10 Nights

You all know my friend and writer, Michelle Hughes. Right now she is doing a project which is called, "10 Nights," and from one artist to another, I wanted to put up her banners for everyone to see and enjoy.

She is doing a very cool contest with her work too. To check out details, here is her link:

http://www.tearsofcrimson.com/2012/07/casting-call-for-free-promotion.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tearsofcrimson%2FqoTp+%28Tears+of+Crimson+Vampire+Bar%29

Definitely check this out and the rest of her amazing page, "Tears of Crimson.

HERE ARE PLENTY MORE DETAILS ABOUT THIS WICKED HOT CONCEPT, STRAIGHT FROM MY GIRL MICHELLE HUGHES:

Tears of Crimson Books is excited to announce the new site for the latest release from the Tears of Crimson Library, 10 Nights. We'd love to have you come join us on the sexy new site for adult fantasies and celebrate the debut of what we hope will be the biggest book premiere of 2012. It's all about passion at 10 Nights and we've got great opportunities for artists, writers, musicians, and companies to promote their work as well as celebrate ours.

Tears of Crimson will be pumping the promotion for 10 Nights until launch date which is September 1st. You can follow along with what's going on here and on the 10 Nights site, as well as follow the hashtag #10Nights or @10_Nights on Twitter. If you're a facebook lover follow along there by visiting the page www.facebook.com/10Nights

Don't worry we haven't forgotten our Vampire Loving friends in this sexy new romance. We think our Tears of Crimson friends will be blown away by the role play scene in 10 Nights! This book takes the hottest fantasies women have and mixes them in with an incredible plot and one sexy Alpha Male that you'll either love to hate, or hate to love. It's the steamiest thing yet to come out of the Tears of Crimson Library, and that's really saying a lot!

So please stop over at the 10 Night site and share your love and support. We are so excited about this new venture and hope that you'll come with us and celebrate the love of something really sexy and sinsational. Suggestions and comments are always welcome, both here and at 10 Nights. Without you, we know that Tears of Crimson would have never grown to the capacity it has, and we thank you so very much for everything you've done!

Thanks for surrendering to the Night at Tears of Crimson, the New Orleans vampire bar!

The Dream will be Unveiled

This past week my friend and writer Michelle Hughes posted a new excerpt blog for her site. I always love reading her vampire stories but I absolutely love this new piece of writing from her that I had to put it up here.

Enjoy this, straight from the "Tears of Crimson," Night Club!

He is calling to you from the dream, patiently he waits to share the passion he held in check. When he arrives he will show no mercy, and demand nothing less than your soul in return. His desires will unfold and demand everything you've refused, how will you be strong enough to fight the temptation of endless night? Tears will fall, hearts will discover the true price of love. In the end, eternity will refuse to be denied.

Revel in the time you have to find peace, soon your world will change before your eyes. For now, you have a choice, where will you be when the crimson tears begins to fall?

Eternal Crimson

Tears of blood have rained over New Orleans in anticipation for the second book of the Tears of Crimson Vampire Series. The book is now available on Amazon with the print version set to release on Valentine's Day 2012. With Eternal Crimson, we discover the world of Singe Tsigan and many new supernatural beings that are just waiting to compel your dreams. This is not your average vampire book and it's waiting for the not-so-average vampire reader. When you step through these doors, be prepared to have everything you believe challenged!


To Michelle's loyal supporter and friends,

Enjoy the first book in this serious in the original format while you can. A Night at Tears of Crimson will be undergoing a revision this year and the first book will go out of print. For those fans of the original, hold on to your copy. It's been a great ride and it's only getting better. The endless nights are calling, are you ready for the journey of your life?

Tears of Crimson would like to thank all the wonderful people that have been instrumental in keeping the momentum going. We'll be sharing more about them in blog posts to come. 2012 looks to be an exciting year and we have so much more in store for our readers. Thank you for being so supportive!



Thanks for surrendering to the Night at Tears of Crimson, the New Orleans vampire bar!

--Michelle Hughes

I'm enjoying Michelle's work so much and love her talent. I can't wait to keep reading and writing all about Michelle's writing. Thank you darling for keeping up the good work and being a fabulous person.

Eternal Crimson cut Preface, what you missed

Here's an excerpt of all the stuff you didn't see in the final edit of "Tears of Crimson," by Michelle Hughes. It's very enjoyable and if you haven't already, make sure you pick up your copy of it either on paperback or now on kindle.
Also stay tuned and get ready for Michelle Hughes' second book of the Tears of Crimson series, "Eternal Crimson."

From Michelle's lips of her Preface:


Tears of Crimson Vampire Nightclub

Eternal Crimson cut Preface
Posted: 06 Feb 2012 08:02 PM PST
What didn't make it into the book? I'm glad you asked, because I thought I'd share it with you here today. This actually gives some great insight into the creation of Singe Tsigan, but it wasn't the way to start off a romance book. I hope you enjoy this hidden gem. It was hard to make this decision, but in the end it made sense. A quick note: This has not been professionally edited because it didn't make the cut.






The Dragon shifted his form and walked among men as one of their own. The stench of the human flesh he embedded himself in was fowl and he forced himself not to shed the covering revealing the beast that lay dormant within. Patiently he waited to unleash his wrath upon the earth. Since the descent from the heavens his anger raged against this group of life-form that his father called man. The Holy One sullied his greatness and power to give these heathen creatures a taste of the paradise they deserved not to know.

A war in heaven had started over these insignificant wastes of his fathers talents. The mighty, the Holy One’s own children, had been shunned from the throne for refusing to pay homage to his new pets. His beauty, which had been reveled by all the powers in the heavens, was stripped from the Dragon and he was cast into the deep pits of darkness. The bitterness had seeped into his soul and Singe Tsigan, the world he now claimed, filled with fires of despair for thousands of years as his hatred for all that was taken from him coursed through his being. As his anger had diminished so had the fires cooled turning to hardened earth.

During the next thousand years he created the world he was to inhabit with a mixture of the things he had once found lovely in his fathers creation. Since his sight was altered during his years of darkness, only the colors of white, black and crimson could be perceived. He loved to stand under the moons, in all his glory to be exalted by its perfect light. Sunlight lit this world not, only seven perfect moons. A large singular white orb, surrounded by six smaller crimson spheres. The only source of heat was the anger that coursed through his being. Before his exile, he had been called the morning star, his light shining so brightly most could not behold it.

From the beginning of his exile he was determined to defy his father and prove that his quest in giving immortality to the human creations was a faulty misconception. Their souls were tainted and they could not achieve greatness by a short walk of time in a deteriorating shell. His father believed that sending them to the earth would cleanse their minds of the devious plans they seemed to conjure up at whim. It was a foolish quest that was beneath his superiority to the Dragons' mind. His father had granted him free reign on earth to tempt his creations into proving their evilness. The Dragon knew it pained his father to watch his children give over to the temptations of the flesh and it only gave his hatred of the human race more ammunition.

Had they the ability to refrain from the pleasures of fornication, murder, and corruption perhaps he would have given over to his fathers will. The creatures had no remorse for the most part and continued to ravage the earth and each other with the simplest of suggestions from the Dragons minions proving they were indeed a useless, weak species. His father had pulled his pain inward and allowed havoc to reign free on earth. The Dragon created every immoral scenario that seemed to bring the creatures pleasure allowing them to damn themselves before the most Holy.

The creation of his supernatural creatures had been one of his most intellectual movements. Taking all that was human, possessing them with demons and giving them immortality more than proved his argument with irrefutable proof that these pets of his fathers could not be allowed into the heavenly realm. Better that they perish on earth than taint the pure perfection that surrounded the higher realms. The vampires had become his favorite supernatural pets and he stocked Singe Tsigan with humans, after much trial and error, for their nourishment. Even with his extraordinary powers most of the humans had not survived the trip to his world.

The few that had lived he treated as breeders and it was this plan that led to the abundance of the population here. These humans were little more than sustenance for his creations and this gave the Dragon great pleasure.
He hoped his example would soon show his father exactly how insignificant his pets were and the exile would come to an end. Many alterations had occurred on Singe Tsigan, for the humans needed fresh air and a temperature that could sustain their race. These humans remained paler than their brothers on earth as even his bright light could not fully compare to the power of the sun. They had taught themselves to harvest from the land to fill their bodily needs. He studied them with the interest of a Master but never found any true compassion for them unless he allowed them to be turned into one of his creatures when their will to live had ceased to matter.

The immortals he created could never be gifted death even if by chance their bodies were destroyed. These souls he simply reincarnated at whim so the cycle of their lives began again in human form but they would always find their vampire mate to turn them in the end. It was a ritual the Dragon kept concealed unless a love was strong enough to forge through the bonds of time and be found again.

--Michelle Hughes

Vampire Nightclub

HERE IS BRAND NEW EXCERT FROM MY GIRLFRIEND AND TALENTED SOUTHTERN AUTHOUR, Michelle Hughes. IT'STEQT

HER LINKS:
Twitter: Twitter.com/@MichelleHughes_

Official Website: www.tearsofcrimson.info Michelle Hughes.


Tears of Crimson Vampire Nightclub


Happy New Year from everyone at Tears of Crimson. 2011 was an incredible year and we are looking forward to having an amazing 2012. Many exciting things are in the works this year, including the release of Eternal Crimson, the second book in the Tears of Crimson Vampire Series. We are looking forward to bringing you the best vampire entertainment this year and continuing to share with you the wonderful talent we've discovered over the year.

Some of the highlights of 2011 are listed below and I hope you'll take the time to get to know those that you may have missed before. I would like to give my gratitude to Steve Grimaldi, Patricia Schutt, Katerina Dotcheva, and of course my co-author Sarah Snyder for all their hard work. Without incredible people like these this series would never have reached the proportions it has. We still have a long way to go in 2012 to get the word out and I'm really looking forward to working with all the Tears of Crimson staff and fans on making this a story that is shared throughout the world.

Tears of Crimson started as a dream and has turned into something that has went beyond all my expectations. Thank you for being part of journey and I look forward to continuing down the path and seeing how far we can go in the New Year!

2011 Memorable Vampire Entertainment


THESE ARE THE WORDS STRAIGHT FROM MICHELLE,

Southern Vampire Writer, Michelle Hughes

Through a mutual friend online, I met and connected with dark and amazing writer, Michelle Hughes. I found my self interested in her right away and her love for vampires, a girl after my own heart. Michelle isn't any typical vampire writer tho. In her stories she digs deep and pulls dark and sometimes erotic thoughts out of her character's subconscious which adds a whole other element to her writing. Even though her stories are fiction, there are little pieces of herself and her dreams that she expresses in her work. I enjoy that also because the stories give a personal look on life and what's it like to be in one of her character's shoes.

I've only started reading Michelle's stories and am looking forward to reading more. She has an amazing series out that I'm thrilled about, the first book being, "A Night at Tears of Crimson," which I've read and enjoyed. I can't wait to read more of her work and am glad I get the opportunity to do a blog about Michelle and her work, plus learning more about her life. Here is an excerpt on Michelle and how she went from reading romance novels to writing deep vampire stories. I myself am excited to read more from this Southern author.

From Michelle Hughes:


"As someone who lives in a small town in Alabama you might be asking
yourself how in the world I got into writing about vampires. Let me
just say when you live 45 minutes from the nearest town, you
definitely have to find ways of entertaining yourself. I began
reading Harlequin Romances as a young girl and already had a love of
Happily Ever After and at first that was where I had planned on taking
my writing adventure. When I finally decided to pursue writing as a
full-time career I attempted to do these wonderful little romances but
they just weren't exciting enough for me. I've had dreams about a
certain vampire since I was a young girl of fifteen and finally it
came to me that maybe I could share my vision of him with the world.
These dreams were very personal to me and I fought myself for a while
on opening up the darkest desires of my heart and sharing them with
strangers. I made a deal with my own subconscious that I would write
out these dreams and if I decided to just keep them as my own personal
diary of sorts, then that would be fine.

The first book in the series, A Night at Tears of Crimson, actually
sat on a shelf in my bedroom for two years before I decided that I was
ready to do something with it. I dusted off the four notebooks that
contained my hearts work and started transcribing it into my computer.
It took almost a full year of editing before I decided it was good
enough to be viewed by any eyes but my own. Basically these were
dreams that I wrote on paper so as you can imagine they had to be
shaped into some sort of logical reading order. I wrote the first
book in first person because it was me through the eyes of Cara Faith
Donovan, who was my alter-ego in the dreams. These dreams spanned the
course of my life for the last twenty-five years so each word is
essentially a part of my soul.

Ironically, as I began to transcribe from paper to computer ideas
started flooding my thoughts to the point I couldn't even keep up some
nights. It wasn't so much that I decided to write about vampires but
that a certain vampire refused to leave my thoughts long enough to let
me concentrate on anything else. Even today this vampire dream lover,
that's how I refer to my Rafe, will chastise me in my dreams if I
don't write when he gives me the ideas. Sometimes I'm not sure if I'm
writing this story or if it's writing me. It's been an incredible
journey and one that I hope will never end."

I hope it never ends either Michelle. Here are some places to find her stories and books. You can also special order her work as well:

Amazon both paperback and kindle
http://www.amazon.com/Night-Tears-Crimson-Michelle-Hughes/dp/1461012295/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1321835728&sr=8-1

Barnes And Noble
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-night-at-tears-of-crimson-michelle-hughes/1031851134?ean=9781461012290&itm=1&usri=a+night+at+tears+of+crimson

ValoreBooks http://www.valorebooks.com/textbooks/a-night-at-tears-of-crimson-(volume-1)/9781461012290?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=Froogle&utm_source=Froogle&date=11/20/11&buy=3

A1 Outlet http://www.a1outlet.com/cgi-bin/mktSearch?act=showDesc&code=gbase&rel=1&ITEM_CODE=1461012295&SELLER_ID=763796&ITEM_TITLE=NIGHT-TEARS-CRIMSON-VOLUME-1

I hope you all check out and read Michelle's work and enjoy it as much as I did. I can't wait to read more. Besides the about places and links where to find her work, here is her twitter and personal blog to check her out and connect with her.

Twitter: Twitter.com/@MichelleHughes_

Official Website: www.tearsofcrimson.info

Blog: http://tocnightclub.blogspot.com/ (which is mostly about anything vampire which I love.)

THANK YOU TO MICHELLE HUGHES FOR HER CONTRIBUTION TO MY BLOG, SHOWING ME HER WORK, AND BEING AN INCREDIBLE VAMPIRE WRITER! KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK.