A Vampire’s thoughts on escapist fiction

I’ve never understood why humans assume vampires don’t read. In all of your gloriously inaccurate and unintentionally amusing horror movies with my kind, the vampires are forever moping about and draining blood, but never settle down with a good book. Shame on you. I am undead but far from unread. Who doesn’t want to escape the quotidian? And who, besides the practically immortal, would have better insights. Ah, the boredom, the boredom. The horror. The horror.  Does that ring any bells?

Conrad is not a favorite and if you think about it, you can guess why. While I did love the bouncing playboy bunnies in the movie adaptation of Heart of Darkness, reading about evil is hardly entertaining for someone like me. Evil is my DNA. I need not excavate it artistically in order to understand it. Give me Nancy Drew over Raskolnikov anytime. Read more of this post>>продвижение сайта

Not to be missed, recommended, aw shucks, thanks!

Hot off the presses! Pumpjack Press is proud to share a new review of Blood and Whiskey from the revered Midwest Book Review. Many thanks. We appreciate your dedication to the publishing and reading world. 

“Relationships are tumultuous when they may only last a few decades, but when they last eternity, it can get more difficult. “Blood and Whiskey” is a novel of adventure, horror, and cowboys as a follow up to previous novel ‘The Cowboy and the Vampire’, as couple Tucker and Lizzie retreat to a tiny town to of LonePine, hoping to settle down, but the reality of the Vampires on their trail may make that an impossibility. A riveting read that explores many concepts on top of the intrigue of vampires in the lawless lands of the west, “Blood and Whiskey” is a choice and very much recommended read, not to be missed.”  Micah Andrew, Reviewer

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Immediate feedback: Writing sex scenes with a partner

Writing authentic sex scenes is a tricky proposition for any writer; for writing partners, it’s twice as challenging, and three times as rewarding.

The Cowboy and the Vampire is a love story, written by two people in love. Tucker and Lizzie, our main characters are, despite their better judgment, also passionately and crazily hot for each other. When they aren’t arguing about his poor grammar (ain’t is not a word), debating her love of sushi (fish bait), or fending off Vampire attacks, they can’t keep their hands off of each other. Read the rest of this post>>aracer.mobi

The cool-stuff-we-read-(and recommend)-in-2012 list

Time to get your lovely 2013 head out of the whiskey clouds and into The Cowboy and Vampire world with our Best-of-2012 list.

This list is a holistic, no holds barred, all-encompassing effort that captures the components, the bits and pieces, the creative juice that fuels the gothic western comedic neo-anarchic big-bang duct-tape wearing love story-for-the-ages aesthetic that is The Cowboy and Vampire.

For you diehard fans, the list gives you something to chew on until Book Three comes out in 2013. For all you others (and hopefully there aren’t many left), wet your whistle first with Book One (the original) The Cowboy and the Vampire: A Darkly Romantic Mystery and Book Two — Blood and Whiskey. Hey, sexy cowboy. Let’s do it vampnam style. Here’s what you should be reading to stay in an undead buckaroo frame of mind (in no particular order).

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Welcome to LonePine, Wyoming, population 438

It’s like any other small, slowly dying town in the modern American west, only with vampires.

Cut off from the rest of the world by miles of open range and rugged snow-capped mountains, LonePine is the quintessential American western town: the county fair and rodeo is still the biggest social event of the year, crusty old ranchers drive to town at sun-up for breakfast — waving at every pickup truck they pass because there are no strangers — and it’s not unusual to see a horse or two tethered outside the Watering Hole, the town’s favorite saloon. Not much has changed there in a hundred years … until then the undead ride into town.

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