{"id":483,"date":"2013-05-09T01:45:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T01:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/?p=483"},"modified":"2013-05-21T03:37:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T03:37:48","slug":"the-books-are-free-but-magic-has-its-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jameschambersonline.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/the-books-are-free-but-magic-has-its-price\/","title":{"rendered":"The Books Are Free But Magic Has Its Price"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Gorge released note after blistering note, and the audience soaked up his music like a rain of razor blades. They danced, whirled, and smashed together; they bled magic that flowed across smoky air, shimmering red and yellow with flashing stage lights, to feed the hungry core inside him. He hadn\u2019t felt magic this pure and vibrant since his days in the Kingdoms; how ironic, he thought, to find it among these nihilistic, rebellious, angry young mortals. His left hand throttled the guitar neck, fingertips gliding among the frets, tapping and pulling the strings to slash out biting riffs until he reached a crescendo\u2014<\/p>\n

\u2014and then let it all come crashing down.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So begins my new novella, Three Chords of Chaos<\/em>, a faerie-punk love story about music, mortality,\u00a0decadence, and dark forces.<\/p>\n

Published by Dark Quest Books, it will officially be released on May 31\u2014but if you can keep a secret, head on over to Amazon<\/a>, where it’s already available for order. Or if you’re the kind of bare-knuckle reader who likes your books the old fashioned way\u2014free!\u2014then check out my giveaway contests\u00a0over on Facebook <\/a>and Goodreads<\/a>. Three Chord of Chaos<\/em> follows Gorge and his mortal lover Delilah as they navigate the smoky shadows of the Big Apple\u2019s underground punk clubs and the kinky, drug-fueled\u00a0parties of the music world\u2019s elite. A blend of punk music, urban fantasy, and evil forces, Three Chords of Chaos<\/em> explores the dangerous nexus of faerie and mortal worlds where Gorge lives life on the edge.<\/p>\n

The first time I wrote about Gorge was in \u201cThe Way of the Bone\u201d (Bad-Ass Faeries: Just Plain Bad<\/em>), set in the present,\u00a0when Gorge stood at the top of the music world, playing to arena crowds, and moving ever closer to the darkness he sought to send to his enemies in the realm of the sidhe. In \u201cFaerie Ring Blues\u201d (Bad-Ass Faeries: In All Their Glory<\/em>), I went back to 1960, only a few years after Gorge’s exile when Gorge learned how to live in the mortal world. Now, in Three Chords of Chaos<\/em>, the time is the early 1980s, the place is downtown NYC, and Gorge comes into his own as he begins to understand how much magic and power there is for the taking in the mortal world\u2014but also how deadly and vicious mortals can be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Gorge released note after blistering note, and the audience soaked up his music like a rain of razor blades. They danced, whirled, and smashed together; they bled magic that flowed across smoky air, shimmering red and yellow with flashing stage lights, to feed the hungry core inside him. He hadn\u2019t felt magic this pure and … <\/p>\n

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