Henry Lives!

So excited. My vampire book, The Vampire Henry, will be released on Oct. 8th, by Horrified Press, a small UK publishing firm. This is my second book, and the best work I have ever done as a writer. As you know, the vampire genre (like zombies) has been done to death. But I think with this novel I have really come up with a fresh angle. Essentially the Vampire Henry imagines the misanthropic writer Charles Bukowski as a bloodsucker. When I started writing the book, the impetus to create it was a total hatred for the Twilight series. Not only did I hate what Stephanie Meyers did with one of my fave genres, the writing, I thought was TERRIBLE. So I thought to myself, what could be the most unglamarous, most anti-Twilight take on bloodsuckers? And the answer was bring Charles Bukowski out of a coffin and give him fangs. And voila, I was off and running with that concept. The book really is very LOOSELY based on said writer/poet. (Hoping for no future litigation) A lot of it comes from my own experiences as another working-class writer-wanna be slob with a weakness for the bottle. It's a literary novel, truth be told, and I have used the book as a platform to comment on capitalism and the myriad other forms of vampirism that exist here in reality in the world. It is a poetic book I think, and a damn good story as well. So, I hope that people will find it as engaging as I did, when I was putting it all down on paper!