Meet Indie Author Jesse Frankel - For Those With A Zombie And Vampire Fetish

J.S. Frankel was born in Toronto, Canada, a good number of years ago and managed to scrape through the University of Toronto with a BA in English Literature. 
In 1988 he moved to Japan and started teaching ESL to anyone who would listen to him. 
In 1997, he married the charming Akiko Koike and their union produced two sons, Kai and Ray. J.S. Frankel makes his home in Osaka where he teaches English by day and writes by night until the wee hours of the morning.

 Let me introduce the Nightmare Crew trilogy. It basically features a vampire, a zombie with a cleaning fetish in the first and second novels, a lab-created hybrid werewolf and sentient water. The first novel, Beginnings, has the blurb as follows: 
    
"Paul Wiseman, orphan and runaway, was looking for a family. He found one—and got a little more than he bargained for in the process. Being an orphan is no fun. Having no friends isn’t much fun, either. When Paul Wiseman, seventeen, runs away from an orphanage to try his luck on the mean streets of New York, he finds himself trapped and almost beaten to death one night. Rescued by a vampire named Angela, Paul goes to her small house in upstate New York where he meets her friends—Ooze, a sentient water being, Sandstorm, who uses his sandy body to blind his opponents, and CF—short for Cannon Fodder—a zombie. The four of them become the Nightmare Crew—beings created by a scientist to fight against the lawless elements of the city. In joining them, Paul finds a family, friendship and maybe even love. However, the company that allowed the creation of these beings wants them back, and they’ll stop at nothing to retrieve what they believe to be their property. It soon comes down to a battle between those born and those created…and it’s up to Paul to fight for the only family he’s ever known."

 Find Jesse Frankel's books here on Amazon

Dark Dreams Halloween Horror Authors Giveaway

I'm in this fun Halloween giveaway with a bunch of amazing international authors. Not only are there a range of great reads to win, but check out the grand prize. As they say, you have to be in it to win!

Here's my contribution—signed paperback copies of Bloodgifted and Bloodpledge.

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Book Review: Blood Roses by Lindsay J Pryor

It's always a pleasure to write a review of a book which has captured your imagination and held you in its spell for a few days, while everything else around you lies neglected. But, that is the art of good story telling.

For anyone unacquainted with Lindsay J Pryor, she is a new talent in the paranormal romance writing scene, and her debut novel, Blood Shadows, was released late last year, and which I reviewed at about the time. 

She has created the world of Blackthorn, a dystopian society inhabited by three species - human, vampire and lycan - but, it's the humans who rule. The world of Blackthorn is dark, depressing and vividly real. It can exist in any city ruled by an apartheid regime; because that’s the background in which her characters exist and must survive, especially Caleb Dehain's people – the vampire species. They’re second-class citizens restricted in ghetto-like conditions, in the worst part of town and deprived of any political rights. Anger and despair seethes through the forbidding streets.

Caleb Dehain is dark; he’s dangerous; he’s driven – and he has every right to be. Although not a character to inspire sympathy, he demands understanding and respect, and when a mortal enemy – serryn witch, Leila McKay – voluntarily enters his territory, Caleb seizes his chance.

As for Leila? She’s there to save her sister from certain death, but at a terrible price. What follows is a battle of wills between her and Caleb, and neither will survive unscathed.

Blood Roses is the second book in the series, and it's a riveting tale that  draws the reader in like a moth to a flame. Her characters will enthrall, and entice and not let you go till they have told their story. Be prepared for a sleepless night!

Five out of five stars? Pity I can’t give it six!