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outside that put up with us because we
give them two squares a day.

I GAVE THIS NOVEL 5 FATASS
STARS

Anyway, since childhood, I’ve loved to
create. I played trumpet, sang, even
dabbled in genealogy. Nothing quite did
it for me. Over the years, I’d composed
quite a few term papers and theses
(there are a few ex-teenagers in this
world who owe their English grades to
yours truly), and unfailingly earned an
“A”. My wife knew this, and one day
just suggested that I try writing.

THE BLURB:
Paris 1925. A young woman is nearing

What the hey, I thought. So I sat down
and found a writing site called
Hubpages. Nice little site, and I started
getting the basics of writing a little from
some of the inhabitants. I wrote a short
story, and everyone liked it. So, I wrote
another one. Except it kept growing,
and I kept getting more ideas, and it
lengthened to 20 thousand words, then
30, then 40. By the time I sat back, I
had the rough draft of my first novel,
except back then it was called
“Werewolves
and
Flapjacks”.
Somewhere along the way I decided to
submit my work (now called “The
Clearing) to three publishers. I was
turned down twice, and miraculously
was accepted by the gentleman who
gently rules this site, Mr. Tim Taylor.
And the rest, as they say, is history. By
the way, you need to like Tim...he’s a
great guy, and I owe him much, which
can never be repaid.
I now have a second book available –
“Restless Souls: 3 dark fables” – an
anthology (novella and two short
stories) of ghost stories, and life is
grand. Even though I make wise cracks
about all of it, this is all like living a
dream – and I don’t plan on waking up
for a very long time.
Pickup The Clearing on Amazon.com
Amazon – UK or Smashwords

A 5 Star REVIEW ~ LUNA
SANGUIS by
Simon Okill
Travis Luedke
Until this very moment, I hadn’t yet
joined the blog your review bandwagon.
And, I don’t really do reviews very
often, but when I do

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the horrid savagery she witnessed at the
hands of her pursuer, Count Lucien.
This gothic, dark, poetic tale leads us
through the twisted mind of this poor
woman as she is entrapped in the
bowels of an insane asylum reminiscent
of Dante’s Inferno.
She and the Count share a
commonality, they exist in a perpetual
dance of love and hate, mutual
obsession. Both are inhabited by the
souls of ancients entwined in an age-old
battlefor her precious, eternal blood.
Through snatches of broken memory
we learn Eternal has been pursued by
the Count in all his incarnations across
ancient Europe, the two of them leapfrogging into one life after another,
each vying for that magic moment
when her blood will bring forth its gift
of eternal life.

her Eternal Vampire state as her
birthday approaches. She is held captive
by the hybrid vampire she created and
slowly drained of her pure blood to
keep his addiction in check. She outwits
him and escapes to a chateau in the
hope of reaching maturity. But he
follows her unmistakable scent and
massacres all that dare protect his
supply