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This week I’m putting a package together for potential publishers. One of the items in that package is a mock cover of Dracula And Kittens.
The challenge is trying to describe a book that is 100% Bram Stoker’s Dracula, but at the same time a raging assault on your literary senses.
And yes, I’m going to use that line to describe the book. If I have it my way, that’s going to be the book’s subtitle: “Dracula And Kittens: An Assault On Your Literary Senses“.
I also like “An affront to God” but I doubt that will fly. I need this to sell so I can write another one.
Potential Cover Art
A the title of this post told you, I want to have Dracula wrestle a grizzly bear for the cover. I doubt this will be the actual cover, which is why I’m telling you about it, but I think that’s what I’m going to go with for the mock-up.
My logic: You know Dracula. Now imagine Dracula doing something that
1) He shouldn’t be doing.
2) Would never, ever happen if it were up to Bram Stoker.
3) Update: My wife informs me that the alleged vampires in Twilight kill woodland animals, one of them in particular likes to kill bears. Bonus: Our potential cover can now serve as a Twilight parody too!
Who Is Drawing This Atrocity?
You might be wondering, who’s doing the art? I’m glad you asked. My artistic ability peaked at five and has declined ever since. I decided to get in touch with one of my favorite artists on the web, Rusty Shackles, and see if he was up for the challenge.
He was.
Since I like to play six degrees here at the virtual office, I found “Rusty Shackles” through the excellent comics podcast, War Rocket Ajax. Rusty did the artwork for the blog and for their episodes.
This one being my personal favorite. Look closely at Laura Hudson‘s hammer:
I may or may not put the rest of the book’s packet online. You can see the first six chapters here. If not right now, then I will if and when Dracula And Kittens hits stores.
