Negotiations are in progress for sale of this anthology. It consists of 1 Novella, 4 short stories, and
6
novelettes to a total of about 120,000 words.
This anthology presents authors who have honed their
craft writing fan fiction for fans of Forever Knight, Buffy
The Vampire Slayer, Angel, and similar television shows.
Each has a personal following in those fandoms, and many have either a
professional writing background which they have brought to their fan
fiction or have founded a professional writing career on skills learned
writing fan fiction.
All three of the editors of this anthology have extensive fan
fiction writing backgrounds.
Jacqueline Lichtenberg has an even greater bibliography of hardcover
and mass market sf/f, plus nonfiction such as Star Trek Lives!
Jean Lorrah, sometime collaborator with Jacqueline Lichtenberg, is
author of the famous Night of the Twin Moons fanzines, and several Best
Selling Star Trek Novels from Pocket Books in addition to a broad
selection of original works.
Jacqueline Lichtenberg and
Chris Jacobs (former co-editor) have now accepted the following new, never before
published, original universe vampire stories from the following well
known fan and professional authors, experts in the darkest and lightest
sides of the vampire myth, the good vampire, and the vampire romance.
Vampire Artwork by
Kip
These items were done as stand-alone originals with no reference to these
stories. They are not illustrations of the stories, but they might
be. Click to
see the full size illustration.
Summaries of the Stories
Katherine Janus
The Daywalker’s Mother
Novelette
About Katherine Janice
Comedic Contemporary Fantasy-Romance: a
woman raped by a vampire sues for child support.
Rusty Goode
Take My Breath Away
Novelette
About Beatrice Moore
Serious drama of a young woman beset with a
fatal disease seeking a real vampire among the notorious vampire dives and
bars of the big city.
Laura Wise
Thin White Duke In Sneakers
Novelette
About Laura Wise
Humorous love story between a human and a
vampire.
Roberta Rogow
Uncle Dmitri
Short Story
About Roberta Rogow
Rollicking story of a modern family
connection who is an elderly vampire with a sense of responsibility.
Anne Phyllis Pinzow
Sunrise Decision
Short Story
Anne Phyllis Pinzow is an award winning
journalist and fan fiction writer.
A work-a-day newspaper reporter makes a
decision that may well change the world of darkness forever.
Elsa Frohman
They Shall Take Up Serpents
Short Story
Elsa Frohman is a copy editor for a daily
newspaper in Michigan. She is
the author (under the pseudonym Eleanor Frost) of two published novels,
and under her own name almost too many fan fictions to count. Her Spike
stories can be found at:
http://www.spikedreams.com/. When she's not writing, she enjoys
cooking, fiber arts and being trained by her two
dogs, Floyd and Ollie.
A predatory Revivalist Preacher who rooks
people out of their money. A Good Vampire naming himself Ezekiel.
A cage full of venomnous snakes. An overwhelming need for justice.
Nan Dibble
Farmer
Novelette
About Nan Dibble
As
you may have heard, Nan Dibble is deceased. We have permission from her estate to
publish this story.
Dark horror tale of the far-far future where
civilization has collapsed -- almost.
Sale Season
Novelette
Louise Graham
About Louise Graham
European tale of art galleries, intrigue,
history and vampire romance.
Novelette: at least 7,500 words but less
than 17,500 words.
Novella: at least 17,500 words but less than
40,000 words.
Novel: 40,000 words or more. At the author's
request, a novella-length work published individually, rather than as
part of a collection or an anthology, shall appear in the novel
category.
For examples of Jacqueline Lichtenberg's own vampire
works see her current vampire
novels, and some of her short stories and
works-in-progress. And read her article on Buffy The Vampire
Slayer in Seven Seasons
of Buffy.