dAN pEREZ, author
in the word processor now: stoker rules!
These vampires don't follow the rules.
Crosses, garlic, holy water, wooden stakes. Nope! The vampires in Stoker Rules are, well, different. They go about in the daylight, they sleep in beds, and the usual "Stoker rules" just don't apply. But they do drink blood and they are virtually impossible to kill.
Alex Stoica, haunted by his past of feeding on innocents, has turned vigilante and only feeds on criminals. So he is a natural choice to fight an ancient evil that is wantonly killing people in Houston, Texas. He teams up with the FBI and the CDPR (Combined Departments of Paranormal Response) to fight the threat, but will he conquer his personal demons as well as the ancient threat?
This book is completely plotted out, and I am currently (as of June '23) finishng up chapter 3. I am hoping to make a lot of progress, and perhaps even finish the book in the next few months .
I got the idea for writing Stoker Rules because of a few short stories I wrote back in the 1990s. At the time I called them my "indestructible vampire" stories because I was fascinated by that idea. A vampire jet fighter pilot would not have to use a parachute if he ejected from his jet! And another would sneer at the SWAT team that fired a rocket-propelled grenade at him. The idea of nearly indestructible vampires stuck in my mind, and now, decades later the book idea is fully fleshed out (thank you, Save the Cat Writes a Novel!) and chugging along. If you'd like to read those short stories, you can! Just check the links in the column to the right. And I promise: my vampires don't sparkle.
read the short stories that inspired stoker rules!
Both of the anthologies that contain my stories can still be found on Amazon!
The first story is called Behind Enemy Lines and was published in the anthology Under the Fang, edited by Robert R. McCammon (whose vampire novel They Thirst I mention in Stoker Rules. Click on the image for the Amazon link.
The second story is called Slice of Life and was published in the anthology 100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories, edited by Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz, & Martin H. Greenberg. Click on the image for the Amazon link.
