January 3rd, 2013 / 10:28 am
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Coming Soon: Throne of Blood by Cassandra Troyan

a poetic novel from Solar Luxuriance

18 Comments

  1. January 3rd, 2013 / 3:20 pm Cassandra Troyan—

      KEEPING THE VITAL FLOWS

  2. January 3rd, 2013 / 8:43 pm Shannon—

      I really love this.

  3. January 3rd, 2013 / 9:42 pm Words in the New Year. « About that Writing thing.—

      […] saw this over at HTMLGIANT and I am not familiar with this author but I love LOVE the trailer […]

  4. January 3rd, 2013 / 11:46 pm Scott McClanahan—

      Love this.

  5. January 4th, 2013 / 11:05 am vjb77—

      My February just got a lot more interesting…how will one possess a print copy?

  6. January 4th, 2013 / 1:13 pm mimi—

      ew is that real blood?

  7. January 5th, 2013 / 2:40 am Cody Troyan—
  8. January 5th, 2013 / 5:01 am rawbbie—

      holy shit

  9. January 7th, 2013 / 5:07 am Cassandra Troyan—

      what do you mean by real?

  10. January 7th, 2013 / 7:46 am Cassandra Troyan—

      pre-order later this month.

  11. January 7th, 2013 / 12:02 pm mimi—

      i figured you’d know what i mean by ‘real’, but since you asked, i mean ‘vertebrate blood’:

      Blood is a specialized bodily fluid in animals that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to cells and transports metabolic waste products away from cells.

      In vertebrates, blood is composed of blood cells suspended in plasma. Plasma, which constitutes 55% of blood fluid, is mostly water (92% by volume), and contains dissipated proteins, glucose, mineral ions, hormones, carbon dioxide, and blood cells themselves. Albumin is the main protein in plasma, and it functions to regulate the colloidal osmotic pressure of blood. Blood cells are mainly red blood cells (erythrocytes) and white blood cells, including leukocytes and platelets. The most abundant cells in vertebrate blood are red blood cells. These contain hemoglobin, an iron-containing protein, which facilitates transportation of oxygen by reversibly binding to this respiratory gas and greatly increasing its solubility in blood. In contrast, carbon dioxide is almost entirely transported extracellularly dissolved in plasma as bicarbonate ion.

      Vertebrate blood is bright red when its hemoglobin is oxygenated. Some animals, such as crustaceans and mollusks, use hemocyanin to carry oxygen, instead of hemoglobin. Insects and some mollusks use a fluid called hemolymph instead of blood, the difference being that hemolymph is not contained in a closed circulatory system. In most insects, this “blood” does not contain oxygen-carrying molecules such as hemoglobin because their bodies are small enough for their tracheal system to suffice for supplying oxygen.

      as opposed to ‘fake blood’, you know, food coloring in karo syrup, or whatever:

      http://www.trendyhalloween.com/Bottle-of-Fake-Blood-P9472.aspx?afid=4#.UOrwyo59nzI

  12. January 7th, 2013 / 3:08 pm deadgod—

      Turing blood

  13. January 7th, 2013 / 3:46 pm mimi—

      interrobang

  14. January 7th, 2013 / 10:32 pm Cassandra Troyan—

      Ah, well, I was more referring to if by “real” you meant from the incident, or constructed. In that case there is a bit of human and animal blood along with syrup because we got hungry.

  15. January 8th, 2013 / 12:47 am mimi—

      1. i don’t know what the ‘incident’ is – guess i need to read the book, huh?

      2. “a bit of human and animal blood along with…” – weren’t you concerned about infectious agents? i would have been concerned about infectious agents!

  16. January 8th, 2013 / 6:57 am Cassandra Troyan—
  17. January 8th, 2013 / 6:58 am Cassandra Troyan—

      contamination is the best part.

  18. February 27th, 2013 / 4:33 am M. Kitchell—