If you haven't heard, my publisher backed out of the contract for BLOOD DIVIDED and therefore I am moving forward to epublish the entire trilogy. BLOOD THIRST, BLOOD DIVIDED and BLOOD FEUD make up The Charleston Vampire Chronicles. I'm very excited to be working on this publishing venture and I know some of you are waiting eagerly to read the new books.
As we stand right now, BLOOD THIRST is being copy edited. The cover design is done and as soon as we give it one more read through it will be published via smashwords.com and also createspace.com (printed copies) This novel is a revised edition. It was originally published in 1989 by Pinnacle Books, a division of Kensington. It is the story of Angela Trenton, aka Ainjul, and told by her. She is brutally attacked and left for dead, but endures and is turned by a kindly black vampire named Elijah. Through Elijah she learns that Matthew Trenton was the vampire who attacked her, and she vows revenge. When she finally confronts Matthew she finds out she looks exactly like his long dead sister, Maria. As she learns of Matthew's past she has a change of heart and revenge takes a back seat. She knows she needs Matthew because she has to find out how to live among the world of the undead.
I've actually had folks as me If I am L.J. Smith (creator of the Vampire Diaries) because my book has a lot of similarities to hers. No, I am not L. J. Smith. My novel, BLOOD THIRST, came out before L.J. Smith's novels, so the reverse would be true, her books have similarities to mine. And I don't mind. Great minds think alike.
I haven't made a lot of changes to BLOOD THIRST, but there are a few things that have been tweeked. For one, Ainjul doesn't admit she loves Matthew at the end. This is so her character development gels better with the upcoming sequels :)
I'll will post more on the other novels soon. And I will make a better effort to keep up with this blog as I hit the publication of these books at a dead run :)
~Linda
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