We Have a New Home!

We now have a new website and blog dedicated to all our novels and various series. Please come visit us at:

Clay and Susan Griffith. 

There we will have our scheduled appearances, excerpts, videos, and our new blog. 

We'll see you there!

DragonCon 2014

Here's our schedule for this year. Hope to see you there!

Friday
Bending Historical Tradition
Everything from blood herbivores, water pistol protection from blood drinkers, to vampires herding humans in a post apocalypse world.
Time: 2:30pm Location: Augusta 3 - Westin
Leanna Renee Hieber, D.B. Jackson, Clay & Susan Griffith

Pyr Rising!
We welcome Lou Anders back to DragonCon to tell us what Pyr is planning.
Time: 4:00pm Location Regency V - Hyatt
Lou Anders, Jon Sprunk, Joel Shepherd, Clay & Susan Griffith, Mike Resnick

The Down and Dirty of Plot Development
How to manage the "down & dirty" chore of intriguing plot development. Learn the techniques that will set your book apart and garner an editor's notice.
Time: 8:30pm Location Embassy D-F - Hyatt
Debra Dixon, Chesya Burke, Claire M. Eddy, James A. Moore, Janny Wurts, Clay & Susan Griffith


Saturday
Reading
Clay & Susan Griffith
Time 4:00pm Location Edgewood - Hyatt

After the Post-Apocalypse
Post Apocalypse in fiction is popular. But where do we go from there?
Time: 7:00pm Location Embassy A-B - Hyatt
Alex Hughes, Jonathan Maberry, Faith Hunter, Clay & Susan Griffith


Sunday
Melding the Past with the Supernatural: History in Urban Fantasy
Not all Urban Fantasy takes place in contemporary times, and our panel of authors discusses how they use historical settings in their work.
Time: 10:00am Location Chastain BC - Westin
Delilah S. Dawson, Leanna Renee Hieber, D.B. Jackson, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Karen E. Taylor, Clay & Susan Griffith

Vampires Supreme
Authors discuss their depictions of vampires that hold themselves superior or apart from the human population around them.
Time: 5:30pm Location: Chastain BC - Westin
Linda Robertson, Delilah S. Dawson, Julie Kenner, Karen E. Taylor, Clay & Susan Griffith

Our Schedule in 2014

April 30 -- Lady Jane's Salon, Raleigh-Durham 7:00 pm.

Another Broken Egg Cafe

1121 Market Center Dr.

Morrisville, NC 27560

We will be reading from Vampire Empire as well as our new fantasy trilogy coming from Del Rey Books in 2015!

May 3 -- Write Now! Triangle Area Freelancers Conference

Wake Technical Community College North Campus

Raleigh, NC

We will be teaching a seminar on collaboration in writing. There are lots of other speakers and teachers at this conference too. Check out their website for registration information.

May 13 - 18 -- RT Booklovers Convention

Marriott Hotel, Canal St.

New Orleans, LA

The annual huge gathering of readers and writers of many different genres. We will be speaking on collaboration and participating in a workshop on writing comics. We also will be signing at the gigantic book fair on Saturday!

June 20 - 22 -- HeroesCon

Charlotte Convention Center

Charlotte, NC

We're thrilled to be back at one of the greatest comic book conventions in the country!


June 27 - 29 -- Contemporal
North Raleigh Hilton
Raleigh, NC
The Carolinas own steampunk convention!

Aug. 29 - Sept. 1 -- DragonCon

Atlanta, GA

The celebration of awesomeness and weirdness that is DragonCon! We'll be sitting in at various panels, various autographings, and various bars.


Nov. 1 - 2 -- Writer's Workshop @ Your Library 2014
Cumberland County Public Library
300 Maiden Ln., Fayetteville, NC
We will be teaching a workshop on various aspects of genre writing.

This is our schedule so far. There may be more events added later!

Vampire Empire: The (Dream) Movie

Is this your Dream Cast?

One of our Vampire Empire readers created a couple of cool graphics with her suggestions for the cast of the movie version of the series. What do you think?

Thanks Lynda Dover!

RT Book Reviews article

We talk about how comics brought us together, and how we still love them.

DragonCon 2013 Schedule

Here's where we'll be (so far anyway...more events may be added later!)

Title: The Perfect Blend: The Mixing of Genres Within Urban Fantasy

Description: Authors discuss how Urban Fantasy successfully incorporates a variety of genres

Time: Fri 10:00 am Location: International BC - Westin (Length: 1 Hour)

(Tentative Panelists: D.B. Jackson, Clay and Susan Griffith, Cherie Priest, Samantha Sommersby, Jana Oliver, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro)

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Title: Vampires vs. Werewolves

Description: Which is more awesome: vampires or werewolves? Dear reader, you must choose a side in this hilarious debate.

Time: Fri 08:30 pm Location: A707 - Marriott (Length: 1 Hour)

(Tentative Panelists: Lucienne Diver, Mari Mancusi, M. B. Weston, Bonnie Kunzel, Debbie Viguié, Davey Beauchamp, Susan Griffith)

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Title: That's Write, Pardner: Collaboration
Description: Writing with a partner: the good, the bad, and the ugly
Time: Fri 08:30 pm Location: Embassy D-F - Hyatt (Length: 1 Hour)
(Tentative Panelists: J. Nye, Dr. B. Blackwood, N. Knight, Clay Griffith)

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Title: Reading - Clay and Susan Griffith

Time: Sat 11:30 am Location: Roswell - Hyatt (Length: 1 Hour)

(Tentative Panelists: Clay and Susan Griffith)

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Title: Signing - Clay and Susan Griffith
Time: Sat 1:00 pm Location: The Tattered Cover - 2604, 2505, 2507 - Floor 2 of the Americasmart

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Decatur Book Festival

Title: Dragon*Con Comes to the Book Festival: A Panel of Pyr Authors

Date: Saturday, August 31

Time: 5:30 PM - 6:15 pm Location: Marriott Conference Center, Ballroom A, Decatur, GA

(Tentative Panelists: Joel Shepherd; Clay & Susan Griffith)

This event is not at DragonCon, but at nearby Decatur!

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Title: Autograph Sessions

Time: Sun 10:00 am Location: International Hall South - Marriott (Length: 1 Hour)

(Tentative Panelists: Jim Butcher, Georgia McBride, Clay and Susan Griffith)

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Title: Vampires in YA

Description: There are legions of vampires in YA. Let's discuss the diversity of this fang-tastic genre.

Time: Sun 04:00 pm Location: A707 - Marriott (Length: 1 Hour)

(Tentative Panelists: Clay and Susan Griffith, Bonnie Kunzel, Lucienne Diver, Mari Mancusi, Juliet Dark)

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Title: Monster to Lover: Vampire Variations in Urban Fantasy

Description: Authors discuss the wide range of portrayals within the genre

Time: Sun 07:00 pm Location: International BC - Westin (Length: 1 Hour)

(Tentative Panelists: Clay and Susan Griffith, Samantha Sommersby, S. M. Stirling, Cherie Priest, Linda Robertson, James R. Tuck)

RT Booklovers Convention

Here's our schedule for Kansas City, May 1-4, 2013

We attended our first RT Convention last year in Chicago and enjoyed it so much, we're back this year! RT is a terrific convention run by and attended by people who love books. If you're going to be there, here is where you can find us.

Wed. 2:30-3:30:     Steampunk Sojourn: Intro to Steampunk

                                   (Mezzanine, Chouteau A)

Wed. 5:00-6:00:     Vampire: Blood Light - vampires w/humor

                                   (Mezzanine, Empire A)

Thur. 11:15-12:15:  Comics: Creators Share Secrets

                                    (Mezzanine, Fremont)

Thur. 1:30-2:30:      Steampunk Tea

                                    (Ballroom, Chicago A)

Thur. 4:00-6:00:      Ebook, Indie, Graphic Novel Expo

Sat. 11:00-2:00:      Giant Bookfair

We are really excited to be back at RT. It is a great convention and we hope to meet both fans and new readers of Vampire Empire!

More Love for The Greyfriar

Check out the new issue of BTSeMag

The Chris McGrath cover still looks good!

http://issuu.com/btsemag/docs/march_emag_2013?mode=window&pageNumber=1

Music and Vampire Empire

A Vampire Empire Playlist

A reader, Carol Stucchi Molinari, recently posted on the Facebook page about a song that made her think of Vampire Empire.
Linkin Park New Divide

So we started thinking...

What songs make you think of Greyfriar and Adele or the world of Vampire Empire? Post some suggestions or links here and we'll collect some and present them in a future post!

You can post in comments below or go to the Facebook page.
Vampire Empire Facebook page

Here's one from us. Jupiter from Holst's The Planets. We used it in the book trailer for The Greyfriar. And we used it in our wedding at Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh...so there's a natural connection there.

Maybe it will inspire someone to compose The Greyfriar opera from The Kingmakers!

By the way, here's another awesome music video dedicated to The Greyfriar made by Rosette Doyle

Rosette Doyle's Greyfriar trailer

Wake Up Christmas Morning with James Marsters ... and The Greyfriar!

This will be the Best Christmas Ever!

We're giving away a copy of the incredible CD audio version of The Greyfriar: Vampire Empire Bk. 1 narrated by James Marsters. Plus a cool Greyfriar tote bag.

You may know James as Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but when you listen to him read The Greyfriar you'll realize how many people he can be. James is amazing, and brings every character to life in their own unique way.

So, how do you win this cool Vampire Empire swag for X-Mas? Just check out the Rafflecopter gizmo below.

Good luck. And Merry Christmas morning!

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WHAT SCARES US blog tour and giveaway...

Scariest Experience!

Our scary blog tour and book/jewelry giveaway is coming to a close, with one last scary stop. We are visiting the blog of the incomparable Marjorie Liu, NY Times bestselling author of wonderful paranormal thrillers as well as the scribe of comic books such as The Astonishing X-Men.

Thank you to all our tour stops. Scroll down to find all the scary posts.

Good luck to all on the giveaway.

And Happy Halloween!

Marjorie Liu's blog.

WHAT SCARES US Blog Tour continues...

Scariest Monsters!

Today we join Amy Plum, writer of YA supernatural thrillers, to talk about one of our favorite topics: MONSTERS! Who doesn't love monsters? No one we know. But we know some weird people.

Amy Plum's blog

WHAT SCARES US Blog Tour continues...

Our Scariest Graveyards!

We stop in at My Bookish Ways to combine forces with Kristin's Scare-a-Thon.

My Bookish Ways blog

WHAT SCARES US Blog Tour continues...

Our Scariest Movie

We visit the blog of Kristen Painter, a wonderful author of scary and stylish paranormals. Her stuff is so visual, we had to talk about scary movies.

Kristen Painter's blog

WHAT SCARES US Blog Tour continues...

Our Scariest Books!

Join us on the blog of wonderful fantasy writer Jon Sprunk as we talk about the books that frightened us...

Jon Sprunk's blog

WHAT SCARES US?

Halloween blog tour!   October 18-31

We celebrate the publication of THE KINGMAKERS: Vampire Empire, Book 3 by staggering in a terrified daze to the blogs of 5 notable authors where we will write about scary stuff, plus give away VAMPIRE EMPIRE and awesome steampunk jewelry.

Between October 19th and 21st, we will be posting on the blogs of some of our favorite authors and review sites on the topic of "What Scares Us" in books, movies, places, graveyards, monsters, and experiences. We hope some of the authors will share their scariest too!

We kick off the tour on October 18th at the wonderful blog Supernatural Snark with their review of THE KINGMAKERS: Vampire Empire, Book 3. (And that's scary because we haven't seen their review yet!)

"What Scares Us" blog stops ---

Oct. 18: Supernatural Snark: review of The Kingmakers (hey, reviews are really scary for an author!)

Oct. 19: Jon Sprunk (Shadow Saga): Scariest Book

Oct. 22: Kristen R. Painter (House of Commare): Scariest Movie

Oct. 24: Maria Lima (Blood Lines): Scariest Place

Oct. 25: My Bookish Ways: Scariest Graveyards

Oct. 26: Amy Plum (Revenants): Scariest Monster

Oct. 29: Marjorie M. Liu (Dirk & Steele, Astonishing X-Men): Scariest Experience

This blog tour will also give you a chance at a great giveaway! We will pick one winner to receive an autographed VAMPIRE EMPIRE trilogy, as well as THIS awesome necklace! Take a look at this beautiful piece of steampunk-themed jewelry from London Particulars. Yes, the winner will get 3 books AND this lovely, mysterious trinket. This scarab necklace with the tanzanite inset could easily be one worn by Empress Adele during Equatorian state functions! 

The winner will be chosen at midnight on Oct. 31st...TRICK OR TREAT!

Grab our banner and spread the word!

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NY Comic Con Schedule

We're heading up to NY Comic Con this week, October 11th through 14th. Please come by and say hello!

We are autographing: 
Friday afternoon, 2:15-3:15. Table 4. 

Books will be available onsite at the Barnes & Noble booth.

http://www.newyorkcomiccon.com/

DRAGON-CON 2012

Where and When to Find Us:

Friday 10:00-11:00am --         Coming of Age: YA authors & books they read as teens.

                                                A707-Marriott

Friday 2:30-3:30pm --             Vampocalypse Now! Life in a world ruled by vampires.

                                                Embassy A-B Hyatt

Friday 4:00-5:00pm --             Signing at Pyr Books booth

                                                709-711 Marquis Ballroom, Marriott

Saturday 11:30am-12:30pm -- Reading

                                                 Roswell- Hyatt

Saturday 2:00-3:00pm --         Signing at Pry Books booth

                                                709-711 Marquis Ballroom, Marriott

Sunday 11:30am-12:30pm --  Memorable Characters: The secret of creating characters.

                                                Embassy D-F Hyatt

Sunday 2:00-3:00pm --           Signing at Pyr Books booth

                                                709-711 Marquis Ballroom, Marriott

We will be at the Pyr Books booth a lot more than just the above signing times. If you go by, it's likely we will be there to chat and sign books.

 

As always, we are excited about DragonCon. THE KINGMAKERS will be available at the Pyr Books booth, in addition to all the VAMPIRE EMPIRE books, and a ton of other fantastic science fiction/fantasy. There will be a lot of other Pyr authors at the booth.

Please stop us and say hello. We love talking to you guys!

Now Available!

The Kingmakers: Vampire Empire Bk. 3

The third book in the VAMPIRE EMPIRE trilogy is now available for purchase in trade paperback. Very soon, Kindle and ebook editions will also be available.

You can order an autographed/personalized copy of any of the VAMPIRE EMPIRE series from Quail Ridge Books & Music. Just order online, and in the "Order Comments" section, place your request for an autograph or personalization. In addition, the book should be sitting on the shelves of your local bookstore very soon.

Amazon is shipping the book now.


We are very proud of this book and we think it provides a satisfying and emotional continuation to the lives of Adele and Greyfriar.

Let us know what you think. And we appreciate reviews on Amazon or Goodreads or Twitter or your own blogs and websites.

Thank you all for the last 3 years. We have been humbled by the enthusiastic reception to VAMPIRE EMPIRE. We know how exciting it is to fall in love with a book, to have the characters live on in your head after you've finished reading, and to know that we've been able to do that for you guys has been the thrill of a lifetime.

The Kingmakers: Vampire Empire Bk. 3

The Trailer

Here's a book trailer that Susan created to give you a taste of THE KINGMAKERS as we're very close to the book hitting the shelves. There's also a link to the trailers she did for THE GREYFRIAR and THE RIFT WALKER.

They're cool!

THE KINGMAKERS trailer

THE GREYFRIAR trailer

THE RIFT WALKER trailer