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I’m a newbie author here at Ace, my first release being Night Rising, Vampire Babylon, Book One. Even though I had no idea at the time that I was writing an “urban fantasy,” that’s what it turned out to be after the wonderful Ginjer Buchanan bought this trilogy about a stuntwoman who returns to Hollywood to find her missing father; and when it turns out that Daddy might’ve been involved in some heavy, vampire-related activities, our heroine discovers an erotically inclined vampire underground that will stop at nothing to survive in secrecy.
Writing this series has been a great time, mostly because I get to riff on silver-screen urban legends and create a strange world full of grisly, macabre details—definitely my cup of darkness. For instance, eagle-eyed readers have asked me if the Robby Pennybaker mystery that defines the main plot is based on that Three Men and a Baby ghost story about the phantom boy in the background of one shot. (The answer is yes, even though it turned out that the real movie’s “boy” was only a poster board cut out. Or so they say….)
Night Rising was released last February, but the second book, Midnight Reign, is going to be hitting shelves in February, 2008. MR delves deeper into the first book’s mysteries while concentrating on a vampire serial killer, to boot. In book three (Break of Dawn, September, 2008), the plot lines will all be tied up.
However, Vampire Babylon has spun off a lot more stories in my mind, and when Ginjer asked me to contribute a novella to the September, 2008, First Blood anthology along with Susan Sizemore, Mejean Brook, and Erin McCarthy, I couldn’t say no. And then I was lucky enough to get another three-book contract for the series. This is going to allow me to tell the Vampire Babylon stories in trilogies, each trio with its own story arc (almost like a TV series season).
As fortune would have it, I’m working on that first book of the new trilogy now, but since the first cycle hasn’t been fully released, I can only be slightly mysterious in what I reveal to you about what I’m doing. However, I can drop a few hints about what’s in the future for Dawn Madison, ex-stuntwoman, and the rest of the Limpet and Associates team. If you’d like to see a few pictures of a research trip I just took, click http://crystal-green.blogspot.com/
Keep your eyes open and don’t think what might be lurking in the shadows…
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