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Dracula The Un-Dead featured on CNN.com
A bloodier Dracula rises again By Doug Gross
October 31, 2009 8:41 a.m. EDT
(CNN) -- Move over, Edward Cullen.
Tell those bayou bloodsuckers from "True Blood" to step aside, too.
More than 112 years after he first climbed out of the coffin, the world's most famous vampire is back -- and he's bloodier than ever.
"Dracula the Un-Dead," released this month in the United States, is a sequel to Bram Stoker's 1897 classic written by Dacre Stoker, the original author's great-grandnephew.
The book, co-written by Dracula historian Ian Holt, picks up 25 years after the Victorian-era monster is supposedly killed in the original and is based in part on 125 pages of handwritten notes that Bram Stoker left behind.
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Our Drac authors were rock stars at Vampire Con!
On August 16, Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt came into Los Angeles to support the first annual Vampire Con and promote their forth-coming novel DRACULA: THE UN-DEAD. Attendence was excellent for the panel they did with other experts on the continuing fascination the public has with vampires. Afterwards, they were interviewed by a Portugeuse television show, and many people visited their booth to find out more about their book. From teenaged Goth girls to college professors, it swiftly became apparent that Dacre and Ian were in their element with a crowd of other hardcore Dracula fanatics.
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Exciting updates to the marketing and publicity plan for Dracula: The Un-Dead!!!
Marketing and Publicity at Penguin Group Canada have put together a blockbuster campaign for this exciting, historic publication!
Dracula: The Un-Dead – Penguin Group
October 18, Toronto: With the help of Randolph’s dance academy, Penguin will stage a public performance of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” at Yorkdale, one of Toronto’s busiest malls, and record it forviral distribution on YouTube. The dance will be accompanied by a live, 12-person band, performing “Thriller.”
The performance of “Thriller” will draw attention to the Dracula-themed blood drive we will set up at Yorkdale, in partnership with Canadian Blood Services.
We will hand out Dracula business cards, drawing people to buy the book, and to attend the author event.
Author tour to Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto
October 25,
October 26,
October 27, Toronto: A day of national media in Toronto and a private launch for booksellers, Dracula scholars, and the Stoker family, most likely at the richly thematic home of Bill Jamison, complete with mummy and shrunken heads.
October 28,
Throughout October and November, across
MARKETING:
Dracula blad
Advance reading copies mailing with readers response card
Outdoor advertising in
National advertising TBC
Dracula: The Un-Dead business cards (with book and
Dracula: The Un-Dead posters (for in store displays and for the Bathurst Street Theatre)
Street team promotion during the Nuit Blanche in
Promotional material for Nuit Blanche
Promotional material for cross-promotion with Canadian Blood Services
Contesting with Canadian Blood Services
Online Marketing and Promotion
Pre-publication trailer for use on social networking sites such as YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, and Flickr
Pre-publication e-cards highlighting bookseller endorsements and reviews from general consumers
Outreach to Penguin’s Twitter followers with contest offerings including tickets to events
Online promotion through Canadian Blood Services website / newsletter (pending partnership details)
Hero banner placement on Penguin.ca, Amazon.ca and ChaptersIndigo.ca
Featured placement in Penguin e-newsletters
Dedicated book and author feature on Penguin.ca
Solicit and link to independent Blogger reviews, generated online viral buzz
Print / mobile integrated campaign with use of ScanLife application to link to online features, interview, excerpts, etc.
Recording of an author video (possibly an event video) as part of Editor Insights on PenguinTV, a newly branded online channel on Penguin.ca
Babs says:
Dracula: The Un- Dead is an exciting gothic adventure. Owing to the exhaustive research of the authors, it is truly deserving of its status as the official Stoker sequel to Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Well-loved characters are deftly “resurrected” and some new ones are introduced whom Bram described in his original notes, but cut from the final book. One dark presence, the Countess Bathory, is drawn straight from the pages of history, as terrifying and beautiful a character as can be imagined.
The story soars across destinations in
Deb says:
A quick note to say that I’m about 200pages into Dracula: The Un-dead and am loving it! Dacre and Ian have truly captured the dark thrill and moody environment of the original Dracula. I’m finding too that The Un-dead is also true to the original characters: So here we find the weak-willed and snivelling Jonathan Harker 25 years on, an alcoholic and broken man, and Mina his loving wife whose heart and mind belong to a different time and place. And all of this against the backdrop of the dark and dangerous world of Victorian England.
And the new characters are fantastic! Inspector Cotford based on notes that Bram Stoker left…amazing! He is so gripping as the detective haunted by the Jack the Ripper murders who has now stumbled upon an even darker criminal that he could never have imagined….what can I say, I love him!
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The Authors of DRACULA: THE UN-DEAD
Saturday, August 01, 2009 05:11 AM Cameron & Pamela Koller Fearful Features
To scholars of gothic and classic horror literature, the idea of writing a sequel to one of the crown jewels of horror culture, Bram Stoker’s original text Dracula, must sound like literary rape of the most criminal sort. Yet, this is not the simplistic cash-in that some may accuse it of being. The duo of Stoker descendant Dacre Stoker and screenwriter Ian Holt acknowledge monetary value as a motivating factor, but have more complex goals alongside the obvious one.
Holt had initially tracked down Dacre’s uncle to tackle the project of writing a screenplay-sequel to Dracula. However, the Stoker family’s relationship to Hollywood had always been very negative, since Bram Stoker and his lawyers had failed to procure a worthwhile exchange for the book’s copyright. One search through ancestry.com later, Michael, Tim, and the family were put in contact with one another. The uncle unwilling, Holt tracked down Dacre from the next generation and set about writing a book instead over the next five years.
Copyright, as well as the deteriorating quality of Dracula’s cinematic adaptations, lie at the heart of this project’s objectives. Since Coppola’s adaptation of the story, adaptations since have abused the copyright and lost sight of what makes Count Dracula such a compelling character. With this book, Ian Holt hopes to put the rights to the novel back into the hands of the Stoker family. In addition, there are plans to found a Bram Stoker foundation with a portion of the proceeds, which will fund a bust for Stoker in Dublin and at the Lyceum Theater where he made his living to go up on the one-hundredth anniversary of his death in 2012.
Perhaps most importantly, however, the team wishes to bring a new fandom to Dracula in the wake of such vampire franchises as Buffy, True Blood, and Twilight. While there are plans to subtly update the themes of the first book, they plan to keep the core of the novel intact for this younger crowd. Plot strands left untied in the first novel will be explored this time around, with new mysteries to replace them. After all, the primary purpose of this novel for its creators is to preserve the essence of the character that is so dear to them for future generations to experience and explore.
Despite the odds and ambitions, Dracula: The Un-Dead seems destined for success. Reviews have been widely positive, even among scholars of the character. Independent sales have been successful beyond the dreams of its creators, greatly outselling Twilight in certain circles. While the process of writing was “harder than we thought,” each of them seem confident. “Hopefully, this is what people remember me by,” says Holt. “When I want something, I’m like a bull in a china shop.”
For more information, visit www.draculatheundead.com.
Dracula: The Un-Dead will be released October 13th in America, with an earlier release in Europe.
Written by Cameron Koller
Interview by Pamela Koller
Sci-fi-blog is warning their readers over the confusion of our UNDEAD novel by Stocker-Holt and the re-issue of the Fran Warrington UNDEAD
Friday, July 17, 2009
"Literary" Vampire Novel Reading List
Like all my reading lists, this one is not meant to be comprehensive, it's just to make you aware of new titles. I chose books that were (for the most part) older and considered 'literature' rather than 'horror' or 'urban fantasy'. And no, Dracula's not on it, though it's the quintessential vampire book. I figure everyone knows that one. My thanks to my co-worker, Morticia, who advised me of several of the older titles on this list.
As a side note, there's a Stoker family approved sequel to Dracula coming out in October: Dracula the Undead by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt. Not to be confused with a second Dracula the Undead coming out in December by Freda Warrington.
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Here's the list in no particular order:
The Vampyre - John Polidori
Carmilla - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Flowers of Evil - Charles Baudelaire (poem)
Anno Dracula, The Bloodry Red Baron, Dracula Cha Cha Cha - Kim Newman
The Vampyre, Supping with Panthers, Deliver us from Evil - Tom Holland
Society of S, Year of Disappearances - Susan Hubbard
Vlad: the Last Confession - C.C. Humphreys
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
Fat White Vampire Blues, Bride of the Fat White Vampire - Andrew Fox
Let the Right One In - John Ajvide Lindqvist
Nymphos of Rocky Flats, X-Rated Bloodsuckers, Undead Kamasutra, Jailbait Zombie - Mario Acevedo
Bloodsucking Fiends, You Suck - Christopher Moore
Touched by a Vampire - Mallory Hoffman
Vampire Vow, Vampire Thrall, Vampire Transgression - Michael Schiefelbein
Secret Life of Laszlo, Count Dracula - Roderick Anscombe
Vamped - David Sosnowski
Vampires of Hollywood - Adrienne Barbeau & Michael Scott
The Hunger - Whitley Streiber
Fever Dream - George R.R. Martin
Agyar - Steven Brust
Sunshine - Robin McKinley
Already Dead, No Dominion, Half the Blood of Brooklyn, Every Last Drop - Charlie Huston
As a bonus, here are some new urban fantasy and horror novels involving vampires you may not have heard of yet:
Bloody Good, Bloody Awful - Georgia Evans
The Last Vampire, Vampire Agent - Patricia Rosemoor & Marc Paoletti
The Betrayal - Pati Nagle (regular fantasy)
Wicked Game - Jeri Smith-Ready
Dying Bites - D.D. Barant
Staked, Revamped - J.F. Lewis
Skinwalker - Faith Hunter
Once Bitten, Twice Shy; Another One Bites the Dust; Biting the Bullet; Bitten to Death; One More Bite - Jennifer Rardin
Vicious Circle - Linda Robertson
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DRACULA BITES PAGE SIX IN NEW YORK POST!
DRAC'LL BE BACKJuly 15, 2009 --YOU can't keep a good vampire down. Dacre Stoker, the great-grandnephew of "Dracula" author Bram Stoker, has written "Dracula: The Un-Dead," a sequel to the famed vampire tale. It's the first Dracula knockoff officially sanctioned by the Stoker family estate and is based on handwritten notes and plot threads cut from Bram's original story. The new tale, out in October from Dutton, is co-authored by Long Island screenwriter Ian Holt.
DRACULA THE UN-DEAD RECEIVES ITS FIRST REVIEW, A RAVE, FROM www.sherlocksbooks.com!
Dracula The Un-DeadAs chance would have it, I acquired an Advanced Reader Copy of this title at the Book Expo in New York where I was fortunate enough to meet the author and get my copy signed.
After reading Dracula The Un-Dead yesterday, it is unlikely I will lend or relinquish my copy to anyone. They will simply have to buy their own! Generally everyone knows my tastes run to horror and sci-fi so this fits perfectly in my immense library at home. I was eager to read this upon my return to Nashville after the book show since I've been a fan of the original Dracula since my childhood (when it scared me nearly to death). This volume by the great grandnephew of Bram Stoker has to be one of the best sequels I have ever read in my life! It easily makes the top ten of world's best sequels ever written. I read it in virtually one sitting as the plot unfolded and could not put it down.
The story follows the aftermath of the original Dracula twenty five years later when all of the parties have now gone their separate ways. Unbeknownst to them, a much darker evil intent on murderous revenge begins hunting them and their offspring. Once again we meet Van Helsing, Mina and the rest of the characters in an intriguing mix of personalities and utterly gruesome malevolence. What is even more remarkable than the plot is the method in which the authors intertwine facets from the original Dracula (and Bram Stoker's own personal notes) into a time period 25 years hence.
The authors take slight liberty with the original novel's date in order to make their novel take place in 1912. Not a big deal but one of which you should be aware. Remarkably, usage of this date allows them to gather together a complex series of real historical events and persons including the Titanic, Jack The Ripper, setting of the London-Paris air speed record and famous stage actors such as Henry Irving and John Barrymore. Even the original author, Bram Stoker, makes an appearance!!! I urge both fans of the original and newcomers to read this book. Our store will be keeping this one in stock for sure. Now if I can only get a signed copy when the real one comes out around Halloween. Stephenie Meyer look out... Steve Guynn Sherlock's Book Emporium http://sherlocksbooks.com/
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AEI CLIENTS IAN HOLT & DACRE STOKER TO APPEAR ON BRAM STOKER PANEL AT SAN DIEGO COMICON JULY 25
Saturday, July 25
1:30-2:30 Bram Stoker: The Joss Whedon of his Day? Room 5AB
Panelists: Dacre Stoker & Ian Holt (DRACULA: THE UNDEAD); Jeanne Stein (LEGACY); Chris Marie Green (A DROP OF RED); Tony Lee (DOCTOR WHO); J.F. Lewis (REVAMPED) and (maybe) Ben Templesmith (BEN TEMPLESMITHS DRACULA).
Moderator: Leslie Klinger (THE ANNOTATED DRACULA)
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