Blood Reign: The Saga of Pandora Zwieback, Book 2—author Steven A. Roman’s highly anticipated follow-up to the critically acclaimed first Pandora Zwieback novel, Blood Feud—goes on sale Monday, February 2, 2015. Don’t miss it!
“Pan is exactly the kind of teen heroine that readers should be standing up and cheering for.”—HorrorNews.net
“Roman has an incredible gift for running lateral plotlines that intersect with a glorious crash.”—Monster Librarian
“Roman’s writing is wonderfully crisp, drawing us into a hidden world that is great fun.”—Taliesin Meets the Vampires
“Pan is a smart and brave heroine who manages to stay positive and upbeat, despite the obstacles she must overcome.”—The Horror Zine
Yes, after many delays 
Earlier this year I was searching for an artist who could duplicate the original Pan jacket painted in 2011 by our friend 
The answer was an enthusiastic yes! As Dan explained, it would be a change of pace from the nose art, and provide him with a challenge to paint something (really) different. Not only that, but when I mentioned that the devil art on the back panel would be a recreation of a 16th-century woodcut, it turned out that Dan collects 16th-century woodcuts! It seemed like I’d found the right artist, right off the bat. (Even funnier was when I read his “About the Artist” bio, and learned that the guy I’d just commissioned to paint the devil is an ordained Lutheran minister!)
As you can see, Dan did a fantastic job for me, then did another for his daughter (who’s now a Pan-atic herself). Check out his other stellar jacket work at his 
Mark your calendars and adjust your Internet radios, ’Warp fans—Saturday, December 29, is the day when I’ll be appearing live on At Ease, the morning program hosted by bestselling author and historian Dwight Jon Zimmerman on the Veterans Radio Network!
Blood Feud: The Saga of Pandora Zwieback, Book 1 is the critically acclaimed story of a 16-year-old Goth girl who’s spent the last decade being treated for mental health problems because she can see monsters. It’s only after she meets a shape-shifting monster hunter named Sebastienne Mazarin that Pan discovers she’s never been ill—her so-called “monstervision” is actually a supernatural gift that allows her to see into Gothopolis, the not-so-mythical shadow world that exists right alongside the human world. But before Annie can explain further, Pan and her parents are drawn into a conflict between warring vampire clans that are searching for the key to an ultimate weapon (or so the legend goes)—a key that just so happens to have been delivered to the horror-themed museum owned by Pan’s father.
Blood Feud is the critically acclaimed first novel in the series, which stars a 16-year-old Goth girl who’s spent the last decade being treated for mental health problems because she can see monsters. It’s only after she meets a shape-shifting monster hunter named Sebastienne Mazarin that Pan discovers she’s never been ill—her so-called “monstervision” is actually a supernatural gift that allows her to see into Gothopolis, the not-so-mythical shadow world that exists right alongside the human world. But before Annie can explain further, Pan and her parents are drawn into a conflict between warring vampire clans that are searching for the key to an ultimate weapon (or so the legend goes)—a key that just so happens to have been delivered to the horror-themed museum owned by Pan’s father.
Highlander: Not so much the original Christopher Lambert/Sean Connery film that launched the franchise (let’s just pretend the god-awful sequels that followed never happened), but the 1990s TV series starring Adrian Paul as Duncan MacLeod. Four hundred years old? Warrior and lover? Flashbacks to historical adventures? Yeah, I guess you could say it had a tiny bit of influence on Annie’s immortal status. 😀
Kolchak: the Night Stalker: Before Mulder and Scully in The X-Files, there was intrepid-but-luckless reporter and monster hunter Carl Kolchak, created by author Jeff Rice in an unpublished novel titled The Kolchak Papers, and portrayed by fantastic character actor Darren McGavin. Kolchak starred in two early seventies made-for-TV movies (The Night Stalker—adapted from Rice’s manuscript—and The Night Strangler, both written by I Am Legend author Richard Matheson), and then in the one-season TV series that bore his name. From vampires and swamp monsters to Jack the Ripper and seven-foot-tall American Indian spirits, Kolchak chased and killed them all, in pursuit of the one great news story that would make him an A-list journalist. Of course no one ever believed him, and he never got that A-list story, but that didn’t mean Carl stopped trying.
Sonja Blue: Author Nancy A. Collins’s punk-rock vampire who hunts other vampires, introduced in the 1989 novel Sunglasses After Dark and still stalking her kind today in brand-new novellas. In an Anne Rice–influenced horror industry, at a time when just about every publisher was seeking to knock off Interview With the Vampire (or at least its success, as publishers do these days with their Twilight, Hunger Games, and 50 Shades of Grey imitations), Sonja arrived on the scene as the anti-Lestat. There was nothing romantic about vampirism in Sonja’s world—it was brutal and ugly and a curse, and being turned into a blood-drinking corpse only meant that Sonja was able to unleash her full anger to kill every stinking vampire she could find.