The
Bow Street Vampire is set in an alternative world, in the British
capitol of Londinium. Here, old gods have begun to be worshipped once
more and the supernatural has become a familiar experience - except
for vampires, creatures of myth that have remained unreported...until
now.
In
a police service rather different from our own, based not in Scotland
Yard but in Bow Street and where its members are still known as
Runners, Detective Inspector Jim Varney has the job of investigating
the murders of illegal immigrants. Were they killed to support the
underground trade in transplant organs? Was their blood farmed to
supply such operations - or for something else?
He
and his small team soon uncover a deadly trade and a terrible new
addiction, all controlled by the vicious Blood Cartel.
Tomorrow...blood
is the new cocaine!
You can download the first two
chapters (about a quarter) of the book here.
And you can find it on Kindle here:
Finally having this published is a
weight of my mind and I can again return to work on the the next book
and planning the future ones. Neill will have some time towards the
end of this month, so he will be able to work with me again to
develop covers and promotional images for Issue #2: Peel's
Bloody Gang. My goal is to have that title published in late
July or early August. Issue #3: The Food Chain has been
drafted but needs some re-writes here and there before I begin the
first round of corrections and preparations for publication. Working
with Neill's time table again, I should be able to get this published
for Kindle in November this year.
With the first three issues published
in Kindle format we'll prepare an omnibus edition of all three for
paperback only in time for Christmas. It will still be cheaper to buy
the individual volumes as eBooks, so I don't think it will be worth
making an omnibus edition available for that format at the moment.
However, it would just not be economical to make print on demand
books available for such small books, hence this strategy. I won't
make so much money on them in this format either but it will expand
availability, which has to be a good thing. (and for readers who
don't own Kindles or an equivalent, they are also sales that I
wouldn't have made otherwise!)
And beyond that? Well, the world that
I've been creating for the Blood Traffic series has many more stories
in it, some of them will tie in to Blood Traffic, building a larger
narrative with some catastrophic events later on. The question is,
when should I start writing them? I suspect that, time permitting,
the most I can write in a year will be three books of this modest
size and with eight or nine planned for Blood Traffic, it will take
another two to two and a half years to complete it. I have to ask
myself, would the series benefit from other stories running along
side it? Though that would mean a longer wait for those wanting a
resolution to the series they started with, it would afford me some
variety in what I'm writing. Perhaps that will help keep what I'm
writing fresh. Alternatively, by taking too much time away from a
series, I may take a bit longer to get back into it.
For now however, I hope that you will
give The Bow Street Vampire a try – and hope all the more that you
will enjoy it!
Milton
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