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Fire Man
Ronin Bey is a warlock who fell head over heels for a beautiful witch. For daring to love a woman engaged to another mage, their romance has been cursed . . . for centuries.
New Orleans native Ondine St. Gauthier 
Pictured: Ondine and Ronin I happened upon this wonderful painting called “Three Generations” by talented artist Melinda Byers:
Three Generations by artist Melinda Byers View more art by Melinda Byers here and also on her website
So, I thought I’d try a digital paint effect on this promo for Ondine, Pagan and Lilith:
A trio of witches: Ondine with her parisol, Pagan in her bowler hat, thoroughly modern Lilith. 
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The Witch Queen of New Orleans
Ondine St. Gauthier:
Ondine St Gauthier GIF. Also featured: Her lover Ronin Bey 
Pictured: Ondine the witch and Ronin, a FireDrake 
Ronin Bey, Warlock 
Pictured: Ronin Bey 
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Wakanda Forever!!
Comic book nerd here, from wayyyyy back (DC’s Metal Men was a favorite) Yes, I read Spiderman, Superman, the X-Men among others. Black Panther/Black Leopard was another fave, so yeah, I’m glad about the movie.
I must also give props to Wesley Snipes as BLADE.
Scifi channel has Blade playing on demand this month, and I still enjoy that groundbreaking movie. The opening scenes where Blade makes his entrance during the vampire rave is visually arresting:
Wesley Snipes as the half-human, half vampire BLADE, just before the action starts. Wesley and the gorgeous N’Bushe Wright were the male and female leads. Wesley was a co-producer and also did most of his own fighting scenes, since he’d studied martial arts.
Now its Black Panther ‘s time to shine. Congrats to director/screenwriter Ryan Coogler and the cast and crew of this wonderful film.
Chadwick Boseman portrays the royal, cool as hell hero Black Panther 
The beautiful and powerful Dora Milaje. Featured from the left: Danai Gurira and Florence Kasumba. I’ve included links to a few articles that may be of interest:
Link: https://www.theroot.com/on-black-panther-black-leopard-and-the-politics-of-bei-1822489281
Link: http://www.vulture.com/2018/01/christopher-priest-made-black-panther-cool-then-disappeared.html
Not much more to add, especially with another school shooting, yet another American tragedy. My prayers go out to all those affected.
Hope to see Black Panther this weekend–saw it. Loved it. Great cinematography, costumes, acting, and the dramatic story line twist (T’Challa finding out his father made a choice that came back to haunt the entire tribe) was utterly heart wrenching– and to finish editing books.
Karnage Xian , Gargoyle. Edited stock photos. GIF Created in GIMP 
Takeshi and Nyesha from the soon to be released ebook SENSEI 
Man on Fire – Ronin Bey, Fire Drake. This GIF was created in GIMP -
Spellbound
Ondine is from New Orleans:
While Lilith is the strongest of the three witches, Ondine is the most feared (the reason is part of her origin story).
Star-crossed lovers Ondine and Ronin 
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Express Yourself
Emmanuel Howard goes after the man she wants:
Emmanuel Howard Another promo for Karnage:
Pictured: The Gargoyle named Karnage. 
Karnage and his lady love, the witch Pagan. 
Pictured from left to right: Karnage Xian, Pagan (middle) The vampire Maxxim (right) Next up will be The Red Witch of Sorrows, Ondine and Ronin the FireDrake
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The Boys R Back in Town
From left to right: Ronin Bey, Firedrake. Ash the Hellraiser, (center) Andre Santana, Alpha X Werewolf, Karnage Xian, Gargoyle The Werewolf art is by rhabwar-troll-stock.deviantart.com, and you can view more of this artist’s work here
Check out a rock classic written by the founder and frontman of Thin Lizzy, the black Irishman himself, the late, great Phil Lynott (singing lead and playing bass) called The Boys Are Back in Town:
I also needed a smaller GIF for social media in order to promote HUI
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Long Story Short
I need to get out of this funky mood (the footage from Ferguson and also the interviews of young people explaining why they’re upset are on repeat in my mind). So besides my rant post, I’m listing a few more things I’ve been doing.
Short reads in the adult erotic romance department but packed with emotion are coming next month. Click to view an excerpt of a romance between a paraplegic male and his upstairs neighbor:
Click image to read an excerpt:
Make Me Yours. African American divorcee falls for her Somali Bantu college professor. Spin off novella from the RUSH: Suicide Kings series This is a new cover I’d created for Rory (a character introduced in the ebook RUSH) who’s paired with an exotic dancer named Roxie. I wasn’t as comfortable with my original cover, so I created this one about a month ago. Click the image for an excerpt:
Anatomy of a Seduction – Rory and Roxie’s erotic romance. This is another spin off of the RUSH:Suicide Kings series Much like with my writing, I tend to create lots of covers and then whittle them down to the ones that I like the best. Another example is this one I did for HUI by editing two different photos:
But I decided to go with this one instead:
Oh, and one more thing:
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Paranormal in Living Color
Life interrupted, so I wasn’t able to finish editing HUI since I work full-time and write part time. But it will be out very soon. Here’s how I deal with the eye-strain of pages and pages of text:
From left to right: Karnage Xian – Gargoyle Ronin – Warlock Andre Santana – Werewolf 
Julian Larouche – Victorian Era Vampire 
Ronin – a Firedrake Warlock 