Eventually I will move on to other subjects, but I have not yet said everything on this subject that I feel needs to be said.
I closed down my xanga blog a few hours ago. Peaches had left 60 footprints on my xanga in three hours. He just kept digging and digging and digging, looking for enough dirt to get it shut down.
I decided to curtail his activities by shutting it down myself.
I had been thinking about it for several weeks. It seemed the right thing to do.
When I created the ReynanSharani blog at xanga, I wanted it to be another fun spot much like LJ is. Yes, I have dozens of blogs. Well, maybe not dozens, but a lot of them. In fact I don't even remember all the places I have opened blogs.
The very first person to post a comment on that blog was Peaches and it was a threat.
He said that he intended to ruin my sales.
I archived that blog before I shut it down. It was a paid acct so that was no problem. I reactivated my Insane Journal tonight. I'll be posting there as well as all the other places. As always, I'm cussedness there.
Why so many blogs?
Well, that's what Naughty Peaches does. He gets blogs by the dozens. Most of them are dead now and haven't been posted to for years. And some have been taken down for TOS violations.
I got all of these blogs because I felt the need to have somewhere to flee to when he was bothering me too much at one of them. It gave me breathing room.
I use up a lot of emotional and mental energy working on my novels and short stories.
I can only handle Peaches in small doses. When I get too caught up in fighting with him, I become exhausted quickly. Then my writing suffers. So I needed these retreats to recharge my batteries.
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Saturday, March 03, 2007
Naughty Peaches
Today, Naughty Peaches demonstrated that he did not know what the word "plagiarism" means.
A critic reviewed his only not-self-published book, House of Spiders 3. In the review she parodied two of his characters from the novella having a conversation. He immediately accused her of ... you guessed it ... plagiarism.
That seems to be the flavor of the month with him. He picks up words and uses them without understanding what they mean.
During a particularly ugly period, I received phone calls from his mother, his grandmother, and his cousin, as well as numerous IM contacts and emails and comments posted to my other blogs. I later changed my phone number to put a stop to it again.
Naughty Peaches is 30 years old, and yet his family feels they must protect him from the hordes of people that he hurts and offends with his abusive behavior.
To be honest, Peaches is a somewhat pathetic figure. At times I pity him.
That does not mean that I'm willing to put up with his abuse, however.
Peaches was a special education child. He graduated from High School taking special ed classes and he has admitted that he has a learning disability, although he has never said what it is.
I can understand the angst and anger of the disabled because I had polio at age eight. At this point in my life I have no memory of ever having been "normal."
His cousin told me that most of the family is "slow."
What prevents Peaches from being pitied and ignored is his abusiveness and his relentless pursuit of anyone he thinks has wronged him.
I no longer loom as large on his hit parade as I once did, but he still comes after me.
Now, before you ask whether he has asperger's syndrome or some related condition, I can assure you that he doesn't. All the abusive obscene language is very consciously used on his part.
For a time he had an author blog on amazon.com. They call them 'plogs' and they are not selective about who gets them. Therefore, even though Peaches is self-published, he got one. He lost it. And they took away his product wiki also. The reason was the obscenities. Amazon.com has a software system that removes obscenities. So he began using alternate spellings and *** to get past it. And he crowed about his victory on his numerous blogs.
He posted a picture on all of his blogs that cost him his blogs on deadjournal and greatestjournal. He has a blogspot and a host of others. The picture? He put two pictures of writers he disliked into the toilet and pissed on them and then took a picture of his deed and put it up all over the place. It was childish and immature.
There are forums where young writers gather such as spinetinglers. There they post their work in a protected area where it can be critiqued by other members in the hopes that the feedback will help them to improve. What happened there is typical of Naughty Peaches. He posted one of his grammatically challenged stories there and people responded with their usual honesty. Several of them did what I had on first meeting him: they suggested he get a copy of Strunk and White.
He reacted by abusing them in harsh language on the forums, in private messages, and emails. If they had a blog somewhere, they also received ugly comments from him.
I pointed this out to his family once, and they laughed at it. I guess it runs in the family.
I suspect that he is, at least to some degree, delusional.
His accusations seem to come out of thin air and left field. They include sex, e-piracy, conspiracy, and now plagiarism.
during my early days of investigating him (I was looking for some explanation of why he was doing ugly things to me), two women contacted me who knew him personally. They had both gone into hiding to escape him, and asked that I not give out their names.
Where is all this going?
Well, my first reaction to his accusations of plagiarism was shock and anger. Then I became depressed (a normal reaction to getting as angry as I had) but today after a good night's sleep, I have leveled out again.
Hopefully, something can and will be done about him one day. He's making an entire community miserable.
A critic reviewed his only not-self-published book, House of Spiders 3. In the review she parodied two of his characters from the novella having a conversation. He immediately accused her of ... you guessed it ... plagiarism.
That seems to be the flavor of the month with him. He picks up words and uses them without understanding what they mean.
During a particularly ugly period, I received phone calls from his mother, his grandmother, and his cousin, as well as numerous IM contacts and emails and comments posted to my other blogs. I later changed my phone number to put a stop to it again.
Naughty Peaches is 30 years old, and yet his family feels they must protect him from the hordes of people that he hurts and offends with his abusive behavior.
To be honest, Peaches is a somewhat pathetic figure. At times I pity him.
That does not mean that I'm willing to put up with his abuse, however.
Peaches was a special education child. He graduated from High School taking special ed classes and he has admitted that he has a learning disability, although he has never said what it is.
I can understand the angst and anger of the disabled because I had polio at age eight. At this point in my life I have no memory of ever having been "normal."
His cousin told me that most of the family is "slow."
What prevents Peaches from being pitied and ignored is his abusiveness and his relentless pursuit of anyone he thinks has wronged him.
I no longer loom as large on his hit parade as I once did, but he still comes after me.
Now, before you ask whether he has asperger's syndrome or some related condition, I can assure you that he doesn't. All the abusive obscene language is very consciously used on his part.
For a time he had an author blog on amazon.com. They call them 'plogs' and they are not selective about who gets them. Therefore, even though Peaches is self-published, he got one. He lost it. And they took away his product wiki also. The reason was the obscenities. Amazon.com has a software system that removes obscenities. So he began using alternate spellings and *** to get past it. And he crowed about his victory on his numerous blogs.
He posted a picture on all of his blogs that cost him his blogs on deadjournal and greatestjournal. He has a blogspot and a host of others. The picture? He put two pictures of writers he disliked into the toilet and pissed on them and then took a picture of his deed and put it up all over the place. It was childish and immature.
There are forums where young writers gather such as spinetinglers. There they post their work in a protected area where it can be critiqued by other members in the hopes that the feedback will help them to improve. What happened there is typical of Naughty Peaches. He posted one of his grammatically challenged stories there and people responded with their usual honesty. Several of them did what I had on first meeting him: they suggested he get a copy of Strunk and White.
He reacted by abusing them in harsh language on the forums, in private messages, and emails. If they had a blog somewhere, they also received ugly comments from him.
I pointed this out to his family once, and they laughed at it. I guess it runs in the family.
I suspect that he is, at least to some degree, delusional.
His accusations seem to come out of thin air and left field. They include sex, e-piracy, conspiracy, and now plagiarism.
during my early days of investigating him (I was looking for some explanation of why he was doing ugly things to me), two women contacted me who knew him personally. They had both gone into hiding to escape him, and asked that I not give out their names.
Where is all this going?
Well, my first reaction to his accusations of plagiarism was shock and anger. Then I became depressed (a normal reaction to getting as angry as I had) but today after a good night's sleep, I have leveled out again.
Hopefully, something can and will be done about him one day. He's making an entire community miserable.
Friday, March 02, 2007
The Tale of Naughty Peaches
The Tale of Naughty Peaches.
Naughty Peaches thinks I'm an internet bully.
Bullying
"Cyberbullying involves the use of information and communication technologies such as e-mail, cell phone and pager text messages, instant messaging, defamatory personal Web sites, and defamatory online personal polling Web sites, to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behaviour by an individual or group, that is intended to harm others." -Bill Belsey http://www.cyberbullying.ca
I was still rather naive when I first encountered Naughty Peaches. At least as far as the internet is concerned. Back in 2003 I was extremely lonely and the Iraqi War was looming. I had several nephews shipping out to participate, both in the marines and the navy.
I had had the internet for close to ten years, but I had never gone to messageboards and chatrooms. I had been told that they were toxic.
I'm an active member of SFWA, having made pro in 1980.
Onr day, I was looking over the SFWA website and stumbled upon an article I thought was outdated. So I contacted the webmaster and got into a discussion with him about it. He discerned that I was lonely and introduced me to chatrooms and the people in the chatrooms introduced me to messageboards. One of the first messageboards I went to was gothic.net.
While I was there, Naughty Peaches approached me, introduced himself as a writer of great talent, and said that we should get together. He sent me some of his work to go over. I suppose he was waiting for me to praise his genius. What I found was a document rife with grammar problems, incoherent sentences, bad dialog, and other errors. I recommended that he get a copy of Strunk and White.
His reaction was to launch into me in the ugliest of language. I've always been a fighter and I replied in kind. Then I dropped it and quit going to gothic.net to get away from him. I had started at gothic.net in September of 03 and I quit going in December. I eventually heard that he had been banned, and in April 04, I went back for a brief visit. He must have been reading the board, because he knew I had been there, and he sent me a series of ugly emails. I fired back at him and thought that was the end of it.
Then on June 17th of 04, Naughty Peaches joined HWA and lit into me on sight. Naughty Peaches had joined under the affiliate rule which did not require possessing any publishing credits (that has since been changed). I was talking to an editor in IM and she said to me "Have you seen this?" From September of 03 to June 17th, Naughty Peaches had been bad mouthing me all over the net and accusing me of plagiarism.
The really odd thing about it was that Naughty Peaches thought I was a horror author (I still don't write horror). At that time, the only things I had out were Sword and Sorcery that had originally been published while Naughty Peaches was still in diapers. He had also written a story using my name as the main character and telling people that it was about me and the it was a "cautionary tale of plagiarism."
Well by that point I was becoming better versed in the internet and I googled. I discovered that Naughty Peaches had been Naughty with a lot of people. I got the story taken down several places by threatening legal action. It's still out there at two spots, and every time he gets angry at me he threatens to have it published.
I stopped going to the messageboard at HWA as a result of his presence, but as I got my legs under me I flamed back at him. No matter how hard I looked for a new messageboard to participate at he showed up soon after. By September of 04, I had become extremely angry. He had an anthology out that he self-published through Lulu.com. Most of the stories were available for free various places on the web, so I wrote a review of the stories that I could find. Admittedly, it was partly to get back at him -- at least in the beginning -- because I could not imagine someone as functionally illiterate as Naughty Peaches being able to edit an anthology. I have edited them. However, once I started, my past as a reviewer and critic for several publications led to my writing ah honest and perceptive review, but he viewed my criticism as libel and slander no matter how politely I phrased it. I offered helpful suggestions to his underage authors and many later thanked me.
By then he had moved from attacking me to also attacking my daughter who was in high school at the time and living on her own because she had not wanted to move to the other side of the state with me and give up her friends.
Eventually I went back to ignoring him and hoping that this time it would stick. It didn't. He came after me again. It became an endless round of him jumping me or my child and me jumping him back for it. When he was not jumping on me, he was jumping on others. The numbers of his "enemies" grew as a result of his stalking and abuse.
Naughty Peaches was banned from many boards and it gradually became safe for me to return to them. I would ignore him for months at a time and then he would try something new to hurt me and my child.
As more people were hurt by his abusiveness, Naughty Peaches found that his "enemies" had become so great in number that he was practically getting cornered with torches and pitchforks at every turn.
One of the things that he came back to again and again was to harp on my sexual orientation. He would jump on me with obscenity laden posts. Whenever I got a new blog in an attempt to gain a bit of peace, he would be the first one to post a comment on it. Those comments were threatening and abusive. There seemed to be no way to slow him down.
I tried everything I could think of, banning, blocking, and so forth, but he always got around them to have his say.
Finally his "enemies" became an impromptu vigilante group that stuck together and every time he launched into a fresh round of abuse, he was parodied and slammed. Some people continued to try and reason with him, but like the rest of us who had been around longer, they soon saw that there was nothing to be done about Naughty Peaches.
Now he wants to say that I'm a bully because I won't lie down and take it.
At this point, Naughty Peaches knew a lot about me, my work, and my family. He had not read anything by me, but he knew that I wrote dark fantasy and Sword & Sorcery. A few days ago he accused me of having plagiarized Robert E. Howard. The blow came totally out of left field and followed on a long string of fresh threats from him. When I demanded that he show me and my readers where I had plagiarized REH, his response was "I can't betray my sources."
What?
Naughty Peaches thinks I'm an internet bully.
Bullying
"Cyberbullying involves the use of information and communication technologies such as e-mail, cell phone and pager text messages, instant messaging, defamatory personal Web sites, and defamatory online personal polling Web sites, to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behaviour by an individual or group, that is intended to harm others." -Bill Belsey http://www.cyberbullying.ca
I was still rather naive when I first encountered Naughty Peaches. At least as far as the internet is concerned. Back in 2003 I was extremely lonely and the Iraqi War was looming. I had several nephews shipping out to participate, both in the marines and the navy.
I had had the internet for close to ten years, but I had never gone to messageboards and chatrooms. I had been told that they were toxic.
I'm an active member of SFWA, having made pro in 1980.
Onr day, I was looking over the SFWA website and stumbled upon an article I thought was outdated. So I contacted the webmaster and got into a discussion with him about it. He discerned that I was lonely and introduced me to chatrooms and the people in the chatrooms introduced me to messageboards. One of the first messageboards I went to was gothic.net.
While I was there, Naughty Peaches approached me, introduced himself as a writer of great talent, and said that we should get together. He sent me some of his work to go over. I suppose he was waiting for me to praise his genius. What I found was a document rife with grammar problems, incoherent sentences, bad dialog, and other errors. I recommended that he get a copy of Strunk and White.
His reaction was to launch into me in the ugliest of language. I've always been a fighter and I replied in kind. Then I dropped it and quit going to gothic.net to get away from him. I had started at gothic.net in September of 03 and I quit going in December. I eventually heard that he had been banned, and in April 04, I went back for a brief visit. He must have been reading the board, because he knew I had been there, and he sent me a series of ugly emails. I fired back at him and thought that was the end of it.
Then on June 17th of 04, Naughty Peaches joined HWA and lit into me on sight. Naughty Peaches had joined under the affiliate rule which did not require possessing any publishing credits (that has since been changed). I was talking to an editor in IM and she said to me "Have you seen this?" From September of 03 to June 17th, Naughty Peaches had been bad mouthing me all over the net and accusing me of plagiarism.
The really odd thing about it was that Naughty Peaches thought I was a horror author (I still don't write horror). At that time, the only things I had out were Sword and Sorcery that had originally been published while Naughty Peaches was still in diapers. He had also written a story using my name as the main character and telling people that it was about me and the it was a "cautionary tale of plagiarism."
Well by that point I was becoming better versed in the internet and I googled. I discovered that Naughty Peaches had been Naughty with a lot of people. I got the story taken down several places by threatening legal action. It's still out there at two spots, and every time he gets angry at me he threatens to have it published.
I stopped going to the messageboard at HWA as a result of his presence, but as I got my legs under me I flamed back at him. No matter how hard I looked for a new messageboard to participate at he showed up soon after. By September of 04, I had become extremely angry. He had an anthology out that he self-published through Lulu.com. Most of the stories were available for free various places on the web, so I wrote a review of the stories that I could find. Admittedly, it was partly to get back at him -- at least in the beginning -- because I could not imagine someone as functionally illiterate as Naughty Peaches being able to edit an anthology. I have edited them. However, once I started, my past as a reviewer and critic for several publications led to my writing ah honest and perceptive review, but he viewed my criticism as libel and slander no matter how politely I phrased it. I offered helpful suggestions to his underage authors and many later thanked me.
By then he had moved from attacking me to also attacking my daughter who was in high school at the time and living on her own because she had not wanted to move to the other side of the state with me and give up her friends.
Eventually I went back to ignoring him and hoping that this time it would stick. It didn't. He came after me again. It became an endless round of him jumping me or my child and me jumping him back for it. When he was not jumping on me, he was jumping on others. The numbers of his "enemies" grew as a result of his stalking and abuse.
Naughty Peaches was banned from many boards and it gradually became safe for me to return to them. I would ignore him for months at a time and then he would try something new to hurt me and my child.
As more people were hurt by his abusiveness, Naughty Peaches found that his "enemies" had become so great in number that he was practically getting cornered with torches and pitchforks at every turn.
One of the things that he came back to again and again was to harp on my sexual orientation. He would jump on me with obscenity laden posts. Whenever I got a new blog in an attempt to gain a bit of peace, he would be the first one to post a comment on it. Those comments were threatening and abusive. There seemed to be no way to slow him down.
I tried everything I could think of, banning, blocking, and so forth, but he always got around them to have his say.
Finally his "enemies" became an impromptu vigilante group that stuck together and every time he launched into a fresh round of abuse, he was parodied and slammed. Some people continued to try and reason with him, but like the rest of us who had been around longer, they soon saw that there was nothing to be done about Naughty Peaches.
Now he wants to say that I'm a bully because I won't lie down and take it.
At this point, Naughty Peaches knew a lot about me, my work, and my family. He had not read anything by me, but he knew that I wrote dark fantasy and Sword & Sorcery. A few days ago he accused me of having plagiarized Robert E. Howard. The blow came totally out of left field and followed on a long string of fresh threats from him. When I demanded that he show me and my readers where I had plagiarized REH, his response was "I can't betray my sources."
What?
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Parody
I'm writing a parody of a notorious piece of horror fiction. Every few days I'll add to it until the story is complete. Then I'm posting it to places like fictionpress for the hell of it.
The Fan Fiction Wanker
by
Janrae Frank
by
Janrae Frank
Nickolby Alberto Picyune was a fan fiction horror writer, a no-account wannabee who lusted after the bodies of lovely horror authors, especially Jennifer Franklin, Angela Lynn Holcroft, and Marion Saint George.
Sunday, August 06, 2006
Flaming wannabees
I've had encounters with wannabees who could not bear to be told the truth. Perhaps they came to me seeking validation. Perhaps they were in search of networking to further their attempts at a career as a writer. In the end, what they got was the truth. Then rather than deal with my criticism and suggestions, they went all over the net denouncing me and three in particular treaded a line that can only mean stalker.
One of them stalked all my blogs more than three years ago, trying to prove that my satire about Capt. Cussedness the pirate and the evil empress Honey Chylde were aimed at her. All of her confederates joined in and for a brief span made my life hell because I was new to the net and inexperienced enough at that point to take it all seriously. I was forced to give up my hosting at that site and move on. Partly I did it out of spite, and threatened to sue the company if they could not get her to leave me alone. Eventually she decided that I was a dangerous psycho and left me alone. When I posted to a newsgroup that she frequented a year ago, she attacked me saying that we had "history," and then a few days later she barged into my chatroom (she knew it was my chatroom) and tried to pretend that nothing had happened. I promptly told her that it was inappropriate for her to be there and reminded her that we had "history" as she put it. Then I banned her.
The second one came from a writer who is apparently self-published and writes at about the level of an intelligent eight-year-old and has a fantasy series out. He spammed my message board pretending to be his own fan and since I have a healthily paranoid group of mods and members, we unearthed the fact that the "fan" was actually the author and that he had spammed over 300 messageboards. When I could not get him to stop I eventually became angry enough to post my honest opinion to his book's listing at Amazon.com. Now, his book is terrible. He stopped in the middle of a fight scene to spend three paragraphs explaining orcs. The book had typos, grammar problems, chewing-gum sentences, and tense changes in mid-sentence. If he had paid attention to what I had carefully said about his book, he could have avoided making some of the same mistakes the next time he wrote something. The book needed an experienced editor.
His response was to write a review of one of my books without reading the book and parrot back what I had said about his. Anyone using the look inside feature at Amazon.com would have seen that he was a liar. So he didn't even read that much and didn't quote examples of what he considered to be my bad grammar or demonstrate my typos and so forth. Just claimed they were there. Considering that the book, Blood Rites, was professionally copy-edited and edited by my publisher, Renaissance Ebooks, the problems did not exist. My editors would have caught them and either fixed them or had me revise. I have books out there that were revised to editorial direction many times before my editors were satisfied with them.
But amazon.com is a flamewar playground where this type of thing goes on in the form of people blasting away in thinly disguised flames in the reader reviews section.
The third one has lasted the longest. He's famous for flames, stalking, and other dastardly behaviors and once wrote a story using my name as the main character and posting around the net that it was about me. In it he accused me of plagerizing him. Which is interesting in that he's a horror writer and the only thing that was available from me at the time was a sword and sorcery piece that I had up on my website, which had been originally published while he was still in diapers. He has continued to stalk and attack me and my daughter for three years.
My crime was to tell him that he needed to work on his grammar and use Strunk and White. He once posted a flaming crit of my book without reading it and his final line was "burn in hell you dyke." Fortunately amazon.com took it down in response to complaints from people.
It is behavior like this that makes me want to never tell a wannabee what's wrong with his work. It also causes me to pull back when someone asks me to read their fiction. There is a new person at my chatroom who wants me to read their material. I'm considering it. However, I'll wait to see how they respond to crits from the other members of the chatroom. If they react professionally, then I'll read something by them.
One of them stalked all my blogs more than three years ago, trying to prove that my satire about Capt. Cussedness the pirate and the evil empress Honey Chylde were aimed at her. All of her confederates joined in and for a brief span made my life hell because I was new to the net and inexperienced enough at that point to take it all seriously. I was forced to give up my hosting at that site and move on. Partly I did it out of spite, and threatened to sue the company if they could not get her to leave me alone. Eventually she decided that I was a dangerous psycho and left me alone. When I posted to a newsgroup that she frequented a year ago, she attacked me saying that we had "history," and then a few days later she barged into my chatroom (she knew it was my chatroom) and tried to pretend that nothing had happened. I promptly told her that it was inappropriate for her to be there and reminded her that we had "history" as she put it. Then I banned her.
The second one came from a writer who is apparently self-published and writes at about the level of an intelligent eight-year-old and has a fantasy series out. He spammed my message board pretending to be his own fan and since I have a healthily paranoid group of mods and members, we unearthed the fact that the "fan" was actually the author and that he had spammed over 300 messageboards. When I could not get him to stop I eventually became angry enough to post my honest opinion to his book's listing at Amazon.com. Now, his book is terrible. He stopped in the middle of a fight scene to spend three paragraphs explaining orcs. The book had typos, grammar problems, chewing-gum sentences, and tense changes in mid-sentence. If he had paid attention to what I had carefully said about his book, he could have avoided making some of the same mistakes the next time he wrote something. The book needed an experienced editor.
His response was to write a review of one of my books without reading the book and parrot back what I had said about his. Anyone using the look inside feature at Amazon.com would have seen that he was a liar. So he didn't even read that much and didn't quote examples of what he considered to be my bad grammar or demonstrate my typos and so forth. Just claimed they were there. Considering that the book, Blood Rites, was professionally copy-edited and edited by my publisher, Renaissance Ebooks, the problems did not exist. My editors would have caught them and either fixed them or had me revise. I have books out there that were revised to editorial direction many times before my editors were satisfied with them.
But amazon.com is a flamewar playground where this type of thing goes on in the form of people blasting away in thinly disguised flames in the reader reviews section.
The third one has lasted the longest. He's famous for flames, stalking, and other dastardly behaviors and once wrote a story using my name as the main character and posting around the net that it was about me. In it he accused me of plagerizing him. Which is interesting in that he's a horror writer and the only thing that was available from me at the time was a sword and sorcery piece that I had up on my website, which had been originally published while he was still in diapers. He has continued to stalk and attack me and my daughter for three years.
My crime was to tell him that he needed to work on his grammar and use Strunk and White. He once posted a flaming crit of my book without reading it and his final line was "burn in hell you dyke." Fortunately amazon.com took it down in response to complaints from people.
It is behavior like this that makes me want to never tell a wannabee what's wrong with his work. It also causes me to pull back when someone asks me to read their fiction. There is a new person at my chatroom who wants me to read their material. I'm considering it. However, I'll wait to see how they respond to crits from the other members of the chatroom. If they react professionally, then I'll read something by them.
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Children of Wrath is at Fictionwise. YAY
Between Renebooks moving their hosting, and other issues, Children of Wrath has been sitting on their site and their alternate site, but had not yet made it up at fictionwise. Well, that's finally been changed and that gives me a delightful feeling.
CHILDREN OF WRATH
"Triumphant Conclusion of the Dark Fantasy Saga Reviewer Susie Hawes Calls"Fast Paced, Vivid and Dramatic! Janrae has done it again. [The Journey of the Sacred King Quartet] pulls you right in. These novels are set in the same world as the Dark Brothers of the Light saga. Featuring characters and a society first discussed in the novel, In the Darkness, Hunting; this book tells the story of Aejystrys Rowan and her rivalry with her sister, Margren. Aejystrys is a a paladin who has lost her faith. When her homeland and the life of her daughter are threatened she returns from exile, even though to do so is to risk execution. Margren's hatred of Aejystrys is a motivating factor in her decision to overthrow the realm and kill Aejystrys' daughter. "this book will keep you rooted to the end." In the final novel of this million word saga, Hoon and Mephistis seek revenge on Aejystrys. Kalirion calls in her debt for being allowed to draw his sword, Spiritdancer. She founds Rowanhart with herself as king. Hoon and Mephistis attack but are defeated and forced to flee. Aejys marries Josiah and Tamlestari, only to divorce Josiah, who has another woman. On the orders of her liege-god Kalirion, Aejys pursues Hoon and Mephistis who are hiding in Charas, the City of Magic. Dynarien and Josiah, who is dying of the spell he cast in book two, accompany Aejys in disguise. It all leads to a final, unforgettable confrontation of swords against sorcery, that leads to one of the most unexpected conclusions in the history of heroic fantasy!
eBook Publisher: Renaissance E Books/PageTurner, Published: 2006
Fictionwise Release Date: April 2006
I think the publisher's blurb gives a bit too much away, but not as badly as some I've seen over the years. I'm glad to finally see it out. It's an interesting feeling to have one of my series finished.
The newest installment in the Dark Brothers of the light series, Blood Harvest, is nearly finished, and I have a third series just starting. Mother Damnation: The Blessed and the Damned has been turned into my editor, Karen E. Taylor.
My work with Karen may be something of an industry first: An author of vampire fiction editing an author of vampire fiction
CHILDREN OF WRATH
"Triumphant Conclusion of the Dark Fantasy Saga Reviewer Susie Hawes Calls"Fast Paced, Vivid and Dramatic! Janrae has done it again. [The Journey of the Sacred King Quartet] pulls you right in. These novels are set in the same world as the Dark Brothers of the Light saga. Featuring characters and a society first discussed in the novel, In the Darkness, Hunting; this book tells the story of Aejystrys Rowan and her rivalry with her sister, Margren. Aejystrys is a a paladin who has lost her faith. When her homeland and the life of her daughter are threatened she returns from exile, even though to do so is to risk execution. Margren's hatred of Aejystrys is a motivating factor in her decision to overthrow the realm and kill Aejystrys' daughter. "this book will keep you rooted to the end." In the final novel of this million word saga, Hoon and Mephistis seek revenge on Aejystrys. Kalirion calls in her debt for being allowed to draw his sword, Spiritdancer. She founds Rowanhart with herself as king. Hoon and Mephistis attack but are defeated and forced to flee. Aejys marries Josiah and Tamlestari, only to divorce Josiah, who has another woman. On the orders of her liege-god Kalirion, Aejys pursues Hoon and Mephistis who are hiding in Charas, the City of Magic. Dynarien and Josiah, who is dying of the spell he cast in book two, accompany Aejys in disguise. It all leads to a final, unforgettable confrontation of swords against sorcery, that leads to one of the most unexpected conclusions in the history of heroic fantasy!
eBook Publisher: Renaissance E Books/PageTurner, Published: 2006
Fictionwise Release Date: April 2006
I think the publisher's blurb gives a bit too much away, but not as badly as some I've seen over the years. I'm glad to finally see it out. It's an interesting feeling to have one of my series finished.
The newest installment in the Dark Brothers of the light series, Blood Harvest, is nearly finished, and I have a third series just starting. Mother Damnation: The Blessed and the Damned has been turned into my editor, Karen E. Taylor.
My work with Karen may be something of an industry first: An author of vampire fiction editing an author of vampire fiction
Monday, March 13, 2006
Kamikaze
I'm getting ready to cross post a group of kamikaze posts from my lj here. I'm still angry, but more than anything I think I've finally come to the straw / camel point in my association with the section of the horror community that posts on messageboards and blogs. I am resigning from Persephone Writers Organization where I have been the membership chair, and I'm posting less and less on various horror boards, so it's no big loss that I stop completely. My interest in the immature gamesmanship, insulting behavior patterns, and their "willingness to compromise with evil" in their fiction and their feeding frenzies has become both tiresome and irksome. I'm going to single out some people by name here and list them as having contributed to my decision.
Nicholas Pacione
Nick Mamatas
Nick Kaufmann
Mike Philbin
Steven Wedel
Rain Graves
There are others, but it will do for a start.
I have always been an outsider by nature. I put up with people in groups for a long time before I finally lose all patience with them. One of the things that most made me want to become a writer was the freedom to walk my own path, experience my own journey, and to not find myself confined by the expectations of others.
Good writing comes not from not from an exploration of the outer world in a shallow manner, but from an inner wellspring that has reflected upon how the outer impinges upon the inner. Good writing is not based upon mean-spirited people writing mean-spirited stories. Good writing is not afraid to look inside the heart and soul and contemplate our own and others simple tragedies. Good writing is not the scary face in the window. It is the scary face of our own hearts and souls.
I have no patience and tolerance left.
Nicholas Pacione
Nick Mamatas
Nick Kaufmann
Mike Philbin
Steven Wedel
Rain Graves
There are others, but it will do for a start.
I have always been an outsider by nature. I put up with people in groups for a long time before I finally lose all patience with them. One of the things that most made me want to become a writer was the freedom to walk my own path, experience my own journey, and to not find myself confined by the expectations of others.
Good writing comes not from not from an exploration of the outer world in a shallow manner, but from an inner wellspring that has reflected upon how the outer impinges upon the inner. Good writing is not based upon mean-spirited people writing mean-spirited stories. Good writing is not afraid to look inside the heart and soul and contemplate our own and others simple tragedies. Good writing is not the scary face in the window. It is the scary face of our own hearts and souls.
I have no patience and tolerance left.
Saturday, September 17, 2005
Suggestions anyone?
My webmaster has asked that I include small memorable quotations from my novels for him to place on the webpage. However, I have absolutely no idea what those might be.
Therefore I'm asking the people who have read my work to make suggestions. I will put the quotations up on my website along with "suggested by" and a link to your website or blog (your choice).
Therefore I'm asking the people who have read my work to make suggestions. I will put the quotations up on my website along with "suggested by" and a link to your website or blog (your choice).
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Changes and More
While I originally started this for political commentary alone, I realize that I spend most of my time writing fiction, so I need to include some of that also.
I firmly believe that Bush stole both elections, that the guy they are trying to get onto the supreme court is corrupt, and worry about the fact that they are trying to cancel the civil rights act which would allow them to disenfranchise millions of blacks in the south.
So now, lets turn to the writing aspects.
I currently have one book is tradepaper from Wildside Press: In The Darkness, Hunting
Four volumes in the Dark Brothers of the Light series are available in electronic form from Renaissance Ebooks. Titles are:
Blood Rites
Blood Heresy
Blood Dawn
Blood Wraiths
Blood Paladin will be out in a few weeks. It is the darkest book in the series.
I firmly believe that Bush stole both elections, that the guy they are trying to get onto the supreme court is corrupt, and worry about the fact that they are trying to cancel the civil rights act which would allow them to disenfranchise millions of blacks in the south.
So now, lets turn to the writing aspects.
I currently have one book is tradepaper from Wildside Press: In The Darkness, Hunting
Four volumes in the Dark Brothers of the Light series are available in electronic form from Renaissance Ebooks. Titles are:
Blood Rites
Blood Heresy
Blood Dawn
Blood Wraiths
Blood Paladin will be out in a few weeks. It is the darkest book in the series.
Monday, November 08, 2004
Unity
Today this blog becomes political and social commentary, the things I don't normally put on my other journals.
What I want to say to all of you is something about unity.
Back during the Nixon administration, Tricky Dick drove a wedge through all the small liberal groups that had previously been allies by breaking us up for a share of the grants and other matters by category and making us scrabble for small handouts. He divided us, made us compete with each other, and created an atmosphere of distrust where there should never have been one.
Traditional allies such as the Civil Rights movement and the Feminist movement suddenly separated themselves. There wasn't a glbt movement yet, but there would be eventually.
As Benjamin Franklin said "We either hang together or we shall all hang separately."
There needs to be a gathering of forces for freedom of thought, freedom of lifestyle, freedom of religion, freedom of owning our own reproductive rights, freedom of speech and protest.
We are desperately in need to pulling together again, to stand united to protect our rights which are being swiftly eroded under the current administration. We must put aside our differences and stand together for what we value in our lives before it is taken away from us and we slide back into the dark days of McCarthyism and bigotry.
Insurance companies are no longer covering birth control, even while they are willing to pay for viagra. Marriage is an institution founded on love, and which kinds of love are appropriate should not be dictated by right wing religious institutions. Marriage has always existed and in so many forms it could not possibly be counted. The one man, one woman definition is comparatively recent.
I could go on, but I will save that for another day.
To Be Continued.
What I want to say to all of you is something about unity.
Back during the Nixon administration, Tricky Dick drove a wedge through all the small liberal groups that had previously been allies by breaking us up for a share of the grants and other matters by category and making us scrabble for small handouts. He divided us, made us compete with each other, and created an atmosphere of distrust where there should never have been one.
Traditional allies such as the Civil Rights movement and the Feminist movement suddenly separated themselves. There wasn't a glbt movement yet, but there would be eventually.
As Benjamin Franklin said "We either hang together or we shall all hang separately."
There needs to be a gathering of forces for freedom of thought, freedom of lifestyle, freedom of religion, freedom of owning our own reproductive rights, freedom of speech and protest.
We are desperately in need to pulling together again, to stand united to protect our rights which are being swiftly eroded under the current administration. We must put aside our differences and stand together for what we value in our lives before it is taken away from us and we slide back into the dark days of McCarthyism and bigotry.
Insurance companies are no longer covering birth control, even while they are willing to pay for viagra. Marriage is an institution founded on love, and which kinds of love are appropriate should not be dictated by right wing religious institutions. Marriage has always existed and in so many forms it could not possibly be counted. The one man, one woman definition is comparatively recent.
I could go on, but I will save that for another day.
To Be Continued.
Sunday, October 24, 2004
blowing off steam
I figured I would rant here because I think my other journals are getting over loaded by them. I only got a blog here so that I could post as someone other than anonymous.
Or more to the point so that I could post as myself at Wierdish Wildspace, Mary San Giovanni's site. I have another blog spot that I haven't set up yet that I got simply to have posting access to some friends' journals and may activate that one also in the near future. There's so much going on that that I don't want to innundate any single journal with them. For the last two months, my journal at journalscape has rarely gone without a post and sometimes multiple posts in a single day.
Okay, here's the rant.
My son had a very serious situation with kidney stones. The damned things were huge and the first doctor said that he should be rushed right to surgery. However, my son was determined to avoid that if possible and insisted on trying ultrasound to blast the stones first. His girlfriend was at his side and was as adamant as he was. His friend, Adam, who was also there, said that the first doctor was "scalpel-happy". For several days my son was in so much pain he couldn't speak.
The ultrasound, what is called lithoscopy, worked and the stones were shattered. That meant that my son would not need surgery, which he would have had the procedure failed, and there was always that possibility. The first twenty-four hours there was still blood in his urine, but it went away. However, he needs to watch for signs of infection.
All of this happened on my birthday. I spent days worrying about my son, then the day after my birthday he had the procedure. I had a single day to start to finally relax, when Pacione decided to start bombarding me with death wishes for my son.
I lost my temper to the worst degree yet. If I had lived in the same town as this pig, I would have driven over and smashed his face in. That's how stressed and angry I was. Pigman had finally managed to find me feeling vulnerable enough to strike at successfully.
However, it is going to be a very short-lived victory.
Or more to the point so that I could post as myself at Wierdish Wildspace, Mary San Giovanni's site. I have another blog spot that I haven't set up yet that I got simply to have posting access to some friends' journals and may activate that one also in the near future. There's so much going on that that I don't want to innundate any single journal with them. For the last two months, my journal at journalscape has rarely gone without a post and sometimes multiple posts in a single day.
Okay, here's the rant.
My son had a very serious situation with kidney stones. The damned things were huge and the first doctor said that he should be rushed right to surgery. However, my son was determined to avoid that if possible and insisted on trying ultrasound to blast the stones first. His girlfriend was at his side and was as adamant as he was. His friend, Adam, who was also there, said that the first doctor was "scalpel-happy". For several days my son was in so much pain he couldn't speak.
The ultrasound, what is called lithoscopy, worked and the stones were shattered. That meant that my son would not need surgery, which he would have had the procedure failed, and there was always that possibility. The first twenty-four hours there was still blood in his urine, but it went away. However, he needs to watch for signs of infection.
All of this happened on my birthday. I spent days worrying about my son, then the day after my birthday he had the procedure. I had a single day to start to finally relax, when Pacione decided to start bombarding me with death wishes for my son.
I lost my temper to the worst degree yet. If I had lived in the same town as this pig, I would have driven over and smashed his face in. That's how stressed and angry I was. Pigman had finally managed to find me feeling vulnerable enough to strike at successfully.
However, it is going to be a very short-lived victory.
Monday, September 20, 2004
Godwar postern station
Okay, this started because I didn't want to use the anonymous feature to comment on Mary San Giovanni's journal. Now give me some time to think about something to say.
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