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Sealed With a Kiss, a short story by Carmilla Voiez
‘Look after this for me.’ That was the last thing Amy said to me before stuffing her holdall into my locker and running out of the...
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Aug 13, 201920 min read


Becoming a Writer, Dorothea Brande – review and applications
I have no doubt that this will be the most useful and inspirational book about writing that I shall ever read. Many books describe an...
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Jul 26, 20192 min read


Ribbons – Cover Reveal
Ribbons is book four in the Starblood series and is set to be released on Friday 13th September. Psychopaths shall inherit the Earth. The...
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Jul 16, 20193 min read


Black Sun, the graphic novel
Edensun is the child of Star, Satori and Lilith. He has many names including - The God of Inbetween and The Bringer of Chaos. Abandoned...
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Jul 8, 20191 min read


Excerpt from Pariah
#Amwriting the first draft of the fifth book in the Starblood series. At the moment I am working on what is currently the second chapter....
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Jun 24, 20191 min read


Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill - a review and short story
I wrote a short story for my Creative Writing course twelve years ago with the same name and a friend asked me if I had read this book....
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Jun 24, 20197 min read


Pariah preview
#amwriting Pariah, book five in the Starblood series. This is the first draft. I only started writing the novel this morning, and chances...
carmillavoiez
Jun 20, 20191 min read


The Starblood Series - update
A lot is happening in the world of the Starblood series. I have just received the paperbook wrap from Vamptasy for book three. Book four...
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Jun 18, 20193 min read


Black Sun - out June 11
Black Sun Welcome to the Starblood series where Star, Satori, Donna, Freya and Raven co-exist with magic and demons. The third book...
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Jun 7, 20196 min read


Ribbons and Black Sun
Over the next few weeks I shall be preparing the manuscript for Ribbons so that I can forward it to my wonderful editor. I'm unlikely to...
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Jun 4, 20191 min read


Short Stuff
On June 30th Trembling With Fear & The Horror Tree will be publishing my Drabble “Missing”. I will of course post links when they go...
carmillavoiez
May 29, 20192 min read


Birthday Treats
When I started my first full-time job it was the tradition that the birthday boy or girl would bring in cakes for the rest of the office....
carmillavoiez
May 21, 201918 min read


We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson - a review
Although this book was first published in 1962, the idea of two young women protecting each other to the extent of letting others die to...
carmillavoiez
Apr 19, 20192 min read


Psychonaut Release Day
Psychonaut is the second book in Carmilla Voiez’s Starblood series. It’s a relaunch of the novel by American indie Vamptasy Publishing....
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Mar 11, 20195 min read


The Formative Power of Brevity – Border - Reading as a Writer
I recently watched a film called Border based on a short story by John Ajvide Lindqvist. The film made me buy the short story collection,...
carmillavoiez
Feb 28, 20194 min read


Conflict Equals Plot
As many of you know I am writing the fourth book in the Starblood series: Ribbons. I have a release date looming, although if necessary...
carmillavoiez
Feb 27, 20192 min read


Ode to a Nightingale, John Keats - read by Benedict Cumberbatch
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One...
carmillavoiez
Feb 26, 20193 min read


Excerpt from Psychonaut, by Carmilla Voiez
Star visualises the sun. She concentrates on its golden rays and lets it grow inside her. Her body tingles and warms. The sun shines...
carmillavoiez
Feb 20, 20193 min read


Psychonaut Cover Reveal
March 12, 2019 is the release date for the new Vamptasy relaunch of my novel Psychonaut. I could not be more excited. Of all my books...
carmillavoiez
Feb 15, 20197 min read


Take Heart. Bloody Valentines
The source of human emotion and particularly love was considered to be the heart for many cultures including the ancient Egyptians and...
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Feb 14, 20196 min read
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