When reading about tracks from the succubus club…

…which might I add I am not especially fond of even though I like several tracks…

how can someone really rate “fall no more” lower than “hemoglobin”? the latter once inspired a friend of mine to say (in mockery) “I must list one of my favorite instruments as the band saw.” Beborn Beton, while a band that I love most of the time, still makes me laugh far more than Bella Morte. Maybe it’s unfair of me to judge based on the Engrishy-accents that occasionally shine through. I dunno.

Oh well, to each their own.

Anyway, I just bought the newest Bella Morte CD and I am happy that I did. I wasn’t huge about Beautiful Death but I like Before the Flood and, I can’t lie, I am a big fan of Andy Deane. So there you go.

This post made me laugh and cringe

Found it thanks to a great post on Scalzi’s Whatever blog which opened up comments for people to share/plug/promote things they or those they know have done that are awesome. (I plugged NF of course, how could I not)

Ten Types of Reviews That Make Authors Sad

And now, NIGHT FALLS is on Nook too!

Hot off the… uh… digital presses!

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/night-falls-jamie-cannon/1037732146

 

And here’s the description again in case you forgot… okay, I know my last post had the same thing but for Kindle, but this is my blog right?

“Nicci Alexander is not my name. But it is the only name I have anymore. It is the name he gave me, my vampire. He found me in California and sank his fangs in, leaving behind a mark that keeps me with him as his companion, his servant. We moved to New York City to avoid the police and here we hope to stay. I help him settle into our new home by giving my blood every night, and sometimes killing to protect us. Things are simple now.
“But sometimes, I don’t feel much like a servant. I feel like there is something brewing inside me, a power I don’t understand.”
This book marks the beginning of the story of Nicci Alexander, a young woman thrust violently into the unknown world beyond what humans acknowledged. It is a supernatural story with love, drama, violence, faeries, werewolves, werepanthers, and other magical creatures. It is set in the modern age, where ancient magic prevents human beings from being exposed to the real creatures, some of them monsters, that live and work all around them. This is an ongoing story of people learning what it really means to be human.

Big huge enormous news!

My first novel Night Falls is finally available for purchase!

Find it on the Kindle store here.

I’ll be releasing it for the Nook soon, so look for another announcement

Meanwhile, here’s the description from the Kindle store:

“Nicci Alexander is not my name. But it is the only name I have anymore. It is the name he gave me, my vampire. He found me in California and sank his fangs in, leaving behind a mark that keeps me with him as his companion, his servant. We moved to New York City to avoid the police and here we hope to stay. I help him settle into our new home by giving my blood every night, and sometimes killing to protect us. Things are simple now.
“But sometimes, I don’t feel much like a servant. I feel like there is something brewing inside me, a power I don’t understand.”
This book marks the beginning of the story of Nicci Alexander, a young woman thrust violently into the unknown world beyond what humans acknowledged. It is a supernatural story with love, drama, violence, faeries, werewolves, werepanthers, and other magical creatures. It is set in the modern age, where ancient magic prevents human beings from being exposed to the real creatures, some of them monsters, that live and work all around them. This is an ongoing story of people learning what it really means to be human.

Like me on facebook, or like Night Falls directly here.

What’s an amnesiac girl in the post-apocalypse to do?

That’s pretty much what one of my other in progress novels is about.

I’ve been just as immersed in the “apocalypse” as anyone, the last few years – be it a nuclear winter, a pathogen that magically turns the dead into zombies, a weather-based cataclysm, meteors hurtling toward the earth, or what have you, I’ve seen the movies (and played my share of Fallout games of course). But there are just so many ways the world as we know it could come to an end. There are so many things about a ruined modern civilization that lend themselves fantastically to storytelling.

But, it’s not something I’ve written before. It’s not easy to try and maintain a little creative independence without leaning too much on some other reference material. (This is a lot like my conflict with writing supernatural/vampire fiction. But in the case of those books, I wrote them years ago, before there were many authors aside from Anne Rice and LKH to read at all – the post apocalyptic scene is pretty much overflowing like zombies crawling out of a graveyard at this point.) So it’s been put on the back burner time and time again. I have a lot of work planned on this series, and what I’m putting here isn’t the very beginning either. It’s just a random part.

Read more after the break. I’m fully expecting to add more samples of this one, since it’s a different setting than my typical work. But it deals with what I love to write about, of course – people dealing with hard situations and trying to keep their minds and hearts together.

[Working title for this novel is currently 'wasteland' so use the tags on the side to find more related posts if you so desire.]

When two lives collide…

Well, time certainly flies.

In honor of the one year anniversary that I started this novel (wow, it’s been that long?? -_-) I decided to post the first “chapter” or so, for your viewing pleasure. I’ve not fully decided on a title for the novel yet, so the working name is simply “Two Worlds” for now. Which should make a small amount of sense even after just this excerpt.

See more after the break. I tried not to make it too long, since blog-formatting is not entirely reader friendly.

[Working title for this is 'two worlds' so use the tags on the side to find related posts.]

Yay new picture

Well, sort of,

it’s from April 2011, at the wedding of two of my good friends.

-unimportant post end-

I don’t care if you’ve seen it before, you should see it again

Also, have sympathy because this has been STUCK in my head since it came out… so, like 2 weeks. @_@

Times are changing

Well, LEGO Universe, the game I have been working on for the last year and 8 months, has officially been canned:

http://gamasutra.com/view/news/38401/Lack_Of_Subscribers_Forces_Lego_Universe_Offline.php

 

It’s pretty much how it sounds. Didn’t get enough subscribers. Unfortunately, this decision came at the end of a new studio design which would have had a lot of new games coming up in the future. I guess someone higher-up decided the math comparing TT games (i.e. LEGO Star Wars) to ours was just too sweet to resist.

So… what now? Well, that’s about where I’m at. Lots of possibilities. Lots of things to worry about, too. On the bright side, I should have more time for other things I have wanted to pursue professionally for months and months. On the other hand, I don’t get any severance. So that’s kinda shitty.

Whenever I sort out my brain I’ll be back to this blog. I might as well have committed to NaNoWriMo at this point…

pretty much

 

 

 

 

 

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