THE DRAKE CHRONICLES
What is the order of the Drake Chronicles?”
#2 Blood Feud (June 2010)
#3 Out for Blood (Nov-Dec 2010)
#4 Bleeding Hearts (Oct 2011 UK, Jan 2012 US) (Lucy, Christabel, Connor POV)
#5 Blood Moon (Lucy, Solange, Nicholas POV) June 2012
#6 TBA
What is POV?”
Is My Love Lies Bleeding the same as Hearts at Stake?”
How do you pronounce the characters names?”
Isabeau ~ “Ee-zah-boh”
Montmartre ~ “Moh-maarrh-trr”
Kieran~ “Keer-in”
Why does each Drake book have a different main character?”
Book #1 deals mostly with the Drakes,
#2 with the Hounds,
#3 with the Helios-Ra,
#4 with the Hel-Blar,
Book #5 is like a big family reunion. But with more teeth and nefarious plots. Book 6 continues along that vein. (vampire puns are really, really hard to avoid)
Solange’s storyline is the main arc, tying all of these worlds and people together; as well as her friendship with Lucy.
When will we see Lucy again?”
How many books are in the Drake Chronicles?”
Will each brother get their own book?”
When will Bleeding Hearts come out?”
And…It’s official! The on-sale date in stores for BLEEDING HEARTS will be 12/20/11—as a holiday gift for the Drake fans!
And ONLY available in the print version: “Lost Girls”, a bonus story about Liam and Helena and how they met!
If my copy of “Bleeding Hearts” doesn’t include “The Lost Girls” short story, where can I read it?”
There are more short stories which will become available soon… check out the Drake Chronicles Novella link!
When will your next book come out in my country?”
Will there be a Drake Chronicles movie?”
Movies require the attention of a director and/or movie company and a lot of money. And luck and love!
Is there any chance there will be more than 6 books to the series?”
In the meantime, there are 3 Enovellas set in the Drake World forthcoming early this year. And there is the possibility of more…
WRITING
Can you send me bookmarks/buttons/autographed book?
What do you think about fanfiction?
Can you read my story/book/proposal/query?
Do you have any writing advice?
The good news is: there’s no secret handshake
So, my advice is pretty basic: write. Sounds simple, right? But a lot of people want to be writers— they don’t necessarily want to write. If you love to write, you’re halfway there already. Keep at it. Like anything else, you need practice.
Carry a notebook with you to jot down ideas. Read lots. And then read some more.
Learn to finish something: a poem, a short story, a novella. The fire at the beginning of a story can flicker once you’re a few chapters in and then you get distracted by shiny idea #15, and that one over there., and wait is that Dean Winchester? Mr. Darcy? (okay those last 2 might just be me!)… so learn to finish. It’s a skill like any other.
And if it’s a fantasy novel or urban fantasy that you’re writing, know your rules. There has to be internal logic, even if it’s all made-up in your head. And those rules? Don’t create them to make things easier for yourself. Your rules need to make you sweat sometimes! It’s not always fun but it makes for a better story.
Try not to worry too much about your “voice”. If you’re true to youself and your story, your voice will orgcanically, magically happen.
Let’s face it, writing a vampire series like the Drake Chronicles means dealing with vampire fatigue in the market–but I had the story and it wanted to be told. I’ve always loved vampires and paranormal fiction, so I wrote it regardless. I wrote it for fun. If you write for the “market”, and not for love, chances are you’ll miss the train. It can take up to 2 years for a book to be published after it’s written and accepted (another couple of years right there) so that market trend? Long gone.
You might still miss the trend, but if you’re writing for love, it won’t matter quite as much.
There are several very helpful books out there for writing:
The Writers Digest books,
“Writers Book of Days” by Judy Reeves,
“The Right to Write” by Julia Cameron,
“Poemcrazy” by S. Woolridge.
Some of the Idiot’s writing guides have good tips as well! And author biographies are fun too. I especially love the Brontes, Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets.
And one of my all-time favourites is “Letters to a Young Poet” By Ranier Maria Rilke
Will you come to my town/school?
HAUNTING VIOLET
Will there be a Haunting Violet sequel?
NOTE:
And I won’t give spoilers or answer questions about might or might happen to characters….
can turned female vampires have children? like isabeau?
no, they can’t.
If turned vampires can’t have children, how did Helena?
She had the children BEFORE she was turned.
In “Out For Blood” if shows lineage and dates of when the children were born. All born between 1986 and 1993, before Helena was turned in 1994.
haha
What about solange, would she be able to have children? Because she went through the change, and was not turned by another vampire?
How exactly do they turn someone into a vampire?
Solange is unique in the vampire world but no, she would likely not be able to have babies. I can’t answer definitively, the series isn’t finished yet!
But what about their mother????
oh yeah , how did helena have children then ?!
Helena was changed after Solange was born
oh yeah, i forgot about that.
In no1(i think) it says that lucys mother found helena drinking the blood of a cow(?) while she was pregnant with solange.
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I think being pregnant with the child of a vampire gives you cravings for blood.
Ok so, Isabeau or Solange can not have babies. But that would mean Lucy is able to, correct? It would be so awesome if someone in you book series could have a child. Especially my favourite couple Nicholas and Lucy!!!
I think she could, but all depends on Nicholas- and if they have a boy. You know why- boy- bloodchange. . . Also, my favorite couple is Hunter and Quinn, and if Hunter did get pregnant, I would love to see Quinn freak out. God, yeah, that would be funny.
agree about hunter & quinn quinn reminds me of dameein from the vampire diares
that would be funney I can just see it And she is a vampire hunter and he is a vampire
yep, totally agree with u there!!! LOL!!!
that would be the best!
But what if they(Lucy or Hunter, whichever) have a girl? Then that means that solange donst actually HAVE to be queen. Because the prophesy (although i dont know all of it) says a girl born to the drake name will bring peace to the tribes and become queen or whatever. But,( i dont think) they never say any of the details do they???
Yes BUT it doesnt name the Drakes.
” because there’s some stupid prophecy from centuries ago that says the vampire tribes will be properly united under the role of a daughter born to an ancient family”
In the first book, it mentions they are several familes with the Genetic Ability.
“our family is one the few ancient clans of the Raktapa Council. the council was formed ages ago when the families realized that we weren’t like other vampires: Our change is genetic.”
Just so happens that Solange is the first in 900 yrs.
“Vampires are rarely born, except in certain ancient families . . . Exhitbit A, me and my seven obnoxious older brothers. But i’m the only girl. In about nine hundred years”
her grandpa would b even more freak out
same here Hunter and Quinn are my favorite couple, I would love to see Quinn’s reaction, but i don’t think he’d do much, although i think the grandpa would be quite surprised. I’m dying to read more
A Lucy & Nicholas baby would be cute, they are my favourite couple in the series too
i wonder what they would name the baby?
there my favourite couple too
Im sort of confused about the 4th book. Because on the homepage in your interview you said that the 4th book was about Connor Drake but then in the frequently asked question you said half of it was in Lucy perspective. So does that mean that half the book is in Connor’s perspective and the other half in Lucy’s?
One bit is Lucy One bit is Connor and the other bit is Lucys cousin Christabel (i hope it helps)
i think connor should b with chloe, hunters friend, as they r both tech-y
Yesssssssssssssssss
He goes out with cristabel in the end i think
I second that thought. I totally thought it would have been Chloe and Connor. They looked so cute together in my mind and they are both technology geeks, perfect.
Yeah , that wouldve been gr8 but christabel is with connor and its i think maybe even better like that
The town the story is set in is Violet Hill. But I was wondering what state the town is in?
And, what does the word Helios-Ra stand for? XDD
Violet Hill is a ficitonal town, but since I’m Canadian I usually picture it Canadian, but I’ve purposefully left that out so you can picture it Us if you live in the US.
I think some British readers think of it as a British town as well. 
i googled violet hill its in australia
there’s also a violet hill in canada…
but my particular violet hill is fictional
the one in australia was the first option when i typed violet hill in google maps
gotta visit that place now!!!!
dido!!!!!!!
hehehe
I think we automatically set books with fictional towns in the country we live (unless specified otherwise e.g. ‘What Happened To Goodbye’ by Sarah Dessen mentions going on a road trip to Austin, without flights, so it automatically rules out other countries). I always think of Violet Hill as English, and when my friend kindly points out that it really should be Canadian, I throw the nearest object likely to cause pain but minimal damage at her
ha!
that was great so i had to share it. but im from canada so i picture it in northern alberta with our cowboys and small towns
Helios stands for an ancient Greece god who pulled his chariot across the sky. I found the definition at rhymezone.com just ytpe in helios
Ra is the ancient Egyptian sun god. Wikipedia.
O.K- So, chariot pulling and a sun god! Who knew.
Soz if that offends anyone. I didn’t mean to.
One question I’ve always had is:
What’s the aging process like for vampires in the Drake Chronicles? Because Liam, Helena, Hyacinth and Geoffrey have been round for decades and look fairly young still, so how will the Drake siblings age?
As Uncle geoffrey puts it: they tend to look in their mid twenties and age very very slowly/not much at all, after that. this is for the three families on the Raktapa Council, regular vampires in this world look the age at which they were turned.
so, does this mean that if you were turned into a vampire as a child, you’ll stay like that for good and not age at all???
for most vampires, yes.
My sister and i ave discussed this question so much ha!
so does Helena look older than Liam then?
yes and no…Liam about 100 years old and that kind of experience makes you look older….
Wha t does hel-blar mean??? ( their origins )
What is the name of the fourth book???
hel-blare is firm old Norse and it means roughly “blue as death”.
4th book will be called Bleeding Hearts
I think that the orgins for some of the names are really cool. I mean there are lots of old culuthers [ sorry suck at spelling ] that have vampires in them just diffrent names
When will ‘Stolen Away’ come out in Australia and the UK?