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Vampire Dawn is a superb story of good
versus evil. Original, well crafted
and compelling - a must-read for any vampire fan.
Lesley Mazey - Eternal Night
ISBN: 0-9747680-2-2
In the darkness of an abandoned building in Portrush, well beyond the reach of the sun, two vampires have made their home. Claire and Xavier have risen from their underground slumber to feast upon the all the new millennium has to offer.
But the twenty-first century is not all they had hoped for and there seems to be a shortage of vampires. But they can rectify that.
Christian Warke has been searching for almost twenty years for the creature that killed his wife and destroyed his life. Driven by vengeance and fuelled by whiskey, he will not rest until he drives a stake into the heart of the creature called Xavier.
Their paths are about to cross. During the next seven days mysteries will be solved, allies will be made, battles will be fought and blood will be spilled under the light of a new dawn.
Sometimes, death is just the beginning.
The dawn of Vampire Dawn
The idea for Vampire Dawn came as I was writing sketches for a comedy show. I had a sketch were two married vampires discussed what they would eat that night: Should we have Italian, Chinese? Of course the joke was they were talking about eating Italian and Chinese people, not their food. I liked the sketch because it was totally natural for the vampires to talk this way; they didn’t see anything odd about it. I began to think that this idea might have wings and used the characters I had created for the sketch and wrote what would later become the first chapter of Vampire Dawn. As soon as I had written ten pages I realized I could do a lot more with these characters and began plotting a novel from where I had left off at the end of the first chapter. It was very structured and I knew exactly how it was going to end from the very beginning…or so I thought. The original ending was never written because as I neared the end I realized two things: 1) I was going to have to make certain characters do things that they just wouldn’t do to get my ending; and 2) The (extremely) tragic ending was going to leave the reader really depressed. So I just kept battering the keys and allowed the story to go where the characters took it, and it worked. It more than worked, the ending was something that I never thought of doing until I was there—in the moment. The book was finished and titled Death & Beyond. When I signed the publishing contract with Black Death Books the title was changed because of the amount of non-fiction books by mediums and psychics with similar titles. Vampire Dawn was agreed as the new title and left me a great opening to build on the title for the two other parts of the trilogy, which will probably be called Vampire Twilight and Vampire Equinox.
"There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them."