The great awakening - please tell us more

[majere]

At first i would like to congratulate you for the awesome "The Dark Days Series". I started with the first two books in German. But i was unwilling to wait for the translation so i grabbed the other books in English. I already saw that there is a new series in planning/making and i will look forward to read it. So regarding my English, please keep in mind it is not my native tongue :)

But back to my topic...
At the end of "The dark days series" i was hoping for a follow up. The time after "burn the night" seems to be so exciting that it would be a shame to let it go.
So far i don't know any vampire novel that describes the transition from a secret non-human society to an integrated public non-human society (if you know any please tell me).
The days, weeks, months, years after a media-accident like the great awakening must be worth a story. For both humans and on-humans the changes would be stunning. At first, fear would reign on both sides. The non-humans go into hiding, while the humans would try to find out what exactly they witnessed. But after the initial culture shock - what then? The interlinked character of the human world holds chances and problems during the times of change. How will people react? violence and fear or curiosity and dialog? - How will the governments react? - Cover it up or reveal it all and force the non-humans out to the public? - Which laws would the non-humans have to follow? And the most important question how would the characters of the novels life through this time of change? How do these changes impact their life? Which are their new goals and how do they realise em?
Come on you have to admit - a chapter about mira on a late night talk show on national tv would make you smile

I would love to read about these times of transition when both worlds collide and need to change radical to adapt and survive. So far this is the untouched realm of the vampire genre. Many vampire stories take the vampire secret society as a fact and untouchable truth. You on the other hand wrote a vampire story where the process of revealing was a goal of such a society. That’s why i am pretty sure you have also thought about the transition. The new series plays in a world of coexistence. The old series plays a world of secrecy. So in a few years when you have finished the new series you have a detailed version of both society concepts.
With this post i hope to encourage and maybe inspire you to tackle the unknown and think about a third series (maybe as a follow up of "the dark days", maybe not) that would describe the transition of a secret non-human society to an integrated public non-human society. Of course i see the problems regarding plot, write style and perception that are within such a setting. Above all i don’t know if the typical reader of vampire novels would like to read it - i am no market analyst.

Still i hope you consider this idea. I promise i will buy it.


looking forward to read more from you
Yours
majere



Sidenote: after reading around in the forum a lot i am relieved that i am not the only male in here :) - i was scared by the first impression

[Jocelynn Drake]

Majere,

Thank you for your wonderful letter.

The more time that passes from the release of Burn the Night, the more confident that I feel that Mira and Danaus's stories are done. I feel like I left them in very good places and I am comfortable with the story that I told for them.

That being said, I still can't get the Dark Days world out of my head. My goal for the series in the beginning was to try to tackle that transition period because I didn't know of anyone who had done it already. As I started writing the series, I realized that I was trying to tackle too much. I didn't know how to approach the transition period.

Now, having finished 7 books and feeling more confident in my skills, I am thinking about that transition period again. A part of me would like to write a few books centered on that time period in the Dark Days world, but I can't promise anything.

For now, my focus remains on the new series and making that as strong as possible.

But the wheels are turning in my mind about the Dark Days series.

[susan60625]

Majere, If you are looking for a series of books that deal with life after supernatural species are revealed to the general population, you might want to try Kim Harrison's Rachel Morgan series. The majority of them have been translated into German, but I don't know their translated titles.

[majere]

Thank you JD, for repling so fast and thanks Susan for pointing out the Rachel Morgen Series i will put em on my need to buy list.

I think i understand what you mean with taking Mira and Danaus out of the main loop. Of course both of them would have to play
a certain role in the aftermath of the great awakening - Mira is still a high ranked vampire. But i see why you would try to shift
over to new fresh and new characters.
Still you made my very happy by stating that you also considered this particulary time period. It showed me that my idea wasnt out of track. I will look forward to your new series and im sure i will from now on read em all in english. The simple reason is so wont have to wait that long.
If you really do try to tackle the transition period one day, im sure you will do wonderful job.


Keep on writing JD.

Your fan
majere

[mhub]

Hey majere,

Another series you might be interested in (though I'm not sure if its translated in German), is Isobelle Caramody - The Obernewtyn Chronicles series. This deals with the aftermath of a cataclysm that brought the "supernatural"out into the open and how the "humans" dealt with it all. Its not really about vampires, more like supernatural beings.

Perhaps you'd also consider "The Passage" by Justin Cronin(?). I've heard this is being adapted into a movie. This is about an experiment that went wrong and created the "vampire gene" - written as a before, during and after said experiment. Big book.

[majere]

Thanks for the suggestion mhub i will be sure to check it out.

Thanks again Susan i just finished the whole Rachel Morgan Series - nice read. I was amazaed to see JD is part of the series as the Pixie child Jocelynn in the 5th book of the series.

The Rachel Morgan Series plays in a world after the surfacing of the non-humans but the time period seems to be to stable.
That is my only critism with the series. I just don't believe that humans will accept the non-human intruiders after only 40 years.

We all know there are enough idiots and fanatics among the human kind to cause trouble with the integration over centuries.

A human society that isnt even able to integrate people from other human cultures will struggle much more, when it comes to integrating other species [Especially LIFE THREATING species].

Well i will look forward to the new series of yours, JD.
Yours Majere