Candles by Studio 3B

MURDERS IN FASHION

The A Slip To Die For Candle accompanies A SLIP TO DIE FOR,  the first book in the DRAQUAL Mystery Series.

Someone not only killed the author, who'd been an underground movie star, who'd been a model, who'd been a hustler, who'd been a cross-dresser…but killed the borderline drunk, who'd been a TV-network executive and anchor-man for the national news.

Someone dressed each corpse in Draqualian silk…a very special silk, by very special silk worms, who ate very special mulberry leaves, to make very special cocoons pre-dyed, in Technicolor digestive tracts, to very special perfection.

Stud Draqual knew the silk…knew the dead men…and would eventually penetrate the mystery to his own eminent peril, to know the killer…

Meet Stud Draqual

Thai Died is the second book in the DRAQUAL Mystery Series and is accompanied by the Stud Draqual Candle.

Internationally best-selling author William Maltese goes erotic/exotic in his STUD DRAQUAL MYSTERY SERIES with chief protagonist Stud Draqual who is sexy, handsome, rich, cultured, head of a world-wide fashion empire based upon one-of-a-kind silk manufacturing, AND who designs to-die-for (literally and figuratively) haute-couture women’s lingerie. Oh, yes, in his high-fashion world of beautiful and available women and men, Stud finds himself neck-deep in his very own sexual identity crisis.

DRAQUAL Vampyres

The Draqual Vampyre Candle is designed to have the look of the blood-stained jeans worn by Vlad's models in SUCKS!, books one in the  DRAQUAL Vampyre Chronicles.

A one-thousand year old, handsome, and sexy vampyre's much-in-demand blood-splattered fashion-line is strutted by blood-splattered models on blood-splattered runways in the blood-splattered abattoirs, slaughter houses, and butcher shops of the world ... as his own blood-line makes Vladymyr Draqual beloved and hated by the most powerful members of his kind.

Jfay is the purveyor of candles to vampyres in SUCKS!, here is an excerpt from the book:

Vlad walkie-talkie cues the light man; in the main room, the lights go out; the plethora of Jfay candles simultaneously go on to appreciative gasps from the audience bathed suddenly in what seems purely candlelight but cleverly includes artificial glow emanating from the ice bales stacked around the room.

Cascades of blood-like liquid flow are projected on all empty wall space, accompanied by the amplified pulse of an actual heartbeat.

Lambda Literary Award Nominated

Ardennian Boy

The Ardennian Boy French Kiss Candle was inspired by the erotic poems of Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine as translated in William Maltese and Wayne Gunn's co-effort, Ardennian Boy, the shocking- biographical novel everyone is talking about that encapsulates the infamous and scandalous affair of French poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud. 

Ardennian Boy, from coauthors William Maltese and Drewey Wayne Gunn, is historical romance and literary erotica blended into one masterful novel. Maltese's sensuous prose retells the tumultuous love affair between poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, while Gunn's lyrical translations of their bawdy gay poems, woven naturally into the fabric of the story, enlighten even as they arouse. Together, the two authors bring this singular love story brilliantly to life.

Will Fantasy Meet Reality?

The TUSKS Candle will draw you in with it's sensual aroma as you're swept away to exotic and erotic Africa in TUSKS.

Richard Westover wonders if his fantasy lover, Christopher Van Hoon, standing beneath a South African blue-gum tree, the sun in his gleaming hair and golden eyes, has finally returned to Richard's life. Having first experienced Christopher's laugh, touch, and kiss in innocence, Richard is now twenty-nine, not thirteen, and far from innocent. Christopher has changed too - possibly having become as unscrupulous a profiteer as the Van Hoon patriarch. Back in South Africa, as a journalist, Richard secretly longs to have it proved wrong that Christopher's mining empire detrimentally threatens the already dwindling native wildlife; more so, though, he longs to rediscover his lost and one true love.

Evil-Personified

The Evil-Personified Candle with it's SS design was created to portray the evil brutality of Nazi Germany as penned in William Maltese's SS Mann Hunt and SS & M. 

SS Mann Hunt

Sebastian S. Mann, prominent member of post-WWII U.S. rocket development has gone missing with other expedition members supposedly caving in South America … having done so just days before revelations that he may have been responsible for the deaths of over two-hundred thousand gays, Jews, gypsies, and Romanian freedom fighters.

Years later, the male heirs of three missing members of Mann’s lost expedition meet up in deep Brazilian jungle to explore evidence finally turned up of their father’s possibly last campsite.

SS & M

THERE ARE SECRETS!

Jews, like Marta and Megan, know them.

THE FATHERLAND DEMANDS THEM!

Nazis, like SS Colonel Saber and Major Sonnenburg, want to know them, have to know them, see not knowing them as a threat to the purity of the Aryan nation.

A Rendering of Souls

The Soul of an Avenging Warrior ~ Captured in a Mysterious and Magical Candle.

A Beautiful, yet Deadly Wedding Gift for the Evil King.....

A Rendering of Souls Wedding Candle is truly a candle brought to life through literature.  Through the brilliant and vibrant words of Author William Maltese, this candle image and even the fragrance, Jasmilrose, was created.