MY NEXT NOVEL!
The book that I am currently working on is nearly finished. I would like to give a date that it will be available, but I do not rush these things. You see it will be ready when it is ready. That is to say that when I am satisfied that I have built up the imagery and the action to the point that it can compare with my previous works, then it will be ready.
I will give the readers of this blog an exclusive teaser about it. I have not given out any details about book yet. There are too many ways for ideas to be stolen, and I do not wish to be bothered with a lot of legal involvement. This book is too close to being published.

This book is about a Vampire that is as old as creation. According to Hebrew Mythology, when the earth was created, God created Man and Woman. But in this legend there was a woman created that was not the type of woman the God had intended, her name was Lilith and she was Adam's first wife. She did not submit to Adam and was pushed aside. God then made another woman, Eve.
Everyone knows the story from here, but the interesting part of this is that there are many literate references to Lilith. She is also suspected have taken the form of the serpent in the Garden of Eden.

This relief has a figure in the tree that has a woman's upper torso and a serpent's tail. This is not the only art work on this subject.  The serpent tempted Eve to eat the apple and they were all cast out of the Garden of Eden. Lilith then took her refuge on the banks of the Red Sea where she gave birth to multitudes of evil creatures. These abominations were summarily destroyed by the avenging angels. This is where my story takes it's inspiration. I built a characterization around an evil presence that began at the dawn of time. This evil demon then spread across the world.
If you look into folk stories about the origins of Vampires, you will find that many of the legends are very similar even though they come from a wide variety of countries and across a great many years and centuries.

How is it that a fictitious character can persist throughout all recorded history?
My book is about a vampire. ONE vampire that is the ultimate evil. His power is unimaginable, he is an immortal and lives to feed on the living. He is the reason that humans are afraid of the dark! This story tells of an ancient secret society of devout religious characters that have killed every vampire in existence.  However the original, immortal vampire can not be killed so he has been captured, staked, and locked in a secure mausoleum. This crypt is located in a small, remote convent in Italy where it is guarded by specially trained Nuns.( I will not let out anymore details about the Nuns, but understand that these are not school teachers and nurses, they are Vampire Hunters!)

The story begins when a violent storm damages the crypt and allows the Vampire to escape. (They always escape don't they?)
Then the chase is on and it leads from Italy to the South East US where the vampire ravages the countryside leaving mangled corpses in his wake. But of course that is not all. There is another sub plot, there are many interesting characters and a lot of suspense!
This story is quite original and it takes the Vampire creature back to the evil, vile and menacing creature that it is supposed to be. No more teenage, poofy, love sick vampires that are trying to get married and raise a family. Yuck!

As I mentioned before, It will be finished when I am satisfied with the story. It looks as though this book will be about 400 pages and if you have read my first novel, then you know that I do not waste time with useless information. Once the chase is on, it continues to escalate until the tense, action packed conclusion.  There are a lot of truly scary sequences, plenty of tense action, and as per my usual, a good bit of dark, tongue in cheek humor. After all, it is an inherently funny image when you think of Vampire hunting nuns with martial arts training.

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