by Anna Rose WorldCon/ChiCon 2022 starts a month from yesterday, August 1, 2022. It’ll be my first time attending. I’m very excited to be going…
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Author: Anna Rose
Anna Rose is a longtime lover of all things science fiction and fantasy.
Her latest novel is LUCI: RHOADES TO HELL, is now available in hardcover, softcover, and e-book formats. In it, the Devil is female and the Divine is gender queer.
Nope, it's not a romance (the Devil already has a girlfriend), nor is it kink.
She's currently working on the sequel, LUCI: Rhoades to Recovery.
Anna fell in love with dragons as a girl, but really got dragon-crazy when she discovered Anne McCaffrey's DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN series of novels. The idea of essentially befriending a dragon to be one's constant companion for life was so thrilling, it grabbed hold of her and refused to let her go. AYA'S DRAGON was Anna's first foray into Dragon-oriented fiction, which was followed shortly thereafter by the second story in the TALES OF THE DRAGONGUARD series, SARA'S FIRE.
She got into vampires when she was a kid, watching the original Dark Shadows soap opera in the early 1970's, and getting it bad for Barnabas Collins, bad hair and all.
She fell instantly in love with all things paranormal and became an absolutely rabid reader and writer, filling spiral notebooks with pages upon pages of her stories that eventually were lost. With the advent of computers and electronic storage, however, things changed for Anna.
Right now, it seems that most vampire fiction out there is peopled with self-loathing vampires looking for a cure for their "curse", or whose stories conclude in a romance with the one human who will either love them for who they are, or who, somehow, is able to "save" them from their vampiric existence. Knowing that she couldn't be the only person out there looking for something where the vampiric main character was comfortable just as they were and wasn't looking for love, Anna Rose began writing the Sumaire Web series of novels.
Anna lives in California and shares her life with her daughter and two small but very loyal dogs.
My daughter and I visited Mexico City for the first time this month and visited the ancient city of Teotihuacan. My daughter took this picture…
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Leave a CommentHello, all! Hope this finds you all doing as well as possible a little over two years after the start of the COVID-19 Shutdown of…
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Leave a Commentby Anna Rose Just a heads-up to remind you that I have several stories currently being serialized as they’re being written, to my Patreon page.…
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I will be attending the inaugural Fandom Invasion Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention at the California Center for the Arts in Escondido California on October…
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by Anna Rose Laurell K Hamilton’s (Anita Blake, Merry Gentry) latest novel, A Terrible Fall of Angels, is a nice departure from her previous two…
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I’ve got three serialized stories currently in progress on my Patreon page. One of those is the story of how Luci and Remy met, another…
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It’s been a while since last I posted a snippet of the current LUCI novel, so I thought I’d tease you a bit with this…
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Yes, like so many others, I have started a Patreon page. It contains both free and paid articles for subscribers. Each month, paid subscribers will…
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Luci’s got innumerable sisters. This is Kushiel, yet another of them.
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Luci has a sister, but their relationship is anything but a warm one. Meet Zeriel.
1 Commentby Anna Rose We’re all making plans for the new year, with some intention of sticking to them to one degree or another. It seems…
Leave a CommentI’ll be adding to this as I write new weird little pieces of prose: 12-30-2020 Watching FLIPPER on TCM. Sandy’s Dad (Chuck “The Rifleman” Connors)…
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Professor Hector Rhoades had a pretty good idea of who it was he was meeting the day he and Luci Inferi first met. As he’d…
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Remy is Luci’s oldest “living” friend and her majordomo. Due to certain very terrible things that happened…oh…about eight hundred years ago, Remy is nothing like…
Leave a CommentShort and sweet, but hopefully enough to whet your appetite for more. “That sounds like finding out you can fly after you fall out of…
Leave a CommentSome scenes can be more fun to write than others. Here, Hector encounters jokes he only thought were old. “We talk lots of things,” Trevor…
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Well, it’s mid-November and I’ve been sort of quiet on this site, so I wanted to update you on what I’ve been up to and…
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A gift today for those looking for a catharsis. Remember that every time someone reads this, it happens all over again. I hope you enjoy…
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A little bit of what I’ve been working on during NaNoWriMo 2020. That’s National Novel Writing Month for those of you who are unfamiliar with…
Leave a CommentOnce again, a few paragraphs from the first draft of my current work in progress, LUCI: Rhoades to Recovery. Keep in mind that these may…
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I wrote this in 2017 and then stepped away from it. I might come back to it at some point, but I thought to share…
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Féasta Fola—A Tale from the Sumaire Web. Copyright © 2012 by Anna Rose All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed,…
1 CommentFor your enjoyment, a little something from my current work in progress. I hope you enjoy it. “You know it’s not the best thing that…
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Enjoy this bit from my current work in progress, LUCI: Rhoades to Recovery! Hector found himself stifling hysterical laughter at the thought of a demonic…
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It wasn’t easy coming up with someone who was the appropriate model for the character of Lilith in my forthcoming book, LUCI: Rhoades to Recovery,…
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A little October fun for you to enjoy. “Gramma, you don’t understand—” “He promised me and he never broke a promise! He’ll keep this one!”…
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When you’re writing characters, you get to the point that you know what they look like. In your head, anyway. I’ve gotten to the point…
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For your enjoyment, something from book two, LUCI: RHOADES TO RECOVERY. Please keep in mind that it is only the first draft, so the passage…
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I don’t own any of this. That honor goes to Neil Gaiman, Vertigo, DC Comics, Netflix, Warner Bros., and (Dad-help-us), Fox. Use of and sharing…
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Okay, I’m sure you’ve noticed the LUCIFER-related fan fiction on the site, and there’s a good reason for it. I fell in love with the…
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Leave a CommentBetwixt and between taking care of family stuff, I’m still working hard on LUCI: Rhoades to Recovery and hoping that the time will soon come…
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Got a new Amazon review of “LUCI: Rhoades to Hell” today that has me downright tickled and preening happily! It really feels good when someone…
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In a word, No. Now wait, before you get your panties in a twist, please let me explain things to you, okay? You may have…
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A couple years ago, a few months before Halloween, I got the wild idea to start my own podcast. I’d been thinking about doing one…
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The Sumaire Web is a series about vampires. It came about after I spent a very long time trying to find a vampire novel that…
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I’ve been a huge fan of Anne McCaffrey’s DRAGONRIDERS OF PERN series for as long as I can remember. Her human/dragon pairings were wonderful and…
Leave a CommentFor those of you who have been following it all, I finally got my first physical therapy appointment for my shoulder this last week, thirteen…
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I’ve always been an avid reader and watcher of science fiction/fantasy and paranormal stuff. No, not horror. I’ve never been into that jump-scare sort of…
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I’m not sure if Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s body was even cold yet before Moscow Mitch McConnell made his vow that a candidate…
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“What is it you truly desire,” the tall, dark-haired man asked of the smartly-dressed young man who stood before him, a mangled posey clutched in…
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Chloe sat on the serviceable couch, and poured herself some water from the glass pitcher that Dr. Linda always kept on the coffee table. Taking…
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Riiiiing… The caller ID showed a familiar name and number, so she picked up the call. Yes, there were things going on that probably needed…
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I don’t own any of this. That honor goes to Neil Gaiman, Vertigo, DC Comics, Netflix, Warner Bros., and (Dad-help-us), Fox. Use of and sharing…
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Tonight, the Supreme Court of the United States has lost a powerhouse of a Justice. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the eldest liberal Justice on that…
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I am currently doing a semi-weekly podcast called the SciFi & Fantasy, Light & Dark: Excursions Into the Unknown. In it, I discuss what I’m…
Leave a CommentThe new version of the site is slowly coming together. I’ll be posting updates on what I’m doing, stuff about the SciFi & Fantasy, Light…
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