Intro to Blood Slave

Hello Readers! Today I’m going to introduce my latest book. ? Let’s see, I had this idea two or three years ago because I was frustrated about how all vampire stories make them stay in hiding. Think about it. They are essentially at the top of the food chain and they stay secret. How does that make any sense? They would make great kings and queens or whatever rulers fits your fancy.

So, I realize, now that I’ve started talking about it that I should remind everyone that since these ideas are mine and mine alone, they are under copywrite law. If you ask for my permission to use something I’ve written I honestly don’t have a huge problem with it depending on what you’re going to use it for. ALWAYS ask me first. This paragraph doesn’t NOT give permission. I’m just letting everyone know!

Anyway, back to my story. So, I had this question that formulated into an idea. Vampires essentially rule everything (kings and queens style), werewolves are their bodyguards/military/detectives, and the humans are peasants. That’s the basic run down anyway. As with any monarchy there is a hierarchy within these classes.

The Royalty is like any monarchy with their courts and such. Most all of royalty are born vamps meaning a sex happened and they grow normally until they reach like 20 then aging slows down. There are some vamps with no titles that are the turned ones and kind of act like mercenaries and assassins.  Vampirism and Lycanthropy are mutations in a human’s DNA which can be spread in my book. Honestly, I don’t have all of it figured out yet and it may never be all figured out. ?

The Military is like the US military because that’s what I know and what showed up when I google searched it. Haha. So, you have the General, Lt Generals, Major Generals, Colonels, Lt Colonels and so forth. I will be changing the names to something else but I’m still working on that. There are also the specialty squads that do detective work. They’re kind of my favorite squads cause I am such a geek for murder mysteries and cop shows. (Hello Castle, Bones, NCIS, Criminal Minds… do you want me to keep going?) I can’t give too much away. I do want people to actually read my book. ?

Now the peasants are where it gets interesting. I highest “rank” of slavery is called a blood slave. (Squealing with excitement because I honestly LOVE this and can’t wait to share!!!) A blood slave is the personal slave of any ranking vampire. The higher up the royal is the higher up the blood slave is but the less freedoms you have. They get the perks of nice clothes, regular food, a decent place to sleep (depending on how generous their master is or isn’t) but they always must be by their master’s side unless they’re released. Some masters believe that release is death, others just want some privacy occasionally.

Now my main character, Alana, is the crown prince’s blood slave. They’ve grown up together. She’s also a half breed (half human and half werewolf) which is technically illegal. Well it’s illegal to birth and help create a half breed of any kind so, Alana is an orphan. She doesn’t have too many friends because she doesn’t really have to freedom to. It’s a sad existence really but don’t worry it changes early on in the story. ?

Well I don’t think I can say much more without giving away more than I should. I certainly hoped you liked this little intro and as I write more, I will tell you more about it giving some scenes and such. So next week I will have another short story for you guys and next month along with some more short stories I will talk about how to develop characters (there really isn’t a right way but I’ll tell you what works best for me). Well that’s all for now!