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Women in Horror: The Vampire Family!

Hello my beloved winter blues compatriots! I can't wait to get out into this fourth round of snow and muck it all up!

If you're snowed in too, NOW is the time to pick up your very own e book edition of The Vampire Family for your kindle, noobie, or whatever magical ereader you prefer.



As part of Eternal Press and Damantion Books month long celebration of Women in Horror, The Vampire Family is 25% off at the EP website!

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Act now, this special ends February 28!



Let the snow outside pile up! It's the perfect time to snuggle up and read of Antonio's chilly early years where he uses these very same frosty and wintry elements to dispose of his own mother! Our fans might also want to re-read their copy of The Vampire Family in expectation of this year's sequel FATE and FANGS: A Collection of Tales from The Vampire Family Edited by Professor A. James.

Sounds ambitious, doesn't it? There's no blood necessariy for participation in any vampfam events, yet! So unbutton your collar and read on with the Welshire Coven today!



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Published on February 25, 2010 11:52 Tags: eternal-press, horror, kristin-battestella, paranormal, reviews, sale, the-vampire-family, vampire, vampires

FATE and FANGS-The Vampire Family SEQUEL!

Special Greetings to our friends clinging to the chill and darkness of winter days! The surprising sunshine we've had here has passed on in favor of a dark and brooding weekend rainstorm! What better time to stay in and spend the night with The Vampire Family!

Now, I know what you're thinking: Kristin, we've done read The Vampire Family already! Yes, we've been available in ebook and paperback with Eternal Press for over a year-a long time in this instant day and age! Also, I have to say it's been a losing battle with illegal infringements and ebook pirating as well. If you haven't read The Vampire Family, do buy from our authorized sellers, not in some nefarious bulk or package download.

Now then, let's turn to happy thoughts, thoughts that deal with fate or fangs. I've gotten a little more catchy with my titles. How do you like FATE and FANGS: A Collection of Tales from the Vampire Family Edited by Professor A. James? Long winded perhaps, but worth it.

I mentioned this first sequel collection previously, and now it's only fair to share a little bit more. Join the Welshires and their resident occult expert Professor James as he hosts this special series of vampire tales from early medieval viking vampires to contemporary debauchery and vampirism......



FATE and FANGS

A Collection of Tales from the Vampire Family

Edited By Professor A. James

By

Kristin Battestella



1.

Lore:

Forward by Professor A. James

In 1975 I acquired a collection of antique, but damaged manuscripts after a mysterious fire beguiled the dim British authorities for four years. Somewhere along the frontier between England and Wales, in a crumbled vault beneath a burned mansion; dozens of leather bound journals, diaries, and books were rescued. Their contents were fantastical: histories, ages of vampiric accounts, coven wars, and abstract chronicles. The police, of course, uneducated in such matters of the occult or the unexplained, found the material rubbish against their modern case in need of evidence and forensics.

Fortunately, in my subsequent studies and adventures, I have found that truth is indeed stranger than fiction. You must forgive me the cliché, but my analysis and preservation of these personal antiquities has brought me to new heights of bizarrity, both on the page and in the flesh. I thought I was a wise, aware professor knowing beyond the day-to-day world before I came to read of this twisted Vampire Family. My pride was in err.

After several lengthy years of study and a very slow restoration process on the oldest documents, I succumbed to an offer of assistance from a student named Theodore Plunkett. A scholar of ancient languages, Theodore’s detailed list of degrees and credentials were too numerous for his youthful appearance. His intelligence was vast; yet he was a personal master at comprehending and restoring the fantastic tales of Antonio Welshire and his mad family’s descent into the dark world of vampirism. From patriarch Antonio’s brutal human days to the coven’s near destruction by the rival Lilithan vampires and the ambiguous Mestiphles’ meddling appearances and disappearances; this Vampire Family’s history is very well documented through some centuries and bare and bleak in others. Some journals are utterly disturbing in their tales of blood and mayhem while other diaries are strangely heartfelt, bittersweet, and uncomfortably endearing.

The fire that brought these texts into my possession was education blessing enough-the lifetime epitome of Tut and Troy to most scholars. Some library men would be content to sit behind their musky parchments and read the decades away. I, however, have had the unique privilege of authenticating these documents as truth. Of course, that wasn’t until many years later; when Theodore arrived at my office door looking as young as the day we first met. On the plane to Philadelphia, I never suspected I would arrive at the doorstep of sisters Samantha and Victoria Welshire. I had read over five hundred years of their tall tales; yet here the startling beauties were, living and breathing before me fangs and all. Only then did I begin to realize the full extent of this familial coven.

The academic community may disagree with my claims; but this dark, sensational and unbelievable underground lifestyle has afforded me considerable gains. Today I live a quiet life among the Welshires, and their vast knowledge of history and the world has blessed me intellectually as well as financially. In this simple, ignorant time obsessed with youthfulness and beauty, I’ve seen immortal creatures age, know love, feel pain-even die and regain their humanity. I myself have been able to change; embracing surgeries and procedures I would not have considered before coming to know the Welshires. With no evil or nefarious means, this vampire knowledge and power has made me a new man inside out. It’s something I could never have fathomed before these burned books first came my way.

Through the course of this manuscript, you will find my notes introducing the strange tales included in this volume. There are several more stories left to be discovered; however, those are largely damaged chronicles, with significant portions unaccounted for or degraded beyond interpretation. Those presented here are in the best condition possible and have been least corrupted through time and calamity.

You should be familiar with most of the players, as the Welshire coven’s deeds have been thoroughly documented elsewhere. These accounts from Ann, Victoria, and Stephanie, among others, are much more personal, individual, and largely first person accounts. Some are sad, a few are very enchanting and lovely, and there are some that I personally find repulsive and frightening. Living with and documenting the Vampire Family has not blinded me from their awesome powers and need for the very fringes of human society. Read of the Vampire Family, delight in their written escapades even, but nevertheless learn from the error of their ways. Not all of them are so charming and accepting of the human condition. Remember what you’ve read and will read: most of them will do anything to protect their nocturnal inclinations.

From the past to the present, from near to far and wide, you may think these tales are all fiction, born of the imagination. Unfortunately, they are indeed truth and based in a frightening reality as firm as you or I.

-PAJ


Join us tonight as we simulcast more excerpts, secrets, and treats! Remember, no blood is necessary in the participation of any Vampire Family events. Yet.


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Published on March 11, 2010 16:03 Tags: eternal-press, horror, kristin-battestella, paranormal, reviews, sale, the-vampire-family, vampire, vampires

FATE and FANGS '11 -The Vampire Family SEQUEL!

Now that our website is safe and fully functioning again after some hacking litter critters, allow me to present

FATE and FANGS '11


Your FATE Decides! Their FANGS Deliver!

All Donations Welcome: A B AB O + -


Join the campaign with Welshire Occult expert PROFESSOR A. JAMES by reading his Tales from the Vampire Family and vote for your favorite toothy vampire candidate! Some bloodsuckers just get all the luck… but which one deserves your red hot, precious attention? Meet your candidates Tonight, After Dark, At Midnight under the Moonlight!



Shall you pleasure ANN, the scorned mistress aided by her lover ERIC or the beautiful, but evil and deadly Welshire enemy LILITH? But what of ELIZABETH, the unloved wife supported by RAIN, a fearless Kiowa warrior or her debutant daughter VICTORIA, the favorite of her father ANTONIO?



Ladies, moody and melodramatic rival brothers JAMES and GASTON are vying for your attention! Can sister SAMANTHA keep them away from each other’s throats? Of course, we can’t forget the dark horse STEPHANIE- the alluring doctor seems to straddle the line between Welshire and Lilithan covens-er parties. And what of the mysterious lobbyist MESTIPHLES who seemingly supports political veins on both sides?



Where can you dish on the fierce and bloody politics? Stop by Muse It Up Publishing and sink your teeth into the seven testaments as told by Professor A. James: Love, Punishment, Struggle, Debauchery, Lust, Humanity, Resurrection. Select your candidate and take him or her to the grave with you- or at the very least stay up all night with these hard at work night owls as they pine away at their virtual vampy headquarters,



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In this haunting and deadly world, two things will always bind a vampire:

FATE and FANGS!


Canadian epublisher Muse it Up Publishing will offer FATE and FANGS, Tales from the Vampire Family as told by Professor A. James beginning in August 2011. The 7 book series is projected to run through February 2012, and there's plenty to sink your teeth into!



1. Love: Ann and the Viking - In this medieval tale, scorned vampire mistress Ann leaves vampire family patriarch Antonio behind, travels across Britain, and encounters a wayward Viking named Eric. Will Ann accept her true vampiric nature and turn her Nordic lover into a vampire?



2. Punishment: Lilith's Trials - In this bizarre and seemingly anonymous tale, beautiful vampire nemesis Lilith suffers plenty at the delight of her mysterious and demonic tormentor.



3. Struggle: Elizabeth in America - Seeking solace and solitude from her unhappy home life as the unloved wife of Antonio, Elizabeth travels to colonial America. On the outskirts of civilization, she meets Rain, a young Kiowa warrior on a vision quest. Will his lack of fear and gripping hothouse experience help Elizabeth’s face the vampire truths she sought to escape?



4. Debauchery: Victoria's Burning - Victoria uses the fallout from the American Civil War to her advantage-or so the beautiful but deadly blockade-runner hopes. After all her using, abusing, and feedings, Victoria’s slaves finally take matters into their own hands, forcing Antonio’s daughter to face her own mortality.



5. Lust: James at the Sundowner - The Sundowner offers steamy Welshire vampires Jessica, Pamela, and Slava for underground vampire sex and biting fetishes, but Victoria’s twin brother James is content with his gig as piano player at the club owned by their brother Stephen. James’ own love Catrina is the alluring singer at there, but can he keep his longtime vampire companion away from the tempting, exciting young clientele?



6. Humanity: A Letter from Gaston - Gaston is trying to move on with his life now that the Vampire Family has been is human again. Unfortunately, his sister Victoria cannot cope with the change and succumbs to drugs, depression, and sex binges with her former fledgling Caine. When Gaston looses his job over Victoria’s suicide attempt, their pregnant sister Samantha comes to London to help-making a journey that could be disastrous to her unborn children.


7. Resurrection: Stephanie after the Lilithan - Former Lilithan vampire and newly divorced scientist Stephanie can’t get over how much she misses being a vampire. After a harrowing car accident, she meets Mestiphles, the giver and taker of vampire power on both sides of the coven wars. His charm and seductive powers sweeten the demonic offer he extends, but will Stephanie accept?




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FATE and FANGS Cover Debuts!

Your FATE is beckoning you...



Behind the scenes work on our upcoming sequel series FATE and FANGS: Tales from the Vampire Family as told by Professor A. James has begun!


Thanks to our wonderful Muse It Up Publishing Cover Artist Suzannah Safi, the cover for Book 1 of the FATE and FANGS series, Love: Ann and the Viking,which is debuting this August is here!



In this medieval tale, scorned vampire mistress Ann leaves vampire family patriarch Antonio behind, travels across Britain, and encounters a wayward Viking named Eric. Will Ann accept her true vampiric nature and turn her Nordic lover into a vampire?



Which would you choose, FATE or FANGS? Shall you pleasure ANN, the scorned mistress aided by her lover ERIC or the beautiful, but evil and deadly Welshire enemy LILITH? But what of ELIZABETH, the unloved wife supported by RAIN, a fearless Kiowa warrior or her debutant daughter VICTORIA, the favorite of her father ANTONIO?



Feed, er RSS subscribe to our blog or join the family on Facebook for the latest news and forthcoming guest appearances! For more on the FATE and FANGS series, also visit our Muse It Up Author's Page!



Stay tuned this month for the rest of our juicy book covers in the FATE and FANGS series!



Until then, keep your FANGS sharp...
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FATE and FANGS Book 3 Sneak Peek!

To deny one's true nature is to STRUGGLE....



Get a Sneak Peek at Book 3 in our FATE and FANGS sequel series with our spiffy and wolfy new cover designed by Suzannah Safi, our lovely artist at Muse It Up Publishing!


Join the campaign with Welshire Occult expert PROFESSOR A. JAMES by reading his Tales from the Vampire Family and vote for your favorite toothy vampire candidate!



Seeking solace and solitude from her unhappy home life as the unloved wife of Antonio, Elizabeth travels to colonial America. On the outskirts of civilization, she meets Rain, a young Kiowa warrior on a vision quest. Will his lack of fear and gripping hothouse experience help Elizabeth’s face the vampire truths she sought to escape?



Some bloodsuckers just get all the luck… but which one deserves your red hot, precious attention? Meet your candidates After Dark, At Midnight under the Moonlight This Halloween!



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Mount Laurel Library Bargain Book Sale Begins Oct 20!!!!!!

The Friends of the Mt. Laurel Library Bargain Book and Media Sale will take place at the Mt. Laurel Library, 100 Walt Whitman Drive, Mt. Laurel, NJ Thursday, October 20, 2011 thru Sunday, October 23, 2011.

Thursday evening from 6PM - 8:30 PM is a Preview night for members of the Friends. New members are welcome to join that night.

The hours for the open sale are Friday 10:00AM to 6:30PM, Saturday 10:00AM to 4:30PM and Sunday from Noon until 3PM.

Sunday is a $5 Bag Sale. We provide the bags for Sunday’s Bag Sale.


Proceeds benefit the Mt. Laurel Library. Prices are hard cover $1, paperback $.50, VHS $1, Audio Books $1, and DVDs $3.


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Published on October 10, 2011 07:30 Tags: bargain, books, media, sale, yard-sale

25% Off Sale Now at Eternal Press!!!

My friends, do you still need to get a copy of our Fate and Fangs: Tales from the Vampire Family precursor, aptly named The Vampire Family?

If you're in need of some vamps to fill your ereader this Christmas, shop for The Vampire Family direct at our publisher Eternal Press!

And it gets even better! Use this coupon code: 12AR0CYRCSTY and get 25% off!!!!


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Need a little sex and science fiction with peanut butter instead? Shop for neighbor Leigh Wood's On the Way to New Isosceles, too! It's 25% off your entire order!!

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Go ahead, treat yourself!!!
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Published on December 14, 2011 20:07 Tags: books, erotica, eternal-press, horror, kristin-battestella, leigh-wood, paranormal, sale, science-fiction, vampire

Buy 1, get 2 Fate and Fangs Free!!!!!!

Well, well! As the final hour for Fate and Fangs: Tales from the Vampire Family draws near- this Friday in Fact!!!- Muse It Up Publishing is offering an extra special treat to Resurrection: Stephanie After the Lilithan shoppers.



When you pick up your copy of Resurrection this weekend between February 3 and 5, you will receive Fate and Fangs Book One Love: Ann and the Viking AND Book Two Punishment: Lilith's Trials for FREE!!!!

Yep. You heard me. 1 Buck gets you not one, not two, but Three Tales from the Vampire Family!





You can check out our pre order page or shop for the first 6 books in the Fate and Fangs series here:

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In Professor James’ final tale, former Lilithan vampire and newly divorced scientist Stephanie just can’t get over how much she misses being a vampire. After a harrowing car accident during a frightful storm, Stephanie meets Mestiphles, the giver and taker of vampire power on both sides of the coven wars. His charm and seductive powers sweeten the demonic offer he extends, but will Stephanie accept Mestiphles’ dark opportunities?

Don't forget you can also follow along on our Fate and Fangs virtual tour stops!! Check out our recent visit with Roseanne Dowell...

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We're also in the spotlight with Two Lips Reviews this month! Look for our exclusive interview in the next few days!

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If you missed either of our stops at Star Crossed Romance or Victoria Welshire's stop at the Muse blog, now's the time to take a gander, before Resurrection comes!


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