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Black Sun - out June 11

Updated: Oct 31, 2020

Black Sun

Welcome to the Starblood series where Star, Satori, Donna, Freya and Raven co-exist with magic and demons.


The third book “Black Sun” comes out on Tuesday 12th June.



Murder, magic and obsession tear the heroes from the bliss they deserve. Star and Satori are being hunted; something is playing with their lives. Star found her power in another world, but will that be enough to save them? In a game of revenge, lovers and friends are moved around a cosmic chess board; death and madness are the final penalties for defeat. Who can judge whether the self-destructive human psyche or obsessed demon-child is the more dangerous force?




Excerpt -


Satori’s eyes shine in excitement. In the half-light, one seems to glow red. Star shudders. She has seen this manic look before: the look that says anything is possible. Star swallows hard. She cannot argue the point. A few hours ago she was dead. Now she lies here in his arms. Her heart beats and her lungs draw oxygen from the air. Anything is possible. That is his law, not hers, and yet her reality confirms its validity in the same way the law of gravity is confirmed by her inability to float above this itchy and uncomfortable bed. For one second she hates him for being right.


Star sits up, her back rigidly straight and stares at the metal door. ‘Run? I feel that’s all I have ever done. Maybe it’s time I stopped?’


‘We’ll figure it out.’ He places his body between her and the door, smiling gently.


She strokes his beautifully pointed face and gazes into his eyes. One sparkles with deep grey brilliance. The other is damaged. She wonders when that happened then remembers his aborted rescue attempt in the mountains. A battle with Lilith for her soul, if she remembers correctly, lifetimes ago. She kisses his lips and snuggles into his chest. His steady heartbeat calms her.


A fluorescent strip light flickers above them like a strobe on a dance floor. Energy crackles around the room, making their hair stand on end. Star clings to Satori as freezing air whips around the cell, like a hurricane. Satori sits up and touches her shoulder, instructing her to stay down. Star feels cold and unnaturally exposed in her nakedness. The light flickers again then fails and the cell falls into darkness. The air feels thick, almost solid. It punches Star’s ears and throat and chills her skin.


‘Satori!’ she screams.


‘It’s okay.’ Satori grips her shoulders and pulls her up towards him. They sit on the narrow bed together, shaking.


Air crushes her and she struggles to catch her breath. A vortex of wind drags Star from Satori’s arms to the centre of the room. She cannot feel or see him. She stands up, alone. Air surrounds her, separating her from him. Her heart hammers and her legs shake. Wind swirls around her. She spins with it, not knowing which direction she faces when suddenly the spinning stops and she is pushed to the floor by a heavy blow. Crying out, she tries to push herself back up against the weight of air. The room stinks of blood and decay.


‘What’s happening?’


‘I don’t know,’ Satori answers.


He sounds far away. Resting on her knees and one hand, she reaches into the space in front of her, searching for him. She cannot find him. Her fingers flail through the bitter wind.


‘Where are you?’ she yells.


‘I’m here, Star. It’s going to be okay.’


‘How can you be sure?’


‘Because we survived, I found you and we survived. We’re not about to die here.’


She shakes her head.


‘Talk to me,’ he says. ‘Keep talking and I’ll move towards your voice.’


‘Fuck! When will this punishment end? I don’t deserve this. We don’t deserve this. I never meant to hurt anyone. I don’t know why things happened the way they did. It was like being in a dream.’


Satori’s fingers brush against her knee. ‘Here you are.’ He moves to her side and puts his arms around her, squeezing her towards his body. ‘It’s going to be okay, I promise.’


As their eyes adjust to the dark, shapes take form in the air around them. Three terrifying faces, with hollow eyes and gaping mouths, drip blackness onto the floor. They move like reflections in agitated water. Arms appear, reach towards Star and Satori then vanish again. The faces remain: soulless, angry and tormented.


‘I think I know what this is,’ Satori says. ‘They opened the vessel.’


 

About the series -


A group of Goths splinters when Star leaves her lover Satori. Full of arrogance and bravado, Satori tries to win her back with magic, but instead brings Lilith (mother of demons) to Earth. What Lilith does and how her presence affects the lives of the whole group is the crux of the story. Star falls in love with Lilith, while Satori tries to save his ex from herself. Each book in the Starblood series is named after the title of a piece of music I love. Starblood by Cranes, Psychonaut by Fields of the Nephilim, Black Sun by Dead Can Dance, Ribbons by The Sisters of Mercy, and Pariah by Danielle Dax.


The books are a mix of dark-fantasy, erotica and horror with strong female characters at their centre.


Graphic novels have been made for books one and two, and the graphic novel version of “Black Sun” is in production, with art by Anna Prashkovich.


 

Book one – Starblood – http://smarturl.it/Starblood


Star craves freedom, but her lover, Satori, refuses to let her go. He casts a spell to make her love him again, opening a gateway through which Lilith, mother of demons, enters their lives. ​Lilith serves no man. Instead she seduces Star, assuring her that there is no shame in love, only completion. Thus begins a strange and terrible love triangle that leads them to Scotland and the Cairngorm mountains.









Book two – Psychonaut – http://smarturl.it/PsychonautVoiez


Satori has promised Star he will save her and he isn’t about to let her death stand in his way. He battles demons, travels worlds and faces the wrath of human law, but he refuses to give in. Meanwhile Star is in another world, being tortured by a goddess and a demon baby. She doesn’t have time to wait around to be saved.











Book four – Ribbons – release planned for September 13, 2019 (mock cover)


The psychopaths shall inherit the Earth.

The rum bar seems a cosy setting to wait out the apocalypse. When the rain stops falling those who are still breathing are forced to reevaluate their lives. Edensun, The Bringer of Chaos, and Freya’s paths are destined to cross, but when they come face to face who will be the hero and who the villain? The Morrigu gather; they are told their fate is to save the world from Chaos, but they worship a goddess of war whose intentions are dubious. Only the witch in the tower block seems to know the truth and she is unwilling to share.



Pages from the graphic novels



 

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Carmilla Voiez is a proudly bisexual and mildly autistic introvert who finds writing much easier than verbal communication. A life long Goth, she is passionate about horror, the alt scene, intersectional feminism, art, nature and animals. When not writing, she gets paid to hang out in a stately home and entertain tourists.

Carmilla grew up on a varied diet of horror. Her earliest influences as a teenage reader were Graham Masterton, Brian Lumley and Clive Barker mixed with the romance of Hammer Horror and the visceral violence of the first wave of video nasties. Fascinated by the Goth aesthetic and enchanted by threnodies of eighties Goth and post-punk music she evolved into the creature of darkness we find today.

Her books are both extraordinarily personal and universally challenging. As Jef Withonef of Houston Press once said - "You do not read her books, you survive them."


Carmilla’s bibliography includes Starblood (Vamptasy Publishing, Dec 2018), Psychonaut, book two of the Starblood series (Vamptasy Publishing, March 2019), Black Sun, book three (Vamptasy Publishing, June 2019), Starblood the graphic novel, Psychonaut the graphic novel, The Ballerina and the Revolutionary, Broken Mirror and Other Morbid Tales. Her short stories have been included in Zombie Punks Fuck Off (Clash Books), Slice Girls (Stitched Smile), Another Beautiful Nightmare (Vamptasy) and Sirens Call Magazine.

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