About Inanna Arthen

Inanna Arthen is the author The Vampires of New England Series (http://vampiresofnewengland.com). Best described as "magical realism", this open-ended non-linear storyline is set in a realistic fantasy universe very like our everyday world. Book One, MORTAL TOUCH (July, 2007) is set in 2004 in Massachusetts. Book Two, THE LONGER THE FALL (June, 2010) takes the story back to Maine in the 1950s. Book Three, ALL THE SHADOWS OF THE RAINBOW (September, 2013) follows the protagonist of THE LONGER THE FALL through the tumultuous 1960s. The fourth volume will pick up from the end of MORTAL TOUCH as the characters adjust to their new lives--and jobs--in the house on River Road.

Inanna has studied vampire folklore, media, culture and fact for more than forty years, and runs By Light Unseen Media (http://bylightunseenmedia.com), an independent press dedicated to publishing vampire fiction and nonfiction.

An initiated Witch and Pagan activist, Inanna worked for ten years with the Boston-based Pagan network, The EarthSpirit Community, whose magazine FIREHEART published a number of her nonfiction articles. Now archived online, some of these pieces still attract many readers. Inanna holds an M.Div degree from Harvard and spent a decade working in a central Massachusetts battered women's shelter. Genderqueer and a strong advocate for LGBTQ issues, Inanna includes positively presented characters of alternate gender identity and experience in her fiction.

Inanna's nonfiction articles have been cited in numerous academic books and countless online sources. She is a member of Independent Publishers of New England, the Independent Book Publishers Association, Broad Universe and New England Horror Writers. She is the minister of the Unitarian-Universalist Church of Winchendon, MA.

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Fortune's Fool: The Diana Chilton Books (The Vampires of New England Series) Feb 15, 2016

by Inanna Arthen

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Diana Chilton is unlike any woman you've ever met in fiction.

Born and raised in a secretive magical order in the 1920s, Diana's journey leads her from mastery as a magic-worker to pursuing the secret of immortality in 1952. Her quest ends at the isolated Maine house of Thomas Morgan, who was made a vampire by the Fae two hundred years earlier and who now seeks a magical solution to his fate. When he and Diana attempt to challenge the Fae by magic, they unleash disaster.

Now a vampire herself, Diana clings to her vision of a group of powerful magic workers who influence social and political change. She forms a coven with an old friend, Jack. When their efforts bring about catastrophic results, the coven splits up and Jack disappears. Diana sets out to find other vampires, and finally tracks down one using the name Troy Stevenson, living with a commune of close-knit friends in Massachusetts. Diana longs only for a peaceful life, but her work with Jack and the coven is far from over.

Powerful, independent, omnisexual, and a crusader for progressive change, Diana redefines "strong female character." This Kindle Exclusive special bundle edition includes the unabridged text of two full novels, The Longer the Fall and All the Shadows of the Rainbow.

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All the Shadows of the Rainbow Sep 27, 2013

by Inanna Arthen

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In the spring of 1955, new-minted vampire Diana Chilton rejoins civilization after the Fae boot her out of her self-pity, and meets an old friend, Jack Garrett, who recognizes her as a vampire. Jack proposes that he and Diana start a secret magical group and use their training and powers to manifest political and social change--exactly what Diana had wanted to do for many years.

With two other highly gifted magicians, David Hofstein and April McFarland, Jack and Diana form their coven devoted at manipulating and changing other people, using powerful magic and mind-altering drugs. As the years pass, April, David and Diana slowly begin to question the wisdom of what they're doing and whether they can trust Jack. After a devastating reality check in November, 1963, and with other interests calling each of them, the three quit the group. Coldly angry, Jack packs his things and disappears.

Left on her own, Diana follows clues she has been collecting for ten years and tracks down a vampire now using the name Troy Stevenson, but born Edward Tillinger in South Kingston, Rhode Island. He has joined a small commune of people starting an organic farm in a sprawling farmhouse in Sheridan, Massachusetts. The group accepts Diana and she joins their family. For the first time in many years, she feels that she has truly come home.

Over the next six years, hints and news trickle back to Diana that suggest Jack may be working alone on a scheme far beyond anything their coven had dreamed of. As Troy investigates reports from Brazil and the Philippines that he thinks may help them solve some of the mysteries of their vampiric condition, Diana realizes that she has unfinished business. She is forced to choose between accompanying Troy on his travels, and stopping Jack from an action that will change history and life as she knows it forever.

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The Longer the Fall Jun 1, 2010

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It’s 1952, a time of upheavals and social tension as America rockets through the years between world war and domestic revolution. Diana Chilton, raised within a secretive magical organization, the Order of the Silver Light, has reached a crossroads in her life. Over 30, her marriage ended, burned out on political activism and frustrated by the restrictions of the male-dominated Order, she leaves Boston for a tiny town in Maine. There she tracks down Thomas Morgan, a member of the Order who she believes may be immortal. She hopes he can help her find, or create, a more dynamic and worldly organization that will use magic to catalyze social and political change.
Thomas Morgan is indeed immortal, but Diana never expected that he would also be a vampire, transformed by the faery folk two centuries earlier when he made a rash bargain to cure a disfiguring illness. Now he enlists Diana to assist him in his struggle against the power that he feels enslaves and controls him. Together, Thomas and Diana dedicate themselves to the most ambitious and dangerous magical working either of them has ever attempted. Their plan spans two years and draws several other people into its vortex.
Both Thomas and Diana have hidden motives behind their decision, and neither of them is fully aware of who else knows about their plan and is subtly influencing it. Their refusal to be fully honest with themselves and each other leads to a disaster beyond their worst nightmares. They are forced to confront the deadly consequences of their fully developed spell turning against them and those who helped them. Ultimately, they learn that the only way to get what they each wanted is to accept the very things they wished most desperately to avoid.

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Mortal Touch (Vampires of New England Series Book 1) Jul 19, 2007

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Regan Calloway got more notoriety than she could handle seven years ago when she used her gift of psychic touch to help catch a brutal child murderer. When a string of bizarre assaults strikes the mill town of Sheridan, Massachusetts, Dr. Hiram Clauson persuades Regan to use her abilities to help him interview the victims. As the investigations take an unsettling turn, Regan's lifelong friend, Veronica Standish, begs her to try to find out more about a new man in town, Jonathan Vaughn.

Regan and Jonathan's first meeting triggers an escalating series of disasters, for Jonathan Vaughn is one of the rare and scattered group of men and women known as vampires only to those few people whom they trust. In the chaos that follows, Regan struggles to hold on to everything she thought she could never bear to lose. As friends and associates turn into ruthless adversaries, and allies appear from unexpected places, Regan is forced to make choices she never dreamed she would have to face.

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