FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Los Angeles 17 September 2008
The teen-oriented manga and graphic novel publisher Go! Comi has launched its first "blogfic" novel – a serialized story released in real time to vampire lovers everywhere.
The fictional blog, which is updated regularly at www.goldenvampires.com, blurs the lines between reality and fantasy by presenting an epic urban fantasy in the form of a blog written by two teenage girls who are being plunged into a dark, decadent underworld run by a mysterious blood-sucking clan known as the "Golden Vampires."
Blog entries for goldenvampires.com are posted within a realistic timeframe, around the lives and schedules of the two lead characters, further blurring the lines of reality. Comments left by additional characters also form part of the story.
Furthermore, readers are encouraged to post their own comments, and the main characters often respond directly to reader comments left on their posts.The readers' comments are expected to influence the direction the story takes."We wanted to try something really crazy with this story," Creative Director Audry Taylor said, referring to the decision to publish the novel in a blog format.
"Everyone loves reading a vampire novel – but what if you could only read it at night, when a vampire would really be awake? What if the vampire was speaking directly to you, through the internet? These were the questions that sparked the idea for the project." The story, Taylor warned, "heats up rapidly" as the first of several vampiric characters are introduced early on in the blog. "There will be steamy moments, as well as some blood, of course, but since the story is mainly being told by two teenagers, the details won't be any more graphic that what you'd find in a YA novel. It's more of a dark romance than a man-hunting blood fest."
The author, for now, is being kept a secret. "We want the audience to think of the characters as the authors of this blog, so the writer's name will be withheld until the print edition of Golden Vampires is announced."
