From Starwarp Concepts
Aug. 17, 2011
X-MEN WRITER STARTS A 'BLOOD FEUD'
Saga of Pandora Zwieback Novel Series Kicks Off With Vampire War
“When it comes to horrific chills, no one does it better than Steven A. Roman. Clive Barker would be proud!”—Paul Dale Roberts, Jazma Online
He’s sent costumed mutants on a multidimensional quest to prevent the universe’s destruction, and guided Death along the Las Vegas Strip in his search for victims. But now Steven A. Roman, bestselling author of the novels X-Men: The Chaos Engine Trilogy and Final Destination: Dead Man’s Hand, is ready to introduce a brand-new adventure heroine to dark-urban-fantasy readers, courtesy of independent publishing house StarWarp Concepts.
BLOOD FEUD: THE SAGA OF PANDORA ZWIEBACK, Book 1 (ISBN 978-0-9841741-0-2), on sale now, is the first novel in a Young Adult dark-urban-fantasy series. Its heroine is a 16-year-old, Queens, NY Goth girl dealing with two major life-changing problems: her parents’ divorce, and a frightening ability to see through the human guises of the vampires, werewolves, and other creatures that have always been living in the world. Helping Pan come to terms with both is Sebastienne Mazarin, a 400-year-old, shape-shifting monster hunter she befriends. Together, the women set out to protect the world from the monsters threatening it, starting in Blood Feud with a war among rival vampire clans seeking the key to an ultimate weapon.
The project might be a dark-fantasy series instead of a superhero adventure, but Roman assures fans familiar with his X-Men novels that there’s something for them as well: “Just like The Chaos Engine Trilogy, Pan’s story has action, it's got romance and humor, and it's got the thing I'm most known for: multilayered characterization. So, come for the monster hunting, stay for the widespread destruction and the oddball characters—‘cause if you’ve read my stuff you know I never write about normal people. . . .”
Blood Feud: The Saga of Pandora Zwieback, Book 1—which features cover art by acclaimed painter Bob Larkin (Tomb of Dracula, Doc Savage, Savage Sword of Conan)—is currently available for order from brick-and-mortar and online bookstores, and soon from the StarWarp Concepts Web site.
For more information—including a downloadable, full-color, introductory comic book, The Saga of Pandora Zwieback #0—please visit the Web sites www.PandoraZwieback.com and www.StarwarpConcepts.com.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR STEVEN A. ROMAN:
“Roman’s writing is effective and propulsive. The story moves along quickly and convincingly; it’s a fast-paced adventure whose story will leave readers eager for more.”—Cemetery Dance on Lorelei: Building the Perfect Beast
“A powerful roller coaster of a novel. Roman pulls you right into the action as it unfolds, leaving you gasping from the first book to the last.”
—CelebrityCafé.com on X-Men: The Chaos Engine Trilogy
“Author Steven Roman does an excellent job here, delineating the five characters, showing how their lives intertwine in the run-up to their own, personal brush with death and revealing what happens thereafter, as the terrible truth dawns that they haven’t escaped, only delayed the inevitable.”
—The Third Alternative on Final Destination: Dead Man’s Hand
About the Author:
Steven A. Roman is the bestselling author of the novels X-Men: The Chaos Engine Trilogy and Final Destination: Dead Man’s Hand, and the writer of the graphic novels Stan Lee’s Alexa, Sunn, and Lorelei: Building the Perfect Beast. His short horror fiction has appeared in the anthologies If I Were an Evil Overlord, Best New Zombie Tales 2, The Dead Walk Again! and Tales of the Shadowmen 4: Lords of Terror.
About the Book:
Blood Feud: The Saga of Pandora Zwieback, Book 1
by Steven A. Roman
Published by Starwarp Concepts
320 pages, trade paperback (5.5” x 8.5”)
Price: $14.95 U.S.
ISBN-13: 978-0-9841741-0-2
From the 2010 Blood Feud #0 introduction comic:
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