There are lots of dangerous things around Portland lately but,
when a Demonic tattoo artist comes to town, everything goes to Hell, in DEMON’S
INK.
This young adult novel is set
in Portland, Oregon and with Halloween coming, you'll want to have a scary
story to share...
That’s where DEMON'S INK comes in: It's about art, that's more
than anyone bargained for.
Drake and Bartos come to the Pacific Northwest, where they open yet
another tattoo shop but Bartos has no trouble dealing with the competition
because there’s nothing normal about his art. And he’s stealing more than
clients from the local skin artists. He's stealing their souls.
Customers fall in love with Bartos Slinderman’s tats but end up
paying the ultimate price for their purchase because unlike Oscar Wilde’s
Dorian Gray, they can’t walk away from this art and it’s beautiful until the
artwork takes on a life of its own...
EXCERPT:
DRAKE
Expectations can ruin everything.
Like thinking my senior year was going to be something special. What a set up
that was.
I should have known better than to
get my hopes up.
Ever.
I’d never been lucky. No one in my
family was. I was probably only six when I’d heard grandpa say, “We come from a
long line of losers.” He was talking to my Dad. I don’t even know about what.
But, now, I know I should have listened to him.
Dad had already gone to prison,
leaving Mom and me worse off than ever. And we were never good but, at least
while he’d hung around, she managed to act like things were okay. Now she
wasn’t even trying to pretend. Really it was way worse than that; she wasn’t
even getting up off the couch any more.
I’d come home from school to find
her passed out. The first couple times it freaked me out. Seeing her
face-planted in the front room and not knowing whether she was alive or dead, I
didn’t want to be the one to find her like that, to turn her over, to have to
check to see if she was still breathing but I did. . . and I had no idea if she
was high or drunk. I didn’t even care because what difference did it make? She
was out of it. That was all that mattered.
So, after Dad went to jail, I was
completely alone until Bartos made me a deal I couldn’t refuse but that was
later.
For weeks, I’d come home after
class and make a sandwich—if there was bread—otherwise it was a bowl of cereal
for breakfast and dinner, sometimes I’d eat it dry because the milk had gone
bad.
I knew I was going to have to get a
job if I wanted to survive and I’d started looking around but that was right
before everything changed.
It was late one Thursday evening. I
still remember because I was thinking, “Only one more day…” I just didn’t know
how right I was.
I don’t know what woke me up that
night. Maybe it was the smell, the heat, the sound of my Mom screaming. I
really don’t know. But I opened my eyes to the thick burning haze of a room
filled with smoke.
I’d gone down into the basement
that night and fallen asleep.
Looking around, I already knew
there were no windows. I was trapped.
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ABOUT KIMBRA:
I'm a
writer who grew up in a family with 9
kids and only 1 t.v. so I spent my
days reading and, later, writing. I love books. . .maybe because I never got to
pick t.v. shows we watched. But I’d run home after school to catch the last
fifteen minutes of Dark Shadows...
I
still love to run...or maybe I should say wogging (a cross between walking and
jogging). Here in Portland, I love Halloween themed runs - where people don
costumes and run. It's a lot of fun...and I know those two words don't always
go together: fun...and...run. But it is.
And,
with all those Halloween themed runs, I guess Dark Shadows had more of an
influence than some people might think. Even today my favorite author is
Stephen King. My all-time favorite book is Salem's Lot.
Favorite
romance novels are The Hunger Games...okay, I know, it's a survival book but
it's really all about romance. Then there were the series: Twilight, True Blood,
and more. I really love paranormal, Horror and sometimes even light books like
Dewey the Small Town Library Cat... Mainly, I just love to read. . . and write.
Sorry
to be so long-winded but did I say I love to write? ...and talk and...knit, and
sew, and bake... I could go on but I'll stop by saying, I hope you’ll stop in on
my site and I can tell you I’m really excited to be sharing my young adult
novel with you: Demon’s Ink.
Thanks for
listening.
