"Randy Speeg's VAMPIRE'S TEARS is a collection that will appeal to the vamp lover in you. Subtle, haunting, and filled with a nice pulse of loose rhyme, Speeg's work is effective and appealing. VAMPIRE'S TEARS is a tasy bloody treat."
--Tom Piccirilli, author of A LOWER DEEP, THE DECEASED, and the Bram Stoker Award-Winning poetry collection A STUDENT OF HELL
gorelets Registered User
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(6/22/02 2:39 pm) Reply
great endorsement!
Those are some mighty fine words from a Tom Pic! Congratulations.
The "vampire" slant of the book, too, should appeal to all sorts of readers. I know there are some vamp-slanted webzines and print zines out there -- like the old "Prisoners of the Night" annual anthology, or "Dead of Night", which was a fun semipro mag. Got any favorites of your own?
Walking through the weeds
Stepping on the thorns
Of the black roses
Sucking up the pain rain
Falling from my eyes,
Living off the blood
Of a long lost lover
I went in search
And found another
One just as sweet as her,
Drinking your blood I feel the power
Please just stay another hour
I want to taste every last drop of you
While I still see Human behind your eyes of blue,
You give me life
You're not just my lover,
I'll suck you dry
So I can have another,
Night without fears
On this carousel of tears.
What makes a vampire cry? Well in the case of the vampire in my above poem, it's the fact that he must take a new lover every single night for his own survival. Because of what he is he will either kill his night's love or forever turn her into a monster. Since he despises what his is he would never stay with one he turned, and so he takes twisted pleasure in watching the last shreds of humanity fade from their eyes as they turn or die. His ultimate fear is death, and thus he continues this vicious cycle night after night.
Edited by: DarkVesper at: 7/6/02 3:17:36 pm
Re: Why Vampires Cry
[Great new look to the boards, Randy!]
Wonderful explanation of what makes vampires cry (I'm so goofy, I'd have said something like "they cry when they get garlic in their eyes")... the torture of immortality and incessant loss of love is sad and maddening. Your poem captures that supremely well.
Thanks, I just felt that the board needed more of a personality to set it apart from other boards out there. So I named it THE DARK ROOM (which happens to be the title of the first chapter of my unfinished novel REAPING MEADOWS), and gave it a more original look with the custom forum names. I recently redid the main site's design too, not too much but I tweaked it here and there until I was happy with it.
There's not much activity on the board yet, any ideas on how to draw some attention this way?
Vampire's Tears ebook update
Due to a change in management of American Publishing, I will not be releasing my book through them. Instead I am going to sign with a new company, Eternal Night Publishing, which will be headed by the ex-co-owner of American Publishing, Jasmine Diaz (my significant other) who left A.P. for reasons that I won't go into here.
The new company headed by Jasmine has a very bright future and I'm standing by her all the way.
Eternal Night Publishing will have a website at www.nightpublishing.com (will be up and running soon)
Jasmine Diaz
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(7/10/02 4:29 pm) Reply
answers in the darkness
Yes there are lots of ways to get people to post on it. You can start by ACTUALLY telling us all about it in the first place love; and I can post it in all of my newsletters and you should do the same...Your site is looking excelent baby.
Love always,
Jasmine
gorelets Registered User
Posts: 15
(7/10/02 6:08 pm) Reply
nightpubs
Congrats, then, on the move to Night Publishing and here's to Jasmine, too. I'll keep my eye on that website.
How to get more people to post? I bet they'll come once the books start coming out, Randy. I liked the idea you had about starting a book discussion group, but you'll probably have to invite people to join it by e-mail or the mailing list or something. More creative ideas like that should attract people. Maybe a "public" writing contest (like Delirium, which did a "gross-out" contest online once upon a time...and which cost it its (censorious) web host for awhile!) or ... I don't know. Something interactive with the promise of conversation and maybe even free books as payoff.
I like the site as-is, too...heck, I keep coming back!
-- Mike A.
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