tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7110131442671062512024-02-07T20:16:16.825-08:00Eric ArvinThe WriterEric Arvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15003380162258465067noreply@blogger.comBlogger213125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-711013144267106251.post-77932128700040349522013-12-10T06:45:00.000-08:002013-12-10T06:45:08.294-08:00First Paragraph: "The Rest Is Illusion"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Eric Arvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15003380162258465067noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-711013144267106251.post-74926950984911703432013-12-08T10:02:00.002-08:002013-12-08T10:02:45.827-08:00"Mingled Destinies" Gets Rainbow Recognition <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Mingled-Destinies-Crocodiles-Men-ebook/dp/B00CV8IHRW/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1386525634&sr=8-5&keywords=eric+arvin" target="_blank">The Mingled Destinies of Crocodiles & Men </a></i>did very well at the Rainbow Awards and I couldn't be happier! It placed second in the Gay Fantasy category, and was a runner-up for Best Gay Novel overall. My sister <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Amy-Arvin-Photography/134655135043" target="_blank">Amy Morrison'</a>s cover was also a runner-up. AND our anthology <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Crack-Darkest-Sky-Wide-Open/dp/1489535012/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1386525634&sr=8-8&keywords=eric+arvin" target="_blank">Crack the Darkest Sky Wide Open </a></i>was a runner-up in the General Fiction category. God bless us! Every one!! You can see all the winners <a href="http://reviews-and-ramblings.dreamwidth.org/3971911.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</div>
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<br />Eric Arvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15003380162258465067noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-711013144267106251.post-35380284585637577282013-12-03T05:48:00.000-08:002013-12-03T05:48:19.072-08:00First Paragraph: "Kid Christmas Rides Again"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Eric Arvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15003380162258465067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-711013144267106251.post-71748381900456192742013-11-30T13:48:00.001-08:002013-11-30T13:50:24.792-08:00The TJ & Eric Show: Season 2 Premiere!<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/zQDMZs20KCQ" width="459"></iframe>Eric Arvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15003380162258465067noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-711013144267106251.post-20694210167725214872013-11-26T09:32:00.000-08:002013-11-26T09:32:19.847-08:00First Paragraph: "Ghoul's Gym"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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You’ll never want to exercise again as Eric Arvin and TJ Klune turn a gym full of hunks into a smorgasbord of terror in GHOUL’S GYM.</div>
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<br />Eric Arvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15003380162258465067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-711013144267106251.post-55322970684832236892013-11-19T06:17:00.001-08:002013-11-19T06:17:35.607-08:00First Paragraph(s): "The Demon of Jericho"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Eric Arvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15003380162258465067noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-711013144267106251.post-68186806043880058272013-11-06T06:46:00.000-08:002013-11-06T06:46:52.454-08:00First Paragraph: "Subsurdity"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Eric Arvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15003380162258465067noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-711013144267106251.post-34769329805068057872013-10-29T07:22:00.002-07:002013-10-29T07:22:44.257-07:00Jezza Smilez: Nathan & The Adonai<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
My friend <a href="http://jezzasmilez.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Jezza Smilez </a>- a very talented illustrator and comic artist - has a new graphic novel, <i>Nathan & The Adonai</i>, set to premiere at <a href="http://bent-con.org/" target="_blank">Bent-Con</a> in a few weeks. (Jezza is an awesome guy and will also soon be illustrating a new version of my filthy little short story <a href="http://www.seventhwindow.com/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&cPath=70&products_id=192&zenid=hsmgl5avhdsl1potobnl21le51" target="_blank">Roids Rumps & Revenge </a>(Seventh Window).) I've seen a copy of this new work and it's a lot of fun. Sexy and playful. Check it out!</div>
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So, um, I got engaged this past weekend to Mr. Tj Klune.</div>
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<br />Eric Arvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15003380162258465067noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-711013144267106251.post-50986529969268414682013-10-11T06:02:00.000-07:002013-10-11T06:02:13.726-07:00New Video Interview at On Top Down UnderOn Top Down Under Book Reviews is celebrating one year on the net and have interviewed me via video. SUPASTAH!! Go <a href="http://ontopdownunderbookreviews.com/video-interview-with-author-eric-arvin/" target="_blank">HERE </a>and check what I'm droning on about and comment to win copies of BOTH <i><b>The Mingled Destinies of Crocodiles & Men </b></i>and <i><b>Azrael & The Light Bringer. </b></i><br />
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Very exciting! <i><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Mingled-Destinies-Crocodiles-ebook/dp/B00CV8IHRW/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1380643466&sr=8-3&keywords=eric+arvin" target="_blank">The Mingled Destinies of Crocodiles & Men</a></b></i> is a finalist in the Best Gay Fantasy category, and...</div>
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<br />Eric Arvinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15003380162258465067noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-711013144267106251.post-31727625369736757582013-09-29T05:03:00.002-07:002013-09-29T05:03:34.969-07:00Sunday on the Net with Eric<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b></b>I don't think I've ever written a blurb for this piece, being that it's a novella in my anthology <i><b>Slight Details & Random Events</b></i>.The story takes place in the very same valley as <i><b><a href="http://www.wildecity.com/books/gay-mainstream/the-mingled-destinies-of-crocodiles-and-men/#.UkCJaIaURkk" target="_blank">The Mingled Destinies of Crocodiles & Men</a></b></i> and <i><b><a href="http://www.wildecity.com/books/gay-mainstream/azrael-and-the-light-bringer/#.UkCJm4aURkk" target="_blank">Azrael & The Light Bringer</a></b></i>, and focuses on the Passions, spirits of the valley and the forest.</div>
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Julie Morton had been wounded on the battlefield. Her
reputation was gone. Shot out from beneath her. Most in the hill town of <st1:city w:st="on">East Madison</st1:city> thought she
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That wasn’t always so, though. She
wasn’t always fruit looped. She was once a teacher at the high school. Seventh
and eighth grade English. (The junior high was connected to the high school by
a large gymnasium that kind of bubbled up between them like a red brick tumor.)
She had taught English for a good ten years before she was kicked to the curb.
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It wasn’t until recently that she
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the townsfolk. Her hair was turning white for it, and that did nothing to
alleviate the jokes. And too, there was the difficulty of raising a handicapped
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Aimee Jean, Betty Morton’s only
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Fall. She had kept in touch with Betty through Julie while she was away at
college. Because of her paralysis, Betty didn’t say a thing, but she could make
herself understood just fine. There was a mean streak in that girl that smelled
like rubber on asphalt. Betty became bitter early on in life. In fact, that was
her nickname in school: Bitter Betty. She had been a very pretty young girl.
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Welcome to the Valley, a liminal landscape that lies somewhere in the fringes of the world; a place with such secret magic that only the very observant can see it. Into this world comes the Lone family. To them, the magic of the Valley is not at first apparent, at least not to all. But the youngest son Lucifer is the most open to the river’s pulse. He converses with the trees and an angel named Azrael, all the while being taught by the midwife Mother True to hone his talents. Meanwhile, Lucifer’s older brother Uriel rejects the valley altogether and, with the help of his lover—a raft boy named Roman—flees the place only to be caught up in the corrupt big city world of a madame named Ute Dragal.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">And so begins a tale of wonder and danger, filled with a cast of characters ranging from the strong to the stoic to the sinister, in a place where a dark power awaits them all. Venture again to the Valley in this prequel to Eric Arvin’s acclaimed epic </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">The Mingled Destinies of Crocodiles and Men</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Lucifer woke to
the daylight in a depression of soft earth, sided at every angle by swollen,
moss-grown roots from the surrounding trees. The roots tangled in a ballet of
need, of sustenance and assurance. They made a natural bed for the young boy
and, he thought, quite a comfortable one. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Lucifer lay still
for a while, listening to the birds in the limbs, feeling a presence of soul,
feeling at once loved and comforted by the breezes and guarded over and shaded
by the mighty arbors themselves. He didn’t remember falling asleep in the bed
of roots, but then, one never remembers the precise moment that sleep sets in
and the soul begins to wander. He recognized where he was, though. He knew the
place well. It was the dense woods by the river, the orchard as some mistakenly
called it, ever the watchful opponent to Lone Place. It was too copious a
forest, and the trees too tall and round to be any kind of useful or profitable
orchard. There might have been fruit trees there at one time, but no more.
These were stalwart trees, only a few having any kind of affectation or
ornamental guise such as flowers, and most of those were on the outer orchard
fringes that opposed the big house. The trees
of the orchard stretched downriver, though none could say how far. Certainly
Lucifer had never been able to exact their acreage and he had played in them,
walked in them, whispered with them, for all his young, curious life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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rose to his feet and stretched with a contented morning’s welcome sigh. He
looked around him with boyish uncertainty. He had been walking the orchard
forever, it seemed, yet he didn’t look to be making any progress in any
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<o:p> </o:p><span style="text-indent: 17.85pt;">Who can truly say what the river valley
looked like? Its appearance changed depending on one’s perspective, for every
soul sees the world differently. A patch of tree moss so apparent to one person
might go completely unnoticed by another. The agreed-upons lay few and far
between. The essential topography of the valley could be seen from a few
specific locations: high on the barren rock of Beggar’s Hill, or from the
heights of the Lone Tower, at the foot of which rested an ancient orchard.
These and a few other strategic plateaus looked out over the vast waterway to
the first rising hills of the Otherside—that land across the great river where
very few ventured—where the land fell ever-steeped in a thick, heavy fog.</span><br />
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Alongside the river, sometimes too close to
its edge, homes<span style="color: red;"> </span>of the valley folk clustered
beneath the calm twin siblings of blue water and sky. Past these houses, when
the hills did not rise immediately from the beach as they were prone to do, the
hinterland spread in long acres of field and fancy—fancy having more than a
little power in the valley—stretching out like yawning earth. A couple of
lapzine fields had been left to struggle, having survived a swelling of the
river; few people remained to tend their blue-tinged flowers or harvest their
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Beyond the initial hills and inclines rose
greater cliffs, at points almost completely hiding the river valley from the
view or acknowledgement of the outside world, such was their height. And
finally, before anything “modern” could be reckoned, there spread the Farlands.
Still considered of the valley proper by most aside from the college, those of
the outside world ignored them as wilderness. Things were changing, though. A
new organism called ‘Industry’ was starting to take notice of certain regions
of the Farlands. And Industry began to wander about this seemingly unused land,
wondering how it might be used for its own industrious progress. This new
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