a simple poem to a contest which was later published in an anthology.
In addition he has won two screenplay awards, one for the short screenplay
Horror in the Woods, and one for the feature Length screenplay A Tale of Two
Girls, both in the book Four Screenplays volume I. Also he has written several
books in the process of being edited and three short stories published in three
different anthologies.
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Zoey Sweete
Zoey Sweete has been writing since she was around twelve years old. Always able
to explain how she felt or put what she was thinking better on paper than
saying it, writing became an outlet for her.
Zoey Sweete is not only an author but also the owner of Phoenix Fire
Publishing. She wanted to create a publishing company by an author for authors.
She believes working one on one with each of her authors and developing not
only a business partnership but a friendship as well.
Living in Central Texas she is the mom of a beautiful daughter who is the
sunshine of her life, & soon to be hubby that stands behind her crazy
dreams & hangs on for the wild ride.
But she was told from an early age that if you were going to dream then dream
big, or don't dream at all. Her dreams are just getting started.
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I've been developing computer based wargames since my teen years (www.legionsoftercia.net). I've been writing for the last eight years. Six years ago I decided to return to college to study English. I've written close to forty short stories and seven novels. Fifteen of my short pieces have been published, including four paying markets and two college newspapers. I run my own fiction magazine, Untied Shoelaces of the Mind (www.untiedshoelaces.net).
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Francis “Frank” James Franklin
Francis has a beautiful wife and daughter. He loves reading, usually sci-fi and
fantasy, and is occasionally compelled to write.
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Jay Wilburn
Jay Wilburn is an author of horror and speculative fiction. He taught public
school for sixteen years. He left teaching to care for his younger son and to
pursue his dream of becoming a full-time writer. He challenges himself to write
3000 words a day and a million words a year. He uses this goal to create
novels, novellas, and short stories for his readers. Follow his many dark
thoughts @AmongTheZombies on Twitter and at http://JayWilburn.com.
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Errick Nunnally
Born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, Errick A. Nunnally served one tour in
the Marine Corps before deciding art school would be a safer--and more
natural--pursuit. He always strives to develop his strengths in storytelling
and remains permanently distracted by art, comics, science fiction, history,
and horror. Trained as a graphic designer, he studies Krav Maga and Muay Thai
kickboxing in his spare time. Errick's successes include: the novel, Blood For
The Sun; a comic strip collection, Lost in Transition; Who Bears The Lathe? in
eFiction's inaugural SciFi issue; and first prize in one hamburger contest. The
following are short stories and their respective anthologies: Lycanthrobastards
(Wicked Seasons); Harold At The Halfcourt (Inner Demons Out); Legion (Doorways
to Extra Time); The Last Apology (A Dark World of Spirits and The Fey); You
Call This An Apocalypse? (After The Fall); and We Should Meet (In Vein). He
also has two lovely children and one beautiful wife.
Lourna Dounaeva
Lorna Dounaeva is a quirky British crime writer who once challenged a flamenco
troupe to a dance-off. She is a politics graduate and worked for the British
Home Office for a number of years. Her influences include Single White Female
and American Psycho. She has two active toddlers who keep her busy wiping food
off the ceiling and removing mints from USB sockets. She is addicted to coffee
and anticipates an intervention any day now. She is not thought to be
dangerous.
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Mathias Jaanson
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TP Keating
I live for writing, and travel has always been an awesome source of inspiration
for me. I love my cats - which mean I cannot travel so much nowadays. At home
with 6 cats and my wife, I am never far from my keyboard. I was a former
semi-pro musician; until my wife convinced me to switch to writing (she's full
of good ideas like that). You can contact me by email at
keatingwrites@yahoo.com. Or drop by my website at www.tpkeating.com.
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T.G. Reaper
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Laurie Treacy
Laurie Treacy is a fantasy, paranormal and contemporary fiction writer. She
graduated from Marist College and lives in the New York's Hudson Valley with
her husband, three children and various pets. She's a SCBWI member and can be
found at local writer's events. You can also find her blogging about books over
at www.readergirlsblog.com
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Charie D. La Marr
Charie is primarily known as a ghostwriter in the field of sports - mostly
baseball. She has had at least one book go to #1 on Amazon in 2 different
categories.
Currently working to establish herself as an author, she has created a genre
called Circuspunk (listed at Urban Dictionary) and has sold a book of short
stories in the genre to Chupa Cabra called Bumping Noses and Cherry Pie. She
also has upcoming stories in Alex S. Johnson's heavy metal anthology Axes of
Evil and Shwibly Magazine, James Ward Kirk's Bones, Sydney Leigh’s Ugly Babies
and other anthologies. Most recently, she has been accepted by Surreal
Grotesque and Chupa Cabra for anthologies. She is September's featured writer
at Solarcide. She is known for writing in many different genres from crime to
bizarro to erotica and even Seussian. She is currently working on a Circuspunk
anthology open for submissions called The New Whakazoid Circus - The Greatest
Show on Paper.
A redhead with a redheaded attitude, she lives in NY with her mother and son
and two beloved Shih Tsu's.
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Jodie Pierce
Jodie Pierce lives with her hubby, John in Cleveland, Ohio along with four
beautiful step-children. She has been writing since high school where here
English teacher took an interest in her and started mentoring her. She has had
a fascination with vampires since they were introduced to her as a child and
has had a long history with them. It wasn't until she started reading the Anne
Rice vampire books that she was truly inspired to write about them. She was an
exchange student in Brasil in high school so you can find some of her
experiences from there in her stories. Many of her stories have historical or
researched facts as she also enjoys research and learning about new places. She
has published five short novels(Eternal Press), a short story in "Midnight
Thirst 2", an anthology(Melange Books), has two self-published books and
has several short stories that she still works on. She has a new charity
anthology with various authors where all the proceeds go to St. Jude's
Children's Research Hospital due out Halloween 2013. She's always busy with the
next great vampire story as her mind is non-stop and even plagues her dreams.
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