Dragon Moon Press Newsletter

February 10, 2008 | Vol. 3 Issue 2

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In This Issue...

• NEW RELEASE -- SWORD MASTERS by Selina Rosen
• News, Updates and Articles

NEW RELEASE -- SWORD MASTERS by Selina Rosen

SELINA SAYS:

Sword Masters leaped into my head and I wrote the entire book in 41 days. During that time I was still working a day job, built an elaborate set for a local theater group, put in the Spring crop, taught six Torah classes, took care of all the live stock, cooked meals and cleaned house.

I don't remember sleeping, eating or talking to my family. That's how I work I get an idea. I write part of it down and sometimes it will just lay there. I had started a version of Sword Masters about 8 years before that and it just sat there then I woke up one day in February and realized what was wrong with it and then I just wrote the whole thing because I couldn't stop.

For the background of my main character Tarius, I unapologetically mined the life of my dear friend Eva Gotlib who died three days ago -in fact I went to her funeral yesterday- she was a holocaust survivor.

Sword Masters is all about what it means to really love, and to actually understand what true loyalty means. Mostly it's about how dangerous it is when people believe that they are right and everyone else is wrong. We forget that the holocaust -and other such historical; recent and distant past, events- couldn't have happened if they weren't driven by religious hatred. Simply put it becomes the psychology of... if you don't believe as we do you must be killed.

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction." -- Blaise Pascal

WHAT'S SWORD MASTERS ABOUT?

The Jethrik are in trouble. They're fighting a war they can't win even if they don't know it. Their savior comes in the guise of a strange foreigner who is the son of one of their greatest heroes.

Tarius the Black will lead the Jathrik army to victory and save their king, so what secret could he harbor that would be dark enough for them to order his death? Then having escaped execution and cheated death at their hands, what could ever bring Tarius back to the Jethrik?

REVIEWS FOR SELINA ROSEN

“Selina Rosen’s “just like” nothing else. She’s a creative soul, a builder in wood and stone and words. Out of this absolute wealth of experience come truly outrageous ideas and a way of looking at the universe with attitude with a capital ‘A’. She’s one in a million!”
~C. J. Cherryh

“She’s a great gal and a damn good storyteller.”
~Michael Sheard

"STRANGE ROBBY is a sharp, satisfying page-turner, a thrilling ride like a cross between N.Y.P.D. BLUE and THE X-FILES. Be smart: Buy your ticket -now.-" ~Esther M. Friesner

WHERE'S SELINA ROSEN GOING NEXT?

Selina Rosen will be giving a talk on writing and editing at Summit High School in Missouri the 1st of February. She will also be attending DFW in Dallas Texas February 22nd 23rd and 24th. She will be toast master at Mid South Con in Memphis Tennessee. She will be taking the month of April off from conventioning to birth goats and plant the garden unless her novel Strange Robby (currently on the preliminary ballot) makes the final Nebula ballot in which case she's going to get her happy ass to the Nebula awards in Austin Texas in April.

Selina is currently working on the second Holmes and Storm mystery with cowriter Laura J. Underwood. She's just written three short stories for up coming anthologies and is working on a new novel with the working title "How I Spent The Apocalypse" and of course she's still working on her episodic adventure "The House," which you can read at her web-site www.selinarosen.com

OTHER "WHAT IS TRUE EVIL?" TITLES from DRAGON MOON PRESS
TWILIGHT OF THE FIFTH SUN by David Sakmyster	DAUGHTER OF DRAGONS by Kathleen Nelson	SOJOURN by Jana Oliver

News, Updates and Articles

Philippa Ballantine, author of CHASING THE BARD, says: As of February, Chasing the Bard will be a podcast book, featuring her own voice, and that of author Tee Morris, as well as a cast of podcast personalities from all over the web.. It will appear at www.chasingthebard.com and is aimed to lead up to the publishing of the sequel Digital Magic in August.

Valerie Griswold-Ford, author of NOT YOUR FATHER'S HORSEMAN, will be attending StellarCon in High Point, NC on March (14-16) and RavenCon in Richmond, VA during April (25-27).

Jana Oliver, author of the TIME ROVER series, will be attending the Love is Murder convention February 1-3, 2008 (Chicago). Publisher's Weekly has reviewed SOJOURN on their "Beyond Her Book" Blog. In addition, Sci Fi Dimensions has reviewed the second title in the series, VIRTUAL EVIL

LACHLEI by M. H. Bonham is currently having its pre-order sale -- Get 30% off on this upcoming Dragon Moon Press fantasy title as well as other fine savings available only at the EDGE website.

Tony Ruggiero, author of the TEAM OF DARKNESS CHRONICLES, will be attending the ITSNOTACON in Columbus, Ohio Feb 15-17. In other news, recently Tony has been cogitating on the age-old subject

Of Puppies and Manuscripts.

"I have taught college classes for the past few years but honestly hadn't heard this one before... "My puppy ate my homework. Well it didn't happen to a student, it happened to me. My puppy chewed up my manuscript of Operation Save the Innocent when I was taking a break from reviewing it.

I guess I will have to give students some leeway if they ever use this excuse. I also hope the reviewers are much more friendly than my dog :).

Tony Ruggiero
Operation Save the Innocent
Book II of the Team of Darkness Chronicles
Coming Spring 2008