FEARLESS: CHRISTINE RAINS

Monday, August 7, 2012

Today is the release date for Christine Rain's paranormal romance novella FEARLESS.

Blurb:

Abby White was seven years old when she killed the monster under her bed. Now she slays creatures spawned by the fertile imaginations of children, and the number of these nightmares are on the rise. Neither she nor her guide - a stuffed hippo named Tawa - know why.

When she rescues Demetrius from an iron prison, he pledges his life to protect hers until he can return the favor. She doesn't want the help. And how can she concentrate on her job when the gorgeous wild fae throws himself in front of her during every fight? No matter how tempting, she can't take the time to lose herself to him.

To save the children and all she loves, Abby must be truly Fearless.

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Christine Rains is a writer, blogger, and geek mom. She has four degrees which help nothing with motherhood, but make her a great Jeopardy player. She lives in southern Indiana with her husband and son in a cozy little house stuffed full of books and games. She has sixteen short stories and one novella published, and three short stories forthcoming.

Please visit her website or stop by her blog and show your support.

To celebrate the release of her novel, Christine is also hosting a blogfest between Aug 7 - 9. The spirit guide from her novella Fearless wants to know "what was your childhood fear?"

Well, I had many fears as a child, but the one that has followed me throughout life is the fear of something coming up through the toilet. Now, I know how silly that sounds. But here's the story.

My mom was fond of horror movies, but not so fond of watching them alone. A lot of times she'd let me stay up late, or wake me up to watch them. Even as young as 10 I preferred spooky movies to cartoons (hated Road Runner) so usually I didn't mind keeping her company. I don't remember the name of the movie that really scared me the most, but it was something about crocodiles or alligators or rats or something weird living in the sewers (in New York City of all places) and coming up through the toilet to kill people. I don't know why that scared me more than anything else I'd watched on Creature Features.

Perhaps because the toilet always made funny noises; or because the only bathroom was in my parents bedroom, and we were discouraged from turning on the lights at night because my dad was sleeping and had to be up at 4a to go to work. So, I couldn't look in the toilet to see if anything was in there after the movie ended and it was time for bed. I peed in the tub. For like, a week after.

Finally it just got ridiculous even to me so of course I started using the toilet again. But I always had the light on - my dad never woke up, probably cuz he was a heavy sleeper and I didn't turn on the light until the door closed. But it took me years and years and an emergency situation to be able to use the outhouses that are mostly just a seat above a hole in the ground. Camping was never the same . .

Just when I was sure I'd put all the silliness with monsters in the plumbing behind me, along comes a novel by the horror master Stephen King. Dream Catcher. Yep; if you've read the book (or watched the movie) you know the scenes I'm talking about. Beaver, sitting on the toilet lid, keeping the nasty slug type alien monster with razor sharp teeth firmly inside while Jonsey looks through the shed for the duct tape. Do I need to say I don't use tooth picks anymore either?

Ok, so there's my story in support of Tawa and his Fearless warrior Abby White. Be sure to visit the other Child Fears blogfest participants.