TODAY'S THE DAY! LIGHT A CANDLE?

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Meanwhile, today, I'll just make a few comments on this "thing" I seem to have for candles (as well as for waterfalls and custom-made daggers; these latter commented upon, maybe, in some later blog). Lately, I confess that my candle "thing" has been less for candles, in general, than for Jfay candles, in particular.

For those of you unfamiliar with Jfay, she's a candle-artisan extraordinaire who can whip up (literally, sometimes), a candle to your specifications in no time. She has this talent for teaming up with authors, like moi, and providing just the right kind of candle to go with their just-released books...

http://wickdreads.com/

...and, then, heads on out, like a house on fire, to help promote book and candle (I keep telling her, she needs to include a "bell" in there, somewhere). After she did "the" definitive candle, all riddled with bloody bullet holes, as representative of my book A SLIP TO DIE FOR (first of my STUD DRAQUAL mystery series), I was hooked as surely as any marlin on a baited hook in the Gulf of Mexico (before the Gulf became too oil-filled to support marine life, that is).

I've since teamed with Jfay to do so many stellar candles, for so many of my stellar books, even my cousin and my help- cookbook THE GLUTEN FREE WAY: MY WAY ... not to mention my Vlad Draqual vampire series whose candle is complete with stake AND coffin ... my gilded "chocolate" candle depicting all of the decadency and over-indulgence of my book I, DEBAUCHEE ... that I actually have a gallery page devoted entirely to the Jfay candles presently in my personal collection...

http://www.myspace.com/maltesecandlegallery

When I decided to write my teen-angst candle-reader, vampire, witch, warlock, demon, dragon, shape-shifted, chimera, tree-spirit, metal-bender, shadow-people, FLICKER series of books for Savant Press (#1 BOOK OF ANSWERS, soon scheduled to hit your book stands), who else to go to, for a book whose story-line is packed full of candles, than to the Mistress of Candle-Making Jfay?! And damn, but she did us, and my book, proud!

http://www.myspace.com/flickerwarriors

I was so impressed by the work she did for/with me, as regards FLICKER, that I changed my original cover-graphic concept and gave her purple/blue FUSION candle pride of place, center-front-cover, by way of inviting each and every reader on in for a thoroughly "wick'd read" of teenage warriors, good and evil, battling it out for position of Supreme Grand Magician in the scab-lands of central Washington state.

It goes without saying, too, that for those of us who are "into" the occult, there's no more perfect way to assure your spells work well than to have your accompanying candles specifically made to match the incantations.

As regards to Jfay's recent foray into the field of perfumes for the body, including the new SPICE/BERRY FUSION signature scent for my FLICKER series, and the wondrous Nosferatu Illume (The Vampire Walks the Light of Day), conjured by her exclusively for my Vlad Draqual vampire series ... more on those in my blog tomorrow.