Wednesday, 31 October 2012
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Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Horror Writers
October 2012 and the build up to spooky Halloween is underway. Check out this link to the Horror Writer's Association (HWA) Halloween blog. During October daily posts from 30 different horror writers will shiver your timbers.
Make sure to check out the HWA Halloween blog on 15th October 2012 as a fascinating exchange between yours truely and award winning wildlife expert Paul D Stewart takes place on the subject of nature's vampires...
There is also a facebook page supporting this event:
Horror writer Ben Ethridge author of the acclaimed Bottled Abyss dropped me an email
From: Benjamin
Ethridge
Sent: 05 October 2012 22:28
Sent: 05 October 2012 22:28
To: carole jahme
Subject: Re: Novel
Carole,
Just
wanted to let you know that I've finished WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN BLOOD. I very
much enjoyed it. Being a fan of Richard Matheson's science + vampires concept
and also being a fan of evolutionary theory in general, I found the novel
captivating-- especially since the premises made sense to me. I wasn't certain
where the story was going at first, because the build up is considerable, but I
enjoyed the progression of Scarlet's story until the conclusion. Well done and
thank you for the free copy.
Take
care,
--Ben
Monday, 23 July 2012
Kind words from Sidney Du Broth's Shooting and Fishing Journal - bet I'm the first Vampire writer to get a review from a fishing and shooting journal - big thanks Sid!
Sidney Du Broth describes a day at the London Book Fair 2012...
As I moved along, two young men in the twelve year old category, wearing
white tee shirts, with what appeared to be a book-cover reproduction
emblazoned upon them, approached. Seeing my press badge they stopped and
explained their mission. They were seeking out appropriate members of
the press who might be prepared to review a book. It was the work of the
mother of the young man on the right in the photo (the chap on the left
is a friend). And it was a book about Vampires. We don't usually review
books about vampires, it/they being somewhat remote from the usual
shooting, fishing and gun scene that is our more or less normal domain.
The young man was an absolute charmer, and it would be impossible to say
No. The young man explained that he would be writing his own book in
due course, probably a work of non-fiction.
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 'Carole Jahme's son, right promotes his mother's book, with help from colleague' |
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Carole Jahme is no doubt very proud of her young son, as well she should
be. Ms Jahme is a science writer on the Guardian newspaper, so she
should know something about Vampires. She is a psychologist whose
previous work , Beauty and the Beasts, Women Ape and Evolution, was
published by Virago in 2000.
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WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN BLOOD by Carol Jahme. Published by Mira Publishing House ISBN 978-1-908509-01-7
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This is a book of 343 pages so you come to know vampires quite well, and
become aware that there are different kinds of vampires. Scarlet tells
her story in the first person, a single mother with a six year old
daughter, and a man responsible for the child whom she hates. She
doesn't like her mother much either, nor does her mother like her.
Scarlet is vulnerable; vampires would seek her out. She is given a stark
choice: become a vampire or die. As Ms Jahme, who would know, puts it:
"…bit by bit the beautiful face, another, otherworldly, version of
myself, pixilated away into little pieces until the mirror was empty of
life and I was no longer there." So you can see what can happen, and
does.
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Thursday, 19 July 2012
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