As promised from earlier this week, not only have we published a review of the first book in the Vampirates series, Vampirates: Demons of the Ocean, but as we are participating in a blog tour for the series, we have a guest reading from the author, Justin Somper (accompanied by his dog, Bella). Justin chose to read a rather gruesome scene from the third book in the series, Vampirates: Blood Captain. This book is considerably longer and gets much deeper into characterization of the pirates– Connor is only briefly mentioned, and Grace not at all– but it is a great, suspenseful, dark scene that I’m sure will encourage you to continue on through the series past the first book.  All six are scheduled  to be reprinted this month:  #1 Demons of the Ocean, #2 Tide of Terror, #3 Blood Captain, #4 Black Heart, #5 Empire of Night and #6 Immortal War. With the completed series available, I’m sure we’ll see middle-grade and early teen readers zip right through them! Thanks very much to Justin for providing us with this great reading from Blood Captain!

Have a great weekend!