Winter’s Demon
Series-Vesik Series #
3
By- Eric R. Asher
Some things can never
be undone. The horrors I've defeated—or even caused—with my own hands … they
are nothing compared to what’s coming. Philip Pinkerton has brought his madness
upon my family, my own blood. His army of necromancers is on the move,
harbingers of a great darkness. I fear the war has begun ... and damn, I don't
get paid enough for this.
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I finally caught a glimpse of Sam in
the snow-obscured scene. She was back-to-back with Cara as they fought off four
of the vampiric zombies in a constant, dizzying motion. They were losing
ground. Cara winced as one of the zombies reached past her flickering blade and
tore into her left wing. It cost the zombie an arm, but the bastard didn’t
care. Sam lunged and punched through his head, but it left her back open. One
of the others got an arm around her neck and started to bend her backwards. The
vampiric zombie was damaged, and its aura was exposed. I’d seen enough.
I
raised my arm and my necromancy flared out. It enveloped the zombie on Sam’s
back and I flinched as the flash of knowing began.
Ancient,
he’d died in the black plague, or at least he should have. So many years past,
lost, alone, a rogue vampire for almost three hundred years. So many dead lay
in his wake, and he reveled in the destruction. He laughed as he stood on the
rubble of a fallen castle. Years passed before a man found him. A man with a
sandy complexion, round features, and dark, kind eyes. A demon in everything
but body. He tore the vampire’s soul away and replaced it with a demon’s aura,
birthing a vampiric zombie. Conscious of his surroundings, but unable to act,
he just wanted to die.
I
shuddered as the flash faded and my mind became my own again.
Ezekiel.
I’d
been looking into the eyes of Ezekiel. I inhaled and tore the zombie’s head off
with a flick of my wrist and a blade of necromancy.
SOUNDTRACK & PLAYLIST
Please share your
idea of the perfect soundtrack to ‘Winter’s Demon’
Savior by Rise
Against
Fireworks At Dawn by
Senses Fail
Islands by The xx
The Kids Aren’t
Alright by The Offspring
20 Years by The Civil
Wars
The Humbling River by
Puscifer
Carol of the Bells by
Mykola Leontovych
Into Dust by Mazzy
Star
Sail by AWOLNATION
Sometimes the Line
Walks You by Murder By Death
What the Water Gave
Me by Florence + The Machine
Bleeding Out by
Imagine Dragons
The Last Few Minutes
by The Vincent Black Shadow
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Please share the
playlist you listened to while writing ‘Winter’s Demon’
I was on a serious
Offspring kick while working on Winter’s Demon, as you’ll probably notice. My
Chemical Romance and Florence + The Machine were also on repeat quite a bit. I
tend to use different sections of my playlists to help set different moods while
writing. I grew up playing the cello, and music has always had a big role in my
life.
The Offspring: Amazed
/ The Kids Aren’t Alright / Come Out Swinging / Vultures / Half-Truism / You’re
Gonna Go Far, Kid / A Lot Like Me / Can’t Repeat
My Chemical Romance:
Helena / The Ghost Of You / Cemetery Drive / Famous Last Words / SING /
DESTROYA
Florence + The
Machine: Only If for a Night / Shake It Out / What the Water Gave Me / No
Light, No Light / Seven Devils
A few others that
found their way onto my playlist while writing Winter’s Demon:
Fireworks At Dawn by
Senses Fail
Islands by The xx
The Humbling River by
Puscifer
Sail by AWOLNATION
Sometimes the Line
Walks You by Murder By Death
Bleeding Out by
Imagine Dragons
Into Dust by Mazzy
Star
OTHER BOOKS IN THE VESIK SERIES
Days Gone Bad
Series- Vesik # 1
By Eric R. Asher
Genre- Urban Fantasy
My name is Damian
Valdis Vesik. I am a necromancer, an ability feared and hated as much as the
powers my master and I set ourselves against. We've vanquished many evils, but
now something is releasing an old darkness, forcing us to hunt an enemy beyond
anything I’ve faced before. I was already busy enough with vampires, fairies,
witches, Watchers, weddings, and … damn, I need a vacation.
Audio Book:
EXCERPT
I was standing
outside the birdcage in the dead of night with a tiny ghost holding my hand and
a seven-foot fairy watching our backs. I closed my eyes and focused, gathering
up a glowing ball of fae before sending it out in a pulse of power across the
park. It wasn’t aimed at just any dead; it was aimed at attracting the
attention of one particular ghost. It didn’t take long.
The little girl at my
side squealed as Happy came bounding through the bars of the birdcage, much to
the chagrin of the scattering birds.
Happy pulled up about
six inches in front of us. I held up another ball of energy and the spirit
quaffed it down before I started scratching his ears. “Hey buddy, still
terrorizing the birds, huh?” He leaned into the ear scratching and grunted.
“That is so wrong,”
Foster said.
I turned to the little girl. She clung tightly to the back of my leg. Happy pushed his head between my legs and I heard another squeal. So, there I was, with a fairy laughing at me, a ghost panda between my legs, and a little girl unwilling to relinquish her death grip on me while she tried to get away from Happy.
Can you share the
playlist you listened to while writing ‘Days Gone Bad’ with us?
Music played a role
in my life long before I realized it. I went through my school career in
orchestra, was raised playing the cello. I eventually picked up a guitar, wrote
some songs, and joined a band. After that didn’t work out so well, I settled
down into writing. These are some of the songs that helped me hammer out the
first draft of Days Gone Bad.
Open Hand – Her Song
Open Hand – You and
Me
My Chemical Romance –
The Ghost of You
My Chemical Romance –
Cemetery Drive
Brand New – Luca
Paramore – Misery
Business
Evanescence –
Tourniquet
Murder By Death – One
More Notch
Senses Fail – Rum is
for Drinking, Not for Burning
J.S. Bach – The Cello
Suites (performed by Yo-Yo Ma)
Wolves and the
River of Stone
Series-Vesik # 2
By- Eric R. Asher
Publication Date-
October 22nd, 2013
Genre- Urban Fantasy
Philip, Zola’s
boyfriend from one hundred and fifty years ago, is not nearly as dead as we
thought. I really wish he was. Not only has he kidnapped Zola, but he’s raising
an army to scour humanity from the earth. Hopefully the local werewolf pack
will help. What could possibly go wrong?
EXCERPT
I eased the bullets
into my six-barreled pepperbox one at a time, forgoing the speed loader in the
name of intimidation. Lewis’s eyes went wide and locked onto the gun.
“Where is she?” I
said. I took a deep breath, the Missouri River beside us masking every other
scent aside from the decay of the blasted zombies. The shadowed tree lines hid
us from the nearby population of Saint Charles.
Lewis shook his head.
Two days ago we
learned Philip was still alive. Yesterday his servants kidnapped Zola. I didn’t
know why they took her, but she didn’t go quietly. The Watchers would be using
a spatula to clean out the alley where she was taken.
“You sicced your
zombies on us?” I said. “A fairy and a necromancer?” I glared at Lewis. “I find
myself ... irritated.”
Lewis held up his
hand and started to speak.
I holstered the
pepperbox under my arm and wrapped my hand around the shield rune on my staff.
A flowing glass surface sprang to life as a thread of power wound into the wood
and metal.
“Don’t even think
about it,” I said.
Despair washed over
Lewis’s face. He was breaking, and I could see it.
SOUNDTRACK
Can you share your
idea of the perfect soundtrack to ‘Wolves and the River of Stone’’ with us?
Absolutely! Music has
always been a large part of my life. I grew up in orchestra, playing the cello.
I’ll list out some of the band and album names, and then the tracks I actually
listened to while writing several of the scenes. There were many, many more,
but I’ll keep the list at a reasonable length. :)
My Chemical Romance -
The Black Parade
-The Sharpest Lives
-Famous Last Words
Matt & Kim -
Grand
-Good Ol’ Fashion
Nightmare
-I’ll Take Us Home
-Daylight
Senses Fail - Still
Searching
-The Rapture
-Negative Space
-The Priest and the
Matador
AFI -
Decemberunderground
-Miss Murder
-Kiss and Control
-The Killing Lights
Mazzy Star - So
Tonight That I Might See
-Fade Into You
-Into Dust
J.S. Bach – The Cello
Suites (performed by Yo-Yo Ma)
About the Author
Eric is a former
bookseller, guitarist, and comic seller currently living in Saint Louis,
Missouri. A lifelong enthusiast of books, music, toys, and games, he discovered
a love for the written word after being dragged to the library by his parents
at a young age. When he is not writing, you can usually find him reading,
gaming, or buried beneath a small avalanche of Transformers.
Links-
Facebook- www.facebook.com/ericrasher
Twitter- www.twitter.com/ericrasher
Website- www.daysgonebad.com
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