October 1, 2008 - Wednesday

The Fall 2008 Issue of "MetaCreative" Is Out!!

Love this issue…and it’s a FREE DOWNLOADJ Some highlights: Vanesa Martinelli’s art is powerful and I dig what her acronym for TR-EE is. The “Peace Wheel” cover art by Mystikka radiates love and acceptance ~~~I also enjoyed Jeanine Austin’s discussion of one’s “Buddha nature.” And, Aloramyst’s “Nature Spirits” will have you seeing the perhaps formerly unseen. ~~~In addition, poetry and pics from my latest release, Days and Nights in Summerville , are included. You can view the enlarged version of MetaCreative by clicking on it on my page here, or simply go to www.metacreativemagazine.com and download a free copy there. Hugs and “bytes,” G.L. Gileswww.metacreativemagazine.com

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August 19, 2008 - Tuesday

Kristin's (The Angry Princess) Review of V3: The Vampire Vignettes ReVamped

Category: Writing And Poetry

You can view this review of V3: The Vampire Vignettes ReVamped at http://thisissomescene.com/?p=500

V3 The Vampire Vignettes ReVamped- G.L.Giles

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V3 The Vampire Vignettes ReVamped- G.L. Giles
ISBN: Hard Copy 978-1-4257-6773-0,
Soft Copy 978-4257-6755-6

I like vampires. I thought a vampire was a vampire end of story…never was I so wrong. G.L. Giles’ V3 amazed me with it’s in depth explanations and incredible knowledge of all things vampire. Not only are there these incredible characters, she also defines all of the different types of vampires. The strongest of them all is the Vampyre, but the ones I want to read more about in the future would have to be water vampires.

Vladina will take you on a journey thru time as she remembers certain people, places and situations that have a harrowing effect on her. All of these addictive stories end up intermingled within each other in the long run. It will no doubt leave you craving more of this delicious tale that will stay deeply embedded in your mind. It’s sweet enough for you to not be able to put the damn thing down, trust me a day later I was finished yet fiending for more!

I refuse to give away any of this story, it’s too good for you not to grasp all the wonderful creativity that G. L. Giles has pumped into her words and storyline on your own. I haven’t had a book sink it’s claws in me like this for a very long time so it was a nice change for me to want to bury myself completely in this read. Even if you have just a mere interest in vampires, pick V3 up, it will fascinate you into wanting to learn everything you can about them.

And here I am fantasizing for Giles about how she will become rich and famous while pumping out one best seller after the other therefore leaving me with a vast amount of books to dig into. I picked this book up and couldn’t put it the frig down so I ended up finishing it in a little over a day. I was honestly disappointed when the story was over. V3 had engulfed me completely and made me realize just how long it’s been since a book has left me begging for more!

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July 18, 2008 - Friday

A Great Review of My Latest Release, "Days and Nights in Summerville"

Category: Writing And Poetry

Andrew C. Zinn’s Review of My Latest Release, Days and Nights in Summerville:

Category: Writing and Poetry

"G.L. Giles has given me another wound to the chest with her shotgun of truth. 'Days and Nights in Summerville' by G.L. Giles is one of the most interesting collections, of writings, I have read to date. The book is mostly comprised of poetry and...poetry suits her. Her brutal honesty about life, survival, and being a sound human being is one of purist directness. I couldn't stop reading her verse. It's harsh and kicks you in the face. 'Days and Nights in Summerville' is not all poetry either. There are a few short stories it included. I particularly enjoyed the short story boobled, 'Third World'. I think it's a frightening preconception about human relationships and how cyberspace is changing sexuality. It may be a somewhat dark story, but those types of stories are, most often, the ones that are most accurate. 'Days and Nights in Summerville' is also for fans of G.L.'s ongoing 'Vampire Vignettes' series. If you are hungry for the next installment of the tales of Vladina, there is a teaser for 'V4: Vladina's Transformation' for you. I didn't put 'Days and Nights in Summerville' down until it was totally read. I want to encourage all to bite into it before G.L. Giles bites into you. Pull the covers over your heads readers, because the monster is outside your door."

Andrew C. Zinn, author and musician

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November 9, 2007 - Friday

And Cream's Review of V3: The Vampire Vignettes ReVamped by G.L. Giles

Category: Writing And Poetry

When V3: The Vampire Vignettes Revamped arrived in my inbox for me to review, I was a little bit dubious. Firstly because I’m not an enormous fan of Vampire-themed books, with certain notable exceptions such as I am Legend, and Interview with the Vampire.Despite counting Stephen King high on my list of all-time favourite authors, I even find his own attempt at Vampire fiction – Salem’s Lot – to be a disappointment.Secondly, there are just SO MANY Vampire novels nowadays. The whole Vampire-fiction market has become, to an extent, saturated. There are literally thousands and thousands of Vampire novels out there, and the problem with this is: some of them are going to be bad. Probably very bad.So it was with a certain amount of trepidation that I set about reading G. L. Giles’ tale of Vampires (and Vampyres). Thankfully for me, my doubts turned out to be unfounded as this was an excellent read from start to finish, full of reaction-provoking characters and beautifully disgusting murder.One such murder sees the ruthless Vladina spike her victim’s head through the neck onto her sword’s blade so that she can drink the blood and gore as it flows down the weapon. It’s fair to say that Vladina is a pretty nasty piece of work, and a good job too because Giles’ portrayal of Charleston, South Carolina (which is both the setting of this story and Giles’ hometown) is filled with utterly contemptible people, and really it’s for the best that there is a bunch of bloodthirsty Undead culling them.You get the impression, throughout the story, that most of these unlikeable characters are people whom Giles has come across throughout various stages of her life. Mainly because you can see that she actually holds these characters in complete disdain and, more often than not, they are disrespectful to the more sympathetic characters (who perhaps represent elements of Giles herself). It is therefore with a certain amount of joy that Giles can have her ‘good’ characters come out on top of the ‘bad’ characters…usually with the bad guys meeting a particularly sticky end.This is no bad thing though, if anything it makes Giles’ words more believable, because you suspect that they are coming from real experience and memories – albeit exaggerated to the N^th degree – and so there is a weight of emotion behind them.The story-proper takes a while to get going, and the reason for this is that there is quite a large ensemble cast which Giles goes to great lengths to introduce to us, spending over half of the book simply setting the scene, so that when the latter part of the book happens, it happens quickly and brutally. It is to the author’s credit that the change in pace is almost unnoticeable as you get sucked in, especially when the story shifts over to a preferred character, such as the gruff and mutated (but very likeable) Kerry.One of the things that sets V3 apart from other works of Vampire-fiction is that, in addition to being a compelling story, there are also elements of the book that read like a reference book. Giles chooses to teach us a little about her own beliefs, coupled with more common Vampire “fact” or “folklore”, within the pages and, again, this is part of the author’s tendency to equip us with information in the earlier stages of the book, so that by the time we get to the later pages we feel like experts on the subject, so the pages just seem to fly by…From a personal point of view, Giles’ biggest achievement is to make me feel comfortable that there are still great writers and great stories floating around in a Genre that I’ve avoided for some years now due to many bad past experiences.It’s testament to Giles that, not only will I recommend this to my friends as well as And Cream’s readers, but I will also go out and pick up copies of Giles’ previous two stories in the Vampire Vignettes saga.

Matthew Waldram of And Cream Magazine

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