Praise for Sam Stone

KILLING KISS:

Silver Award Winner in ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Awards 2007

‘A deceptively readable date with darkness watch your step! This book is lit for the much more discerning chick (and cock) who likes to walk in the shadows. Relax with it, but be prepared for sudden jewels and little masterpieces and the rug to be pulled from under your feet.’ - Tanith Lee

‘Read this book and change the way you feel about vampires for the rest of your so short life.’ - Geoff Nelder

‘Worth getting your fangs into.’ - Peter Mark May

‘Vampire fans who are drawn to the mysterious sexual lure that the immortals have over their “common” peers will love Stone’s seductive prose. She captures the passion and lust perfectly, without going overboard and making it a tawdry romance novel.’

- Eddie Gresham

‘I was floored by Sam’s work. Really flat-out delighted to see such a level of style combined with narrative drive. I suppose one could use those terms in an overly technical sense, but Sam is at a level that simply shines. Soaking in her story even while seeing her powerful ability to make me feel and see what the narrator is experiencing - she’s not only got a gift, she clearly knows how to employ it to powerful effect.’ - Gard Goldsmith

FUTILE FLAME:

Finalist in ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Awards 2009

‘This book has it all, sibling incest, lesbianism, male on male rape, and people getting their hearts ripped out of their chests.’

- J R LeMar

‘Vibrant and colourful.’ - Peter Mark May

‘When you have a vampire, as sexually charged as Lucrezia, survive burning at the stake and living among the whores of an Italian dockland, you don’t want your reading flame to go out. The sensual show is rich, the characters three-dimensional, and the terror is real. The witch-burner’s flames were futile but the fire between the pages rages on.’ - Geoff Nelder

‘[Lucrezia’s] shocking tale: from the obsessions of a brother; her fall as his prey; her longing for freedom and normality; the strength of will she develops through mere survival ... [all] creates a power beyond the usual tale of vampire meets girl, vampire falls in love with girl, vampire loses girl ... or whatever the formula is for such things. You become a part of Lucrezia’s discoveries, much as you learn with Gabriele of the life he was thrust into, yet with the fresh eyes of a female, seeing the world of the late 1500s and early 1600s male domination being twisted and used to such great advantage. With the revelations of her story, the whole book opens up into a new, greater dimension, leaving me in total awe of the new world created in my mind. Yes I want, no, NEED more!’

- Trudy Messingham - The Art of Randomology

‘With all the style and charisma of Anne Rice, but less indulgence and crazy, Futile Flame is a sensual, deadly tale of immortals, sins and the unknown wrapped up in a vivid take on the past ... Rich, enticing and utterly charming Stone’s vampires are ambrosia to horror fans hungry for the good old monstrous vampires who look, walk and sound like us, but hold our deaths in their gaze.’

- Michele Lee - Booklove

DEMON DANCE:

‘Enticing, shocking and delightful ... A fast-moving story that’s spell-binding, as thrilling as it is intelligent and thought-provoking ... Sam Stone writes with stylish panache.’ - Simon Clark

‘Sam Stone has done it again, her immersion into the vampire world is so extraordinarily well-crafted that I am wondering if she is really Lilly, the protagonist vampire with a heart. And Lilly is more than a vampire, she has learnt witchcraft and - rare in vampire literature - can manipulate ley lines, using them as a power. Unusual too in that this vampiric feast travels the corridors of Time, quite literally and in both directions ... If Futile Flame was a flambé of vampiric lust, Demon Dance is its force majeure.’ - Geoff Nelder