Signing.. promo, and James Purefoy

So with the signing on friday, Im a promotiona mess over here. it looks like the arts and crafts section of summer camp threw up and them had glitter sprinkled on it. Yep, im that much of a freak when it comes to having unique promo. So for the next 12 hours Ill be sitting here watching ROME and other awesome series (like FARSCAPE) and getting my crafty on. Its times like this i wish Aud lived closer.

Im also on a full blown James Purefoy kick. ROME is the greatest show ever, lots of full frontal nudity.... I can dig it... and it passes the time. James Purefoy is so hot. Must keep watching him.

OOH and Rene and I started a new Bloggy. its called Delicious Darkness, and its going to be our new place to play. Come visit us and see what its all about. I think the graphics for it came out particularly good. LOL.

OK well crafts call.. lost to do and less time to do it in.

S

Motherfucker Tonite!

Damn right I got to see The Faint tonite at Webster Hall.. WOO HOO.. And its all glam Goth and retro punk rock about the damn place, and an open bar like WHAT! WOO HOO! and i get to dress up in my Goth finery and Joe cant say shit about it.. WOO hoo! Can you tell Im super excited!?

Now to find clothes....

Tilly Tagged me...

heh... thanks for tagging Tilly....

So heres 8 things about me....

1. I wont eat cephelapods (thats Octopi and squid for the layperson) but i will wear them.
2. I collect Ugly dolls. Call me a kid. I dare you.
3. Im Spanish but cant speak a lick of it. I do understand most dialects though.
4. i like stationary. Morning Glory is my favorite store on earth.
5. Ohio is my favorite state
6. i have 5 tattoos
7. i wont eat meatloaf. something wrong with meat in loaf form. only thing that should be in loaf form is bread.
8.im 5 years older then my sister, but look about 18.


ok So im tagging:
Rene Lyons
Bianca D'Arc
Jacquelyn Frank
Cara North
Mia Romano
Adra Steia
Luna Carrol
Skylar Sinclair

28th birthday: the aftermath

Ok so i have offically been 28 for a little over a day. Yep. 28 isnt so bad really... well lets recap the day:

• Joe got me some fantastic Cala lillies for my birthday
• I set a handtowel on fire
• borders had tarot cards on sale, i got two decks with hardcover books for under 10$
• my grandparents bought me a cheesecake i wont eat.
• got to see Pirates: at world end last night... OMG fantastic.
• got to see the full trailer for transformers. OMG awesome
• I got to sleep somewhat late.

Yep it was all in all a good day. and I love my flowers. Audra and I also wrote about 2k yesterday on a short story. I was rather excited. Im hoping we will be as prolific in the next month as e have been recently.

So the signing is a week and two weeks away from today. Tonite I'm going to NYC to see Bright Eyes with Joe and then I'm going back to NYC on Sunday for The Faint. ooh its a good birthday weekend. now to get some work done before i leave.

Audra is a tease

Yep. last night she teased me with ROME the second season. why is it a tease? because James Purefoy is NEKKID in it all the time. lots of naughty sex scenes, totally hot... and i dont have it. So now im on a quest to get it.
Why? because i adore James Purefoy. ADORE HIM. amazing actor, fantastic human being and OMG so hot. hes sexy sexy sexy.

I need to attain this dvd collection....

the week has just started...

and several things have occurred. One, i got a phone call from Rene Lyons... She always makes my Mondays fun. Bitching and moaning has never been so satisfying as to when we are on the phone. Two, I received a phone call from some guy who though I was a woman named Lisa, then hit on me, tried to tell me about some erotic dream, and that he was hepped up on NyQuil. Third, I need to find a job. Big old poo on the Job. Its not like i don't work my ass off daily with the web stuff, covers and actual writing i do. A job is seriously going to intrude on my writing time with Audra, so im a bit apprehensive.

Thursday is my birthday. That means two things. One, Ill be hiding from Family members that will be calling starting at 7am to with me well (Anyone calling me that early should have a pox on their house for even THINKING my ass would be up.) and Two, I get to see PIRATES 3 at midnight. Woo. that is worth it i think, not to mention i have two shows in NYC (Bright EYES and The Faint) that weekend. So i suppose i have something to look forward to.

Work is going well too. Gifts is almost finished, and then we only have ONE more book to finish for the year before we can get a hop on 2008 work. Im confident that well finish that one in enough time that we wont have to worry overly much about anything.

because I love Rene...

Im tellin you guys about her new print book, The Daystar. Yep, my girl is laid up after some surgery, and Im here giving you the skinny on her book. So heres the Blurby:

Can she heal lifetimes of pain and make him believe salvation is possible? Always feeling different from the world around her, a power grows within Lexine Parker. In the light is where she belongs-even as she finds herself thrust into the nocturnal realm of the Templar vampires. Scarred by a brutal past, Constantine is a creature consumed with rage. He knows only darkness and sin. Believing he fights a losing battle of redemption, heaven is something he doesn't dare hope for-until Lexine makes him believe salvation is possible. Locked away in an ancient castle, they come together in body and spirit, searching for love to chase away the darkness. With Constantine's soul at stake and Lex's life on the line, the nights tick down to a cataclysmic event that could tear them apart forever. Warning, this title contains the following: violence.

Yep. The girl got another winner with this one. The fans just love it, and If you havent read it yet, or started with Midnight Sun, do so. The series rocks.

So You can buy this book at Amazon (where, BTW, shes already paired and her preorder has gone swimmingly) and if your in the NY/PA area coming up June 1st and 9th, you can buy one from her yourself. Get it signed. Add it to your collection.

Yep. I love Rene.

Stella on a hottie Binge... the muse is upon me!

Ok soo.... I have been watching WAY too many movies... while that normally is a good thing, Im also inclined to watch movies with the physical representation of the characters I and my sister write. So it gets a little tedious. Needless to say i have watched some REALLY disturbing films becoase of my characters avies... but sometimes its so worth it... So Here I'm going to blog about the top 10 actors we love....


Johnny Depp: Duh. Most women put him up top, and why not wouldnt you want him on top too? a sexy gifted 'omg hes so hot i wanna lick his skin off' kinda guy to haunt your dreams and fantasies? Our top pick movies for him: From Hell, Blow, Pirates, The 9th Gate.
His character from Eververse: Fallon Ipwisk.



James Purefoy: Ok i need to tell you, i would have this mans bastard children. Totally! Im a big fan of hottie british guys (as you will soon see...) and if they arent icky but wiry im even happier. Damn oh damn... love me some Purefoy.
Our top pick movies hes in: Resident Evil, George and the Dragon, Vanity Fair, ROME
His Character from Eververse: Dante Barratt (thanks Nadia!)

Colin Farrell: um... HELLO!? have you SEEN this man? dirty dosent describe it but good lord, what i could do to him with a bit of rope and a tubesock, LOL! Sex tape, the infamous tshirt Britney Spears got... Bad boy to the last... oh and you get a full wealth of knowledge of just how the boy gets down and what hes packing in Alexander's Directors Cut. need i say more?
Our top pick for movies: Alexander(yeah im so looking past the gay element), SWAT, The New World (its the tattoos and hotness that gets me in that horrible flick)
His Character from Eververse: Drake


Christain Bale: Ok... the man is flat out perfect. I mean hes sexy as all get out, and has played so many kinda of roles, and his accent is divine. not to mention hes totally in love with his wife... and is one of the hottest men on the planet. Yep. total love for him. not to even mention(but i will) that seeing him completely nude and running around with a chainsaw covered in blood in American Psycho brought whole new meaning to my interest in the male form when i was younger..
Our top pick of movies: American Psycho, Equilibirum, The Prestige
His Character from Eververse: Cassiel



Ryan Reynolds: HOT HOT HOT! and i dont do the hard body 'bigger boobs then i do' kinda guys but dear lord the man is beautiful. And hes a very amusing actor too. Pretty? hell yeah even if i remember his origins on the Nickelodeon teen soap FIFTEEN.
Top pick of Movies: Blade trinity, Amityville Horror, Waiting His Character from Eververse: Arcady Morrison

Sean Bean: yep, i ike me some old, 'always a better villain' Sean Bean. hes yummy,sexy and a woman could get tingles when he says the word "strawberry" with his real accent. *shivers* Hes a rough kinda hot... So you gotta love him.
Top pick of Movies: 007: Goldeneye, The Hitcher, national treasure.
His Character from Eververse: Leviathan (Levi)







Sean Patrick Flannery: Yeah i LOVE him. A lot would say hes obscure, but goddamn was at sexy guy. YUM.
Top pick of movies: Boondock Saints, Indiana Jones and the Last crusade
His Character in Eververse: Gage








Ewan McGregor: another sexy uk guy. sexy smile, sexy voice(and he can sing), and hes a damn fine, underrated actor. Not to mention you get a quick look at what hes packing in Trainspotting.
Top pick movies: Transpotting, Moulin Rouge, The Island
His Character in Eververse: Murphy







Josh Hartnett: you know, im not a huge fan of him, but hes amusing as hell. and hes a pretty good actor.
Top pick movies: Sin City, 40 days...40 Nights
His Character in Eververse: Amaro








Thomas Jane: OMG. So not at the bottom of the list for anything, that man is sin incarnate. just LOOK at him!i love me some TJ, and hes a fantastic actor in some REALLY crappy movies.
Top Pick movies: Deep Blue Sea, the Punnisher
His Character in Eververse: Andrei







Needless to say... Theres more but i had to pick 10.... food for thought though really, i mean People ask Aud and I how we write so quickly, and im sometimes loathe to tell them that if you had a steady stream of Hottie action on screen wouldn't you never lose your muse? Sometimes all you need is to curl up with a good movie and the muse starts talking... its my author tip of the day... get yourself a hit actor and drool for an hour or two.. all of a sudden, the possibilities are endless.

Stella and the ugly worm

The ugly worm. I want one. he wants to live with me. he does ask him... he needs to hangout with me and help in my plans of world domination. My birthday is coming up, and Joe wont get me him. Poo.

Signing Coming up!

Eververse Scavenger Hunt is Now Live!

So Our Scavenger Hunt is up and ready to go! To participate , simply send the answers and found items to stella@stellaandaudra.com with "eververse hunt" in the subject.

Trivia

1. Give the Name of Feyd Nightly’s Mother
2. Where was the original Crypt?
3. What is the one tattoo that Fallon and Astrid have in common at the beginning of the Eververse series? (hint check out the profiles on the website)
4. Give us the name of the 8^th book in the series
5. How old is Fallon?
6. What kind of demon is Feyd Nightly?
7. What’s the name of Cassiel (cash)’s race?
8. Who owns Pinkys XXX?
9. In the Djinn series, what does Janey Duvall do?
10. What’s the name of the Last woman Nicodemus Marsh was wish-bound to?
11. What kind of Snake is Reece Evans?
12. How old is Remy Crane?
13. What is the stone that Danica has on her collar in Blood on the Harvest Moon?
14. Why is Malcolm Frost unique?
15. What is the distinct characteristic of being an Ifrit?
16. Who is the Archon of the Knossos West Compound in Shadow Heights?
17. What’s the scientific classification for weresnake? (hint: Check the crypt Library)
18. Where do Janey and Marsh call home?
19. Ashlyn Co’Shott is what kind of demon?
20. How long has Cash been exiled from the Afterverse?

FIND:

1. A picture of a green tree python curled around a branch
2. picture of a snowflake
3. Your favorite Stella and Audra cover
4. The link for our review of Sugar and Sin at RORR
5. A picture of Astrid’s Muse
6. A picture of Arcady’s Muse
7. A picture of a brindle bulldog
8. The link for the company that makes the Astrid Candle
9. Three scents from Body Confections that you think will be in future books
10. The Planetary symbol for Earth
11. A picture of the tarot Card the lovers from the Tarot of a Moon garden, the Witches Tarot and the Stella Tarot
12. A goddess pentacle
13. Picture of the Ugly Worm
14. The link for Arcady Morrison’s myspace
15. Tattoo of a star

Prizes: heres a list of goodies we will be giving…

• A signed copy of Sugar and Sin
• A pair of Silk and Steel Earrings
• Promo goodies
• A bottle of Essence of Fallon
• Notepad of the Dragons book and the Djinn series
• Candy
• Downloads of our backlist
• Cd’s of our backlist
• Astrid Candle

Good Luck and enjoy!!!!!

We are BACK!

Ok so we have been for a while but i have been recouping and hanging out with my sister. Shes home now, and that rocks, but im sad that i wont get to see her till next year.

RT was awesome! We got some amazing pictures, and went wild and actually sold books at the book fair! So thanks to everyone who bought it, you totally made the trip to RT worth it! We also give out a LOT of goodies and promo, and I'm happy to say it wasn't a wasted trip.

Next year is going to be truly insane as ill be there as a publisher, review house, cover artist and author, and im excited to say we will have 8 books in print bu then, a whole lot of goodies and promo stuff for all that pulp!

And I'm SO excited cuz ill be rooming with my sister and Rene and another crazy lunatic... fun times! So lets see, RT 2007 highlights?

• my sister licking R. Casteel's face... and the guy licked her back.
• Jacki Frank giving Audra a Woobie....
• Neil (my brother in law) mooning the bar in his kilt
• the cops called on us for being too loud
• Joe (my hunny) faling alseep drunk in Club RT amidsts 40 screaming women
• actually selling at the signing
• some guy trying to get me and audra to makeout (EWWWW shes my sister!). We told him "this isn't a Stephen King novel!"
• Neil in his kilt... the ladies loved it
• audra's skirt being nearly flushed down the toilet
• the Robin Schone Champagne and Strawberries Soriee (Robin, Kat, thanks for the laughs)
• Club RT. Straight up, Club RT.
• i got my ass checked out, twice. Woo hoo!
• the salad place in the subterranean tunnels of Houston. because of them, I actually ate.
• i lost 5 lbs from running around like a chicken without a head... can i get a woot? Im back to 115!

So thats what i can remember. Lord knows it will all come back to me one day,. though thankfully i wasnt in a drunken haze while there. I left that to audra, Neil and Joe. LOL. So ill be posting about again with some goodies... So stay tuned!

woo hoo!

Well I'm off as of Wednesday morning to Texas with Audra and joe and neil... and im so excited! I pick Aud up tomorrow at the airport... woo hoo. then the hair, while the boys go shopping and Neil gets his first taste of US commerce. Tomorrow i will be lucky if i can check email. its all go no quit from 8am till we leave at 330 the following morning. Im hoping to sleep on the plane, but im almost positive thats not going to happen.

Ooh! and i got some of my promo goodies today as well. so ill have a few more things to bring with me. Woo hoo!

So ill update from RT with some piccys...

Days Away...

And Im not ready. Today is going to be cleaning, picture hanging, finishing packing, and doing all the necessary hooey to finish up everything. I swear i always bite off more then i can chew.
With everything going as is, Im very excited, and I get to see Aud very soon!

Silk and Steel is now out for review to a few places that i KNOW will get me the book quickly, and that makes me happy. Im hoping that Ill get some reviews while at RT so that Ill feel a bit better about releases on the 12th. I still feel like i havent done any promo for it.

Deep Water will hopefully be finished before we leave. we are only about 4k off from target so its not so bad, but Im now stressing about it. And I really dont feel like i have gotten enough promo stuff for RT. I know Im going to forget something vital.

But on the upswing, Stargate is on tonite and I'm excited... Its my calm zone and couldnt have come back on at a better time. Im seriously thinking of skipping out of shit on friday coming at RT to hangout upstairs and watch it even though Ill be taping it with the DVDR. I know, Im a nerd.

So tomorrow is last minute shopping, making hair appointments for Aud and I, getting the loose ends tied up and generally just freaking out. Nervous? fuck yeah.

ONE WEEK!

My sister is here in one week! Oh! Can you stand it!? Im so excited, and I still have a TON f shit to dobefore her and her hunny show up on the noon bound plane from Scotland. Then the real fun (and stress) begins.
We are almost finished with Deep Water, about 6k more and we should be done. Thats my task for today, bulk what we wrote last night, and get another part started. Im hoping that we will finish by friday. Well thats the plan anyway. I hate working under pressure, but Aud seems to thrive in it so... we compromise. Im just hoping we finish this one quickly, so in May we can finish Gifts to give to Kat for September release. thats looking at about another 45-50k added... so Im praying we do it in the month of may.
OOh and We now have Southpark Icons!

another Contract!

We Sold the Keepers of Twilight series! the first, The Soft Edge of Midnight is the first in the series and its out October 2007, with print to follow!!! who won the series? SIREN PUBLISHING, our new and awesome publisher! heres the cover:

We are soo excited to be part of the Siren Family! Im looking forward to this new venture so much!

We got Paired!

So I was looking at the Sugar and Sin page at Amazon last night and noticed something spectacular... We got paired!!! in less then three weeks we have sold enough on Amazon to get paired up with another book (which right now is one of Lauren Dane's books) and we really wanna say thank you! I know a lot of authors that have been out for ages on Amazon and haven't been paired yet so this is a big deal for us.

See this book is our baby... hell the series in general is our baby, and seeing it appreciated and recognized is really amazing especially when we were told it wouldn't sell. So thank you to those who have bought it and Thank you to those who are going to buy it. We cant do this alone and its you reading and buying that really makes it grand.

I have recently gotten a few IM's and emails about how much people loved the book, and i gotta say, its a major great feeling. Don't get me wrong, hearing my friends say they like it is awesome, but hearing from someone who has no clue what kinda person I am, telling me they tried the book on a whim from a recommendation from someone else, and loved it, are ravenous for more... I'm speechless.

Now its really all about promo and getting the name out there for us, and RT is going to be just the place to do it. With this new information, I'm more excited about RT, as i feel that all our efforts so far have been paying off. Its encouraging, and pushes me to do more to get more sales and work out... and its all thanks to you, the reader. so thank you.

On another up note, the Dragon Elemental series is doing great as well. We have hit #20 on the FW top erotica list and are sitting pretty at #1 on the FW MGP list. Im taking this as a major score for us, and i hope it will help push us to where we need to ultimately be for our great sales to continue, print. both series are doing good, and Sugar is doing fantastic so far in print... Im so hopeful its scary.

The countdown begins...

Audra will be here in two week come Tuesday. TWO WEEKS! i haven't seen my sister since last July so im SO excited! and i get to see my future brother-in-law as well, and to top it all off, we have RT as well. April rocks.
So Easter was normal, hell i did covers all day. Im packed, and theres few things to do before she flys in so things are going well, though i do need a haircut.
And did I mention that its damn cold in NY? not happy about that, I'm really looking forward to the warmer weather.. so Houston will be a welcome change.
OOh and we got the piccy of the bath mists!

They Are the Essence of Fallon, or sugar cookie scent (yes, to Astrid, Fallon smells like sugar cookies, hence the nickname...) and you can pick your own up at Body Confections.
And whats cool is that every label has a Swavorski Crystal in the center of the star. SO COOL. We will have a few at RT so if your cool, pop by and you might get one. Heh. They are limited but hey try your luck. (btw.. one will be in the Stella and Audra gift Basket.)

apparently the eternal debate.

Well it seems some authors are getting chastised for their heroes screwing other chicks during the course of the book. All i can say to that is been there, done that. The Eververse series was rejected for that very reason from pretty much ALL the big e pubs (and TOR) and yet, the damn book has sold over 100 copies in print in the past three weeks from Amazon, and its gotten some amazing reader reviews as well.
I think thats pretty damn good for a book one e pub said "had a hastily thrown together world, Characters that had no depth and a hero who's sexual exploits will turn the reader off. Good luck ever getting it published."
Polyamourous pursuits are fine with me. And to our own credit, Fallon's sexual adventures prove to identify him as a person, and his personality, and helps him make a decision later on in the book for the benefit of all parties. Hes not just screwing for screwing's sake really, theres a bigger scope to the story.
Im not trying to justify what he does, he does that very well on his own, only explain to those out there still locked in the "one guy, one girl romance" that things are changing. the amount of people in RL that have only been with one person is in the minority, and aud and I like to think we write true to life. lets not forget, Fallon, along with Feyd, Arcady, Cash and the rest of the guys (and girls for that matter) are residents of a sub-society, a culture that runs on sex, blood and money more so then regular human existence.
One guy, One girl is outdated and more in the realm of fantasy then you know. (right, like that millionare art gallery owner with the cocky attitude didnt have an orgy a la American Psycho style the night before he met his heroine? Show me that, it helps to give me a feel for the REAL character, because no one is as good and pious as they make them in literature.)
And another thing, If you can handle it in your TV and your movies, why not your books as well? I mean I know the general pulp reading public can handle it (hello... Anita Blake anyone?) but why are they getting so starchy about e book? Aren't we supposed to be paving the way for the new literature? Why is it people can handle threesomes, orgies and 5 ways, but hen the Hero gets down before getting down with the heroine people's panties get in a twist? I mean come on, when that happens in a book i take it that the hero is a very sexual person, and that when he gets his heroine (insert you favorite genre here) hes either gotta quell that need and fire to get past her virginal defenses, or square with the fact that the chick was probably just as big a ho as he was before they got together... honestly no man that LOOKS like these heroes would be saving it for their true love... (unless they are batting for the other team, but im not getting into that.) So come on people.. be realistic.

OK So if you enjoyed my rant, and are curious about Sugar and Sin and seeing why the publishers were wrong, pop by Amazon and pick it up. Then if you hated it, leave us a review, and if you loved it, leave us a review. Either way, i prove a point.

S

Goodies at the DDD

Isnt it cool? Its our Dragon Elementals series gift for the DDD raffle.

and this one, is the Sugar and Sin git we are doing for the raffle. Arent they pretty? I think so. So what are they? They are pewter book marks, each one of a kind and each done for the sole purpose of a great gifty for RT. Along with the other girls in the DDD, we all have a wild half hour ahead for all of you going to RT. Make sure you come and hangout with us.

We will have some other limited edition goodies at the DDD time as well. come to our table and pick up a scent sachet in one of 4 scents, signed book plates, candy, pins, stickers and other goodies.

OOh are we excited? hell yeah we are!