Blood Revolution Spoiler

If you haven't read Blood Revolution yet, you may want to hold off reading this post until you do. I considered including this in the book and then didn't, as I wanted this information to be revealed at a later time.

As indicated, this is written from Hank's POV. I may write more from his perspective--we'll see :)

Hank's Journal

I'd already pulled information from Breanne's mind with the kiss, and so much of it shocked me, made me feel protective and amazed me, too.

Yes, I'd thought she was only the Vhanaraszh. How wrong I'd been. All of it was there to see. I held the Mighty Heart in my hands. She loved me. That simple fact settled into my mind and tightened my chest.

What I was demanded that I claim her. Make her mine. To hell with that. To hell with High Demon etiquette, protocol and tradition. There was no way I'd do that to Breanne. I was about to change High Demon tradition with a sweep of power, and it was to protect my Love.

"I won't hurt you," I whispered to Breanne. She'd fainted from the kiss, when I began pulling information from her. Now, I placed a healing sleep—for the second time that day.

Then, changing to my smaller Thifilathi, I gently turned her body over and sank my canines into her neck, surrounding her spine as carefully as I could. I never wanted her to feel this pain. To know that from me.

Slowly—so slowly—I removed my teeth and sealed the wounds with a kiss before healing them. From this point forward, I would decree that any claiming of a mate by a High Demon would be initiated by a kiss, which would place his mate in an anesthetized sleep. Then, he would carefully sink his teeth into her neck, and heal the wounds after with his saliva and another kiss. It was right, proper and should have been done in the beginning.

Kifirin might be incensed at the change, but if he wished to fight me, I would accept the challenge happily.

"I love you, too," I whispered after turning Breanne over again to face me. Leaning in, I placed kisses on both eyelids. "So much," I added.

Blood Revolution Release

Blood Revolution is now available on Amazon. It took them an hour and a half to put it up for sale. I barely had time to have a bag of microwave popcorn for lunch, lol!

Happy reading--
Connie

Blood Trouble Release

Blood Trouble is now available on Amazon, both U.S. and UK. Haven't checked other outlets yet, though. Happy reading!

Blood Double Release

Happy Wednesday, everybody. Blood Double is now available at Amazon AND bn.com. Happy reading!

Trademarking and Price Gouging

I am currently in the process of trademarking subtledemon and difik. The reasons for this are ones I never thought I'd be facing.

First, I kept receiving emails from an individual somewhere in Asia, telling me that someone was looking to buy/register subtledemon as a domain name in Asian countries. What did I know about registering a domain in Asian countries? Nothing.

I still don't know a lot, but it appears that you have to have a business or business connections in Asia to register a domain in Asia. Yeah, I started sweating. Did I think this was a ploy to bilk money? Yeah, I thought that too.

While I have no interest in connecting to or running a business anywhere except where I am, I figured I ought to protect myself as much as possible. I already had domains purchased/registered for subtledemon.com, .info, .net., .org, .biz, .co, .mobi and .ws, so what's a person to do?

I started the process to trademark not only subtledemon, but difik, because I'm selling merchandise through/under both. Hopefully that will go through, but it takes nine months to go through the trademark process, and who knows what might happen?

My good friend/proofreader/part-time assistant, Joe, suggested I also lock up difik as a domain name, since we were looking to do the same with it—trademark, etc.  It was a good idea. HOWEVER—

Difik.com had already been purchased and was available for AUCTION, at a minimum bid of $200. I was a bit upset, as you might imagine, because you can buy a domain name for around $10 a year. Maybe less. I called the company I buy my domain names from, and asked them what this meant. They explained that somebody else had bought/reserved difik.com. They didn't say it, but it was likely somebody who intended to sell it at a profit.

Yes, I ended up offering a little over the asking price. This morning, I received a counter-offer—for $1400. No, thank you.

Yesterday, I went ahead and purchased difik.biz, .co, .info, .mobi, .net, .org, .us, .me and .ws. In other words, all the others I could get my hands on, because unlike difik.com, they were available. And I'm still going forward with the trademarking process for difik. I also had all those domain names linked to subtledemon.com. Go ahead, do a search for difik.net. You'll go straight to my website! If somebody wants to use difik.com for $1400, feel free (after paying $1400 of course). If it's a business, good luck on getting all the other domain names—I have those. I can't imagine an individual paying $1400 to use difik.com, but if they want to be gouged, I have no control over that. If the trademark goes through, I don't know what implications that might have, but we'll see.

Honestly, I write much better (and easier) when I'm not so angry I can spit tacks hard enough to attach shingles to a roof. I never imagined, either, that coining a word or phrase could result in so much teeth-gnashing and agony. Live and learn. They'll never know, too, that I've been calling them difiks for at least twenty-four hours.

Keep on trucking, everybody. You guys (as always) are awesome!

Interview and Giveaway

Hello, everybody!

Check out the interview I did for mistressofthedarkpath.wordpress.com. It includes a giveaway for two print copies of Demon Lost and other goodies, and the contest is open to everyone, including international readers. Hope you're having a wonderful week and aren't affected by weird weather!

Hierarchy of the Gods

As requested:

The One
The Three
Ko'Ahmari
Ghi'Yisi
Al'Riyu
En'Nurifi
Ba'Mirha
Mil'Karha
Pan'Warha
Nameless Ones
Powers That Be

When the Dark Realm was decreed in order to shape the balance of the created worlds, a request was sent out to the Hierarchy, asking for one from the higher levels to volunteer in the creation of the Dark Realm. That one would afterward be named Lord of the Dark Realm and he would hold sway over all he'd created—worlds and creatures alike. None came forward. Another call came, and still none answered. Finally, Kifirin, high among the Nameless Ones but still a lesser god, offered. His offer was discounted at first, as he held insufficient power. The call went out a third time, and still none were willing.

 

"I grant this power to you," Kifirin's parent, one of the Al'Riyu who loved his child dearly, agreed to lend much of what he held to Kifirin. "This power will return to me, once the Dark Realm is complete. What you hold will be sufficient past that."

 

Kifirin bowed and accepted his parent's offer. The Dark Realm was created, according to Kifirin's designs and expectations. Then, because he had no prior experience at creating the races and held little knowledge of how sentient creatures might grow and develop away from his care, Kifirin made a promise never to interfere with the Dark worlds or their decisions. Thus were sown the seeds of the Dark Realm's destruction.