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Monthly Archives: November 2014

Rising from the Social Media Grave

21 Friday Nov 2014

Posted by harrisgray in Our Books, Vampire Vic, VV2: Morbius Reborn

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Vampire VicWhat’s the biggest challenge facing today’s writers? Not strangling their publicist when she asks, “Why haven’t you been blogging?” But even as you envision your coauthor’s hands around her neck, there’s a voice in your head saying, “You know she’s right.” And, “You should get Allan off of her.”

That voice is in your head nearly every day. Like your publicist, that voice knows you can’t sell books without interested readers, and blogging, posting and tweeting is a great way to find them. That voice has been heaping heavy helpings of guilt on your head. Without the guilt, you never would have leaped right past constructive dialogue and encouraged Allan to strangle your publicist, who is really a sweet person and just trying to help.

So anyway, thank goodness we didn’t spend our days on social media, because now we have another book written! We just finished Book Two of the Vampire Vic Trilogy, VV2: Morbius Reborn. This sequel is everything you loved in Vampire Vic, and nothing you hated, squared! Depending how much you loved the first VV, that could be a pretty big number.

Why won’t VV2 contain all that crap you hated the first time around? Because this time we have an editor! Adrienne Crezo is her name, freelance editor and managing editor at Writer’s Digest, the oldest and largest magazine for writers in the U.S. That means no more four-page run-on inner monologue accounting soliloquies, or weird sex. (Thank God she didn’t get her hands on Java Man.) (Don’t worry and don’t tell Adrienne, but right before VV2 heads to the printer, we’re going to put all the weird sex back in.)

Meanwhile, the design team at the Killion Group is hard at work on the cover. KG was the creative force behind the Java Man cover, so we’re excited to see what they have in store for the VV trilogy. Book One, Vampire Vic, was released in what we like to call the pre-KG era, or B.K.G. That was the cover design Stone Age, Harris Gray and friends painting in the cave, so KG is also creating a new cover for Vampire Vic. Same old story, in a fancy new suit.

We hope you didn’t give us up for dead, during this quiet period. If it’s not too early to be giving thanks, we want to say how grateful we are our publicist refrained from acting out on her own strangulation fantasy (and publicly provide this clue for the authorities in case it’s still on her to-do list). It’s good to be alive, and ready to make some holiday season e-noise.

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