Saturday, May 19, 2012

Still editing!

Whoops, skipped a month! Lost some time due to a (well deserved!) trip to Europe. I visited the vampire museum in Paris -- highly recommended -- and I'll post more information about this at a later date. In the middle of the final edits now; it won't be long before these are done and the review copies will be made available. So if you are interested in receiving one, please contact the publisher at http://bylightunseenmedia.com/order.htm

Sunday, February 05, 2012

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Getting closer!

Haven't posted for a while as I've been feverishly writing. I'm in the final stretch to get the manuscript done for the book -- I'm passing it off to the publisher this Monday!  Have received some great feedback so far; looking forward to the next few months of tweaking here and there, and seeing the final book in print this summer!

Friday, December 23, 2011

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Bram Stoker's Notes for Dracula

After 25 years of reading and collecting vampire books, I have a pretty narrow definition of what I consider 'essential' in a collection. Bram Stoker's Notes for Dracula: A Facsimile Edition is one of these essential books.

Over the past few decades there have been numerous books that analyze, discuss and annotate Dracula, but none come this close to giving you true insight into Bram Stoker's thought process as he developed the novel. Eighteen-Bisang and Miller decipher Stoker's messy and often cryptic handwriting from his original research and plot notes, presenting it alongside facsimiles of the actual notes held in a collection at the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia.

Monday, December 05, 2011

Thirteen Years Later by Jasper Kent

Thirteen years ago, in 1812, Captain Aleksei Ivanovich Danilov fought alongside a group of twelve highly-skilled Wallachians who called themselves the 'Oprichniki,' savage mercenaries who helped halt the advancement of French troops into Russia. But Danilov soon discovered that the group were actually 'voordalak' (vampires) and, believing them to be a greater threat to Russia and mankind itself, he systematically hunted and destroyed each and everyone one of them.

To his surprise, the leader of the group--Iuda--actually turned out to be human, although he was equally as vicious as his undead companions. Thirteen years later, in 1825, the war is over and Danilov continues working as a spy, trying to protect his beloved tsar Alexandr I from an uprising he's facing from within his own army, as well as a secretive group of influential Russians who want to see their leader dead.