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Spring Quotes

~ The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring. ~

   Bern Williams

~ An optimist is the human personification of spring. ~

   Susan J. Bissonette

~ Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower ~

   Albert Camus

~ Spring is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s party!” ~

   Robin Williams

~ One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day ~

   Aristotle

~ The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. ~

   Ernest Hemingway

~ Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. ~

   Rainer Maria Rilke

~ In spring time, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion or kisses whizzing by your head. ~

   Emma Racine deFleur

~ Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself ~

 Zen Proverb

~ If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. ~

 Anne

Release Day at Damnation Books!!!

Damnation Books March 1st, 2010 Releases

All four of our novels this time around are HUGE–between 90,000 and 120,000
words. Can’t beat that. Here’s the entire line-up:

Careless Book 2 Alyce Kerr, Faith Healer Trilogy

by Yolanda Sfetsos

eBook ISBN: 9781615720729

http://www.damnationbooks.com/book.php?isbn=9781615720729

Price: $4.50 ebook

Genre: Erotica

Sub Genre: Paranormal

Novella of 16099 words

Sex rating: 4

Violence rating: 3

Edited by Andrea Heacock-Reyes

Cover Artwork by Jessica Lucero

About the book:

Alyce Kerr used to be a celebrity Faith Healer. Now all she wants to do is
to stay out of the limelight. Her short career of healing the sick publicly
has left her with a gaping hole in her soul and a binding to a demon that
makes her vulnerable. With Ross by her side and the help of a recluse
demonologist, Alyce may be able to reclaim her soul… but at what price?
Can the demonologist be trusted with Alyce’s life, or will her curiosity
with all-that-is-demonic work against them?

Caribbean Caracole

by Patricia MacEwen

eBook ISBN: 9781615720705

Price: $2.50 ebook only

Genre: Horror

Sub Genre: Erotica

Short Story of 8832 words

Sex rating: 4

Violence rating: 3

Edited by April Duncan

Cover Artwork by Marge Simon

http://www.damnationbooks.com/book.php?isbn=9781615720705

About the book:

What does any woman want? To love, and be loved in return. That’s all
Marguerite is asking for when she flees her drunken husband, running into
the darkness in her bare feet. Knowing almost nothing of the tiny Caribbean
island that shelters her, she knows even less of the spirit world
surrounding her. She doesn’t understand that spirits too can be twisted by
loss and by loneliness, that transformation comes at a terrible price.

Chimes

by Charles Gramlich

eBook ISBN: 9781615720682

Price: $2.50 ebook only

Genre: Horror

Sub Genre: none

Short Story of 5461 words

Sex rating: 1

Violence rating: 3

Edited by Lea Schizas

Cover Artwork by Julie D Arcy

About the book:

She should have brought her wind chimes in, she thought, when she heard them
ringing in the first gusts of the approaching hurricane. She was sitting on
the edge of the bed with her feet fishing for slippers when she remembered.
She had brought the chimes in. They were hanging downstairs in her living
room, where there was no wind to move them.

Dance of the Furrowed Goddess

by Bruce Golden

eBook ISBN: 9781615720699

http://www.damnationbooks.com/book.php?isbn=9781615720699

Price: $2.50 ebook only

Genre: Science Fiction

Sub Genre: Alien

Short Story of 6015 words

Sex rating: 2

Violence rating: 1

Edited by Lea Schizas

Cover Artwork by Cinsearae Santiago

About the book:

An aging stripper finds that beauty is in the eye of the beholder,
especially when that eye sees through an alien lens.

False Jihad

by David Bullock

eBook ISBN: 9781615720866

Print ISBN: 9781615720859
http://www.damnationbooks.com/book.php?isbn=9781615720866

Price: $5.95

Genre: Thriller

Sub Genre: Military

Novel of 91740 words

Sex rating: 1

Violence rating: 3

Edited by Tim Marquitz

Cover Artwork by Jinger Heaston

About the book:

Captain Jake Matthews has already sacrificed almost any hope of a normal
life in order to battle America’s enemies far from home. Now Jake, and his
team of Green Berets, joins forces with an ex-Navy SEAL working for the CIA,
to put an end to the most malevolent covert operation ever conceived. Jake
must now face losing the only people that mean anything to him, his men, as
they track an elusive foe leading a group of psychotic commandos determined
to bring America to its knees.

Nightwalkers

by Keith Kekic

eBook ISBN: 9781615720804

Print ISBN: 9781615720798

http://www.damnationbooks.com/book.php?isbn=9781615720804

Price: $5.95

Genre: Dark Fantasy

Sub Genre: Horror

Novel of 112749 words

Sex rating: 2

Violence rating: 4

Edited by Heather Williams

Cover Artwork by Cinsearae Santiago

About the book:

A lonely teenager escapes from his troubles to the quiet night, only to find
that he is not alone. A beautiful girl watches him, eyes sparkling like the
stars in the sky. Together they walk under the light of the moon, sharing
the briefest of moments, but one that changes his life forever. Before
leaving him she tells him he can see her again, but only at night. Then she
vanishes into the darkness.

Sacrifice Book 2 Blood and Ashes Series

by Michele Acker

eBook ISBN: 9781615720828

Print ISBN: 9781615720811

http://www.damnationbooks.com/book.php?isbn=9781615720828

Price: $5.95

Genre: Dark Fantasy

Sub Genre: none

Novel of 112118 words

Sex rating: 4

Violence rating: 4

Edited by Lisa J. Jackson

Cover Artwork by Ash Arceneaux

About the book:

Hired swords, Sorea and Daryn search for pieces of a weapon to destroy
Valina. This vile sorceress holds twelve children hostage in her fortress.
Will they find it before she does and before any more children are
sacrificed for evil magic? The two mercenaries must battle nightmarish
monsters, cross invisible bridges and come to terms with their feelings for
each other. They refuse to give up, knowing that stopping Valina is their
most important goal, no matter what the ultimate Sacrifice.

Sepulchral Earth

by Tim Marquitz

eBook ISBN: 9781615720767

Print ISBN: 9781615720750

http://www.damnationbooks.com/book.php?isbn=9781615720767

Price: $4.50

Genre: Horror

Sub Genre: Dark Fantasy

Novella of 12645 words

Sex rating: 1

Violence rating: 4

Edited by Kim Richards

Cover Artwork by Jessica Lucero

About the book:

Two years after the furious dead rose up to murder the living, the remnants
of mankind face a brutal extinction. Wretched and broken, trading humanity
for life, the survivors suffer under the inevitable shadow of death.

Aided by friendly spirits, the necromancer Harlan Cole wages war against the
merciless forces of the undead. Driven to bring peace to the souls of his
wife and daughter, Harlan vows to return the dead to their graves, or join
them trying.

The Berserk

by Alex Smith

eBook ISBN: 9781615720781
Print ISBN: 9781615720774

http://www.damnationbooks.com/book.php?isbn=9781615720781

Price: $4.50

Genre: Horror

Sub Genre: Psychological

Novella of 26276 words

Sex rating: 4

Violence rating: 4

Edited by April Duncan

Cover Artwork by Matt Truiano

About the book:

In this supernatural thriller, three aimless souls collide in a tempest of
lust, violence and vice in Washington, DC, where the elitist country clubs
they call their home can be as cutthroat as the business of staying popular.

As their triangle grows tighter, they each battle to hold on to their
sanity, one fleeing to Africa, the other two signing up for a cruise to
Mexico. But they cannot evade their fate. And as they face down doubles and
triples of themselves stalking them wherever they run, they will learn that
the demons that haunt them will accept only blood for their final sacrifice.

The First Angry Man

by Samuel King

eBook ISBN: 9781615720675

http://www.damnationbooks.com/book.php?isbn=9781615720675

Price: $2.50 ebook only

Genre: Science Fiction

Sub Genre: AI

Short Story of 1 words

Sex rating: 1

Violence rating: 2

Edited by Lea Schizas

Cover Artwork by Annie Melton

About the book:

What will be the legal status of our intelligent creations? Will we treat
them as equals, or will they remain forever enslaved?

Thrillerotica

by Ken Shakin

eBook ISBN: 9781615720842

Print ISBN: 9781615720835

http://www.damnationbooks.com/book.php?isbn=9781615720842

Price: $5.95

Genre: Thriller

Sub Genre: Erotica

Novel of 120811 words

Sex rating: 5

Violence rating: 5

Edited by Stephanie Parent

Cover Artwork by Kim Richards

About the book:

A novel about the nature of the thrill.

The thriller meets erotica in a marriage made in hell.

The perfect gentleman is a lady killer. A man who will do anything to
satisfy the most flippant desire, stop at nothing for a fleeting moment’s
stimulation of body and mind, whatever pleasure or suffering he causes in
the process, no matter what price he ultimately will have to pay.

The thrill for some is in flying a plane. Others like to jump. He prefers to
do the pushing.

How far will a man go to reach new heights, new depths? Sex is not enough to
fill the void of such a shallow abyss. How far will a man go to cheapen a
thrill?

As far as he can.

Tracing the Devil

by Wayne Mansfield

eBook ISBN: 9781615720743

Print ISBN: 9781615720736

http://www.damnationbooks.com/book.php?isbn=9781615720743

Price: $4.50

Genre: Erotica

Sub Genre: GBLT

Novella of 12528 words

Sex rating: 5

Violence rating: 3

Edited by Kim Richards

Cover Artwork by Jinger Heaston

About the book:

Nigsummu was always going to be different. Fathered by a demon and born to a
whore, what chance did he have? With no soul of his own he sucks the very
life force from his mother, absorbing hers, and ends up being abandoned in
the desert. Suckled by a jackal for the first days of his life he is then
adopted by a poor hunter and his family, But his is not to be a normal life.

Leaving home at fifteen he explores his ancient world, finally reaching the
coast three years later. From there he is taken across the Mediterranean to
mainland Europe, where his voyage of discovery begins. His journey is not
only personal, discovering his sexuality, his identity and how difference is
a matter of perspective, but he also learns much about the human condition.

Good Night Charlie Marks

by Perry P. Perkins

eBook ISBN: 9781615720668

http://www.damnationbooks.com/book.php?isbn=9781615720668

Price: $2.50 ebook only

Genre: Horror

Sub Genre: none

Short Story of 7881 words

Sex rating: 1

Violence rating: 4

Edited by Lea Schizas

Cover Artwork by Annie Melton

About the book:

“A villager and his wife had a goose that laid a golden egg every day.” –
Aesop

It’s 1979 and in the hottest corner of Hell’s Kitchen, Charlie Marks has a
wonderful, terrifying secret.”

Gertrude Stein on Writing

“Write without thinking of the result
in terms of a result,
but think of the writing
in terms of discovery,

which is to say that creation
must take place
between the pen and the paper,

not before in a thought
or afterwards in a recasting…

It will come if it is there
and if you will let it come.”

Gertrude Stein

Quote of the day

Quote of the day

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

Summertime Quotes

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. ~Russel Baker

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. ~Bern Williams

Summer set lip to earth’s bosom bare,
And left the flushed print in a poppy there.
~Francis Thompson

To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie –
True Poems flee.
~Emily Dickinson

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade. ~Gertrude Jekyll

In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way
I have to go to bed by day.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them. ~Aldo Leopold

I question not if thrushes sing,
If roses load the air;
Beyond my heart I need not reach
When all is summer there.
~John Vance Cheney

Oh, the summer night
Has a smile of light
And she sits on a sapphire throne.
~Barry Cornwall

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. ~Albert Camus

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. ~Celia Thaxter

The summer night is like a perfection of thought. ~Wallace Stevens

In summer, the song sings itself. ~William Carlos Williams

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. ~Sam Keen

Summer has set in with its usual severity. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. ~Anton Chekhov

A life without love is like a year without summer. ~Swedish Proverb

Press close, bare-bosomed Night! Press close, magnetic,
nourishing Night!
Night of south winds! Night of the large, few stars!
Still, nodding Night! Mad, naked, Summer Night!
~Walt Whitman

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. ~Erma Bombeck

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. ~Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Mark Twain

Do what we can, summer will have its flies. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heat, ma’am! it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones. ~Sydney Smith, Lady Holland’s Memoir

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time. ~John Lubbock

No price is set on the lavish summer;
June may be had by the poorest comer.
~James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal, 1848

Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ~Henry James

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer’s year – it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul. ~Author Unknown

Then followed that beautiful season… Summer….
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape
Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world. ~Ada Louise Huxtable

This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders. ~Sarah Orne Jewett

Writer’s Quote for today

“Writing is a discipline, much like playing a musical
instrument; it requires constant practice and honing of skills.”

-Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code

Eric M Witchery on agendas …

“…at any given moment in a story, every character is working
on at least three agendas—three levels of desire: An overall agenda,
which tends to consist of broad hopes—life goals. A scene agenda,
which is the result a character hopes to achieve in a scene. A
compulsive agenda, which is a deeper, hidden need.”

-Eric M. Witchey in an article in The Writer, September 2007

Quote of the day

“I think it’s important to have a goal—
either page count or time—and stick to it.
Consistency and discipline is key.”

-Allison Brennan in an article
in the Romance Writers Report, February 2008