Isis Sousa's Blog: Tragic Books' news - Posts Tagged "gothic-novel"

image: My dear GoodReads chaps, it’s been a while since I wrote anything, so I am wrapping up news and stuff in this post. I have been working!

Working a lot on my day job, doing new book covers for Tiffany Roberts, Grace Draven, K.J. Nessly, Nathan Barham, Josefine Gottwald and some more – and I am going to show them in a Cover Artwork post very soon, so stay tuned. ^.^

New releases
On personal projects, I have been busy as well. I have !!!FINALLY – MY DREAM JUST CAME TRUE!!! *_* the art book/ultimate version of The Night of Elisa - An Illustrated Gothic Novel.



This is in fact how I planned to make the book since the beginning, but didn’t have the resources or platform to publish so. It’s coming this 11th July in full color paperback (trade, matte stock) and an amazing Hardcover version with heavy, glossy art/photo paper stock. <3 Thanks to http://www.peecho.com now I am able to make art books with top notch quality for collectors! :D



Valencia Noir - The Beautiful, the Fantastic and the Grotesque of Valencia, Spain is now printed in the finest quality. Both the paperback (semi-glossy) and hardcover have photopaper quality, and the hardcover is like The Night of Elisa, heavy, glossy art stock.

Cover Reveal Blitz – 6th July
And I am writing! As Cold As Thorns is planned to come this late Autumn. My new Gothic Novel will of course, be illustrated, and also have an art book edition as well as trade edition.

The Blitz, organized by RBTL Book Tours http://www.rbtlbooktours.com/ (which I have been working with since the very beginning!) will take place on these lovely Blogs:
http://www.rbtlreviews.com/
http://www.booknerdramblings.com/
http://www.dowiesplace.com/
http://lynnromanceenthusiast.blogspot...
http://alphabookclub.org/
http://btpreviews.blogspot.no/
http://chronicles75.blogspot.no/
http://xxxxmyworldxxxx.blogspot.no/
http://thebookquarry.blogspot.no/
http://literarymusing.weebly.com/
http://bookschatter.blogspot.com/

---~~~Follower’s Giveaway~~~---
To celebrate the release of The Night of Elisa - An Illustrated Gothic Novel – the ultimate/art book edition, I’d like to give away 3 e-book copies. They are PDF, can be read on any device. But due to the graphic content of the book, it works best for bigger tablets, laptops and PCs. The file is big, 230 mb.

Would you like to win a copy? Anyone from any country can participate. The rule is simple, leave a reply with a hello or talk about anything you’d like :D

Winners will be announced 11th July!

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Last but not least, my reading life has been slow, but never stopped! I am finishing The Vampire and the Necromancer: An out of Sequence Love Story by Gisele Walko, then I will continue with the other books on my list :) So, reviews coming soon!
That’s all folks! Enjoy the summer! I will (still) catch up with the GR messages anytime soon!

(Now the cover is revealed!)
Click on the blogs bellow to see a bigger size!

So, I have been writing a new illustrated Gothic Novel as I mentioned on the previous blogpost. I plan to publish it this late Autumn as Paperback, Hardcover with dust jacket and special art book edition with hardcover and heavy, glossy art stock.

If this is something you like to read, feel free to add As Cold As Thorns to your reading list :) You can read the synopsis on the book’s page as well. And you can check the official page at Tragic Books website. http://tragicbooks.com/as.html

If you have some time, let me know what you think about the cover, once it is revealed ^.^ I have painted about one year before I wrote the first word for the book!



I am doing a Cover Reveal Blitz with RBTL Book Tours http://www.rbtlbooktours.com/ and Anna Marie, whom have been very supportive to my work since the very beginning.

Here is the awesome list of blogs participating :D

http://www.rbtlreviews.com/
http://www.booknerdramblings.com/
http://www.dowiesplace.com/
http://lynnromanceenthusiast.blogspot...
http://alphabookclub.org/
http://btpreviews.blogspot.no/
http://chronicles75.blogspot.no/
http://xxxxmyworldxxxx.blogspot.no/
http://thebookquarry.blogspot.no/
http://literarymusing.weebly.com/
http://bookschatter.blogspot.com/

And, that's all folks! Thanks for reading :)

I have one brand new hardcover with dustjacket PROOF COPY of As Cold As Thorns in spare to giveaway, SIGNED and with dedicatory, together with a Norwegian chocolate to a follower.

Will you be the lucky one???

Before you think about entering the giveaway, I need to stress that this is a PROOF COPY - it means it is a version with a few glitches and not the final version out for sale, however, it is very close to the published editions, apart from the few glitches.

Here are the rules to participate:

1. Must be a follower on GoodReads OR on Twitter OR Pinterest (if you are a follower on the 3 channels... Wow! You rock!)

2. Leave a comment/reply on the giveaway thread on my GoodReads author blog - if you are participating via GoodReads

3. If you participate via Twitter or Pinterest: must retweet/repin the giveaway post/pic
Tweet: https://twitter.com/tragicbooks/statu...
Pin: https://no.pinterest.com/pin/39814642...

4. Must be from one of these locations: Scandinavia, Europe, UK

The winner will be announced on 20th December!



A lucky and awesome follower will be picked at random, I will contact the person to get his/her shipping address and send the package. :D

Thank you for the amazing support! ;)

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And here is the view from the window I took the book snapshots today! A beautiful winter day in Vuttudal, Norway. - See a bigger size on my blog: https://illustratingwords.blogspot.no/

Hell-o, dear dark souls! Hope February has treated you right and that you had a cozy Valentine’s, if you celebrate this Holiday. :-)
This month has been a bit of a struggle for me as I have been sick with an apocalyptic flue and cold, coughing and whatnot! So I almost couldn’t make the Youtube Channel launch happen… But I found an opportunity this week and I took it.

I am very happy to start this journey talking about my books, discussing self-publishing, writing and of course, doing Gothic Books reviews! And I hope this channel will be both entertaining and helpful to you.

In the first video I am talking about The Night of Elisa – how the book was born and the process behind it writing & publishing it. It is scheduled for TODAY, Saturday 24th Feb, 8:00 PM or 20:00 hrs OSLO time, or GMT + 0100. I’m looking forward to seeing you there and hearing from you!

Here’s the link for the scheduled video: https://youtu.be/UzpfLw3xoXU

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Blood Pack Vol 5 – Music Download

Every year, Sean Paulfrey, the mastermind behind Intravenous Magazine, publishes a collection of indie Gothic Music . And now, celebrating the webzine’s 5th birthday, you have a massive 24 tracks to listen at your pleasure.

The album features names such as Angelspit, The Gothsicles, Deadfilmstar, Sounds Like Winter, Noir, Hardcore Pong, Cynical Existence, Veil of Thorns, Cold Therapy, and Chiron plus many more exclusive and unreleased tracks from international gothic, industrial and electronic bands. It also comes with an A4 PDF booklet containing bios and links for all the bands who have kindly donated a track.

Download it for FREE at Bandcamp: https://intravenousmagazine.bandcamp.com/album/blood-pack-vol-5

The webzine has also revamped their looks, check out their new, beautiful fresh layout: http://www.intravenousmag.co.uk/ and get updated on the dark side of music, entertainment and books.

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Check out Caroline’s Blog http://carolinesometimes.blogspot.no/ – She reviewed 3 of books and she is a Norwegian girl who loves hair, make-up, goth and black metal!

I have visited it a few times, since we got to know each other recently, and I love her style and creativity. You find a lot of nice tips and product reviews at her blog. ^.^ Thank you so much for your support, dear Caroline!

It has been a while since I did a blogpost or have been to GoodReads, that’s because, besides much work, I have traveled to France and Portugal, to attend two Computer Graphics events with focus on Concept Art/VFX/Animation and 3Dart, I worked and studied at these events – which were a great place to be since I live out of digital illustration/concept art.

Now, onto Gothic Books… Today I am revealing to you the cover of ‘As Black As Ice’ – the final part of ‘As Cold As Thorns’ novel. I painted it myself and hope you enjoy it :-D

Most likely this novel will be released during Autumn this year, so stay tuned!

Thank you so much for your amazing support and hope all of you are having a great time :-) Take care!