Kindle the Welshire Fire!

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Final Fate and Fangs Contest of 2011!!!!

Oh, it's on now!!!! 

Join us at The Vampire Family Facebook page for our FINAL CONTEST of 2011!!! This is your last chance this year to take a chance on winning your very own e-copy of Love, Punishment, Struggle, Debauchery, or Lust!   


Our winner gets a choice....Which TWO Fate and Fangs: Tales from the Vampire Family books will you choose?

Don't forget you can read up on our latest tale in the series with Muse It Up, Book  5 Lust, from our holiday revelry at the Ravencraft's Realm Muse It Up Christmas Party this past weekend!

Congrats to our winner from the Ravencraft giveaways, Criss!



The calendar, of course, may end, but Fate and Fangs goes on!! Don't forget Tale 6 from the Professor is coming along in January!  Tell me, can you face the Humanity?!


Welshire brother Gaston is trying to move on with his life now that the Vampire Family is human again for Professor James’ sixth chronicle.  Unfortunately, Gaston’s sister Victoria cannot cope with the change and turns to her former fledgling Caine for unfulfilling excess and access.  Should their pregnant sister Samantha risk the journey to London- and the lives of her unborn children- to save what’s left of The Vampire Family?




Monday, December 19, 2011

Prepare for Humanity in 2012!

"After several lengthy years of study and a very slow restoration process on the oldest documents, I succumbed to an offer of assistance from a student named Theodore Plunkett.  A scholar of ancient languages, Theodore’s detailed list of degrees and credentials were too numerous for his youthful appearance.  His intelligence was vast; yet he was a personal master at comprehending and restoring the fantastic tales of Antonio Welshire and his mad family’s descent into the dark world of vampirism.  From patriarch Antonio’s brutal human days to the coven’s near destruction by the rival Lilithan vampires and the ambiguous Mestiphles’ meddling appearances and disappearances; this Vampire Family’s history is very well documented through some centuries and bare and bleak in others. Some journals are utterly disturbing in their tales of blood and mayhem while other diaries are strangely heartfelt, bittersweet, and uncomfortably endearing...."

-Professor James shares his thoughts with each tale from Fate and Fangs! Don't forget after Book 5 Lust this December, we're still steamrolling on in 2012 with Humanity and Resurrection!

Love, Punishment, Struggle, Debauchery, Lust, Humanity, Resurrection... ...Fate...Fangs....Make  your choice before choice is not an option....

Read more Fate and Fangs: Tales from the Vampire Family at our Publisher Muse It Up!

http://museituppublishing.com/bookstore2/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=271&category_id=138&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1&
vmcchk=1

Or Kindle the Welshire Fire (hehe, what a pun!)




Saturday, December 17, 2011

Join Us at The Muse Christmas Party!

Victoria Welshire crashes the party this weekend at Ravencraft's Realm, but remember, no blood necessary for the participation in any Vampire Family events.

Yet!


Ravencraft’s Christmas with MIUP & MIHP Romance Authors
Ravencraft’s Romance Realm Presents
~ Tis the Season for Heroes & Heroines ~
Muse It Up and Muse It Hot Romance Authors bring the stars of their stories to the party. Be ready for Fun and Lots of Giveaways!!
Mark your calendars ~ December 17 & 18 at: http://ravencraftrealm.blogspot.com 
You are invited to a full weekend of Muse Romance Authors and their Heroes & Heroines celebrating the Holidays…so, let’s party!


Muse authors attending the Christmas Bash:
S. Durham                                       Pat Dale
Roseanne Dowell                             Diane Barr
Emily Pikkasso                                 Sandra Clark      
Mike Arsuaga                                   Danielle Ravencraft
Lisa Blackwood                                Alix Richards
Amy McCorkle                                 Kristin Battestella (!!!!!!!)
Jolie Pethtel                                     Kay Dee Royal
Bruce Jenvey                                   Jerry Race


See you there, chocolate drenched and brandy smothered viking vampires and all!  Break out the mead, people!

 

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

The Vampire Family, 25% off!!!!

My friends, do you still need to get a copy of our Fate and Fangs: Tales from the Vampire Family precursor, aptly named The Vampire Family?
If you're in need of some vamps to fill your ereader this Christmas, shop for The Vampire Family direct at our publisher Eternal Press! 
 And it gets even better!  Use this coupon code: 12AR0CYRCSTY and get 25% off!!!!


http://eternalpress.biz/book.php?isbn=9780980473995
 
Need a little sex and science fiction with peanut butter instead? Shop for neighbor Leigh Wood's On the Way to New Isosceles, too!  It's 25% off your entire order!!
http://eternalpress.biz/book.php?isbn=9781926704821
 Go ahead, treat yourself!!!

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

More Christmas Brooding and Lust Awaits!!!

If you missed our last virtual trouble makers, stop by Roseanne's and Margaret's blogs again for the scoop on all the melancholy vampire decadence behind Lust, Book 5 in Fate and Fangs: Tales from the Vampire Family.  We're available at our Muse It Up storefront, on kindle, and there's no stopping the time or the teeth for 2012!!

http://roseannedowellauthor.blogspot.com/2011/12/welcome-kristin-battestella.html


http://margaret-paranormalromanceauthor.blogspot.com/2011/12/kirstin-battestella.html



Got a buck? Shop with Fate and Fangs and load up your Kindle stocking stuffer!

http://museituppublishing.com/bookstore2/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=271&


http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_12?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=kristin+battestella&sprefix=kristin+batt


Ew, such ugly links lead to such juicy stuff! And don't forget this Friday December 9, stop by the Muse It Up Blog, too, as we cause more Holiday mayhem!

http://museituppublishing.blogspot.com/


That is all, for now.  Remember, no blood necessary for the participation in any Vampire Family events.


Yet.


http://vampfam.blogspot.com

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Fate, Fangs, Lust Await!

"Unfortunately, after five centuries or so, the comfortable vampire enchantment can, in fact, wane. Sometimes I think Catrina is longing for something more-just like her fooled admirers.  I enjoy my music.  I have to occupy myself with some post-war Goodman ‘Moonglow’ and Miller ‘Serenade in Blue’ in order to control my Welshire urges.  These dark gifts cannot and shall not rule me.  I will not succumb to animal anarchy the way Stephen does.  For myself, I am content in my respectable role here until the next war comes calling. Can I admit to myself that I know Catrina is not content?  How could she be?  My voluptuous love has the predatory power of the wolf and all her fun feline charm.  I enjoy watching her exude the dark magic allure as I play the music for her.  Her exotic and spooky look brings the silver screen to life-curly black hair and white skin stamped with a perfectly deadly pout of red lips.  I love her, I always have.  I could not bring the vampiric gifts to anyone I did not love.  I expected to spend the rest of my unnatural life with her. Although I don’t doubt Catrina loves me and will always have a space for me in her black heart still; deep down I know she intends to leave me for new vampire LUST........"

 
And so begins Fate and Fangs: Tales from the Vampire Family Book 5 Lust. We're available now at Muse It Up!


Vampires in the fifties doing very bad things.  Oh yes!

Keep up to date on all the Lust latest on the blog or facebook!



Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Meet LUST This Friday!

LUST....
Book 5 of my on going Fate and Fangs: Tales from the Vampire Family series with Muse It Up Publishing hits the virtual storefronts this Friday December 2- and it all keeps getting more and more twisted, disturbing, and vampire juicinessesy as the months continue! 
Here's our official blurb on how saucy vampires will turn 1955 on its head and go deep into the bloody gutter:

The Sundowner offers steamy Welshire vampires Jessica, Pamela, and Slava for underground vampire sex and biting fetishes in this mid-century tale from Professor James. Victoria’s twin brother James, however, is content with his gig as piano player at the club owned by their brother Stephen. James’ own love Catrina is the alluring singer at The Sundowner, but can he keep his longtime vampire companion away from the tempting, exciting young clientele?
 
 
We're Live Friday!  I know I said it before, but it bears repeating.  Take a gander at our Muse preview page, and hey, while you're there, pick yourself up some of that Love, Punishment, Struggle, or Debauchery from our previous Fate and Fangs releases for the holidays!

http://museituppublishing.com/bookstore2/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=271&category_id=138&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1&vmcchk=1
 
 Also, don't forget to scoop out our latest virtual tour stops with Margaret West and Roseanne Dowell! Both conversations should be live on Monday. While you wait for the Lust and chattery, check out our previous interviews with Margaret and Roseanne!
http://margaret-paranormalromanceauthor.blogspot.com/2011/08/welcome-to-kirstin-battestella.html
http://roseannedowellauthor.blogspot.com/2011/10/hello-kristin-battestella.html
 
I'm curious, which kind of vampire would you be?  The decadent reveling it up like Victoria from Fate and Fangs Book 4, Debauchery? Or would you be the sullen anti the bloodsucking family business like James for Lust? 
 

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Fate and Fangs, 2011 Interviews!

Well, my fiendish friends, here is the entire kit and kaboodle- well, minus the December dates to come but otherwise 'Vampire Blood' goblet runneth over- complete list of all our 2011 guest days, blog visits, and interviews in support of Fate and Fangs: Tales from the Vampire Family, continuing in December with Book 5 from Muse It Up Publishing, Lust: James at the Sundowner!


Are you ready for 7 months worth of promotion all at once?





Literary Lunes Magazine Feature
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/96313

 


Ravencraft's Realm Visit


Jennifer Eaton's New Jersey Authors Network Write Up

 





Night Owl Romance September Feature


Margaret West Interview


Beth Ann Masarik Chat


Fangtastic Books Interview





And.......Where will be next, you ask?? Here's our December dates!

12/1 Margaret West Visit
12/2 Lust: James at the Sundowner Release Day!
12/5 Guest Day with Roseanne Dowell
12/9 Muse It Up Blog Holiday Day
12/12 Beth Ann Masarik Visit
12/16 Loves Books and More Stop


Can't wait for Lust, either? Preview our Buy Now Page from Muse It Up!



Or blog us anytime for the latest! 

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Happy FANGSgiving!!!!!


Before we're all bloated up on Holiday Blood Puddings and whatnots! Don't forget to stop by my latest visits at Star Crossed Romance and Penny's Place! 

http://star-crossedromance.blogspot.com/2011/11/guest-kristin-battestella.html

http://pennylockwoodehrenkranz.blogspot.com/2011/11/fate-and-fangs-kristin-battestella.html



And if you haven't entered our Fantastic Fate and Fangs Twofer Thanksgiving Contest, Now is the Time!!! Comment on our facebook page for your chance to win your choice of two ebooks from the first four releases in the Fate and Fangs: Tales from the Vampire Family series on sale now with Muse It Up Publishing!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Vampire-Family/157922293588


FATEful festivities, eh? 

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Shop Kindle for your FATE and FANGS Holiday Desires!!!!

Are you planning to preload a shiny new Kindle for the paranormal and horror delightful reader in your family?  Are you tired of searching through the endless youth and glitter vampires when you're looking for scary and juicy vampires in one, convenient place?

Make Fate and Fangs: Tales from the Vampire Family your one stop shop for Love, Punishment, Struggle, Debauchery, and more!  Books 1 to 4 are available now, with Book 5 Lust coming in December!!




And don't forget to stock up on the book that started it all, The Vampire Family, which is also available in paperback for your vampire bookshelf!

Visit us on Amazon and have all the vamps you desire without breaking the (blood) bank!! Pick and choose your preferred vampire of choice or give yourself a paranormal pollyanna for under $15!

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_at_ep_srch?_encoding=UTF8&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=books&field-author=Kristin%20Battestella

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Chat with Fate and Fangs This Week!!!

No blood necessary for the participation in any Vampire Family events.

Yet!


My horror and paranormal peeps, kinky fans, and fanciful folks- stop by the Muse Authors Chat 9 p.m. est Wednesday November 16 at Two Lips Reviews for mayhem and more!

For starters, how about Kay Dee Royal, Kristin Battestella Snouffer, Sara Durham, Larion Wills, Viviane Brentanos, Heather Haven, Michele Archer, Kat Holmes, Diane Barr, Killarney Sheffield, prizes, insanity, virtual calorie free chocolate, vamps, weres, erotica, vikings ensconced in brandy and velvet! 

If you've attended any of our previous chats during this whirlwind virtual hysteria in support of Fate and Fangs, you know what kind of bunch we can be!!!


http://www.twolipsreviews.com/ 

9 pm est Wednesday November 16!


If you somehow survive the chat, don't forget to stop by anytime Friday and check out my latest interview with Sandra Clarke!

http://sjclarke.com/blog-2/


The Debauchery of Fate and Fangs Book 4 is still going on and yet we're also gearing up for December's delicious tale, Lust!  In the spirit of the seasons and as big huge, hugest thanks to our readers, we've also had several Fate and Fangs contests.  Congrats to our latest winner Elizabeth!  Keep an eye on our Facebook page for another upcoming Thanksgiving treat and some December Prizes!!!  And do stop by our Two Lips chat any time, in and out, come as you are but do drop in as Wednesday's chat is our FINAL LIVE CHAT OF THE YEAR!!  After this chat, no more live interactive decadent hysteria until 2012!  So get the Debauchery while the getting's good!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Vampire-Family/157922293588

Saturday, November 12, 2011

SURPRISE! More FREE Debauchery!!!!

Guess what?

What?

There's a SURPRISE FATE AND FANGS CONTEST HAPPENING!!!

This Weekend, stop by The Vampire Family Facebook page and comment for your chance to win Debauchery: Victoria's Burning, the latest book in our Fate and Fangs:Tales from the Vampire Family series with Muse It Up!

Because there's no better way to celebrate a new release like a Contest!!!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Vampire-Family/157922293588




In Professor Welshire’s fourth Fate and Fangs chronicle, Victoria uses the fallout from the American Civil War to her advantage-or so the beautiful but deadly blockade-runner hopes.  After all her using, abusing, and feedings, Victoria’s slaves finally take matters into their own hands, forcing Antonio’s daughter to face her own mortality......




 
 
 
Fate and Fangs: Tales from the Vampire Family

Feel Love, experience Punishment, know Struggle, indulge the Debauchery, crave Lust, learn Humanity, face Resurrection, and choose: Fate or Fangs?

 

Monday, November 7, 2011

Debauchery Spotlight and Giveaway!!!

Per Merriam-Webster:

Debauchery- an extreme indulgence in sensuality without virtue or duty. Synonyms include corruption, vice, depravity, immorality, iniquity, licentiousness, sin...


You know you want it!


Have your chance at all the excess and glory and enter to win your very own FREE e copy of Debauchery: Victoria's Burning, Fate and Fangs Tale 4 as part of our weeklong virtual spotlight with Cate Masters!





Don't forget you can revel with Fate and Fangs personally along with the rest of the Muse gang 9 p.m. Wednesday November 16 at Two Lips Reviews.




Indulge yourself this Thanksgiving day or night and without breaking your holiday budget!


 
 


Friday, November 4, 2011

Meet your Debauchery!

Fate and Fangs: Tales from the Vampire Family

Feel Love, experience Punishment, know Struggle, indulge the Debauchery, crave Lust, learn Humanity, face Resurrection, and choose: Fate or Fangs?

Love: Ann and the Viking
Punishment: Lilith's Trials
Struggle: Elizabeth in America
Debauchery: Victoria's Burning
ALL Available NOW at Muse It Up Publishing!  That does sound so, so sweet!

Shop for yourself or the vampire fan in your family for only 99 cents!



Find The Vampire Family and Fate and Fangs in the Kindle Store!



And we were up a day early on Goodreads!





In Professor Welshire’s fourth Fate and Fangs chronicle, Victoria uses the fallout from the American Civil War to her advantage-or so the beautiful but deadly blockade-runner hopes.  After all her using, abusing, and feedings, Victoria’s slaves finally take matters into their own hands, forcing Antonio’s daughter to face her own mortality......

 

"Hello Mother,

I have never conformed to normal societal standards; you know I have looked after my own cares, perhaps even selfishly some might say. However, amid this sad state in America’s affairs, it was in my best interests to marry.  Yes, marry.   I’m sure you wish to know his titles and ancestry for your histories, but none such matters to me. His name isn’t even important, for he wasn’t around long.  His funeral is tomorrow in fact—a gentleman’s funeral for a wealthy gentleman from North Carolina.  

I apologize if I’m late in my correspondence.  You know I don’t like to write. I imagine you might have wished a traditional spectacle at this news, Mother, your one moment of pride and pretense that you have a normal daughter and a proper family.  Ha!"



Previously we had a virtual summer visit with Cate Masters, and this Sunday November 6, we'll be having another Author's Spotlight with Cate to celebrate Debauchery.  Catch up on our previous interview and stop by our new chit chat- as we will be having a special Debauchery: Victoria's Burning giveaway!  You do want a chance at a free e copy, don't you? You know you do!




I was also very touched this week to have several new friends contact me about how informative and inspiring the New Jersey Author's Network Panel on Getting Publishing was this past Tuesday in Cherry Hill.  One fellow author has also blogged her praise.  If you are a writer or aspiring author in the New Jersey area, do please consider joining our little group.  More events are also in the works for 2012 and I can't wait!!  Good thing I have 3 more helpings of Fate and Fangs to survive yet, teehee.






After our visit with Cate, join me and my fellow Musers 9 p.m. est Wednesday November 16 at Two Lips Reviews for a Live Chat!!! If you've been to our chats before, you know what a fun wild bunch we can be, so pencil us in before Thanksgiving, as I believe this is the last one before the Holidays!





And as always, find us all night long!
 



Wednesday, November 2, 2011

November Hysteria and DEBAUCHERY!


We're still reeling in the throws of an October well spent on Struggle and more virtual mayhem and real world madness, and what happens? November rears its ugly autumn head with even more decadence and Debauchery, the fourth tale in the Fate and Fangs: Tales from the Vampire Family series going on now with Muse It Up Publishing.  Whew! 


 





If you missed any of our hijinks and virtual trouble making with Beth Ann Masarik last month, you can still catch the madness free at Smashwords with the Literary Lunes magazine!


Download this free ezine and read all the behind the scenes scares in making Fate and Fangs, and did I mention it was free?

Tonight at the Cherry Hill Library with my fellow New Jersey Authors Network, uh, fellows, was also spectacular!  I simply adore being able to sit down and talk books, discuss the craft, and inspire other writers to take the glorious leap into bookdom!!!!!

Keep an eye on the NJAN website for more upcoming events!!




As it is the season of Debauchery as well as thanks, I must take time and thank all our friends on The Vampire Family's facebook page!  We had 3 winners for our Fate and Fangs Halloween Contest, Brandy, Dawn, and Lisette.  Congrats and again, big big thanks to all who joined our little spooky corner of the social media to participate.  Props also to Lark, our winner at the Love and Romance Cafe's Halloween Spooktacular!   And again, major props and blessings to all those who've come out for our real world delectables! 



Now then, onto some non fiction!  Just because Halloween is over it doesn't mean that the  horror is going to stop at my review blog I Think, Therefore I Review!  We've been going strong on the scary since July, and it's going to get even freakier before the holiday magics kick in for Thanksgiving.  Visit us anytime for all things spooky, or browse our previous commentaries on classic drama, TV on DVD, music goods, book analysis, and more!




"Do you give up, or are you thirsty for more?"
Look for us again this month with Cate Masters, Two Lips Reviews, Sandra Clarke, and more! 


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