Blood Eternal has its own song: Mistakes by Die Feen🎧

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So, this happened right before my hand surgery, and then it kinda got lost in the noise of post-op recovery shenanigans, but it’s proper exciting news and deserved a spotlight in this newsletter…

Blood Eternal has a song written for it (specifically about the conflict between Bagamil and V’ukh in the am’r origin story) by the band Die Feen. If you have not heard of them yet, here’s a description from Nocturnazine’s Scott Baker Graham: “Die Feen is a blistering, yet soulful Post-Punk band dispensing the truth from the capital of lies—Washington, DC. Chris Best’s deep and powerful baritone is reminiscent of Peter Murphy of Bauhaus and Ian Curtis of Joy Division, but Die Feen possesses catchy New Wave-tinged melodies and pop-song craftsmanship that these bands lacked. If you’re longing for the past but want to rock out in the present, Die Feen has you covered. Plus, their bass player goes by the handle of Dick Thunder. ‘Nuff said.”

Below is an interview from Nocturnazine with Die Feen and me.

And here are some places to listen:

Chris and I have known each other forever. Here’s the first picture I have of us together, getting sushi to celebrate my 19^th birthday.

This is why cherishing old friends and making sure to stay in touch is so vital. Because, someday, decades later, you might get to collaborate in mixing your art in exciting new ways. Thank you, Chris, for being inspired to give voice to Bagamil in such a way, and bringing the Blood & Ancient Scrolls Series to an entirely new medium!

We Slayed It At Ve Neil’s Vampire Weekend Convention

Sadly, due to my surgery, I couldn’t fly out to one of this year’s events I was super excited about: Ve Neil’s Vampire Weekend

So the other half of Immoral Influence Publications, Lore, stepped up to run the whole show and accomplished what can only be called a miracle. The booth was stupendous, there was brand new swag to test-drive, and the whole thing was an unqualified triumph, and I cannot thank her enough for all the kick-ass energy she brought to it: like Noosh running through the gory mêlée in Blood Demands! (Only in this case, people just brought books and left smiling.)

Lore wants to thank everyone who stopped by the IIP booth and let her nerd out about the books to them! She also wants to know what fun things you want to see at the booth next time, from new merch, to raffles, and games: if you have a blood demand (haha) just hit reply and tell us!

(And don't worry if you missed the sneaky new cup releases, Lore is going to figure out how to photograph them in their blood and glitter glory so we can list them for sale on the site soon!)

LibGen & Meta & (the bad kind of) Pirates

For those who have not been following along, here’s this ugly bit of news.

When I tested The Atlantic’s LibGen search engine, none of my books were stolen by Meta to train their A.I.

At first, I just breathed a sigh of relief, and then I kind of chuckled ruefully about how big the series has not yet become….

And then it hit me: I’ve been really vigorous with searching my out books on pirated sites and issuing takedown notices. My first publisher got very grumpy about it. “There are always going to be pirates,” they whined, “It’s not worth the time to go after every one. You’ll never find them all. Just go on with writing other books and forget about it.”

But. Many of the books that were used in LibGen came from pirated sites. If I had not been so motivated to get every pirated copy of my books I could find taken down, perhaps the results of my search would have been rather different…

This is all to say, if you think something is important, don’t let people who do not care as much as you talk you out of it. And yet again to raise a middle finger to my horrible old publisher. I did a quick search, and pretty much EVERY book by their lead author is on the LibGen list. So I hope they are happy with their choices, and whether they are or not: they can go suck an egg. 🥚

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Clearly, I have exciting new swag to talk about in the next newsletter, but that won’t be all… To everyone who made it this far, you’re fucking amazing! Until next time, be good or be good at it! 😘

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