"Clay and Susan Griffith's Vampire Empire is Transforming Genre Fiction" Paul Goat Allen, BN Explorations.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Behold "The Rift Walker" Cover

Gaze upon the cover art for Vampire Empire, Book 2! The artist, Chris McGrath, has outdone himself! We love the colors and the mood the art sets for the tone of the novel. And the figure of Greyfriar is just...well...damn. 


We would love for you to tell us what you think! We know it's hard waiting until September for this to be in your hands, so we promise to give you what we can between now and then. Stay tuned! 


Till then, here's the details:

Princess Adele struggles with a life of marriage and obligation as her Equatorian Empire and their American Republic allies stand on the brink of war against the vampire clans of the north.  However, the alliance’s horrific strategy for total victory drives Adele to abandon her duty and embark on a desperate quest to keep her nation from staining its hands with genocide.
Reunited with her great love, the mysterious adventurer known to the world as the Greyfriar, Adele is pursued by her own people as well as her vengeful husband, Senator Clark. With the human alliance in disarray, Prince Cesare, lord of the British vampire clan, seizes the initiative and strikes at the very heart of Equatoria.
As Adele labors to bring order to her world, she learns more about the strange powers she exhibited in the north. Her teacher, Mamoru, leads a secret cabal of geomancers who believe Adele is the one who can touch the vast power of the Earth that surges through ley lines and wells up at the rifts where the lines meet. These energies are the key to defeating the enemy of mankind, and if Princess Adele could ever bring this power under her command, she could be death to vampires.
But such a victory will also cost the life of Adele’s beloved Greyfriar.
The Rift Walker is the second book in a trilogy of high adventure and alternate history. Combining rousing pulp action with steampunk style, the Vampire Empire series brings epic political themes to life within a story of heartbreaking romance, sacrifice, and heroism.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Listen! Can you hear vampires?

A Big Announcement. But not THAT one...

Yesterday we said we'd have a big announcement on May 10th. And we will.

But THIS big announcement came along today. And it's big. In fact, HUGE.

We have an agreement for the Vampire Empire trilogy to be turned into audio books. Buzzy Multimedia won the rights, and we are very excited. Buzzy already produces the audio version of Jim Butcher and Patricia Briggs, among others. We are proud to join the company that creates the audio books for two of the greatest names in Urban Fantasy.

We don't have any information on release dates or narrator yet. But go to Buzzy Multimedia's website and discuss. Also, check out their variety of cool sci-fi/fantasy products.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Big Announcement Coming...


On May 10th.

A Week from Today.

We'll have an announcement.

An exciting announcement.

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Honor or Love

Following your duty or your heart?

The Royal Wedding got us thinking about Adele, and how her life as a princess isn't such a fairy tale. With a world on the brink of war, she is torn between duty (marrying a stranger to win an alliance) and true love (running away with the man she cares deeply about).

Does she give up her kingdom or her lover?

We're running a little poll, both here and at our Facebook page.

How would you handle this dilemma? What should Adele do?

Friday, April 29, 2011

A Wedding Day in England. What if....



London was a charnel house.
            There were many accounts of nineteenth-century London as it had been before the vampires came. The young princess had been amazed by descriptions and pictures of the city's grandeur. It had been the center of art and science and technology, the center of the world. Now it was the heart of a cadaverous kingdom.
The ramshackle airship descended, approaching the spires and domes and the horrid slate grey blocks of buildings. Adele saw dark mounds scattered on the avenues, streets, and alleys. The city’s wide circles and narrow courtyards were heaped with bones. Nearly all the glass windows in the city were smashed, except, amazingly, some of the stained glass of Westminster. Green grass sprouted through the cobblestones while lush vines grew without restraint, hiding edifices and obscuring the statues of the formerly great humans. The airship glided over the collapsed roof of Parliament. Dark figures clung to the outside of the ivy-choked ruins of the Big Ben clock tower and rose into the air like blowflies from a cadaver. Adele’s heart raced with terror and despair to see so many.
The airship leveled off over sprawling, decrepit Buckingham Palace. A lone figure ascended from the roof of the palace and seized the shrouds of the airship with amazing grace and swung aboard. It was Flay.

Just a glimpse of what London is like in Vampire Empire.

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Schattenprinz

Our first foreign cover!

Here's the cover of the German edition of The Greyfriar. Well, it's the same cover with the same great art by Chris McGrath. But we have a new title: Schattenprinz (Shadow Prince). That's a pretty cool title! The German-language edition should go on sale late 2011.

Heyne Verlag: our German publisher.

The Greyfriar has already been sold to publishers in Korea, Italy, and Poland. And hopefully there will be more foreign translations to come.

Friday, April 8, 2011

Greyfriar, You're Wanted on the Set.

Who Would You Want to Play Greyfriar in a Vampire Empire movie?

We have another question up on Facebook. Go there and display your casting couch panache. Or post your idea here!










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