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This Sucks
by Erik Schubach

Violet is mostly a vampire, sort of. He neighbor tried to turn her to save her life after a car accident, only, it didn't take. This story follows her through her misadventures of her and her best friend Cindy learning just what kind of cut-rate bloodsucker she really was.

Of course all sorts of hilarity ensues and hamster thralls are made, but Violet winds up finding the happiness and love she had wanted for so long.

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About Erik Schubach
I got my start writing romance novels by accident. I have always been drawn to strong female characters in books, like Honor Harrington. And I also believe that there is a lack of LGBT characters in media. So one day I came up with a story idea that combines the two... two days later I completed the manuscript for Music of the Soul.

My writing style may not be the most professional nor grammatically correct, but I never profess to be an English major, just a person that wants to share a story. I maintain that my primary language is sarcasm.

Each of my books features strong likeable female characters that are flawed. I think that flaws and emotional or physical scars make us human and give us more character than simply conforming to some "social norm".

Visit me on Facebook and Twitter!

Snow: The White Crow

The second book in the Urban Fairytales series, Snow: The White Crow is published!

On May 16, 2015 my eBook, Snow: The White Crow, was added at Amazon.com! And as always, print on demand paperbacks are also available!

It was far too much fun giving the story of Red Riding Hood into a modern twist. It was equally as fun to reexamine the fairytale of Snow White with this new book.

This book picks up eighteen months after Red Hood, in the same world where a third of the world's population are cursed to become mindless killing beasts, werewolves, on the full moon. Only this time we see it from the perspective of being outside the walled cities during a full moon. Gretta prefers to live in the forests to be close to nature as she travels the world, righting the balance between good and evil.

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Gretta Snow is a Recovery Specialist. A Wolf Hunter who specializes in locating people outside the gates of the walled cities. She locates infected family members of Clean Bloods and helps them reunite outside the city gates. Or frees people in kidnapping and hostage situations. She has traveled the world for centuries, using her abilities to commune with nature and animals to assist her in battling dark magics.

Rachel Paige at her side, she stands with the Red Hood and her hellhound against some of the darkest gypsy witches the world has seen in centuries.

All is not as it seems and a conspiracy spanning centuries is slowly revealed... leaving more questions than answers. ---

I'm continuing to release a new Urban Fairytale book every two months, the next being based on Cinderella, Ella: Cinders and Ash. She's not sugar and spice as she burns a swath of death and destruction through the ranks of dark magic users in the world.

I have the best readers in the super platypus universe! I continue to want you all to know that I love them and appreciate any feedback, positive or negative. I also accept Antarctican cheese models of the sphinx.
I'd love to hear feedback and discussion from YOU about the characters in Snow. I'd love to discuss the story with you!

London Harmony: Feel the Beat

The second London Harmony book is published!

On April 17, 2015 my eBook, London Harmony: Feel the Beat, was added at Amazon.com! As I always do, I have also made print on demand paperbacks available as well!

London Harmony is a spinoff series of my bestselling romance series, Music of the Soul. It follows June Harris-West and her unorthodox family as they discover musical talent in London. Handing out the J-Cards that have become an urban legend in the underground music community. Each book features the story of one of these spectacular women.

This is second book of the series, Feel the Beat, follows Abigail Addison as she makes her way through the world, sharing her musical gift through street performing in the art district of London, Covent Garden.

Like the books in the Music of the Soul series, each book can be read as standalone stories but all exist in the same world. Minor crossovers occur. ---

Abigail suffers from two conditions that allow her to experience the world around her in such a unique manner that she can literally see and feel the music surround her.

On a chance meeting at a music repair shop, she meets a tinker, Isabelle, who is unlike anyone she has ever met. Together, they work to get Abi's unorthodox music noticed.

After a near tragedy, they discover that unbeknown to them, she already had. ---

The message behind this book is simply that when you least expect it, you can stumble into your dreams, finding love and success in the things that bring you the most joy.

Hands down, I have the best readers in the known universe! My MOTS fans have proven that they are behind the new London Harmony series that has so much Music of the Soul flavor. Hours after I published, Feel the Beat made it on the bestseller lists on Amazon and the numbers are reaching for the stars.

Because I think they are so awesome, I want all of my awesome readers to know that I love them and appreciate any feedback, positive or negative. I also accept really short ostriches on hoverboards.
I'd love to hear feedback and discussion from YOU about the characters in Feel the Beat. I'd love to discuss the story with you!

Red Hood: The Hunt

The first book in the Urban Fairytales series, Red Hood: The Hunt is published!

On March 12, 2015 my eBook, Red Hood: The Hunt, was added at Amazon.com! Plus as always, print on demand paperbacks are available too!

I've loved twisting myths and legends in a few of my SciFi and Paranormal series Like the Valkyrie Chronicles, Drakon, and The Bridge, so I got to thinking. What if I do a series of twisted fairytales with a modern, urban fantasy spin on them. A re-imagining of them in an exciting format.

This premiere book of the series, Red Hood: The Hunt, takes place where a third of the world's population are cursed to become mindless killing beasts, werewolves, on the full moon. It shows how the modern world copes with it and the people who defend those not yet infected by the lycan contagion in walled cities.

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Detective Daria McQueen is a homicide detective most of the time, until the moon is full. Three nights a month she stands at the gates with the rest of the Seattle police department to defend it against the packs of ravening werewolves intent on killing the Clean Blood humans in the city. Daria has a unique perspective, when she was a small child, she watched her family killed in front of her and her sister infected by the curse, while she sat in the panic-cage in their house.

She discovers a breach of the wall while on perimeter patrol and saves a family from three werewolves. Daria winds up being saved from a fate worse than death by a Wolf Hunter in a billowing red cloak. Someone she believed to be nothing but an urban legend. The Red Hood, Maireni Damaschin. The mysterious woman seems to possess inhuman abilities and seems wolf-like herself.

They are pulled into a tangled web of deception that goes back centuries, which could spell the end to Clean Bloods and throw the world into servitude. ---

I'm planning to release a new Urban Fairytale book every couple months, the next being based on Snow White, Snow: The White Crow.

I have the best readers in the universe! I want to throw out a special thanks to my beta readers on this one. It is a darker and grittier writing style so I needed people to look over it for me before I released it.

I want all of my super platypus awesome readers to know that I love them and appreciate any feedback, positive or negative. I also accept surfboards made of cheese.
I'd love to hear feedback and discussion from YOU about the characters in Red Hoody. I'd love to discuss the story with you!

London Harmony: Water Gypsy

The first London Harmony book is published!

On February 21, 2015 my eBook, London Harmony: Water Gypsy, was added at Amazon.com! As always, print on demand paperbacks are available as well!

London Harmony is a spinoff series of my bestselling romance series, Music of the Soul. It follows June Harris-West and her unorthodox family as they find musical talent in London. Handing out the J-Cards that have become an urban legend in the underground music community. Each book features the story of one of these amazing women.

This premiere book of the series, Water Gypsy, follows Tabitha Romanov as she discovers herself and love, on her journey into stardom.

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Tabitha Romanov lives on the river Thames in the heart of London, on a rundown grain barge. She assures everyone in her life it is just a temporary situation. Music and fun drives her and her unique vocal style doesn't go unnoticed by the scouts of London Harmony when they run across her by chance at an underground rave. Tabitha fears she would be stuck with the dreaded Tabby Cat name.

Teresa McClellan is a consummately professional business woman who is the headmistress at a Music Conservatoire. Two complete opposites, oblivious of the other until Teresa catches Tabitha eavesdropping on classes in her school. Then instead of getting upset, she instead starts an unorthodox training regimen with a very confused Tabitha.

Sparks fly in many ways, Tabitha is torn between her attraction to the woman and hating her. Then when Teresa's true motives, Tabitha happily finds that everything is not as it had seemed. ---

The message behind this book is simply that we should love ourselves and the people around us, you never know when something in your life may change and take your dreams away. Acceptance of one's self and finding a new dream is important to finding true happiness.

Nobody has more amazing readers than I do! My MOTS fans have proven that they are behind the new series that has so much Music of the Soul flavor. In just hours after publishing, Water Gypsy hit the bestseller lists on Amazon and the numbers are skyrocketing.

Just because I can't help myself, I want all of my awesome readers to know that I love them and appreciate any feedback, positive or negative. I also accept anti-gravity boots and cheese.
I'd love to hear feedback and discussion from YOU about the characters in Water Gypsy. I'd love to discuss the story with you!

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About Erik Schubach
I got my start writing romance novels by accident. I have always been drawn to strong female characters in books, like Honor Harrington. And I also believe that there is a lack of LGBT characters in media. So one day I came up with a story idea that combines the two... two days later I completed the manuscript for Music of the Soul.

My writing style may not be the most professional nor grammatically correct, but I never profess to be an English major, just a person that wants to share a story. I maintain that my primary language is sarcasm.

Each of my books features strong likeable female characters that are flawed. I think that flaws and emotional or physical scars make us human and give us more character than simply conforming to some "social norm".

Visit me on Facebook and Twitter!

The Bridge: Traitor

My second book in the Bridge series, Traitor, is published!

On January 23, 2015 my eBook, The Bridge: Traitor, was added at Amazon.com! As always, print on demand paperbacks are also available! I toiled all night to get the book published then collapsed into bed in exhaustion. I woke up to find that my awesome readers are beyond compare and the book is already ranked #11 on the bestseller list for Lesbian Fiction and climbing. You people are the best!

To stay with tradition, I'll say a bit about this book before I give a story overview. I was stunned by the overwhelmingly positive response to my take on modern day Trolls. People were asking for more about Troll Evangeline Kane, Custodian Sharee Krynn, and other favorite characters such as Felicia and Rupert. I didn't need much prodding before I started book two, Traitor.

This book is the second book to take place in the Bridge universe. It follows a modern day rebellious hero, Evangeline Kane, and the city's supernatural enforcer, the Custodian, Sharee Krynn, into the world of trolls and the Under-Veil once again, to stand against all that would do the mortal world harm.

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In The Bridge: Traitor, it seems like the supernatural world in Cincinnati has gone crazy. So many disturbances in the fae community culminating with a missing Troll vex the sentinels of the city.

It is determined that there is a traitor amongst the ranks of the Trolls of the city and all of the evidence points to Evangeline Kane, Troll of the Roebling Suspension Bridge.

Evangeline must try to clear her name as she goes on the run from the guardians of the city and the mortal police, while Sharee Krynn, the Custodian investigates the case.

A division in the ranks of the sentinels puts them on the brink of a revolt. Time is running out for the city and Evangeline herself.

Old friends and new allies rise to the occasion and stand in defiance of the Triumvirate and support the hero of the Battle of the Roebling.

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The message behind this book continues the message of the first, that when things are thrust upon us that we did not expect, it can bring out the best in us when we step up to do the right thing. Also, never underestimate someone because of their station, they have a way of rising to the occasion and surprising you.

I can't tell you how much I love my readers, I know that you are the best fans on this or any other planet. You were grabbing copies almost before I pressed "publish".

As I always do, I want my readers to know that I love them and appreciate any feedback, positive or negative. I also accept sharks with laser beams.

There is a sneak peek chapter of the first book in my Music of the Soul spinoff series, London Harmony, at the end of the book. London Harmony: Water Gypsy follows a destitute woman in London as she discovers who she is, finds love, and becomes part of the London Harmony family with June, Vanessa, Fran, and Zilrita.

I'd love to hear feedback and discussion from YOU about the characters in The Bridge: Traitor. I'd love to discuss the story with you!

Dead Shot

My thirteenth Music of the Soul book is published!

On December 18, 2014 my eBook, Dead Shot, was added at Amazon.com! As always, print on demand paperbacks are available as well!

Being the creature of habit I am, I'll first talk a little about this new book before I give you a story overview of it. This book will be more intense and violent than most of the other MOTS books as it is a military romance. McKenzie Meyers is soldier through and through. But I hope to point out the compassionate side of soldiers and some of the inconvenient truths about the things they must go through and still retain their humanity.

This book is the thirteenth book to take place in the Music of the Soul universe. My Baker's Dozen. Like the other books in the MOTS series, we find that it is a small world, and love can overcome the worst of tragedies.

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In Dead Shot, we follow career soldier McKnezie Meyers during the years she is assigned to a United Nations Joint Peacekeeping Mission whose main thrust is to curb the dearth of human trafficking in Central Africa.

McKenzie has not been home in eighteen years but must go there to put her father's estate in order after his untimely death.

There she finds a person who seems to get her, and complete her soul. Katie, the intelligence and operations technician that sees after her fireteam when they are on scouting missions. A love grows that distance and tragedy cannot break.

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The message behind this book is simply that no matter how we may view ourselves, others may see us in a different light... seeing the love and compassion we are capable of. Acceptance and forgiveness of one's self are the order of the day.

I think my readers are the most awesome readers out there! I'm also excited to share a preview of a special project I am working on. The first chapter of Red Hood: The Hunt, is at the end of the book. A dark modern retelling of the story of Red Riding Hood set in Seattle in a world overrun by werewolves.

As I always do, I want my readers to know that I love them and appreciate any feedback, positive or negative. I also accept platypus slippers.

I'd love to hear feedback and discussion from YOU about the characters in Dead Shot. I'd love to discuss the story with you!

The Valkyrie Chronicles: Titans

My fifth Valkyrie Chronicles book is published!

On November 27, 2014 my eBook, Titans, was added at Amazon.com! As usual, print on demand paperbacks are available too! The release had been delayed a few days and people were breaking down the door to get their hands on this beauty.

Being the creature of habit that I am, I'll just start with saying a little bit about this new book before I give an overview of the storyline. I decided to look at a different dimension of Kara's strength in this one, with a what if this was something she couldn't fight with brute force.

This book is the fifth book written in the Valkyrie Chronicles universe. This book brings up the question... What if you couldn't stand up to an enemy using conventional means?

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We know Kara, the Wild One, to be one of the most deadly brute force fighters in the galaxy. Her ability to stand toe to toe against vicious hordes bent on the destruction of Valhalla and the Asgard is legendary. That is until the Titans arrive.

The Asgard have never fought an enemy like this and Kara finds herself out of her depth against an enemy who won't face her on the field of battle.

She must instead, match wits and wills against the leader of the Titans while the rest of the Valkyrie race against time to rescue her.

The Titans quickly learn that there is more to this Valkyrie than an instrument of violence and destruction, and new friendships and awkward alliances are formed.

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The message behind this book is simply that sometimes we must face things we are not prepared for. It is how we overcome these new obstacles that help to define us and build our character. Oh, and you don't mess with Kara. :)

Nobody has fans as awesome as mine, I am continually surprised by them. The second I submitted this new book on Amazon, copies were rolling out the door to my readers. Fast as lightning!

And as always, I just gotta let my readers know that I love them and appreciate any feedback, positive or negative. I also accept wind up sea otters.

At the end of the book is a sneak peek at the next Music of the Soul book, Dead Shot. I think this will set a different pace in the MOTS series.

I'd love to hear feedback and discussion from YOU about the characters in Titans. I'd love to discuss the story with you!

June

My twelfth Music of the Soul book is published!

On October 27, 2014 my eBook, June, was added at Amazon.com! Of course, print on demand paperbacks are also available! There was some odd delay on Amazon, that delayed the release by a day, but after submitting a trouble ticket they fixed things right up!

As I always do, I'll first say a bit about this new book before I give you a story overview. This book may not be what people were expecting for June. The unstoppable front that she projects is just a front to hide her insecurity. We get to see the real June that hides under that shell in the book. She has the witty internal dialogue of her mother Mandy and her sense of right from her other mother, Anabella.

This book is the twelfth book to take place in the Music of the Soul universe. (Has it really gone on for so long?) Like the other books in the MOTS series, we find that we cannot help who we are attracted to, and love can see past any obstacles.

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In June, June decides that she wants to step out from behind the huge shadows of her famous parents and make a mark of her own on the world. To do this she realizes she has to put part of her dreams on hold, knowing she'll never be able to share her own music without people believing she is riding on Mandy Fay Harris' coattails. But she can still stay in the music industry by starting her own record label half a world away in London, England.

She leaves Seattle behind to hunt for a talent scout in New York for for her new label. The DJ in the underground music scene that she is looking for, has as many urban legends about him as her June's Eight group of friends has.

All of her plans are sidelined as June finds something she had never expected and learn more about herself while gathering new friends and unexpected relationships.

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The message behind this book is simply that when you look beyond the surface and past any apparent problems with people, that love can just sneak upo on you. Acceptance is the flavor of the day and a person's affliction does not define them.

I simply love all of my readers, I'd pit you people against any other author's readers in a heartbeat. You put up with me as I struggled with the unexpected delay at Amazon and started snapping books up the moment the problems were resolved. I'm also excited to share the next book in the MOTS series with you soon, Dead Shot, featuring the soldier mentioned in most of the MOTS books, McKenzie Meyers! It will come out following the next book in the Valkyrie Chronicles series, Titans!

As always, I want my readers to know that I love them and appreciate any feedback, positive or negative. I also accept egg shaped spaceships.

There is a sneak peek chapter of the fifth book in my Valkyrie Chronicles series, Titans, at the end of the book. Kara and the other Valkyrie must contend with the race of the Titans as they try to re-settle the planet Ragnarok.

I'd love to hear feedback and discussion from YOU about the characters in June. I'd love to discuss the story with you!