Ghost Hunter Sandwich, Anyone? Tales from the Coffin. TAGS

by JoAnne Kenrick

Are you ready for Estella and Lucy? Because I have a feeling they are more than ready for you!

22nd May marked the date when book one, Strange and Beautiful, was set loose in ebook stores across the world, and all were introduced to the snarky zombie and the scarcastic vampire who hide in the basement of their home in the dead center of Britain's most haunted city; York, England.

Now it's time for another installment of the goings on in the world of Estella, Vampire Queen of the Rejected and Lucy Rot her zombie lover and sometimes-faithful lacky.

29 June marks the date when Tales from the Coffin book two releases. As per Decadent Publishing's awesomeness, it will be available in most ebook stores....

And this will be the release of my very first menage story. I can hear my mum's cry of shame all the way from across the pond ;) Sorry, Mum! But this story had to be written. Estella made me do it. And Lucy twisted my arm.

Tales from the Coffin is a series with a story within a story. In each edition,  we follow the adventures of Estella and Lucy--The Bone Cruncher will often make a mysterious appearance, too. The main story visited in each book is building toward a HEA, and the story within the story is a short erotica as told by either Lucy or Estella. As they've both been burned by love, you can bet neither story will be all champers and wedding bells. Often, these books can gruesome and just plain old snark and smexy. I class them as horror/urban fantasy/never afters.

So if you're looking for a change in the paranormal romance pace, all wrapped in a sexy-snarky little package, Tales of the Coffin is for you!

Book Two, All the Pretty Faces (did I tell you this was my first menage story yet? if not, well...this is my first menage story!) is told by Estella and features three TV ghost hunters who find things go BUMP in more ways than one when the show is over, and their ghostly tale is interwoven into Estella and Lucy's world. I feel I should warn; not only is this a super smutty story, but it's also pretty gross. No spoilers, but it's the first time I ever cringed while writing a scene, and feared for the characters I'd created. One of which will be back in book 5.Let's leave it at that. Estella is a bad influence ;)

BUYLINKS

BOOK TWO, All the Pretty Faces

Estella is on edge. Why? The Bone Cruncher wants to collect his debt early. What's a girl to do? Get her zombie lover to do her dirty work for her of course, while she entertains you with tea and a ghost hunter sandwich....

MidNight, a paranormal magazine show, transformed Lindsay from a jittery legal assistant into an almost famous TV presenter. Ghost hunting was the last job Lindsay ever expected to see herself doing, or loving. Best of all, the show had helped her face fears; the dark, and her own shadow. If only she could conquer Walker, too, her long time just-good-friends buddy.When her co-host Debra puts an offer of a threesome on the table after a live filming at York Castle Prison, Lindsay takes it into careful consideration. A menage with Walker and her nemesis will complete her confidence trip. But when things start going bump in the night, will three be a crowd?

WANT TO LEARN MORE? Tales from the Coffin NEWS over on Paranormal Romantics [inspiration for how I went to the dark side with this series] and Pop Culture Divas [full excerpt from Strange and Beautiful]

FOR AUDIO READING, EXCERPT, AND TRAILER CLICK HERE

COMING SOON

Tentative Release: August 2012

& Book Four, Treacle and Treason

a Guy Fawkes special due for release October 26th

Here's the series trailer AND the Coffin WIDGET. Lots of things to click on, so enjoy exploring!! http://talesfromthecoffin.blogspot.com

  

Tea, Scones, and Smut

by JoAnne Kenrick


Of all the places in all the world, the last place I'd wanna end up is at Estella's for tea and scones. Her reputation exceeds her, yet folks still wander into that basement with hopes of being entertained.


Honestly, she may give good story and live in the creepiest, oldest house on the block, but would you really venture down those stairs into a vampire's lair for an erotic tale and possibly a tour of her historical home?


Okay, so she lives in York Cemetery house which sit on ley lines. I can understand why ghost hunters would be curious to explore that proptery. Maybe. Or why historians would want to get a load of the original moldings and woodwork. Maybe tourists are itching to have photographs of themselves in a creepy house which seems to have the same housekeeper as The Adam's Family judging by the cobwebs and dust.

But all sorts of folks find themselves in her basement for an erotic tale seemingly a cross between Twilight Zone, Tales from the Crypt and the Red Shoe Diaries. I'll tell you a little secret. Estella has powers. She's not just Dracula's rejected bride hung up on her runaway groom, or a snarky vampire with only food and Lucy Rot, the zombie--her sometimes-faithful lover--on her mind. She's psychic and she knows it. Sexy, too.


Her little deady bear, Lucy, is excellent at bringing home the bacon. And from time to time, the unwilling dinner guest enjoys a really smutty story. Hey, at least they die happy. That's probably the only happy ever after you'll find in these stories...individually. As a whole, though you'll find they make up quite the romantic little story. You see, Estella and Lucy don't just introduce the Edge stories in Tales from the Coffin, they have a story of their own, and within each book, their story progresses.


So what do you say...up for something different? Two stories in one? Come and get to know my two favorite but most feared characters ever...Estella and Lucy. But I must warn you, Lucy makes delightful finger sandwiches. Just saying. Can you count to ten?


I've shared lots of Estella and Lucy snippets, so it's about time I shared one from the story they tell in Strange and Beautiful. I've been told to keep it clean, so this is the only snippet I could use. The opening. Mwahahaha. Yeah, this is one naughty story. Estella might be an evil vampire with no pause for morality, but she an half knows how to tell da smut! Well, actually, so does Lucy...because this is her story of how she became a zombie.


(c) JoAnne Kenrick, Strange and Beautiful - Tales from the Coffin book one

 I always show up for dates on time, and it infuriates me when others don’t. Get a watch—set an alarm, anything—because it’s impolite to be late. My doctor is the only person I have ever forgiven for this terrible faux pas. I waited around for him. Had a swollen pussy and was dying for his touch. All my sensibility had flown two sheets to the wind. My head, too. Must have had three, maybe four glasses of cheap plonk while waiting. Just to break the ice. I suspected he was going off me. I mean, we’d been dating for a month and still no action. What was that about?

Pissed, and pissy at the bastard’s lateness, I decided to pull out some whacky- a-doodle-doo of a magic book I’d bought as a gag gift and forgot to deliver. Fancy myself as a bit of a charmed one. Mind you, if that were the case, I could just call for my man and he’d orb in. My very own sparkly hero.

Reality check. Not going to happen.

I flicked through the first few pages of the pink paperback. Nothing interesting. Nothing connected to sex, anyway. Then I saw it. The perfect spell to try. Make your man worship the ground you walk on. Excitement rushed through me like a rogue roller coaster set for disaster. Right there. That was the moment I should have cut my losses and sobered up.

Instead, I finished the bottle of wine and chanted a few words. Chris stopped by an hour later. I’d run out of alcoholic lubrication and could walk in a straight line again, which meant I had sobered up for McSexy’s apology. Is it lame I called him that? Whatever. Anyway, he made an excuse about helping some woman called Lizzie move into a cottage. I think I took in most of what he said—hard to focus on anything when biceps like his are right in your face. Worse when they’re squeezed into such a tight shirt. He flicked his hair from his face and gave me the puppy-dog look with his coffee-colored eyes. I stood to ask him to leave.

BLURB

Estella, Vampire Queen of the Rejected, is sick of men. Or so she would have you think. Ditched at the altar by Dracula himself, she'd rather spend her days with what she now believes to be the more faithful gender. Plagued by a Haversham complex, she gets her kicks by luring prey into her decrepit house with promises of erotic tales...but mind your manners, and fingers, because she bites.

Lucy Rotterdayne—a zombie better known as Lucy Rot—is Estella's sometimes-faithful subject and lover. Although why she hangs around to be ridiculed and taunted by a bitter vampire, she has no idea. Perhaps the answer is rooted the story of how she was zombified by a doctor who is simply masterful with his hands?

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