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Eternal Bite – Buy it Now!!

October 22, 2020 By Kat Leave a Comment

Eternal Bite is on sale now. Isn’t the graphic below cool? 🙂

Okay so I’m not usually this pushy when it comes to buying my books – I know my stuff isn’t for everyone. However, I REALLY would like to make the USA Today Bestseller’s list, and to do that I need US sales between now and October 24th.

If you’re like me, you tend to procrastinate. A LOT. So you may not have purchased this wonderful box set yet.

With NINE full-length Vampire Romance Novels. For a single dollar.

You can’t even get a shitty gas station coffee for a dollar anymore. Or a pack of gum. Or a Coke.

But when you buy this book, you’ll get three hours of amazing book adventure time. At least that’s what my Kindle tells me on the time estimate.

And when you spend that single dollar, you’re not only making me super happy and grateful, but also eight other authors super happy and grateful. That’s a lot of good karma.

I promise my book, The Vampire Cure, will cost more than that when I launch it as a solo book in a month or two.

So if you’re even a little interested, please BUY IT NOW! With any luck and some help from the pink pixies in the sky, we’ll make the list and I won’t have to do this again (this is my second list-aiming box set).

Because it’s a lot of work. And a LOT of marketing. And so many Facebook posts. It’s making my little introverted brain ache.

Here’s the URL: https://www.amazon.com/Eternal-Bite-Limited-Collection-Vampire-ebook/dp/B087R7SZYS

Comment below if you get it, and I will send some happiness vibes your way. And anyone who knows me can tell you, my happiness vibes are totally awesome. 🙂

Thanks so much for being a reader and supporting a pushy author from Jersey. Oh, and let me know what you think of The Vampire Cure.

Apologies in advance to any Republicans I offend with my book. It was too easy not to exploit, I’m sorry. ><

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Eternal Bite Box Set

October 8, 2020 By Kat Leave a Comment

So I’m part of a new box set called Eternal Bite! It’s got 9 vampire books for only .99 cents, and it’s currently on preorder, with a launch date of October 20th. Just in time for Halloween. 🙂

Grab your copy here, available for preorder on Amazon and Apple: https://books2read.com/EternalBite

My contribution to this set is called, The Vampire Cure. It’s about a scientist who discovers that not only do vampires exist, but they may be the answer for a cure to a deadly virus.

Here’s the blurb for my book:

In the search for a cure to a viral pandemic, scientist Liz Meyer discovers something far more deadly…

Vampires exist.

And what’s even more amazing, they’re immune to the virus.

Liz is both horrified and intrigued. She knows that a blood sample could be the solution to a cure. And sexy vampire Ryan awakens a desire within her, something she’s never felt before. Too bad the rest of the coven want nothing more than to feast on her blood.

Can Liz get the blood she needs to study vampire immunity and find a cure? Or will it be her blood taken instead?

Here’s the cover for The Vampire Cure:

And here are some of the covers:

Oh, and there’s also an awesome party group to join for games and fun and prizes! Tell your friends – the more people join, the cooler the prizes become 🙂 Click the image to join the Facebook group.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/360411621819324

Thanks for supporting myself and all the other lovely authors in this box set. We’re trying to hit the USA Today list, so every sale counts.

Thanks and happy reading! PS Let me know what you think of the covers 🙂

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The Horror (or lack thereof) that is Troll 2

July 20, 2020 By Kat 2 Comments

Arguably the worst movie ever made…

Never before have I been so moved by a horror movie that I felt the need to blog about it. It’s so bad, I can’t keep it to myself. I must share this slice of shit pie with you.

I know what you’re thinking… It’s a sequel, don’t all sequels suck? Not all but most. I can think of two movie franchises with second movies better than the first – Star Trek II and Star Wars II (Empire, to be clear). However, they’re sci-fi. Now that I’m thinking about it, I’m hard pressed to come up with a horror movie sequel that’s better than the first. If you know one, please comment below and we can discuss it!

This all started when I put on the original Troll movie to watch with my son. I know I’ve mentioned before that I’m trying to responsibly ease my children into horror movie watching, as it’s a family tradition. There is something about B horror that is undeniably wonderful. I’m starting out with both old and new PG-13 rated horror movies that are on the campier/less violent side.

Troll is an awesome example of this. It’s fun, well-written and acted – hell, it’s even got Julia Louis-Dreyfus in it. I loved the Henson-like puppets and the troll posing as a little girl, being such an asshole. It’s just an awesome movie.

I thought I’d seen Troll 2, as I’d seen most of the sequels in the golden age of 80s and 90s horror – to include Halloween, Tremors,  Friday the 13th, Hellraiser, Puppet Master and even the Leprechaun sequels. But it became painfully clear to me that was not the case at the ten minute mark. I believe Imdb when they say the movie’s budget was $6.

Jesus, where do I start with this shitshow? Perhaps the first and most obvious problem I have with this movie is that there are no trolls in it whatsoever. I mean, it’s in the name, what the hell? All we get in this film is a bunch of lousy, badly costumed goblins. Oh, and the queen of the goblins, whose makeup and acting skills are about at a high school musical level.

Which brings me to the acting. Wow. I think the little kid with zero acting experience is probably the best actor. It’s been so long since I’ve seen this sort of bad acting, and I’m not a harsh critic – I mean you can’t be if you watch 80s horror. It feels like someone lost a bet or did the producer a favor and agreed to act.

The plot itself is downright bizarre. Take the corn scene: the goblin queen tries to seduce her victim with an ear of corn. Is that some kind of phallic symbol? Since when is corn sexy? I’m not from the Midwest though. Maybe it is sexy in Nebraska.

Not quite the goblin queen I was hoping for…

And then all the green. So, so much green. No one except the little kid seems at all bothered to eat stuff covered in green ooze, which once you consume, produces a strange green sweat from your scalp and ultimately renders you into either goblin food or a strange human-plant hybrid. Because that makes sense (come to think of it, it doesn’t seem that far-fetched now, it is 2020 after all – perhaps the initial covid vaccines will have a similar effect).

The town the family visits is called Nilbog. Really? My six-year-old didn’t figure it out right away, so I guess there’s that.

Then there’s the music and makeup. The royalty-free music in my zero-budget book video is better quality. I think someone’s teen-aged son or daughter was responsible for that synthesized craptasm. As for the makeup, I’m pretty sure the actors did it themselves, with dollar store brand cosmetics. And the goblin masks? They actually reminded me of the original Star Trek series, if that’s any indication.

I really don’t have eyes, it’s not just an ill-fitting mask

Also, I got the feeling it was filmed on a camcorder. And that’s saying a lot considering it was made in 1990.

I’m not the only one who feels this way – there was a documentary about Troll 2 called, “Best Worst Movie.” It claims it went from the worst movie to a cult classic, but I’m not buying it. I’ve watched bad movies that made me laugh; this isn’t one of them. It has more of a stupid, poorly executed vibe than a cult classic vibe. Halloween proved low budget doesn’t necessarily mean low quality.

Troll 2 was by far the worst movie I’ve seen this year, maybe of all time. I sincerely hope MST3K, in one of its incarnations, plans to do this movie. That would be the only way I’d watch it again.

This so needs to happen…

In case you’re curious and have an hour and a half to waste, it’s available on Cinemax in the US, not sure for how long. How this movie still exists is a bit of a mystery to me. Maybe as an example of what not to do? It’s said that you learn more from failure than success. If that’s the case, then perhaps this is required watching for film students, actors, makeup artists, and music coordinators.  

I think I need to watch Evil Dead or Evil Dead 2 now, to balance this out. Or perhaps Re-Animator. Hell, even the Rob Zombie Halloween movies were better than this.

Nope, I take that back. However horrible this film is, it didn’t try to make an uninspired, re-imagining of a brilliant original. Rob Zombie’s bastardization of the Halloween movies are an affront to all that is good, regardless of the high production quality and talented cast.

But that’s a rant post for another time…

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Mara: A Modified Origin Story is Live!

May 19, 2020 By Kat Leave a Comment

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted on this blog, so I figured I’d drop in and let you know what’s going on. I just hit publish on Mara, which has been a few months in the works. I was waiting on the artwork back from Josh, my new Modified cover artist. This one has a more fantasy feel to it, and so he designed the cover that way as well.

What do you think of the cover? I love it 🙂

Fun facts about Mara:

  1. Excelsia is a variation of Stan Lee’s Excelsior. I wrote this story around the time of his death, and I just couldn’t help myself.
  2. Dave is the name of a coworker I worked with in San Antone, at one of my side databasing jobs.
  3. Artemus is named after my father, Arthur
  4. I originally intended to write the character as a male, but from the first scene I wrote, I knew it was wrong and switched to a female. I love the way Mara fits into the Modified world, and all the trouble she causes for Kate.

Here’s the link to Amazon, it’s on sale for .99 cents and is also enrolled in Kindle Unlimited.

Check out Mara on Amazon

Mara is also one of the new characters featured in Modified: Unified Part 1. Haven’t read Modified? Start with the box set, it’s also in Kindle Unlimited and has all five original volumes of Modified:

Get Modified Box Set on Amazon

I’m working on Unified Part 2, and also a new series with vampires, of which book one will be featured in the Eternal Bite box set, coming out in October. I’ll do a separate blog post on that soon.

Thanks for reading, and let me know what you think of Mara!

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Excerpt from A Fated Exception

October 5, 2019 By Kat Leave a Comment

Don’t you love the cover? 🙂

I’m so stoked, release day is almost here!!! Only three more days left until Playing with Fire is available for purchase. We’re trying very hard to make the USA Today list with this box set, so absolutely every sale is critical.

Why is this box set the most exciting thing you’ll ever purchase for .99 cents? Well, in addition to eleven other talented authors’ stories, you’ll be getting A Fated Exception, Book One of the Enhanced series. If you purchase it now during the pre-order stage, you can get fourteen free reads while you’re waiting for release day. All the details are on our website:
https://playingwithfireboxedset.com/
Check out the Free Gift menu for instructions on how to get all the awesome free reads, including Spliced, an Enhanced series prequel.

Here are the links for purchasing Playing with Fire:
iBook: https://apple.co/2PgS1Og
B&N: http://bit.ly/2WK3IzB
Amazon: https://amzn.to/33aqTau
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=AQSQDwAAQBAJ
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/za/en/ebook/playing-with-fire-boxset

A Fated Exception features a technomage, an android, and a shapeshifter, and it was a ton of fun to write. I’m especially looking forward to writing the second book in the series! Here’s the blurb for it:

Cass is just a brilliant programmer to the outside world, a super geek paid millions to fix unfixable computers. What no one knows is she’s really a technomage – she has the ability to communicate with any program or machine through touch.

The world Cass lives in is one that fears her kind. She is one of a dwindling number of “enhanced,” people whose DNA was optimized at birth. Hunted by OCEI, an organization that will stop at nothing to eliminate the enhanced, Cass and other enhanced hide their abilities to survive. Relationships are forbidden—the chemical reaction of fluids exchanged with super-charged DNA can be deadly.

When Cass is called in to troubleshoot an unresponsive android, she makes an alarming discovery: humanity is on the verge of extinction. Her only clue is a sexy shapeshifter, Tyler, who sparks a desire within her she can’t control. No matter how much she tries to avoid him, she can’t deny the intense attraction she feels. But that attraction is dangerous, for both of them.

Can Cass discover the plan to wipe out humanity before it’s too late? And can she resist Tyler, or will her desire for him be her undoing?

Here’s an excerpt, the scene in which technomage Cass meets Victor, the android. Hope you enjoy it, and let me know what you think! 🙂

A Fated Exception Excerpt

The problem android was strangely sitting upright with his eyes closed on a long desk in the middle of what appeared to be a lab. A mirrored glass took up an entire wall behind him. The first thing that struck me about him was his how lifelike he appeared. The only clothing he wore was a pair of white cotton pants with a drawstring, so I could see his entire upper body. I was amazed by all the little details—from the thousands of tiny little hairs on his arms to the beauty mark on his shoulder, and even his toned muscles—he was indistinguishable from any other human male. Apart from the low technological hum I could sense with my power, I wouldn’t have known he was a machine. It appeared as if he was in some kind of stasis, or suspended mode.

To say I was fascinated would be a gross understatement. His skin was so realistic, his complexion a neutral kind of tan that would have made it impossible to speculate his ethnicity, had he’d been human. His hair was also a style and texture that could’ve belonged to any number of ethnic groups, or perhaps it was designed as a composite from several. It made him seem more universal somehow, friendlier and accessible. I was certain that was intentional, and I wondered what his purpose was.

“He was created here?” I asked Lisa. “What do the scientists who worked on him say?”

“They’re stumped. That’s why we called you. Even if it is a long shot, you’re our last hope.” She handed me a small binder with a cover sheet entitled, Victor. “This is the important stuff about this model.”

And with that simple statement, she left me to my own devices. That’s it? No real background of the problem, no explanation at all? It was a nice departure from what usually happened—drinking from the firehouse of an IT guy, being bombarded with a lot of useless information. But whether I’d liked it or not, I’d come to expect it, and this was feeling more and more like a setup.

To my surprise, I suddenly felt relaxed, which didn’t make sense given I was presented with a problem I didn’t know how to solve and was likely under surveillance to boot. The sensation was similar to the one I felt in the lobby, when…

I glanced around, but Tyler wasn’t there. Weird. I couldn’t shake the feeling I wasn’t alone, but I wrote it off to most likely being observed. By whom, I wasn’t sure, but there were too many odd things about this job to not be a little paranoid.

I cracked open the binder and read through its contents. It outlined the things I’d already asked about or Lisa had mentioned: his off button, where his batteries were stored, and a brief overview of his programming and functionality. I had a trickle of hope when I encountered a chapter called, How to Run a Diagnostic, but that fizzled out quick when I realized it required the android to be online.

For sanity’s sake (and because clients often lie) I went through the steps Lisa had said they’d already taken—to reboot the android. The low hum I felt remained unchanged.

Though I was apprehensive about using my power there, I had reached an impasse with the android. I covertly touched one of his hands.

“What’s your story, Victor?” I said aloud. “Are they overworking you here?”

I didn’t expect a response of any kind, I mean, I didn’t do anything. He was still in suspended mode, so it’s not like there was anything to interface with. But that low hum grew louder and more complex. I could sense his systems come online, as the POST occurred. His code base was a language called Dalia that I’d never heard of.

His eyes opened, but they were all white—no irises or pupils, only the sclera. Which was just a little totally terrifying.

Then light began to shine through his eyes, projecting an image on the wall in front of him. I turned around to see none other than Tyler in a video playing from his eyes.  The timestamp was two weeks into the future.

Tyler’s veins were bulged out and darkened, and his breaths were labored. “This isn’t just about eliminating enhanced, don’t you see that?” he said. “The strain has evolved. It’s killing regular humans now.”

“We can fix that. We’ll develop an antidote.” The voice was garbled, and I couldn’t see its speaker in the video.

“Before…it…kills you?” Tyler spoke in uneven gasps, appearing to be on the verge of death. The illness seemed to be spreading. It was as if some kind of black substance had taken hold of his circulatory system and was now coursing through him, sucking his life force away.

“If it wipes out enhanced, it was worth it.”

I watched as Tyler collapsed. Then the video skipped to a different scene. The timestamp was later, about two months into the future. This one was much quieter. The video panned the streets of New York City. Bodies strewn about silently decomposed.

“No survivors,” Victor said, his voice so close I guessed he was the one filming it. “They’re all gone. Everywhere.” He turned the camera towards himself. “You have to stop this. For the sake of humanity, don’t let them release that serum, it—”

And then the video cut out.

What the hell was that? Victor appeared to continue booting and his eyes became normal, complete with irises and pupils. They were a strange color—more of a brownish hue, with hints of green and blue. 

It was so real—the voices, the disease, the bodies. I doubt he could’ve fabricated something like that. But watching the future? That’s not possible.


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