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My new author photo.

Subtitle: When they tell you ALL AUTHORS ARE UNICORNS, it’s the truth.

In which the author photobombs two vampires and a unicorn at her book launch party.

WICKED AS SHE WANTS is now available wherever books are sold!

True love’s kiss isn’t enough for this Blud princess. But blood and music may win her heart forever… .

Delilah S. Dawson’s delightfully dark series takes readers into a clever new world of endless discoveries and sensuous encounters that will leave them breathless.

After four years crammed in a suitcase, drained and unconscious, Ahnastasia Feodor, Crown Princess of Freesia, is not sure which calls to her more: the sound of music or the scent of blood. The source of both is the handsome and mysterious Casper Sterling, once the most celebrated and self-centered musician in Sangland. Fortunately, bleeding one’s subjects dry is expected of Blud royalty. Much to Ahna’s frustration, however, the debauched and reckless enigma—he is definitely not a Bludman, though not exactly human either—is her only ticket back to her snow-rimmed and magical homeland. Ahna needs Casper’s help to defeat an evil sorceress and claim her throne—if she doesn’t drain him first. But as they team up for a harrowing journey filled with pirates and painted ladies, daimons and dashing Bludmen, her craving for blood becomes an unrelenting hunger of the heart… .

“No sophomore series slump here, as Dawson invites readers back into the land of Sang, where Bluds (vampires) rule and Pinkies (humans) struggle to survive. Told mostly from the viewpoint of a dethroned Blud princess, Wicked as She Wants is delightfully edgy with hidden charms— and Ahnastasia is definitely no shrinking violet. Dawson is on the fast track to the top of the genre!” -RT Book Review - 4 1/2 stars, HOT!

AW, YISSS.

Who’s that sexily debauched Southern pianist in the fluffy blouse?

CASPER STERLING, MA’AM.

WICKED AS SHE WANTS is coming April 30, guys. Be there or be square.

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Literary Birthday - 31 March

Happy Birthday, John Fowles, born 31 March 1926, died 5 November 2005

Top 12 John Fowles Quotes

1. There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
2. There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
3. The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
4. We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
5. You may think novelists always have fixed plans to which they work, so that the future predicted by Chapter One is always inexorably the actuality of Chapter Thirteen. But novelists write for countless different reasons: for money, for fame, for reviewers, for parents, for friends, for loved ones; for vanity, for pride, for curiosity, for amusement: as skilled furniture makers enjoy making furniture, as drunkards like drinking, as judges like judging, as Sicilians like emptying a shotgun into an enemy’s back. I could fill a book with reasons, and they would all be true, though not true of all. Only one same reason is shared by all of us: we wish to create worlds as real as, but other than the world that is. Or was. This is why we cannot plan. We know a world is an organism, not a machine.
6. There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.
7. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.
8. Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.
9. I think all the arts draw on a nostalgia or longing for a better world—at root a better metaphysical condition—than the one that is. Self-destructive, I don’t know, but certainly we are all victims of some form of manic depression. That is the price of being what we are. I would never choose—even if I could!—to be a more “normal” human being; I would never choose something without that emotional cost, severe though it can become.
10. Writing novels is a time-consuming, psyche-consuming business. I mean I don’t think a good teacher actually would be likely to write good novels.
11. What interests me about novelists as a species is the obsessiveness of the activity, the fact that novelists have to go on writing. I think that probably must come from a sense of the irrecoverable. In every novelist’s life there is some more acute sense of loss than with other people, and I suppose I must have felt that. I didn’t realize it, I suppose, till the last ten or fifteen years. In fact you have to write novels to begin to understand this. There’s a kind of backwardness in the novel…an attempt to get back to a lost world.
12. If a novelist isn’t in exile I suspect he’d be in trouble.

Fowles was an English novelist influenced by both Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. He is best known for The Magus and The French Lieutenant’s Woman. Fowles was named by The Times newspaper as one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.

Source for Image

by Amanda Patterson for Writers Write

I haven’t read his books, and, honestly, I’ve never actually heard of him. But there’s so much truth here.