Title: One Two Three Kisses
Series: Kiss
Series: Kiss
Author: E.J,. Kimelman
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Release Date: 17th April 2014
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The
International Council for the Exploration of the Universe exists to consider
and conduct investigations into the dimensions of the Universe; to examine how
far humans are being depleted by zombies; to investigate natural methods, such
as by breeding, etc., of keeping up the stock; and in cases of certain future
failure of supply to suggest the necessary remedial measures. For the most part
it deals with the humans common to all dimensions, but a special sub-committee
considers the vampires, and a second the shifters; disembodied spirits are not
investigated.
In
the first transmission....
A new, dangerous
street drug is spreading through Crescent City. A hallucinogen that causes
violent attacks, incredible strength, and leaves its victims in a permanently
altered state.
Darling Price's
band, Higgs and the Bosons, is on the verge of their big break. If only she
could get her act together and play the way she did before her best friend and
musical inspiration, Megan Quick, fell fatally ill, then disappeared.
With only weeks
to live Megan wasn't even strong enough to visit the bathroom by herself, yet,
somehow she climbed out of her window and left.
Even though it's
been months, Darling can't stop looking for Megan. Still hoping to find her alive
is insane. Her obsession is pissing off her band mates and Darling is worried
it might trigger her hallucinations. She hasn't been sick since Megan and she
ran away from their foster home to Crescent City at the age of 13.
They took a
blood oath, pressing bleeding palms together, promising that no matter what
they'd stay with each other. So how could Megan leave her? It's a mystery
Darling can't solve and refuses to let go of.
Since Megan's
disappearance Darling has started to feel a gnawing hunger. No food or drink or
drug can quench it. It's a hunger she's felt before, but has convinced herself
wasn't real. Because what Darling feels, and the vivid memories from her early
childhood, are all impossible.
As the drug
spreads through the city and the world begins to unravel, Darling's lack of
musical inspiration becomes the least of her problems as she comes to recognize
that all of her assumptions about the universe may be wrong.
In
the second transmission....
Darling Price
thought her best friend, Megan Quick, was dead. Months earlier the doctors said
Megan had only weeks to live. Than she disappeared. So when Megan saves Darling
from a crowd of flesh crazed zombies, exhibiting strength and speed beyond the
bounds of biology, Darling is at once exhilarated to see her friend alive again
but also frightened by her.
Darling comes to
understand that Megan's new found life comes at a price, one she hopes Darling
is willing to pay so that they can be together again.
With zombies
over running the streets, immortal beings controlling her emotions, and lost
memories flooding back to her, Darling must make a decision that will decide
the course of her life forever. At the same time Darling begins to understand
that she is not just some regular girl. She may have powers of her own that go
beyond the bounds of known biology.
In
the third transmission....
Darling Price
can feed off the power of others. Through this transfer of energy she can heal
from any wound, including a zombie bite. With the help of Dimitri, an 800 year
old vampire, Darling searches for answers about her parents and her powers.
As she gets
closer to the truth the world continues to crumble around her. Dr. Issa Tor, a
powerful warlock, believes that Darling can help save the world but when she
goes to his society looking for answers she just finds more questions. Time is
running out for Darling and the world she has learned to think of as home.
EXCERPT
International
Dimension Investigations
Please
state Where and When this correspondence was found and then put it in the
nearest inter-dimensional pathway. You will be informed in reply where and when
it was set adrift. Our object is to find out the Direction of the Deep Currents
of the Universe.
Locality
where found?
Depth
Date
when found?
Name
of Sender
Address
I
hope this works. I’ve never tried attaching anything to our research messages
before. Only 4% are found and responded to. Perhaps you have no idea what this
is, what the Deep Currents of the Universe are. More than likely, if you can
understand this, then it is much like your ocean. In my world we first started
putting messages into bottles in order to track the currents of our waters.
When
another dimension responded it shocked us. It’s possible in your world the
dimensional portals are still unknown to your scientists. After decades of
study they are still mostly unknown to ours, hence this message. We still use
the same methods we did over a century ago. Though now it is the currents of
the Universe that we throw our bites of data into.
But I
have not broken all protocol, and risked my career, in order to talk about my
world or the methodology of The International Council for the Exploration of
the Universe. I did it to talk about Darling Price.
I
have interviewed many inter-dimensional creatures but none of them like
Darling. Enclosed you will find the recordings from the first day’s
sessions. I hope the file is not too heavy to float. I feel a great
nervousness that I will be too late, or that you will not understand the impact
of these interviews. I fear that my world is lost, but perhaps yours can be
saved.
I
will send out more when I can. Please respond. Tell me that you’ve received my
message.
****
Darling
Price’s hair is dark; it falls over her shoulders in shimmering waves. It’s
glossy like a record, catching the light in white lines. Her eyes are a very
intense green. Alarming, powerful.
She
avoids eye contact. “Bad things happen when I look a person in the eyes.
Everyone except Megan.”
“Tell
me about Megan,” I said.
“She
is the thing that saved me. I was going to kill myself, and kill people with
me, and just drag the whole world down. I felt like reality was twisting around
me and… she stopped the world and I got to live.”
“Since
her leaving?”
“Leaving,”
she hiccuped a laugh, “is that what you’re calling it?” Darling stood up and
turned to the wall. Her black leather pants were the same shiny black as her
hair. On her hips hung a white belt; it tilted to one side, where her gun hung.
Silver pistol, not as shiny as her hair. It looked used, scuffed, strapped to
her leg for too long.
She
raised her hands above her head and rested them against the cinder-block wall.
Her fingernails were short, painted the same matte metallic as her gun. She
turned back to me, running a hand through her hair, pushing the long locks away
from her high cheekbones and arched brows. “She was taken. I want you to write
that down. Megan did not leave me.”
“Okay,”
I said, dutifully picking up my pen. “Please continue.”
She
looked at her empty chair, the long hair falling to cover her fine features. It
exposed her shoulder, bare except for the strap of her tank top. Surprisingly
erotic under the fluorescent light.
Darling
sat down and leaned onto the table between us. “Do you have a cigarette?” she
asked.
“You
can’t smoke in here,” I said.
She
smiled slowly, her eyes warming; a sensation began to tingle along my jaw.
“Give me a tobacco stick, and I’ll tell you my story.”
I
waved to the guard.
Darling
sat back, pushing the chair away from the table, and extended her legs out
straight. “And a beer,” she said. “I’d love a beer.”
I
nodded.
Moments
later, a fresh cigarette hanging from her lip, the smoke curling around her and
seeming to want to brush up against her hair before dissipating into the air,
she began to tell me her story.
AUTHOR INTERVIEW
E.J. Kimelman is the paranormal pen name
of Emily Kimelman. She splits her time between the Hudson Valley and traveling
the world with her husband, Sean, and her dog, Kinsey (named after Sue
Grafton's Kinsey Milhone), researching exciting locations for her Sydney Rye
Mystery Series. Emily is enjoying writing about places that only exist in her
imagination with the KISS series. Kimelman has a passion for traveling and
spends as much time as possible in the pursuit of adventure.
Did you always want to be a writer? If not what
did you want to be?
No,
I didn’t think I could be a writer. I am severely dyslexic and so growing up
always thought that my innate inability to spell or use grammar correctly would
keep me from a writer’s life. I thought I’d be a photographer but after working
as one for a few years I realized it was not the career for me. The only thing
that suites me is making up stories. I have an editor who helps out with the
details. However, she did not go over this interview, so, if there are tons of
errors you’ll know why
Do you work another job as well as your writing
work?
I
don’t anymore but I did for years. I worked as a waitress and bartender. Then I
owned a glassblowing studio and gallery with my husband. Now I write full time.
Who is your publisher? or do you self publish?
I
self publish.
Do you have a "lucky charm" or
"lucky routine" you follow when waiting for your book to be accepted
by a publisher?
I’m
so happy I don’t have to worry about luck when it comes to publishing my work.
I can do it whenever the timing works for me. I do think there is a certain
amount of luck in selling your books once they are published though. I have a
very intense launch schedule. I’ve learned that I need to dedicate the entire
week leading up to a new release to prepping all my marketing and staying on
top of it. I have an awesome assistant who helps out but I still need all my
mojo concentrating on that launch to make it as stress free as possible.
How long does it usually take you to write a
book, from the original idea to finishing writing it?
That
really depends on the book. My first Sydney Rye Mystery took over three years
to write. And I started the KISS serial two years before it was published. But
my most recent Sydney Rye only took about four months from idea to publication.
I think it has to do with how well I know the characters. It takes a long time
to build the world and the people in my mind but once they are there I can just
follow along on the adventure.
Do you have plans for a new book? Is this book
part of a series?
“One,
Two, Three Kiss” is the first three installments of my KISS serial. This first
season has six episodes. “Four Kiss” and “Five Kiss” are out now and “Six Kiss”
launches in July. I plan on doing at least one more season which I will start
releasing next year.
What
genre would you place your books into?
The
KISS serial is Apocalyptic urban fantasy with hints of paranormal romance.
What made you decide to write that genre of
book?
I wanted to write a book that involved zombies,
vampires, succubus, lots of sex and multiple dimensions. I’ve loved paranormal fiction ever since I read
Charlene Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse
books and have always turned to the genre as an escape from mysteries. Not that
I still don’t love mysteries and
thrillers. Just when I’m writing a Sydney
Rye mystery I can’t get into someone
else's thriller so I’ve turned to
paranormal. But then what happened was paranormal romance stuff was trying to
jump into my Sydney Rye books which just does not work. So in a way I wrote
this series because it was clamoring around inside my head and if I didn’t get it out as the KISS serial it was going to
force itself into my other work.
What
piece of advice would you give to a new writer?
Same
old, same old: Keep Writing. It’s the most annoying yet truthful advice you can
give. When I started I had a goal of 500 words a day. Now when I’m writing a
first draft my word count goal for the day is 4500. It gets easier. Just keep
writing.
Do you or would you ever use a pen name?
E.J. Kimelman is my pen name. Emily Kimelman is my maiden name. My real name shall remain a mystery. Unless you google me, then you’d be able to figure it out pretty quick.
If you could invite three favorite writers to dinner, who would you invite and enjoy chatting with?
Jane Austen would be my first invite. She is one of my all time favorite writers. I’ve read PRIDE AND PREJUDICE about 10 times and I’ve watched the BBC adaptation more times than I can count. Next at the table would be P.D. James. I lover her writing and she has been a huge inspiration to me. Also, obviously she would be super excited to see Jane Austen there and I’d get major props right off the bat. Lastly, I’d invite J.K Rowling. I think the Harry Potter series is incredible and her story is inspiring. While normally she might not accept my invitation when she found out I brought two of the greatest writers of all time back from the dead she would probably be pretty impressed.
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