Bleeding Ink - A Collection of Dark Tales PUBLISHED TODAY!!!

Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

Ink Babes Press Announces

the release of

This compilation of paranormal, supernatural, dark and twisted works will have you looking over your shoulder and sleeping with the lights on! With over 60 stories from 40 authors and containing short stories and poetry, this book offers something for everyone.

 

 Edited by the Ink Babes, namely, Pat Hollett, Lisa Forget, and Tammy Crosby, Bleeding Ink - a Collection fo Dark Tales will thrill you, confound you, and have you sitting at the edge of your seat with deliciously dark stories - penned by some of today's most talented and witty writers, novice and veteran alike - leaving you breathless, in bloody stitches, or scared half to death!

Available at Smashwords

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(note: As this is rated "Adult Content" you must deactivate the "Adult Filter" to view in Smashwords)

Where are the Clowns? Send in the Clowns....

Gosh, I miss chatting with friends and keeping up-to-date with everyone on Facebook and Twitter and here on my blog but a few things have kept me from my normal routine...namely....

I've been under contract with the Cirque du Soleil's Logistic Department, dividing my time working on various Merchandising and Costume projects, while brushing shoulders with clowns and other performers in the hallways! It was supposed to be for 6 weeks. I've been there 7 wonderfully exciting months!

When I'm not working or doing Mom Things (like chauffeuring & refereeing sibling squabbles) I'm collaborating on Bleeding Ink - a Collection of Dark Tales anthology with two friends and fellow InkBabes, Pat Hollett & Tammy Crosby. The editing is completed, now we're preparing the anthology for publication and distribution. Release date to follow.

"Bound" Those who beta read my full-length manuscript have asked me to stop procrastinating and get it published. So, I'm working on it - and by that I mean doing the last edits...finally!

One Night with You - a tribute to Elvis Presley, is another project keeping me busy.

With an ensemble of 11 musicians including "Elvis", scheduling rehearsals and performances can be tricky, but worth all the effort. We just played Calistoga Bar and Grill and had a blast!  Looks like we'll be taking the show on the road, heading West soon.

Authors I've recently read:
Kelley Armstrong, Jim Butcher, Charlaine Harris, Maggie Shayne, Christine Feehan, Christina Dodd

I picked up the Twilight Saga again.

Guilty pleasure or light summer reading, call it what you will. All I know is I find it as entertaining (and addictive) as the first time!  Edward Cullen....*sigh*  LOL!

Books I can't wait to get my hands on:
Thirteen by Kelley Armstrong
Iced by Karen Marie Moning

That's about all the news in my corner of the world - for now.

When we release our anthology, I plan on inviting some of the contributing authors to have a chat.

May your muse continue to inspire great things.....

Yours,
Lisa

LEAPLING - Release TODAY!

Thrilled!

That's how I feel about today's release of  LEAPLING,  my Young Adult Fantasy (with a side of Sci-Fi and a dash of romance) short-story.

Edited by Christine I Speakman and Ellee Braun, with cover-art by C.K. Volnek, this is my second work published with Canadian publishing company, MuseItUp.

February 29th is five days away, but you can find out how important the date is to Leapling, Evey Jones, by clicking here  My publisher, Lea Schizas, is offering a special release-week special!

Oh, by the way...

Sometimes, when receiving submissions, we receive the strangest cover letters. You might like to visit the Bleeding Ink site  where we've posted an example of one.

Lisa

LEAPLING being released this month!



Every Leap Year, I celebrate my real birthday.

Every time, it’s a near-death experience.

Apparently, it’s my destiny.

Destiny sucks.

I'm thrilled to show off the gorgeous cover of my YA story LEAPLING - being released this month at MuseItUp Publishing - created by the talented C.K. Volnek.

I had the pleasure of working again with

Content Editor Christine I. Speakman and Line Editor Ellee Braun.

Here's the blurb:


Fifteen-year-old Evey Jones is a Leapling — born on the leap day in a leap year. As she approaches her sixteenth birthday, she fills her journal with the strange and deadly things that have happened to her every February 29^th, including her encounter with a Shadow, a terrifying creature haunting her dreams since she was a little girl. As she faces her fears, Evey finally finds out why she’s been plagued with near-death experiences every Leap Year, and discovers the role she's expected to play when an alien race puts into action their plan for the birth of a whole new world on Earth — that is, if she’ll except her destiny and Adam, the alien prince who comes along with the deal.

Here's an Excerpt:

...My mind began to slip into blackness.

I am about to die.

From a distance, I heard a roar.

My attackers must have heard it, as well, because my body stilled.

Then my mind cleared, and silence replaced the angry whispers filling my head. Pain no longer gripped me. My body relaxed. I floated on calm waters.

I’d been rescued.

When I opened my eyes, a brilliant burst of colors reflected in the mirror on the far wall, blinding me. I blinked, and two figures came into focus.

The first was me.

The second was a winged creature cradling me in its arms,

murmuring something unintelligible in soothing, melodic tones.

LEAPLING
by Lisa Forget
Available at MuseItUp Publishing February 2012

Also Available at MuseItUp, Amazon, Kobo, Smashwords and other online booksellers:

DEATHLY QUIET

Thank you to everyone's words of encouragment!

They mean the world to me!!

Lisa

What Are You Reading?

I love books. The smell of them, the feel of them in my hands as I lose myself in their contents... I sleep next to a pile teetering on my bedside table.

I've also grown attached to my Kobo (eternally grateful Christy!). The e-reader offers me hours, days, months of reading pleasure all tucked away in its tiny, portable electronic body.

At the moment I'm reading submissions to our dark fiction collection - Bleeding Ink - and loving it! There are loads of talented writers out there with wonderfully creative imaginations. Our "inbox" at InkBabes is like a box of assorted chocolate, every bite a delicious surprise! (Keep them coming!)

Now, about those stories I'm addicted to...

Let's start with Karen Marie Moning's Fever Series. I've read this series at least 5 times. When I'm in the mood to visit Dublin, Ireland, fight the Unseelie and deny my feeling for the Alpha males of all Alpha males - Jericho Barrons, I head to my bookshelf and take out DARKFEVER, BLOODFEVER, FAEFEVER, DREAMFEVER and SHADOWFEVER and binge! Dreamworks Studio recently picked up the series so I look forward to seeing this world come to life.

Then there's The Sookie Stackhouse Series by Charlaine Harris. If you don't already know, it inspired HBO's True Blood. I've devoured this series several times as well. Book number 4 is beginning to fall apart. It's Eric Northman all the way for me, ladies!

Now slide your eyes up the map of North America....right up to Ontario, Canada. That's where you'll find one of my favourite writers, Kelley Armstrong - author of the Otherworld, Dark Powers, Darkness Rising & Nadia Stafford Series, and coming soon - Omen & Shadows and The Blackwell Pages. I love her writing style and the woman amazes me! She's a true supporter of aspiring writers and so very generous with her fans.

I can pick up any book from any one of the above mentioned authors and I"m guaranteed to be entertained and taken on a thrill ride!

Others author who lure me into their worlds:
J.R. Ward,Larissa Ione, Diana Gabaldon, Kate Morton, Jane Austen.....and a new fav Jim Butcher who writes The Dresden Files.

Books I've read recently:
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
The Secret Life of Bees
The Fever Series (again...)
Book 1, 2 & 3 of the Dresden Files
Envy
Dracula
Villette
Spellbound

What have you read recently? What do you recommend to other avid readers?

In my own little corner of the world, I'm working with my fabulous editor, Christine Speakman, on LEAPLING, my Young Adult short story coming out next month at MuseItUp Publishing.

By the way, if you haven't read my dark fiction short story Deathly Quiet you can purchase an ecopy at MuseItUp Publishing, Amazon, Kobo, Smashwords, and many other ebook retailers! If you purchase it today (or until January 25th ) at MuseItUp - you'll get a discount of 25%!

While you're there check out all the other great short stories, novellas and full length novels.

Well, it's time to get back to my journal, where I'm working on little darklings for Bleeding Ink......

May your Muse inspire you!
Lisa



Friday's Child

Friday's Child is doomed to misfortune…
The old wives tale crept into my head as I leaned against a crooked tree nestled in the heart of Briar Forest, pen in hand, contemplating life. Sometimes, I came here alone to jot down ideas or write little, dark tales. It was good therapy, a way to channel my angst, and something I needed to do.

As I doodled in the margins, I wondered how much worse it could be if the Friday’s Child also happened to be born on the 13th. I pondered it, making notes as I did and added more to my story.

I smelled trouble in the air but deep in thought, I dismiss it. Then a shiver crept up my back like an icy finger...

To read more of my dark flash fiction tale, head over to Bleeding Ink - A Collection of Dark Tales where you'll find the rest of this Friday the Thirteenth offering and guideline to submit your dark tale to our anthology.

May the Muses inspire you...
Lisa