Tina Glasneck, USA Today Bestselling Author

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Christmas in July with A Half-Cocked Vampire

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I’m so happy to reveal the new look for A Half-Cocked Vampire in time for Christmas in July!

But wait there’s even more

The entire Order of the Dragon series has been revamped and separated into different sections (as the series as a whole was getting too long).

Now, you’ll find the main stories will be in the Order of the Dragon series, including Zero Hour, Once Bitten, Twice as High, Three Little Words, A Half-Cocked Vampire, and Four Times the Fight.

I’ve newly created the Order of the Dragon Series: Side Quest. Here you’ll find all of the amazing in-between books like A Vampire Gives No Quarter, Bite Me, and A Vampire’s Blessing. This series will celebrate not only Leslie but others in the series, like Claudine, and can be read in any order.

Lastly, with the successful Kickstarter, we’ve started a new series with the wolves, and it is called The Order of the Dragon Wolf’s Den: Decadence Series. Here you’ll find the sexy PNRs with the wolves, which includes the forthcoming Make Me Howl and Charming Like A Wolf.

At this time, splitting up the series allows us to have the same heat, expectations across series, and cover design branding. The cover for Charming Like A Wolf will also be updated soon to reflect this new branding.

Yes, it’s a lot, but it will make it much better! Yay!

I hope you will dive into this secret paranormal world! Welcome to the supernatural!

MAKE ME HOWL on Kickstarter

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Make Me Howl Special Hardback Edition

Why this Kickstarter project? Why now?
 
In 2021, we found ourselves in the midst of a pandemic, and like many, I sought to create.
 
But my health had other ideas.
 
Instead of thriving, my body was barely surviving, and in April 2021, I grew quite ill. 
 
I tried at-home remedies, not understanding what was happening - hoping that I just needed to kick my feet up and rest. 
 
Maybe I was overworking myself, I thought. 
 
But when things didn’t improve, I finally went to the doctor. This resulted in a slew of medication and a treatment plan.  
 
Yet, instead of improving things worsened.
 
My lovely ochre skin took on a grayish hue, my eyes dimmed, and I grew so weak that I could barely walk up the stairs in my house, let alone try to leave it.
I was a prisoner in my body, trapped, as a tsunami of darkness threatened to pull me under.
 
I didn't know what to do...where to go, and in finding no answers, I knew I needed to advocate for myself, too.
 
One day, while feeling overwhelmingly weak, I had a talk with myself, and I promised that once I got better, I’d never allow myself merely to survive. 
 
Instead, I would kick down doors, blaze paths, and discover new ways to thrive.
I'd shake off all doubts and become the Tina of my dreams. 
 
Finally, with my iron levels so low, emergency surgery was the answer.
 
During my months of recovery, that is when Sunflower and Killian truly showed up. But for Sunflower, she wished to communicate only through heart-wrenching poetry. She took me along this journey of healing, loss, unrequited love, and self-discovery.
 
I truly believe that it is the words of story that saved me, giving me hope, to choose the life of my dreams over the fear that sought to pull me into an eternal slumber, and this I do not write lightly… 
 
For in the power of story I found strength. As Kate Bush so eloquently sings, “Running up that hill" I then chose hope over fear, love over loss, to thrive instead of merely surviving….
 
The power of this story and these characters continue to push me on.  
 
Now, it’s your chance to join this amazing journey, too, as we climb to new heights together. 
 
KICKSTARTER LINK

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‘Make Me Howl’ will make you swoon

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There are some stories that stay with you… and when I met Sunflower, she sort of changed my life.

She’d only communicate with profound, heart-wrenching poetry—much of which found its way on Youtube, Instagram, and Tiktok. I couldn’t stop producing poetry as pages upon pages poured out her love and loss.

She gave me confidence that I’d not found before, a voice that I’d long pushed away.

In writing, I often leave a piece of myself in my stories, but for this one, it was like opening up my heart again and finding all of that from a lifetime ago, cutting open a vein to bleed out on the page. Weeks of sobbing gave birth to this glorious tale that has a HEA, so much love, and showcases the power of second chances.

What are readers saying?

“Ok, the title alone intrigued me, and I had to just check it out being the bookworm I am. It jumps straight to the story without skipping a beat. Killian seems down on his luck, the lady he had been with didn’t cut it and he’s on the search for his “one”. Then as the story progressed, I realized Sunflower, his love interest – they had met before and had split. So when she runs into him again at this club called the Decadence, it’s like oh…. this is about to get interesting. If you want some paranormal romance, why not head over and check this out….” Tasha Creed, Author (quote used with permission)

This is one couple I so believe deserves their HEA, and it’s great to see them not only fight for it but earn it too!

This story is currently loading on patreon with the first episodes now available!

Peppering facts into fiction

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History is brutal, but ... 

If we don’t know history, we can’t see the patterns and ripple effects in our modern day.

But Tina, you write fantasy and romance. How does history affect your writing? I love to write all in one world, but in different time periods, as I pepper history through my stories..

But fiction is not fact; yet we can braid those things together, while entertaining  and informing.

One such topic I uncovered while writing my time travel paranormal romance is that of cruelty of Napoléon, who historians often praise. But, did you know France forced Haiti to pay reparations to France to ensure their freedom?

I don’t remember hearing anything about this while growing up. The lack of information caused me to dig deeper.

My stories are set in this timeline, mostly, and I wanted to reference something historical that still impacts today. This meant shining a light on Haiti’s history and presenting some of it as part of the background for the story.

The tale of independence for present day Haiti from French rule came with generational consequences.

As France was creating fashion trends with its 18th century, mouse hide eyebrows, Haiti, known as the French colony of Saint Domingue, which had gained independence in 1801, was once again fighting off a new potential colonial rule, this one being Napoléon. He was hell-bent on retaking the colony and threatened to reinstate French rule and chattel slavery.

The fight for independence was brutal. But it wasn’t until 1805, when Haiti became officially independent. Here’s the caveat: for France to recognize this, Haiti had to agree to pay France 150 million francs, as well as a 50% discount on exported goods to them.

This debt did not go away.

In 1838, France agreed to reduce the debt to 90 million francs. It would take Haiti 122 years to pay it off, finally settled in 1947.

The world we see today, the moving pieces and nuances, we can often discover by digging deeper. After all, nothing is how it might first be perceived.

The United States didn’t recognize Haiti until 1862. This meant that the US also didn’t trade or have commercial relationships with Haiti, although benefitting from its pressure on revolting against French rule. It is suspected that because of Haiti’s revolution, this is a partial reason of why Napoléon gave up on the “New World” and agreed to sell the Louisiana Territory, what is known as the Louisiana Purchase.

France will not give reparations or payment back to the modern day Haitians, and… just in case you think Britain was any better, well, they were paying reparations to actual slave owners descendants until 2015.

Why am I showcasing this? Because with a wealth of knowledge comes power to enact genuine progress. Yes, history is often evil… but the more we know, the more we can help to change our world for the better, and I’m hoping to do that with my stories too. There is nothing like taking the darkness of history and fighting back with the fantastical and have the good guys win.

My dragon series continues to play with history, sprinkling in historical truths, and lighting it on fire with beautiful magic.

Ask Tina

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How did your writing journey come about?

Story was my safety net growing up, and in the colorful in-between of reality and my imagination, I found comfort in the great pages of wonderful books. A book was the best of gifts to me. It gave me a chance to travel, learn, escape…to love, to fight for what was right. It offered me more than my every day.

Especially when my every day shifted more to criminal justice and figuring out ways to help the disenfranchised and ensure that every person has a fair shot under the law. As a then paralegal, I had high hopes for every client that walked through those doors.

But one fateful day, things changed.

A disgruntled client’s family member burst into the office. They demanded that things be done on their case. This wasn’t odd. The paralegal is often the one to take the brunt of the abuse; think of it as customer service on the front lines.

Yet when they promised to come back and shoot up the office, I was terrified. None of my education had prepared me on how to duck and dive, to potentially push heavy furniture around. So instead, we were sitting ducks with only one way out and all of the windows painted shut.

I panicked.

I took this fear home with me, and every day when I returned to the office, it gnawed at me. Would this be the day I’d die?

There was no plan on what to do, but my mind wouldn’t rest without something being done… and that is when I started writing. It began as a paranormal romance, but due to this trauma quickly shifted to something more sinister.

I needed to process the darkness.

Now, that's meant diving into the world of magic and the fantastical...  

But back then, well,  there would be more threats, and I’d be more prepared as I’d pour all of that angst into my fiction.

Processing my every day in a high-stress environment came a lot easier by my spending time creating characters and solving their problems. It empowered me and gave me hope, peace, and a way to express myself.

Although I left being a paralegal behind, I still find the sweet solace of storytelling to be my anchor.

I’m happy to say that the family member never returned with a weapon, and safeguards were put in place to protect the staff.

Oh, and the book that came out of this trauma is Deadly Sins under my pseudonym, Rayne Marrow.