Welcome to Bathory!

I thought it might be nice, my loyal minions, if I explained precisely what my book, EIGHTH GRADE BITES, is about. Now, of course, there are many details that I can't share with you, but I can give you a general overview.

Vladimir Tod isn't like other thirteen-year-old boys. He's half-human, half-vampire. (His mother was human, his father...you got it, a vampire) Poor Vlad has all sorts of vampire issues. For one, he drinks blood (and when he's hungry...or ticked off, his fangs pick inopertune moments to elongate). For two, he's developing inhuman abilities. Which ones? Well, you know the score...read the book.

As if this weren't enough to get a skinny, pale, slighty sarcastic vampire boy stressed out, Vlad lives in the town of Bathory--a small (in both population and in mind) town, full of humans that believe him to be human as well. He attends the eighth grade at Bathory Junior High with his best friend (and one of the only two people, including Vlad's Aunt Nelly, who know what he is), Henry McMillan, who is totally crushed on by the girl Vlad likes. The principal hates him. Bullies pick on him. Plus, Vlad has to guard his secret (that he's a vampire) very closely. (Basically, his life sucks--which isn't a good thing, even for vampires)

But then something horrible happens...something that leads to someone discovering Vlad's secret.

But that's all I really can say about it.

Want more of a taste? You can check out the first chapter on my website. And, of course, come August 2007, you can read it in its entirety.