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The Vampirates Are Here! A Guest Reading from Justin Somper

As promised from earlier this week, not only have we published a review of the first book in the Vampirates series, Vampirates: Demons of the Ocean, but as we are participating in a blog tour for the series, we have a guest reading from the author, Justin Somper (accompanied by his dog, Bella). Justin chose to read a rather gruesome scene from the third book in the series, Vampirates: Blood Captain. This book is considerably longer and gets much deeper into characterization of the pirates– Connor is only briefly mentioned, and Grace not at all– but it is a great, suspenseful, dark scene that I’m sure will encourage you to continue on through the series past the first book. All six are scheduled to be reprinted this month: #1 Demons of the Ocean, #2 Tide of Terror, #3 Blood Captain, #4 Black Heart, #5 Empire of Night and #6 Immortal War. With the completed series available, I’m sure we’ll see middle-grade and early teen readers zip right through them! Thanks very much to Justin for providing us with this great reading from Blood Captain!

Have a great weekend!

Vampirates Blog Tour– Stay Tuned!

If you were a middle grader in 2005, you may remember the Vampirates books by Justin Somper. I was an elementary school media specialist then and I certainly do! There are six books in the series and if you loved vampires or pirates, you probably stumbled across them. But then vampires went from scary to romantic, and the Vampirates were lost at sea. But the books are back in print now, and ready for a new generation. To celebrate their return, Monster Librarian is taking part in a blog tour, and later this week we will have a review up of the first book, Vampirates: Demons of the Ocean, followed shortly by a guest post from the author, Justin Somper. If you’re interested in following along, below is a schedule of where Justin Somper can been seen over the next week! Be warned, the Vampirates are coming!