Welcome to Mandy's Madhouse Home of Romance Author Madeline Baker/Amanda Ashley

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4/13/09


Coming in October 2009

Who makes the best vampire? I didn't include Edward cause I knew he'd win, hands down!
Gary Oldhan - Bram Stoker's Dracula
Brad Pitt - Interview with a Vampire
Gerard Butler - Dracula 2000
Frank Langella - Dracula
Christopher Lee - Dracula
George Hamilton - Love at First Bite
Antonio Bandaras - Interview with a Vampire
Bela Lugosi - Dracula
Leslie Nielsen - Dracula, Dead and Loving It
  
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I read they're hoping to have the 2nd movie out by November. I sure hope so!

What's Your Fav Night Book?
Night's Pleasure
Night's Master
Night's Touch
Night's Kiss
  
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Vampire Elvis??

A vampire who was quite dandy
Just loved to snack on red candy
He was not very bold
And the truth be told
He was dreamed up by a writer named Mandy
---Chip

October 2008

February 2008

The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance USA Edition August 2008

July 2007

February 2007

February 2006

Original Cover 2005

Reissue Cover August 2008

A Whisper of Eternity 2004

Midnight Pleasures 2003

Stroke of Midnight 2003

After Sundown 2003

Midnight Embrace 2002

After Twilight 2001

The Captive July 2000

Paradise 1999

Shades of Gray Original Cover 1998

SHADES OF GRAY Reissue Cover 9/06

A Darker Dream Original Cover 1997

Reissue Cover 9/06

Sunlight Moonlight 1997 Original Cover

Original Stepback Cover Sunlight Moonlight

Reissue Cover 9/06

Deeper Than the Night Original Cover 1996

Reissue Cover 7/07

Embrace the Night Original Cover 1995

Reissue Cover 9/06






A man I met online (John Fries) produced a short film titled BLUE MYST ROAD, which is about urban legends. He sent me a copy of the film. One scene (above) takes place in a bookstore. In this scene, a customer asks for a book recommendation and the woman in black says, "How about a nice vampire romance by Amanda Ashley?". Is that cool, or what? Thanks, John!


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PARANORMAL ROMANCE

BY

AMANDA ASHLEY


Be wary when you enter here. This is the realm of shadows, of dark and dangerous men who haunt the night, their eyes burning with need and desire. Men who will lure you into places you might be wiser not to go, men who can promise to love you forever…and make good on that promise.


Thanks to all of you who have taken the time to email me and tell me how much you've enjoyed NIGHT'S PLEASURE. I love this family, and hate to see the series end. Of course, there's still Mara's book, and maybe one more....

At the moment, I'm hard at work on a sequel to EVERLASTING KISS. Kiss will be out in February of next year, and the sequel the following October. I'm about halfway through the sequel, and I love it so far. The hero, Rhys, is the "bad" guy from EVERLASTING KISS.

The back cover copy for EVERLASTING KISS says:
DESIRE NEVER DIES

Daisy O’Donnell doesn’t get the attraction some women feel for vampires. She likes her men with a pulse. And she’s just met one who’s full of life: Erik Delacourt, the unreasonably sexy man she keeps meeting at a popular L.A. nightclub called the Crypt. She barely knows him, but there’s no resisting the connection she feels…

There’s one important detail Erik hasn’t gotten around to telling her yet. He’s a powerful vampire out to hunt the Blood Thief who is draining young vampires all over the city—and who has just raised the stakes by destroying one of Erik’s friends. To Erik, Daisy is a bright spot of innocence in a world of darkness and menace. He’ll do anything—even lie to her—to keep her safe and pure.

If only he knew that Daisy has something of her own to hide…

I can't wait to see the cover!

Hope all is well in your corner of fantasyland.

Amanda



Mandy's Desk
I got to thinking that my readers might like to see my office and when I mentioned it to my friend, Kathy, she agreed, so here's my desk (cleaned up, of course)

If you can't tell what's on it, those are Star Wars Mighty Muggs figures on the shelves, and Star Trek plates on the wall. To the left of my desk is a poster of Forbidden Fires. The picture on my monitor is the Twilight cast.

And there's a Jack Sparrow folder sitting on my FAX machine.

My Bookcase
My bookcase has original copies of all my books, including reprints. The Last of the Mohicans poster was good inspiration when I wrote my historical romances.

To the left of the bookcase is a photo signed by my favorite Phantom, Davis Gaines. More Star Wars figures on top of the book case. I don't think you can tell from the photo, but that's a Jack Sparrow clock over the bookcase. When I write, I'm surrounded by many of my favorite things.



COMING SOON FROM ZEBRA BOOKS

Immortal Sins
October 2009

Everlasting Kiss
February 2010

VAMPIRE ROMANCE BY AMANDA ASHLEY
Published by Leisure Books


1. Embrace the Night 1995

2. Deeper Than the Night 1996

3. Sunlight Moonlight 1997

4. A Darker Dream 1998
5. Shades of Gray 1998

6. The Captive 2000
(Futuristic)

7. Midnight Embrace 2002

Published by Zebra Books

8. After Sundown 2003
sequel to Shades of Gray

9 A Whisper of Eternity 2004

10. Night's Kiss 2005

11. Desire After Dark 2006
sequel to After Sundown

12. Dead Sexy 2/07
13. Night's Touch 7/07
sequel to Night's Kiss

14. Dead Perfect 2/08
15. Night's Master 10/08
sequel to Night's Touch

15. Night's Pleasure 2/09
sequel to Night's Master

VAMPIRE/PARANORMAL/FANTASY
Published by Leisure Books


1. After Twilight - Ashley 2001
2. Paradise - Baker - 1999

Published by St. Martin's Press

2. Midnight Pleasures 2003
3. Stroke of Midnight 2004

Published by Running Press

4. Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance 2008





VAMPIRES...THE UNDEAD...NOSFERATU...

Some people love them. Some people hate them. Anne Rice reawakened our fascination with them. Lori Herter gave them a romantic twist. Yes, I'm talking about vampires. Not the blood-sucking fiendish ones who send shivers of fear down our spines, but those dark tortured heroes who give us shivers of another kind.

I can remember how entranced I was when I read Interview With a Vampire, yet how disappointed I was that Anne's vampires were unable to make love. All that charm and charisma, all that raw sexuality, going to waste! Then along came Nancy Gideon's hero in Midnight Kiss. He was everything I wanted in a vampire - he was handsome, mysterious, sexy, lonely, haunted, with just the right blend of danger and tenderness. Oh, yes, I loved him!

Another book that inspired me was Obsession by Lori Herter. Another tortured hero! I loved it.

About the time I was falling in love with children of the night, I reached a point in my career where I felt I needed a break from writing western historicals. As vampires were much on my mind at the time, I wrote my very first vampire romance, a short story titled MASQUERADE for an anthology titled THE TOPAZ MAN PRESENTS SECRETS OF THE HEART, which is now out of print. It was more recently published in a Leisure anthology titled AFTER TWILIGHT.

As it turned out, a short story wasn't enough, and so I wrote EMBRACE THE NIGHT. And thus Amanda Ashley was born. I'm happy to say that EMBRACE THE NIGHT is being reissued in September of 2006.

Frank Langella was my inspiration for Gabriel. If you've seen the movie DRACULA, starring Frank, then you know why.


A FEW OF MY FAVORITE VAMPIRES

Gary Oldham as Dracula

Henry Fitzroy Blood Ties

Brad Pitt as Louis Interview with a Vampire

Edward and Bella Twilight

Cast of Twilight

Alex O'Laughlin Mick from Moonlight

Frank Langella The Best Dracula Ever

Mark Frankel Kindred, the Embraced. This was a really good show and is available on DVD.

George Hamilton My favorite funny Vampire

Gerard Butler He can bite my neck any time!


Elizabeth Camp sent me this plague, which reads: "This award is presented to Amanda Ashley, in recognition of your brilliance and excellence within the literary realm, and in appreciation for her hard work and dedication, in bringning her fans the stories that will forever live in their hearts..."


One of my readers, Elizabeth Camp, sent me the following poem and I thought it was so cute, I just had to share it. If you think Elizabeth's name sounds familiar, it's because I've used her poetry in some of my books.

Dear Lord, yes it's me,
praying again from Tennessee;
My current readings have become a bore,
So to You I now implore;
I know You have a lot to do,
Normally I would not dare intrude;
But the request I make is awe inspired,
I want to read more of Mandy's Vampires.
AMEN



You can't have too many photos of Frank

Some of my favorite Paranormal books:

Phantom
These Fallen Angels
The Vampire Viscount
The Sookie Stackhouse Books by Charlaine Harris
Tanya Huff's "Blood" series
The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
Outlander
The Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer
The Everworld series by K.A. Applegate
The Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs
The Paladin books by Alexis Morgan


I never drink...wine

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Excerpts

In The Works
What I'm working on now
Coming Soon
Amanda's Vampire Romances
NIGHT'S PLEASURE
Sequel to Night's Master
NIGHT'S MASTER
Sequel to Night's Touch
DEAD PERFECT
Vampire Romance
NIGHT'S TOUCH
Sequel to Night's Kiss
DESIRE AFTER DARK
Sequel to After Sundown
AFTER SUNDOWN
Sequel to Shades of Gray
SUNLIGHT, MOONLIGHT
Alien/Vampire
Silhouette Romances
Signet Historical Romance
Leisure Historical Romance Series
RECKLESS EMBRACE
Includes covers and cover copy for Reckless Heart, Reckless Love and Reckless Desire
Time Travel
Anthologies
AFTER TWILIGHT
Vampire/Werewolf
Anthologies
The complete list
Futuristic
Leisure Historical Romance
CHASE THE WIND
Sequel to Apache Runaway
COMANCHE FLAME
The first book I wrote
Fantasy