Fanged

Sean is a sixteen-year-old vampire who just wants to finish high school. Blending in isn't easy: two vampires in his group can't stand him, he's barely passing math, and Becky, the pretty cheerleader, smells a little too good to him. With the help of Hannah, the group leader and his best friend, he manages to fly under the radar and keep out of trouble. But when the junior class president is found dead under mysterious circumstances, the truce among Sean and his fellow vampires falls apart. As each person reveals a secret that could threaten their lives, Sean tries to control his hunger. Will he be able to turn over a new leaf, or will the temptation for Becky's blood be too strong to overcome?

Two romantic comedies with bite! Fanged Duology includes: I Wanna Suck Your... Blood. I'm a vampire. Come on. Then I met Simon and couldn't help thinking: maybe I'm after more than a little nutrition. He's a runner on a strict diet. I eat chips and queso as a main course. He's punctual. I think five minutes late is on time. He's an engineer. I tell stories for a living. He's human. I'm not. One misanthropic vamp (me) meets one commitment-shy human (him) and sparks fly. But humans and vamps don't do relationships...right? Warning from the author: This book contains steamy vampire-human shenanigans, enough naughty words to make someone (not me) blush, and a vampire who secretly (deep, deep, deep down) longs to be loved. I Wanna Bite Your... Anything. Everything. Because you drive me crazy and make me wild. I shouldn't be attracted to you, but I am. You're a man-child. A boy who never became an adult. A bartending musician who wouldn't know what good healthcare and a retirement plan were if they bit you on your delectable butt. And you're keeping secrets. About who you are, maybe what you are. You're everything I avoid in men. You meet none of my dating list requirements. But sex isn't dating...right? One list-obsessed vamp with a love of rules (me) meets one not-quite-human hottie with too many secrets (him) and mostly naked yoga happens. Also sex. Sex definitely happens. But that's all we've got. We're not compatible in all the adult ways that a real relationship requires. Are we? Warning from the author: This book contains steamy vampire/not-quite-human shenanigans, enough naughty words to make someone (not me) blush, and a vampire who longs for her happily ever after but doesn't necessarily recognize it when it stares her in the face.

A dizzying trip through the mind(s) of the provocative and influential thinker Nick Land. During the 1990s British philosopher Nick Land's unique work, variously described as “rabid nihilism,” “mad black deleuzianism,” and “cybergothic,” developed perhaps the only rigorous and culturally-engaged escape route out of the malaise of “continental philosophy” —a route that was implacably blocked by the academy. However, Land's work has continued to exert an influence, both through the British “speculative realist” philosophers who studied with him, and through the many cultural producers—writers, artists, musicians, filmmakers—who have been invigorated by his uncompromising and abrasive philosophical vision. Beginning with Land's early radical rereadings of Heidegger, Nietzsche, Kant and Bataille, the volume collects together the papers, talks and articles of the mid-90s—long the subject of rumour and vague legend (including some work which has never previously appeared in print)—in which Land developed his futuristic theory-fiction of cybercapitalism gone amok; and ends with his enigmatic later writings in which Ballardian fictions, poetics, cryptography, anthropology, grammatology and the occult are smeared into unrecognisable hybrids. Fanged Noumena gives a dizzying perspective on the entire trajectory of this provocative and influential thinker's work, and has introduced his unique voice to a new generation of readers.

Twelve-year-old Starshine Shapiro is crazy for spiders, and the spider she loves most is the rare Fanged Vampire Spider (araneus vampiricus). When Starshine learns that her home province of British Columbia is lacking an official Provincial Arachnid, she vows to make sure the Fanged Vampire Spider receives this title. All she has to do is convince 3,000 people to sign her petition. Luckily, Starshine has lots of friends she can ask for help-especially her best friend, Julie Wong. But a huge fight between Starshine and Julie leaves Starshine wondering how she will ever get the help she needs to make araneus vampiricus the most famous spider in the province?

My name is Sarah Dearly, and I've got major problems. Last month, I was turned into a vampire by the world's worst blind date. Then I may have, totally by accident, started a war between the mostly peaceful bloodsuckers and a bunch of sociopathic vamp hunters who have nicknamed me the Slayer of Slayers. Now I'm being used as bait to draw out the hunters' bad-ass leader, while my gorgeous 600-year-old boyfriend Thierry seems to be blowing me off, and my sizzle-hot, fanged friend Quinn is trying to turn my self-defense lessons into make-out sessions. So you know what? I'm done. I've had it. There comes a time when a vamp has to just suck it up and go after what she wants. And as soon as I figure out what that is, that's exactly what I'll do...

Twilight, True Blood and The Vampire Diaries have sparked intense fan activity and generated a large quantity of fan fiction: stories which test the limits of an already existing fictional work and explore gaps and discrepancies within it. Working from the idea that texts constitute archives, expanded and altered by each addition, close readings of a selection of fanfics illustrate particular transformative practices in the online environment. The central figure of the vampire is read through the lens of fanfic authors' contributions to the archives, particularly regarding how figuratively or literally refanged versions of the trope are used to subvert norms established in the source texts concerning depictions of sexuality, sexual practices, and monstrosity. Complex relationships between authorial power and subversion, between mainstream messages and individual interpretations, are examined through fanfic analyses, the findings contributing to discussions about contemporary literary creativity.

I Wanna Bite Your... Anything. Everything. Because you drive me crazy and make me wild. I shouldn't be attracted to you, but I am. You're a man-child. A boy who never became an adult. A bartending musician who wouldn't know what good healthcare and a retirement plan were if they bit you on your delectable butt. And you're keeping secrets. About who you are, maybe what you are. You're everything I avoid in men. You meet none of my dating list requirements. But sex isn't dating...right? One list-obsessed vamp with a love of rules (me) meets one not-quite-human hottie with too many secrets (him) and mostly naked yoga happens. Also sex. Sex definitely happens. But that's all we've got. We're not compatible in all the adult ways that a real relationship requires. Are we? Note from the author: This book contains steamy vampire/not-quite-human shenanigans, enough naughty words to make someone (not me) blush, and a vampire who longs for her happily ever after but doesn't necessarily recognize it when it stares her in the face.

Jilted at the altar a month before her fortieth birthday. Poor Hailey. Midlife really does have a crisis. Or is it that midlife is the crisis? Either way, it sucks. Hailey Whitfield can’t take any more run-ins with her ex. It’s time for a big change. She’s never considered moving away, but it’s her best plan yet. Bonus – her bestie lives next door! However, her new neighbor is… weird, to say the least. Extremely hot, but odd. So are his friends. But Hailey will take strange neighbors over facing her lying, cheat, deadbeat ex-fiancé all day, any day. Finding a job in a new town is more challenging than she realizes. With her savings depleted from the move, Hailey has to suck it up and take what she gets. After taking a job as a private nurse for an injured bounty hunter, things start to look up. Then a skip falls into her lap. Okay, sure. She was being nosy and reading an incoming fax intended for her patient. But with a little encouragement, Hailey takes on the task of tracking down the skip. It’s easy money. Right? Wrong. This skip is far more than Hailey bargained for. And her life is about to change in a very bloody and pointy kind of way. What a bite in the… Well, you know. With the help of her witchy best friend and her new, very pale neighbor, Hailey is going to collect her bounty. Or die trying. This collection includes: Bitten in the Midlife Staked in the Midlife Masquerading in the Midlife