Friday, June 3, 2011

Fangs Rule! Amy Mah on Creating a Vampire World

Welcome Amy Mah to Immortyl Revolution! 

Okay, we all love to win things.  Right?  This month, anyone who comments on any of the posts at this blog will recieve one entry per comment to win a free copy of My Fearful Symmetry, Book Three of the Immortyl Revolution.  The Book drawing will be held on June 30th at 11:59 PM.  I will also be holding weekly drawings starting on the 15th of June for Immortyl Revolution shirts, pens, mouse pads etc. In July, I will be running a launch party contest with a neato prize package of books and goodies! 


Amy Mah

How did I create a vampire world?

Well, it all started when my publisher Nicholas Reardon of Reardon Publishing was looking for authors to write some paranormal novels, he wanted something funny to publish and wanted to use an as yet undiscovered author, and that is where I came in, Miss Mah to the rescue!

You would think creating a vampire world would be easy as everyone knows all about vampires and unlike doing a book on say a dryad, which apart from a numbering system is also a tree nymph in case you are interested. With a Dryad I could say she has six fingers on her left hand and likes to drink mead and very few people will shout and say no it is the right hand and she only drinks water,

But with vampires you have to see what has gone before you and then build on it, and that is what I did with my book: FANGS RULE a girls guide to being a vampire.

With vampires you do not have to tell anyone about the basics ……basics are .er…well……like ……….blood……sun light……coffins…holy symbols…….fangs …….. fancy cloaks …. And did I say blood? Yes? Well it is worth a second mention as BLOOD is what vampires are all about, as you read what people write about, things change our lovely long toothed friends can walk in sunlight, wear modern clothes, and even be a priest! Ok I know but it was in a very low budget film that I will not even name as it was ……..er………. crap ………So lots of things can change but never the blood …….even if it now comes in bottles (True Blood).

Over the years I have read and seen lots of vampire books and films and some are so bad I wanted to go and bite the author or film director.

I once saw a film called the last vampire in New York that had the vampire walking about in the day light and shooting people instead of biting them………… if you have not seen it don’t bother,

………..I like films to have a plot and a reason for happening or they bore me, so when I have a world to create I try and step into it and take a look around ………… things have to happen for a reason …………. And always have logic to them no mater how odd the logic is …….. if someone can jump off a roof and land on the ground unharmed (Underworld) ther must be a reason and there must even be a reason for wearing long leather coats and is it the same as the cloaks in the past ……… the answer could be yes and in my world I can you give reasons.

So lets go back to BLOOD ……….step into my world and look back out at the odd humans as you join a teenage vampire trying to explain what life is like for a teenage vampire:

Wow, yes, blood. The taste, the feel and the pleasure of it... wowwwwww. (Sorry, getting a bit carried away again.) Humans always think it is disgusting how we can like blood so much knowing where it comes from, well, all I have to say is that they eat eggs knowing where they come from. And as to milk, well it's just perverted to enjoy milk unless you're a baby.

Forget the human movies about bathing in the blood of virgin teenage girls to keep young, it's rubbish - and besides, just where do you find virgin human teenagers now? And, like, are you going to ask them personal questions about their love life before you add them as a bath salt? I think not.

If you would like to know more about my take on the human world you can take a look at my blog http://amymahvampire.blogspot.com/

or better still buy one of my books at…………………… www.fangsrule.com

Amy Mah (Vampire)




The front of the book has the title in dripping blood and shows Amy as a 18th century dressed vamp in a graveyard, where as the back is in modern clothing,

The artwork is by the Asian manga artist Heby Sim and what happened is that I sent pictures of myself and she turned me into what you see in the books, so it is really me you see in the books!!!! She even produced a full portrait of me which I have hung up on the wall over looking the computer.



Synopsis:


Fangs Rule a girls guide to being a vampire



Being A vampire sounds like it should be a cool thing to be as a teenage girl, like sleeping during the day and enjoying a night life with friends but no one warned Amy that it also meant having to suffer Teenage hormones for so long as she was stuck as a 16 year old vampire until her new vampire family would let her grow up, being a vampire was not as much fun as she had hoped and as to walking about wearing a see through nightdress with no underwear, well that was so not going to happen!


So Amy decided to write a book to help all teenage vampire girls and here it is FANGS RULE a girls guide to being a vampire.


A self help guide for teenage vampire girls, the guide is fully illustrated by manga Artist Heby and is written in an easy to follow A - Z format explaining everything a teenage vampire girl would need to know about living life as a modern Vampire.


What is fashionable to wear when eating out?


Fang maintenance & how to keep your claws sharp.


Should you let a boy bite you on the first date?


Easy to understand clear advice is given to every day problems Example:


When you get an urge to bite: We all get those normal urges to bite things, and I must point out it is very normal, Claws are all well and good in a fight but a bite gives the extra advantage of getting a refreshing drink at the same time. Lots of girls worry about showing their Fangs in public believing that to show your fangs is rude, but don't be shy they can be a girls greatest asset (ok second greatest asset) if a boy is being rude to you, don't just snarl at him, just bite him! You are a vampire why do you think you have sharp teeth if not for sinking them into a boy that is being rude to you.


Life as a teenager is normally a living hell but even more so when you have fangs. She knows the world is just out to get her, and not just by people trying to stake her because she has better teeth than they do!


Bio:
My name is Amy Mah, and I am Asian Chinese by looks. I could say that I am oriental looking, but if I do people would think I look like a carpet. LOL
I’m in my 20s with a very strange sense of humor, I look at the world and see how stupid it is and like to point this out, to know what I mean just read my blog:
http://amymahvampire.blogspot.com/
I just love anime and manga and so I have had my own image turned into a manga cartoon which is what you will see in my books.
What else? …….. Well I think faster than I can type ………and I type faster than I can spell.
See more of me and my book visit my website at :
Amy on Facebook.

1 comment:

David Tocher said...

That sounds like a fun and interesting spin on the vampire theme. Nice.