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raven dane

The world of Raven Dane

About Me

Hi, I am a published author of dark fantasy. I live in England but I am of Irish/Welsh blood...in other words a full-blood celt living in Anglo -Saxon England. I live a quiet, 'normal' life with my husband and young son by day but spend my nights writing dark tales of beautiful, amoral blood drinkers. I love cinema and tv when not writing and my idea of a perfect night is a loud, wild informal dinner party with my close friends and certain carefully selected family members with plenty of crazy discussions, much laughter and great music.I want to meet creative, fun, open-minded and intriguing people of all ages, backgrounds, beliefs. All the new friends I have made so far have been a delight..but you can never have too much of a good thing! I am here to make friends, but if anyone is interested in my work, I have posted two short extracts from Blood Tears and Blood Lament on my blogs. They are available to order from all good book shops and on line. Amazon are doing Blood Tears at a special rate.Blood Tears...ISBN 13978-1-905108-30-5 Blood Lament..ISBN 13978-1-905108-16-9 **************************************** Any pirate lovers out there? Can I heartily recommend Helen Hollick's brilliant novel for grown ups- Sea Witch..with the sexiest , most charismatic pirate since...you know who! **************************************** Announcing a new project. A scurrilous light-hearted fantasy! See me in a playful mood on myspace.com/questbyravendaneThat is enough shameless plugging!
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My Interests

Cinema, Spanish (Andalucian) horses, reading and writing. Laughing- a lot! Pirates and Dark Kind vampires of course!

I'd like to meet:

Yes, I would love to meet Johnny Depp, to thank him for all the hours of pleasure his films have given me and my like-minded friends. Nothing more, just a thank you. (Yeah, right! ), the divine John Barrowman. And Muse......I am getting obsessed with this band- unrepentantly so. With Editors and Inkubus Sukkubus close and honourable joint second!

Music:

Muse, Editors ,Snowpatrol, Keane, U2, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Alice Human, Bronwen Harrison, Midnight Syndicate, Inkubus Sukkubus.

Movies:

Pirates of the Caribbean, The Matrix, Blade Runner, Wings of Desire, Monty Python's Holy Grail, Lord of the Rings, From Hell, Dodgeball, The Libertine, From Hell, The Crow, 1492- for the Spanish horses,theme tune and Michael Wincott in black leather! And not forgeting the wonderful Bus Pirates...like the Sea !

Television:

The new Dr Who, all the CSI 's esp Las Vegas. ER. House. Most American cop shows. Extras, Spooks and Torchwood. Lexx (the first series)Angel and Buffy. Comedy- Mighty Boosh, Green Wing.

Books:

Anything by Robert Maccammon, Stephen King,Helen Hollick, Anne MacCaffrey, Dean Koontz, Phil Rickman.

Heroes:

Jazriel, sha'ref to the Dark Kind nobility, Kai,last of the Brunnen G, Jendar Azrar,Prince of Isolann, Captain Jesamiah Acorne. Neo. Aragorn. Captain Jack Sparrow. And my dad.

My Blog

Check out this event: Book Signing

Hosted By: Raven DaneWhen: 28 Oct 2007, 11:00Where: The Whitby Bookshop88 Church StreetWhitby, YO224BHUnited KingdomDescription:Raven Dane Click Here To View Event...
Posted by raven dane on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 03:34:00 PST

The tale is all

That great novelist Robert Louis Stevenson said; ' The important thing is the tale, the well-told tale, not he who tells it.' A comment sent to me by Georgia, a myspace friend, today re...
Posted by raven dane on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:35:00 PST

Having fun winding up an African con man

There is a website devoted to winding up conmen...I thought I would have a go when I recieved this hilarious email today. I couldnt get my reply to go under his mail. So read the long text in bold f...
Posted by raven dane on Thu, 24 May 2007 09:33:00 PST

New review of Blood Tears

Extracts from Review of Blood Tears by Nancy Schumann, Editor of The Chronicles Magazine.. A full version of this review as well an in depth interview with the author can be found in Issue Six of The...
Posted by raven dane on Fri, 04 May 2007 06:19:00 PST

In Dublin's Fair City, where the Vamps are so pretty...

I am suffering from a condition akin to jet lag. It is called Con lag. A pleasant but none the less debilitating condition caused by a combination of condensing a fortnight's worth of travel, sparklin...
Posted by raven dane on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:33:00 PST

New stuff from me...

I will be posting bits of pieces of new writing as and when the Muse of Dark Imaginings prompts or my beautiful bad boys and girls want more of their story revealed. This new work will be po...
Posted by raven dane on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:20:00 PST

A reader from Eastern Europe

  As a new writer, it is always such a delight to recieve mail from people who have enjoyed my work. I have lived with my alternative world and the characters who dwell there ...
Posted by raven dane on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 04:49:00 PST

Blood Lament official press release

    Beautiful, Charismatic, Junkie Vampires& Blood Lament by Raven Dane Blood Lament is the second in a series of fantasy adventures featuring the "Dark Kind"  vampires with a difference! ...
Posted by raven dane on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:27:00 PST

Extract from Blood Lament

A tantalising glimpse of Blood Lament ! Reposted as the myspace pixies have stolen the last one....                  &nbs...
Posted by raven dane on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:07:00 PST

A Valentine Days Poem

I entered Harry Shannon's light hearted competion to write a Valentine's Day poem, to someone famous. It absolutely had to be silly- not a work of high art. I think it was rightly won by a hilari...
Posted by raven dane on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:32:00 PST