And I'm off to GRL! By the time this post goes live I will be at the Key West airport before sunup, bleary eyed and maybe sipping less than stellar coffee while I wait to board. I will be landing in Portsmouth, VA in the early afternoon, where my fantastic friends and fellow authors, Jenna Kendrick and Felice Stevens, will pick me up on their drive in.
If you are attending GRL, I hope to see you throughout the long weekend! Here is my schedule. These are events I'm guaranteed to be at. (Otherwise I haunt the bar and might just be seen running up and down hallways. I'm
very excited.) Don't forget-- you can add any of these to your own personal schedule on the Guidebook app so you never miss out!
Wednesday, 10/17
4:00 - 5:00 Pre- Retreat Meet & Greet
Portsmouth V - Second Floor
Thursday, 10/18
2:00 - 2:45 Author Lounge
Portsmouth Foyer - Second Floor
4:30 - 5:20 Author Reading
Portsmouth Ballroom V - Second Floor
7:30 - 9:30 PJ Party!
Holley Ballroom / Foyer - First Floor
Friday, 10/19
1:00 - 1:45 Author Lounge
Portsmouth Foyer - Second Floor
Saturday, 10/20
10:00 - 12:30 Featured Author Signing
Portsmouth Ballroom IV - VIII - Second Floor
4:30 - 5:30 C.S. Poe Reader Meet-up!
Location TBD, join the Facebook event page to stay updated
9:00 - 1:00 Totally Tubular Eighties Party
Portsmouth Ballroom IV - V - Second Floor
I will have paperbacks on sale, available at the Dreamspinner Press table for the following titles:
Color of You,
Southernmost Murder,
The Mystery of Nevermore,
The Mystery of the Curiosities, and
The Mystery of the Moving Image. Supply is limited!
And
Devil Take Me is live! This is the thrilling anthology, published with DSP Publications, that I had the honor of sharing the pages alongside huge urban fantasy and paranormal authors in our genre, including: Jordan L. Hawk, Ginn Hale, TA Moore, Rhys Ford, and Jordan Castillo Price. My contribution is
11:59, the journey of a soulless hero hunting monsters in New York City, birthed by the nightmares of humans. Grimy, gritty, and with a dose of Greek mythology!
Devil Take Me blurb: Temptation lurks around every corner in worlds sometimes dark,
sometimes lurid. Giving in is both dangerous and satisfying, though
never in the ways one expects. While these enticements offer a vast
range of benefits and boons, the cost is a soul and the devil expects
his due. Sometimes suave and charming or calculating and cruel, these
devils have schemes and desires of their own. They can be creatures to
run away from… or toward.
Join the most unique and celebrated authors of LGBT urban fantasy and
paranormal fiction for a fast-paced and unpredictable ride, from a city
on the other side of reality, to a world suspended in dusk, to a
twisted version of the 1960s and 70s.
Meet devils in top hats and waistcoats, a defrocked motorcycle-riding
priest, and a genderfluid antihero—among many more. Full of humor,
romance, horror, action, intrigue, and magic, these stories have one
common element….
They’re one hell of a good time.
11:59 blurb: Asuka Kawashima is a man without dreams.
Nightmares plague humanity and cross into the
waking world—chasing after their dreamers and transforming them into
hideous monsters that haunt New York City at night. When Asuka is faced
with the choice between dying or selling his soul to the Devil, he
offers it in exchange for the chance to continue protecting people. But
the Devil is sly, and while he takes Asuka’s ability to dream, making
him immune to nightmares, it also removed Asuka’s abstract sense of
dreaming. Now life is gray, hopeless, and without wishes.
A chance meeting five years later leads Asuka to
Merrick Grace, a man who, despite the dismal world around them, still
believes there will be a day when monsters cease to exist. When the
Devil reappears, asking for a favor in return for his soul, Asuka must
make another difficult decision…
If the chance to dream again—to share a life with Merrick, full of hope and happiness—is worth the risk of almost certain death.
