Valda DeDieu

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About Valda DeDieu
How do you deal with terror? Honestly, I'm putting my happy ending to what terrifies me! Join me on Twitter @ValdaDeDieu or write me: Valda.DeDieu@gmail.com. An insomniac for most of my childhood, I would create, then write myself out of "impossible adventures" as a way of giving me my own happily ever after -- and I still love books which end that way. I believe in our own innate Magick to shape our reality based on what we believe and I'm still exploring this truth. I'd like to meet as many of my readers as possible!
Often caught daydreaming or "reading in class" as a schoolgirl, my best moment in school came when I was sent before the principal, a nun, who didn't realize what I had been reading was a romance novel and so - sent me back to class, unpunished, with the mild admonishment. "It's good to read (novels). Just try not to do it in class." The look on my teacher's face when I came back, unscathed! I also drew a comic strip with my best friend at the time, and tried selling it for something like $5...
My books are multi-genre, like the work of many writers I admire (by 1st name alphabetically) : Agatha Christie, Alistair McLean, Dean Koontz, Georgette Heyer, John Sandford, Linda Howard, Maya Angelou, Stephen King etc. But, like fever dreams, they're very Quantum-enlarged experiences I've had - or fear.
I've written RAISING HELL (Horror) series as Jasper Ace in tribute to my one horrible experience with racist cops. Yes, they do exist! I've written Erotica: INVASION OF THE TEKOREI as Aija Athene. And a fascinating Police Procedural: DIARY OF MURDER: DET. PRENTISS PARK'S CASEBOOK as: V.I. Dedieu detailing events taking place a few years ago. My Dystopian YA (Young Adult): DEATH MISSION TRILOGY -- as Valkyria Dedieu -- which really tells of my fears for this world. And a few longer and alternate versions of my multi-genre novels, including WILL HE KILL ME TODAY as Xema Gold.
My favorite Thriller/Suspense/Romance novels I've written as Valda DeDieu: BLOODPACT, NOCTURNE, A FINE THING MURDER and other titles. I've a songbook: SONGS FROM ATHENA FORTUNA and twoPoetry volumes: THIS WOMAN'S LIFE and POEMS OF TRANSFORMATION as Valda DeDieu, and so much more...
After experiencing a spiritual renaissance due to hardship and betrayal following a diagnosis of cancer, I chose holistic healing which resulted an even deeper continuance of my journey -- (being naturally intense at whatever I attempt, I truly believe without my daughter's loving, gentle influence during cancer -- and the pain and grief of cancer itself, this epiphany would never have happened) and an understanding of the Divine Feminine and WiseCraft -- fueling an explosion of exponential growth. I remember once looking up at the sky and each time I blinked, I kept seeing the most beautiful patterns. I know now "Divine Love is the greatest power in the Infinite Universe." My email is WriteValda@gmail.com .
REVIEWS FOR VALDA DE DIEU'S NOVELS ON AMAZON:
"I have started reading Bloodpact and wow that is a tough opening chapter.
Heartbreaking! I also see what you mean about "sensual". The scene of Cliff and Laird in the Caribbean creates quite a visual in the reader's brain. I look forward to seeing how Laird and Cliff deal with their situation, and what becomes of Father Minkelbrink." SEAN, INKWATER PRESS.
BOGDAN BILYK: "Valda De Dieu is a writer of the highest caliber of writing she grabs you by your shirt lapels and drags you in. A reader does not just "read" her books she makes you experience the tales as if you were somehow personally involved and experiencing all the pleasure, pains, dangers and elation for yourself. For a writer to get a reader so involved that they become the hero or heroine themselves is a mark of a great. You live and experience on an intimate and personal level and that is the mark of high level and enjoyable literature. Bravo, Valda and may you write dozens and dozens more of your captivating and immersive tales to give us an understanding, an experience we would not have
otherwise." Bogdan Bilyk, Screenwriter: TROPICS OF PARADISE.
A FINE THING MURDER Genre: Thriller The last thing a Miami PI needs is to run afoul of a rogue Black Ops operative who has plans for her -- deadly plans.
SHAN SUTHERLAND: "Excellent! I thought it read very masculine, ie: straight to the point. The daily events make her real and approachable. Your audience may be bigger than just women who like stories about women a good basis for a screenplay." SHAN SUTHERLAND
OAK TREE PRESS: "Words well-chosen and descriptions and metaphors are extremely well done." OAK TREE PRESS
BLOODPACT Genre: Suspense
BLOODPACT: When the system fails to punish the man who kidnapped and murdered her only child, Laird takes matters into her own hands -- and gets away with it, because Laird and only one other person
knows the true meaning of a Bloodpact.
TELL ME HOW YOU FEEL TODAY Genre: Suspense For twenty years she has been in hiding -- now she emerges to reclaim her life -- and inheritance, even if she has to kill her own brother to do so.
SHADOWMASTER CHRONICLES Genre: Fantasy/Thriller (Young Adult) Growing up in 21st Century Coconut Grove, Eamon finds that he is the most recent of a long line of the ShadowMasters; those who stand in the breach -- because where light and dark meet is where the battles are won, or lost, in the never-ending struggle of good against evil.
"I also read The ShadowMaster Chronicles: Book One Quest for the World, and I like what I've read ... I like how (the author's) brain works loop holes between reality and the unknown (or theorized) world good strong beginning." Sean, INKWATER PRESS
RAYNE HAWKE: THE KILLING FIELDS: DUSK 'TIL SUNRISE Genre: Fantasy A prominent Miami Attorney travels through time to right the wrongs of history, and often does so with grave consequences to, and sometimes, to the detriment of, her caseload, reputation, and personal relationships.
"It is very original and well thought through. I love the science fiction/spiritual fantasy of the Seeker abilities to bend time. Meshing science theory with religious history/ideology was a cool and unique idea. character development was extensive, and I think necessary given that Rayne will be the protagonist in a series of books. Rayne sounds like an incredibly tough and intelligent woman with a lot of social savvy that helps her in both her time-bending assignments and her legal profession.
I must admit she had me consulting my dictionary a few times to brush up on my vocabulary do a very good job introducing the reader to new characters throughout the novel, showing their attributes and flaws, making them feel very real. And finally the plot development was solid and gives a good framework for future novels." Sean, INKWATER PRESS
LONG PAST DEAD Genre: Suspense How do you capture what you never had? A young girl with no memory of her family escapes the brothel where she was held as a child prostitute, and finds herself on the run: at odds with the system, the law, and the people she managed to get away from -- who will do anything to get her back.
"Superb & Heartrending." ECKHARD BLEY, Reader
Collections and Poetry: She, Endless: The Myriad of Woman Little Girl, Big Sky, Now Woman This Woman's Life Alexandryr Chronicles The End of the Bend in the Woods (Photos, Essays, Poetry) Poems of Transformation: Verses from Three Non-Fiction, Commentary, Lifestyle: How to Wean Your Kid Off Junk Food in 7 Days Potty Train Your Pup in Three Days The Other Side of Dystopia Why Vote For Barack Obama: The Terror Slide Into Dystopia
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Titles By Valda DeDieu
Now the hunter has become the hunted, as she is the prime suspect. And although the investigation threatens her marriage and everything she has worked for, there is a secret which protects Laird: A blood pact.
BLOODPACT is about the choices we make and those that are made for us. It's about living up to our principles--or life is not worth living. It is also about making decisions that are right, regardless of the consequences.
SHARON from Texas, (Shay 777) said: "I could not put your book down, purchased all of them at once: all the bundles. It was so profound, so deep. I felt Iike I could see it; feel it. I hated when it ended; I was outraged over the child abuse and cheering for the heroine and so very happy for everyone in the end. By the way, Theresa (LONG PAST DEAD) rocks, although I have been unable to finish her story yet."
And PHAEDRIA says "I simply got swept away."
Based on real-life events, Love, Crones, Witches, Power and Magick brings you close up to what's really hidden beneath the illusion that we call life... and how to fight the battle when it's your turn.
MY STUD: They hated each other at first sight. But she'd hated her kitchen cupboards for much longer -- and far more. She had relatives coming this Christmas, and she needed those kitchen cupboards re-faced ASAP.
He was the man for the job. He'd do it in eight days, and she'd never have to see him again, she thought.
Now what could go wrong?
My Stud -- could hate kill good will?
From Valda De Dieu, the author of NOCTURNE, BLOODPACT, RAYNE HAWKE and others comes a riveting short story about love, hate and misconceptions under her short-story pen name Vi Dedieu. There is an added bonus at the end. Just-- don't read My Stud at the dinner table...you may laugh out loud and spray someone with the food from your mouth. And unless you meant to do it, what fun is that? MY STUD: A meeting of misconceptions.
Don't color me with your eyes or tongue
Your thoughts, your dirty world
Your words, your speech, your meddling woes
Your middling, tiny, little excursions
Into what you never were
Who you never thought you could be
All that limitation
That you wish dumped on me
Take that back--it's yours
You choose it everyday
When you wake up, you think it, entertain it as a friend
While I, I wash mine away
Leave me to my thoughts
My wanderings,
My need to make this world bright
With flaming color of dance and light
And song and poetry
And stories--
All bigger than me
I refute any Karma
That still has me tied to you
Because there is so much that I want
To breathe, to create, to see, to taste, to touch, to try, to feel, to do....
Leave the mundane where it belongs
In your origination, not at my door
Not anywhere around me, not in this lifetime, nor the next,
Nor ever--
Not anymore. 2.27.14 Valhalla DeDieu
He has never stopped looking for her; once she surfaced, he sent an assassin to murder her. But the assassin missed. And that changed everything. It was a wake-up call.
Although the brilliant one of the two siblings, innovative and far-sighted enough to conceal money and assets from her brother's reach even before the death of her ailing father, nevertheless when she fled, April was a vulnerable young woman, her perspective warped by her cossetted, privileged upbringing, twisted family bonds and deep, personal grief.
For years, she contented herself at the edge of a half-existence, living off the grid, always looking over her shoulder, scared of life. However, after that close call with Royal's assassin, realizing her life will never truly be HERS until she stops running, April decides to take matters into her own hands.
Royal has always been a pedophile, and a degenerate, with a sick obsession for his little sister. So April returns, setting a trap for him, with herself--as the bait...
When a Shadow-Seeker falls, the resulting void is perfect for wreaking havoc, beginning a blood and raining down hell on earth.
Rayne Hawke has no idea how formidable and destructive her powers can be--if subverted. As an attorney by day she seeks justice for her clients, and at night, she travels on the physical or astral planes, for her duties as Shadow-Seeker...But the Bloodless Ones are out.... tracking her every move, making certain that she fails, because despair, hopelessness, rage--and unthinking actions taken-- can create opportunities for a foothold inside the psyche of human beings.
When her law firm is infiltrated, her best friend threatened with the deadly, yet seductive kiss from a Bloodless one, when her very existence is at stake with every choice she makes, she may have to cross that line. But could she ever get back?
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DEATH MISSION: THE RULING CLASS
It is the year 2088. Six mutant teens are making their way across America to retrieve “The Fallen”, a tribe of children, who are somehow the key to America’s future. To do so, they must infiltrate and enter The Dome, where the Elite are stockaded from the rest of the world, their every whim for pleasure, food, labor and fuel catered to by the rest of humanity, all enslaved via machines.
DEATH MISSION: INFILTRATION
It is the year 2088. The mutants, The Six, and their allies, another group of mutants--the Thirteen--have reached the Dome. Now they have to infiltrate its defenses; or become one with the Dome-ers, the assimilated race of people who live a half-life, hooked up to computers 24-7, in service to the shadowy Elite and the World Government, the Collective…
As they race against time-- and against all odds, to rescue the Fallen-- the last remaining non-mutant children of their generation left in the Dome—one by one they are struck down as, it becomes increasingly clear –there is a traitor in their midst….
DEATH MISSION: THE STAND
It is the year 2088. The group of non-mutants, The Fallen, will stand with their rescuers, the rest of the Six, and the Thirteen. Two of the Six have given their lives. It is now up to these teenagers, sixty-seven of them, to take on Elite of the Dome, and their enforcers--Savettes, an army of half-men and half-machines, in a bid to destroy the sinister Collective; they are bringing an end the abominations practiced there, and start life anew, on earth. But, are they really acting on their own, or have they been manipulated? Is all they have accomplished so far part of a much deeper plan by the Collective?
THE SHADOWMASTER CHRONICLES: BOOK I: QUEST FOR THE WORLD
For eons, the affairs of the world has been held in balance by the Legacy of Rule of the ShadowMaster, the rulers of the Shadwunvarse, that outer-dimensional world where Light and Dark are reduced to intrinsic elemental state, where battles are fought and the strength of the ShadowMaster determines the outcome.
It’s time for the newest ShadowMaster, the one with the greatest promise, and yet, the greatest vulnerabilities. Because this one is a 13 year old boy, Eamon Challenger, as yet unawakened to his true potential. This time on earth poses the greatest threat to humanity...
With Earth poised to experience a renaissance of greater light and progress than ever before -- or plunged into devastation, darkness and devolution on an unimagined scale, Eamon must make the right decision, even as he is tested, sometimes beyond endurance.
But even he is not told, that the moment of supreme jeopardy comes at his induction; when all his enemies are gathered, poised to attack!
As they race against time-- and against all odds, to rescue the Fallen-- the last remaining non-mutant children of their generation left in the Dome—one by one they are struck down as, it becomes increasingly clear –there is a traitor in their midst….
It is the year 2088. The Fallen will stand with their rescuers, the rest of the Six, and the Thirteen to take a stand against the Collective...
Two of the Six have given their lives. It is now up to The Fallen, sixty-seven of them, as they take on Elite of the Dome, and the Elite's enforcers--Savettes, an army of half-men and half-machines-- in a bid to destroy the sinister Collective; bringing an end the abominations practiced there, and start life anew, on earth.
But, as they prepare to destroy the perverted populace, are they really acting on their own, or have they been manipulated? Is all they have accomplished so far part of a much deeper plan by the Collective?
To save The Fallen, the only children who can begin society over again, the Six must infiltrate and enter THE DOME, where the elite are stockaded from the rest of the world…
DEATH MISSION: THE RULING CLASS
DEATH MISSION: INFILTRATION
DEATH MISSION: THE STAND
On the other side of town, a young girl goes through her days as if in a dream. She doesn’t know how she is aware of this, but her life is like some sort of script, a construct where all the people closest to her are playing bit parts. She gradually realizes that she is in some sort of danger, and there might be no one in her life whom she can trust.
The connection between Paige and this young woman is not immediately clear, but one thing is certain: They must BOTH put together the pieces of their share of this deadly puzzle if they want to stay alive.
Readers of BLOODPACT, another title by Valda DeDieu, will enjoy seeing Maddie, the Female Police chief of the (invented) SBPD, i.e. South Beach Police Department. Please note: there is NO SBPD, but the Miami Beach Police Department, which as far as I know, is still headed by a man. But one can dream...
*Jess's full story in NOCTURNAL (Young Adult ).
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