Hello cowboys & vampires!

Vampires represent the parts of human existence that most terrify us. In the Victorian era, the vampire was a proxy for repressed lust and sexual needs. For religious types, that’s still true, like with the Twilight saga. But for other audiences, now that sex is not as taboo as it once was, the vampire has moved on, so to speak. Humans need to invest these evil creatures with other terrors – most notably, our fear of death – as a way of having conversations about scary subjects. It’s a form of therapy. In The Cowboy and Vampire Thriller Series, the characters explore life after death in The Meta, a place (like an energy field, or heaven) where vampire consciousnesses wait out the day in death. To learn more, check out our recent guest posts on two fabulous book blogs: The Book Nympho and the blog of Lisette Manning. And find out what it means to be a necronaut and an asphalt ballerina.topodin.com

Questions to the cowboy are piling up!  That’s a good thing. The more cowboy wisdom in the world, the better. Here’s one from Heart at Risk….

Dear Cowboy,

I have been dating a cowboy for like a year and two months, but I don’t know what’s wrong with him. He has been acting different. More distant. I tell him we should go fishing or hunting and we go. But I don’t know, he just seems to be a jerk lately. He was never like this. I think maybe I have pushed him away. Can you please help me out here in what to do? I don’t want to lose my Cowboy :( It would just break my heart.

Signed, Heart at Risk

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A point-counterpoint pair of articles recently in The Guardian debated the value of book bloggers to literary criticism, developing new talent and advancing the English language. Is there room for both? Are the mass of new indie books overshadowing “good” books? Needless to say, we lean far in favor of book bloggers…  check it out, leave a comment there.

Books bloggers are harming literature. Peter Stothard, chair of this year’s Booker prize judges, says the mass of online opinion about books could kill off literary criticism. Read more>>

Why book bloggers are critical to literary criticism. A blog can explore a work at length and give coverage to books other than the newly published, counters John Self. Read more>>продвижение сайта

We sat for an interview with the Writer’s Life recently. Good questions, surprisingly fun.

1) First of all, please tell us a special something about what makes you “tick.”  When you aren’t writing, what are you doing?

Kathleen: Vodka martinis, Russian literature and a formidable mix of crippling insecurity and soaring narcissism make me tick. And Clark.

Clark: Whiskey, graphic novels and an enlarged ego, partially offset by a reclusive nature, make me tick. And Kathleen. Read the rest of this entry »

When we wrote Blood and Whiskey, we set some of the action in Plush, Oregon, population 82 (pictured at left). It is a charming little town located, literally, on the edge of nowhere. In fact, we had to stop at Nowhere for directions to Plush.

The region had a pretty huge impact on us, which is why we were so pleased to find out the largest paper in that neck of the woods, the Lake County Examiner, ran a feature article about us, our book and the fact that Plush had finally hit the big time. Read a copy of “Novels combine horror and western genres, Plush setting,” written by Ryan Bonham.

The best part? Right next to our article is a piece about the local Future Farmers of America chapter. As anyone who has read Blood and Whiskey knows, Elita — our utterly remorseless and sex-starved vampires — wears an FFA jacket and little else when she feeds on some hapless cowboys.как продвинуть свой сайт бесплатно