In Darkness We Must Abide Season 2 by Rhiannon Frater
Publication date: December 16th 2013
Genres: Adult, Horror,
In Darkness We Must Abide is the epic saga of one young woman caught in the dangerous world of the creatures of the night.
Vanora is haunted by the night her faith in those she loved was shattered. After fleeing Houston, she takes refuge in Austin and creates a normal life with her roommate Rhonda. Despite her newfound happiness, Vanora is tormented by dreams and visions of an enigmatic and dangerous albino vampire.This book includes all five episodes of the second season of the serial.
When her world starts to fall apart and Armando comes back into her life to warn her that her brother is in danger, Vanora realizes that she can’t escape her destiny. Evil threatens her family, and she must venture into the darkness to save everyone she cares about.
As she seeks to uncover the truth about the terrifying albino vampire and her purpose in his schemes, Vanora starts to realize that the man she loves most may be her greatest enemy. Rhiannon Frater delivers a chilling adventure once again with this multi-part epic serial with a dynamic cast, old school vampires, bloody action, a smoldering forbidden love, and a terrifying villain set against the backdrop of a modern day vampire war.
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{Guest Post}
In
Darkness We Must Abide
The
Origin of a Supernatural Serial
At the end of last year, I stumbled across an old manuscript
lurking in the badlands of my hard drive. I was shocked to unearth the story,
having forgotten I had it converted to Word years ago from my old word
processing format. For years I had considered it trunked and lost somewhere in the
storage in the garage. Opening the file,
I rediscovered a story I had sank most of my heart and soul into a very long
time ago when I was just starting to write horror novels.
In
Darkness We Must Abide was my first full-length original work. I
spent hours at my old typewriter creating the first draft of the manuscript.
Later, I bought a word processor and retyped the entire manuscript, saving it
onto floppy discs. Yes, this was a long
time ago!
As I read over my old work, I realized several things. One,
I still absolutely loved the two primary leads, Armando and Vanora; and two,
the story was solid, but needed some revision. I was very young when I wrote the
story, inexperienced in life, love, and long lasting relationships, and this
clearly showed. Also, I was under immense pressure from people in my life to
write something “nice and normal,” so I struggled quite a bit with certain
themes in the story. Reading over the manuscript, I saw exactly the changes I
needed to implement to make it a stronger, vibrant read. I set it aside,
considering reworking it into a trilogy at a later date.
At the beginning of this year, I began toying with the idea
of doing a serial. As The World Dies
was originally written as an online serial, and I’d missed the immediate
feedback that came with the release of each new part. I had an idea for a whole
new fresh work, but was intimidating by having to fit it into my already overloaded
writing schedule. Then I saw an article about taking an old manuscript and
converting it into a serial. Instantaneously,
I knew that In Darkness We Must Abide
was the perfect story to be converted into a serial. It was already divided
into three distinct parts and it was huge! In fact, one of the reasons I
couldn’t sell the book in its old form was that it was one massive book that
far exceeded the word count limits of most publishers.
I instantly divided the first third of the story into the
five episodes that make up season one. Extremely nervous, I started the
revision process with the intention of each part reading like a television show
in the reader’s mind. I was shocked at how easily the story fell into an
episodic format, but was thrilled at the same time. Also, the voices of the
characters readily reawakened in my mind, much to my relief.
In my youth, I had made several big mistakes. When a test
reader had an adverse reaction to my lead character being an albino, I altered
her appearance. I even changed her name to something I thought sounded fancier.
When I started revising, the first thing I did was give Vanora her name back
and restore her albinism. I had robbed my lead character of an important part
of not only her physical appearance, but her life experience as an albino. I
also embraced all the themes I had skirted around in the earlier drafts, out of
fear of criticism.
Side note: Humorously, I spent a lot of time trying to avoid
overt sexual themes out of fear of offending my mother. This is the same woman
who would later call me up to tell me how much she loved the sex scenes in Pretty When She Dies because they were
“hot.”
When I finally sent the first episode off to my beta
readers, I was terrified. How would they react to a gothic horror novel I had
conceived so long ago? When the rave reviews started flowing in, I was so
relieved. My story had officially risen from the grave.
Since the release of the first episode of In Darkness We Must Abide, I’ve been
having a great time discussing the story with readers. A serial feels much
different from a trilogy or series because the installments come out much
quicker and there is less waiting for the readers. As a writer, it’s a
challenge to give the readers something they can enjoy in small increments, but
also instills in them the desire to read the next episode. The immediate
feedback is also a great way for me to gage what is working, and what’s not.
Though the fan reaction will not affect the overall story arc, to some degree
it does affect the presentation of it. Because of the mad love for Armando, I
have expanded his role significantly in the first season.
I have enjoyed my serial experience so much. I’m already
anticipating doing one next year! This time it will be a whole new writing project,
but it was definitely worthwhile digging up In
Darkness We Must Abide and sharing it with my readership.
{Giveaway}
AUTHOR BIO
Rhiannon
Frater is the award-winning author of over a dozen books, including
the As the World Dies zombie trilogy (Tor), as well as independent works
such as The Last Bastion of the Living (declared the #1 Zombie Release
of 2012 by Explorations Fantasy Blog and the #1 Zombie Novel of the
Decade by B&N Book Blog), and other horror novels. Her next
novel for Tor, Dead Spots, will be published in 2014. She was born and
raised a Texan and presently lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and
furry children (a.k.a pets). She loves scary movies, sci-fi and horror
shows, playing video games, cooking, dyeing her hair weird colors, and
shopping for Betsey Johnson purses and shoes.
You can find her online at:
Website: rhiannonfrater.com & astheworlddies.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.
Twitter: twitter.com/
Blog: rhianonfrater.blogspot.
Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/
Email: rhiannonfrater at gmail.com
You can find her online at:
Website: rhiannonfrater.com & astheworlddies.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.
Twitter: twitter.com/
Blog: rhianonfrater.blogspot.
Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/
Email: rhiannonfrater at gmail.com
I love As the World Dies and I love Ms. Frater's writing. I would LOVE to read these!!
ReplyDeleteI am definitely interested to read this. I have seen so many positive reviews :) It sounds very interesting.
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