August 2012 - Teresa Gabelman

Always the underdog!

I was just looking on Google books to see if Damon had been added yet. I typed my name under Google books to see if Damon was there and my name is in Black Belt Magazine for winning the World Championships in 2001. Tito Ortiz is on the cover. Very freakin cool!!! It just reminded me of how hard I had to work to earn that title. I was born with a club foot and had to have eight corrective surgeries. I missed tons of school, had a hard time making and keeping friends. I was always in a cast and on crutches or a wheelchair. My uncle was a Shriner so he talked my mom into taking me to Shriner’s Hospital in Lexington and he was be my sponsor. That was the best thing that ever happened to my ability to walk right. I was born in 1966 and then they really...

Review, interview and contest at Black Words-White Pages!!

Hey everybody! This is going to be short and sweet. Been pretty sick today, but I wanted to let ya know that there is a contest going on at Black Words-White Pages to win a signed paperback of Damon and 2 PDF’s. I want to give a big shout out to Jenny Bynum. She has been so nice and so willing to help indie authors. It’s been a pleasure meeting her. So please check out the links I will provide at the bottom and join and/or like these wonderful sites that support indies. It isn’t just paranormal romance, but a little of...

Publishing in the overflowing genre of paranormal romance.

When I was a little girl my brother made me sit and watch all the old monster movies like Frankenstein, Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Godzilla, Nosferatu (which scared the crap out of me) and my favorite Dracula. Even though most of the movies I watched between my fingers because my hands hid my face I still loved them. To me vampires out of any of the paranormal/monster beings I grew up watching had a mysterious, creepy, yet romantic feel behind them. The more recent vampire movies seemed to catch on to the romantic lure of vampires such as Interview with the Vampire, The Lost Boys and Twilight to name a few. In the wake of Twilight tons of books surfaced with publishers trying to get in with the Twilight phenomenon. So...