I finally made it through A Dance in Blood Velvet by Freda Warrington, I've only owned it for about 13 years... It's a rather odd story about a couple of occultists who get more than they bargained for, a ballet dancer who becomes Lilith reincarnated, and a bunch of angel vampires who claim to be messengers from God. Not quite what I expected as a follow on from a vampire romance novel. And my copy fell apart and turned out to have 50 pages missing due to a binding error. Oh well.
Now I'm reading The Mists of Avalon, which I've somehow never actually read before. Well, I know exactly how it happened, I got put off fantasy novels as a young teenager after reading a bunch of crappy ones and when I started reading them again in my early 20s I didn't go back to the classics. I'm really enjoying it though, which is good because I want to finish it before my new purchases arrive:
I've ordered Books 1 & 2 of Requite (The Maker's Mask and The Hawkwood War) by Ankaret Wells from Lulu.
Ankaret has been blogging about her experience with self publishing here and
her latest post details why you should buy the books. If they sound like your sort of thing, why not take a chance on a new author? I've been reading her personal blog and short fiction for years and I think she is really talented. And there are extracts of both books on her blog if you want to check out her style.