17.May.07 -5:59 pm RTM Click here to read an excerpt of Tattooing Violet. You need the free Adobe Reader, which you can download here.
10 April.07 -8:55 am RTM Shocklines.com is selling Tattooing Violet with its "New Voices Guarantee" for a limited time. If you don't like it you can return it for a refund. 9.Mar..07 -8:55 pm RTM"Tattooing Violet is free from the usual tattoo cliches found in popular lit and remarkably paints a vivid and realistic picture of tattooing... A recommended read."
11.Feb.07 - 6:30pm RTM
My novella Tattooing Violet is published by Scrybe Press, Massena, NY. The great cover art is by Kirk Alberts.
The book's available online at:
Amazon.com,
Amazon France,
Barnes & Noble,
Kayleighbug Books,
Shocklines,
Powells Books
and a few other booksellers.
Description from the back cover:
A riveting story about a boy and his reclusive sister, too damaged or terrified of their abusive father to tell anyone -- until their new step-brother tattoos their stories on their backs. As those pictures take on lives of their own, the events behind them can no longer be denied... R. T. Mitchell's language flows like a rollercoaster on greased tracks heading for a brick wall. It will hit you over the head with a sledgehammer and you'll say thank you and ask for more...
Tattooing Violet
file under fiction
I dreaded the mechanical buzz of Mataora's tattoo machine almost as much as I did the rage that throbbed in the blue veins on my stepfather's bald head..
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you can e-mail me at mataora1 at yahoo.com