Blog Tour Stop including Author Interview, Excerpt & Giveaway – Dead Camp by Sean Kerr

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Author Name: Sean Kerr

Book Name: Dead Camp

Series: Dead Camp

Book: One

Release Date: January 1, 2016

Blurb:

Eli is an ancient vampire with an ego the size of a planet and a sex drive to match, but his tumultuous past left him broken, so he hides from humanity and cowers from love, left to endure the crushing guilt that haunts his every waking moment. Even his best friend Malachi, a ghost who is hopelessly in love with Eli, remains unaware of all that transpired in London. Malachi can never know the truth.

When the Angel Daniyyel pays an unwelcome visit, Eli must face his secrets, secrets that he has tried so long to hide. To make matters worse, a chance encounter with the most beautiful man he has ever seen shatters his beloved isolation, pushing him into the world of the living once more. Something about this strange man seems so familiar, but Eli can’t even remember who he was before he became a vampire, never mind explain the unwanted emotions the enigmatic stranger ignites in his dead heart. So Eli has a choice—return to the world that ruined him, or continue his self-imposed exile with no hope of salvation.

Pages or Words: 87,422 words, 260 pages

Categories: Dark Themes, Erotica, Fiction, Gay Fiction, Historical, Horror, M/M Romance, Mystery, Paranormal, Romance, Vampires/Demons, Thriller

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Excerpt:

With a sickening wet sound, his body finally broke free of the earth. A cry of agony burst from between his perfect lips and his head fell back against my shoulder. I felt his long eyelashes brush against my neck as his eyes flickered in defiance of the blackness trying to consume him.

“Stay with me fella, stay with me, we’ll be home in a jiffy.”

Home, back to my castle, what the fuck was I thinking? I was out of my little fucking mind. I didn’t know the man. I owed him nothing. I had an Angel in my dining room and a German soldier in my dungeon and to top things off, I lived with a ghost. Yet I still wanted to take him home? No, I was intent on taking him home, I had decided that the moment I saw him.

But why, why should I get involved, why should I tread that path again, the path that could only lead to pain. It always did. And yet, as I held him in my arms I felt it, something inescapable, something that I could not understand, a stirring, a feeling, like something found when all hope of ever finding it had been forgotten. Something complicated.

A tingle of warning trickled up and down my spine making my hair stand on end. I lowered the hunk to the ground, slowly, carefully and whispered into his perfectly shaped ear. “Remain quiet.”

In a flash of lightning speed, I leapt into a tree, clinging with one hand to a thick branch while my legs wrapped around its thick girth. Someone was out there and not just Mr Fuck Me He’s Perfect. The smell of human, living heart pumping human was unmistakable, that incomparable odour carried on the wind to entice my nostrils and excite my senses, and I was dutifully excited. But there was something else there too, a feint undercurrent, an elusive aftertaste that went beyond sweat and skid-marks, an elusive scent that pricked at my memory, the smell of Demon.

I saw him then, a German soldier winding his way through the field of corpses. His uniform, a grey green feldbluse replete with bottle green collar and shoulder straps, made him almost invisible amongst the branches and the sludge. I could not see his face beneath his field cap but I could easily make out the eagle and swastika emblem embroidered on the bottle green cloth and I noted with disgust the Sturmgewehr semi-automatic rifle hanging loosely from his shoulder.

The Nazi stood barely six metres away from my injured future husband. Do not move lovely man, I said to myself, do not move and don’t make a sound and if you can, be still your beating heart, because to me it sounded like a jackhammer pounding through the forest. He was frightened and in pain. His eyes darted everywhere looking for me, desperate for me, pleading for me to drag him out of that Hell.

I saw the agony flash across his face before the sound escaped his lips. My entire body tensed. Too late, the soldier heard his pain.

He was running then, running towards my Adonis in the pit. Without hesitation, I soared through the air and landed with feline grace before him. The soldier fell backwards with a bloodcurdling scream. The rifle landed at my feet and I picked it up, rising to my full magnificent height, slowly and with purpose, relishing every moment of fear that blossomed across the soldiers white features. I snapped the weapon as easily as though it were a twig and threw the shattered weapon at his feet, watching with satisfied relish as he scrabbled backwards in the mud, his mouth curling away from his face as his terror burst from his throat.

“Demon! You are not from the camp. What are you?”

My teeth extended and my eyes flashed black. My Vampire was out. In one swift movement, barely visible to the human eye, I leapt at him, pulling him off the floor with effortless ease, lifting his flailing body high above my head. I threw him with all my might at the nearest tree. His spine snapped with an audible bang as his fragile body wrapped itself backwards around the trunk of the trembling pine, his lifeless body sliding to the ground and my stomach rumbled. Dinner was served.

 

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Author Interview:

 

Q&AToday I’m very lucky to be interviewing Sean Kerr author of Dead Camp.

Hi Sean, thank you for agreeing to this interview. Tell us a little about yourself, your background, and your current book.

Hello! Well, I’m a 46-year-old gay man living in Cardiff, Wales, with my partner of 27 years, Derek. Oh, and our two cats, Rita and Harry, and a load of tropical fish! I have worked in retail most of my life, and for the past 11 years, I have been running my own Interior Design business in Cardiff with my fabulous business partner, Jayne. I am a huge sci-fi and horror fan, Doctor Who being my first love in television, Alien my first love in film. Sigh. How I would love to write for both of them, but that is never going to happen, so move on lol.

Working for yourself, and trying to pay yourself, is not easy. Bit like being an author then lol. In an ideal world, I would love to see our shop run by someone else so that I could spend my days writing, but again that is just not going to happen. I love the design industry, I love working with fabrics and blinds, and helping our customers to create a beautiful home, but at the same time, I do not want to spend the rest of my life tied to our store. The recession hit 3 years after we opened and it has been a struggle, but we survived, and Jayne and I are proud of our achievement.

Writing has always been my passion. I never thought, never in a million years, that I would be published, and here I am with two books out, and I am now busy writing my third! When I started this series of books two years ago, I wrote to every agent in the Artists and Writers yearbook, and then some, well over 200 emails and letters, and I have a huge pile of ‘no’s’. I was on the verge of giving up. I knew my book was a bit fruity, I knew my book was contentious, but it was something I really wanted to write, and I loved every minute of writing it. Just when I thought there was no point in pursuing Dead Camp, I started to write something else, but then I thought I would try contacting some publishing houses direct. I contacted 6 publishers, and within two weeks had 3 offers of a contract! To say that I screamed a lot would be an understatement. I signed with the wonderful Extasy Books, and boy are they fabulous. My editors, cover designer, all of them, just wonderful, talented, incredibly supportive people, and I feel mighty privileged to be with them. I owe them everything, for making my dream come true, and I hope that we will be together for very, many years!

Dead Camp is a series of books, all with different stories that tell one big saga. As a gay man, I wanted to write it from a gay perspective, so all my characters are gay, well, except the odd one or two…spoilers sweetie. The series of books start during World War 2, and as they progress, you will find yourself in Victorian London, the Crucifixion, and then back to the downfall of Hitler. It’s a complex story, and every character is linked, even if they don’t know it. Book 1 & 2 are out, and I am currently working on book 3, which has been the toughest write so far. This book is proving particularly challenging because of the subject matter, but I think I have just broken the back of it, so now, with a bit of a push, I can finish the first draft.

When all is said and done, Dead Camp may contain Vampires, Ghosts, Demons and Angels, but ultimately, it is a story of a father’s forgiveness, and tolerance of that which is different, in a roundabout sort of way. I know the very last page of the very last book, it is there, in my many, many notes, and all I can say is, have a very large box of tissues at the ready!

 

Q:  What is the biggest thing people think they know about your subject/genre that isn’t so?

A:  One of the most surprising things I have realised about this genre, is the readership of such books. I wrote Dead Camp because I wanted to write something as a gay man, from a gay perspective, for gay people. Yet, this genre, M/M romance, gay fiction, whatever you may call it, is read by a huge, enormous readership of wonderful, supportive, and very kind women. Married women with children, single women, just lots of fantastic women. I had no idea. When my Facebook presence began to grow, it was only then that I realised this fact, and I have met so very many wonderful women who have really enjoyed my books, and who really love this genre of M/M fiction, and that surprised me more than anything. I assumed, stupidly, that I was writing for a primarily gay audience. WRONG! And I am so glad, because I have now been accepted into a world that I never knew existed, and I love it, and I love the people who inhabit it.

Q:  What are some references you used while writing this book?

A:  Dead Camp is set within the real world during real events. World War 2, Victorian London, the Crucifixion. These are things that are easy to research, so Wikipedia became my best friend.

The Discovery channel and the internet are wonderful things. All those documentaries, all that information at your fingertips, it has enabled me to visualize all my locations, find all the necessary facts, and thank God for them. Mind you, I wonder how my husband would have felt if I said I needed to nip to Rome to do some research?! LOL. Ah well, we can all dream.

Believe it or not, the Bible has been a very helpful source of information during this process. The biblical aspect of this saga is huge. Also, Shakespeare, but I could not possibly comment as to why lol, but you will understand when you read book 2.

Q:  Do you recall how your interest in writing originated?

A:  When I was a very young child, my aunt took me to a jumble sale. I was about 8, and it was during the school summer break. In that jumble sale I found a very old, very worn copy of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. It was 50p, so my aunt bought it for me. I read that book in a couple of days. I read that book about three times over that 6-week summer break. I have read that book so very, very many times over the years. That was the start.

My mother is a voracious reader. Back then, amidst the loads of Agatha Christie books she loved to read, were some books by Graham Masterton and James Herbert. So we got into this rhythm, once my mother finished one of these books she would give it to me and I would devour it. So at a very young age I was enjoying some of the very best horror writing out there. And I loved them.

I am also a huge Doctor Who fan. I also love all the old British Hammer films, and old black and white serials such as Quatermass. All of these things fueled my very active imagination, and at a very young age I used to write about these things, making up my own stories with these characters I loved from TV and film. In school, when we were given essays to do, I would write pages of this stuff, much to my teacher’s amusement, and I suppose I have never stopped.

Q:  What do your plans for future projects include?

A:  I am writing Dead Camp 3 as we speak, and there are 2 more in the series to write after that. However, I have my idea file, and there are two projects that I am really looking forward to having a stab at after Dead Camp. I love Vampires, and Dead Camp will see me getting that particular monster out of my system. There is another monster, one of my other favorites, that I have an idea for. It will be a single book, one complete story, at least I think it will, centered around Frankenstein. The other project, which is much bigger, and will be a series, involves Superheroes. They are there, the stories, lurking behind my eyes, and I really hope that I can breathe life into them. We shall see.

Q:  Do you have anything specific that you want to say to your readers?

A:  Books without readers are just a jumble of words on paper. Without readers, my books would be nothing, so to me the reader is the most important, and vital part of the equation. To say that I am grateful to those who have read my books would be an understatement. This is my life’s dream, to be an author, to be published, for people to read, and hopefully enjoy my work, and I can’t tell you how much it means to me that someone has taken the time to buy my books and read them. It is one of the most humbling experiences of my life, and thank you just doesn’t seem good enough, but I really do mean it, from my heart, thank you.

 

Q:  If you could bring back one TV show, what would it be and why?

A:  One of my favorite TV shows of all time is an old BBC serial called Quatermass. The BBC made three series back in the 50’s, and they were the first of their kind, and I love them dearly. Hammer films made three film versions of them, and I love them too.

In the 70’s, HTV made the last ever Quatermass serial, and killed him off.

They are good old fashioned storytelling, and they tell us something about the human nature. I would love to see them re-invented for modern television, and better still, I have always wanted to write them!

 

Meet the author:

11885361_402721776518984_2536003115138179722_nI think that as I approach that milestone that is fifty, I must be one of the oldest gamers on the face of this earth. Many a day you will find me lashed to my PS4 enjoying a good session of Skyrim. Who doesn’t love a good session of Skyrim?

I love writing—I have done it since I was a child when I would happily write about the latest episode of Doctor Who (Tom Baker in those days) in my schoolbooks. Growing up and becoming a business owner with my friend Jayne left little time to pursue my dream of publication, but of late the desire and the compulsion to put words onto paper have once again dominated my life so that now, my laptop has become surgically fused to my fingertips.

There is something desperately satisfying about telling a story. My fascination with History, Religion and Conspiracy theories have, in this instance, gone hand-in-hand with my love of all things vampire, fantasy, sci-fi and horror. I drove my parents nuts when I was young because that was all I would read about in books, all I would watch on television, but they have held me in good stead, and long may my obsession with the subjects continue, at least, that is, until the day they put me in my own wooden box. And imagination is such a wonderful thing. I once had a rather vivid dream about David Tennant and the Tardis console, but I could not possibly go into details about that here. Let’s just say that my polarity was well and truly reversed.

Dead Camp is just the beginning. I have to check my knickers every day at the thought that this book is now in the public domain. My first book, and I hope the first of many. And to those out there who love to write, who love to transport us to new worlds, or old worlds with a twisted perspective, I say to you keep going. I never thought I would ever see my work available to download, and thanks to eXtasy Books, the dream that I always thought unobtainable has finally come true. So thank you all at eXtasy, I am one happy homosexual thanks to you, and thank you the reader for taking the time to read this strange tale and allowing Eli and the incomparable Malachi into your lives.

And now I really need Skyrim.

Where to find the author:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sean.kerr.146

Facebook Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/Dead-Camp-blog-402721546519007/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/sgk69

Goodreads      https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6207037.Sean_Kerr

Dead Camp site:: http://seankerr5.wix.com/deadcamp

 

Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6207037.Sean_Kerr

Publisher: Extasy Books

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Cover Artist: Latrisha Waters

 

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Tour Dates & Stops:

29-Mar: Full Moon Dreaming, Velvet Panic, BFD Book Blog

5-Apr: Rednecks and Romance, Jessie G. Books, Hearts on Fire, The Dark Arts

12-Apr: Fangirl Moments and My Two Cents, Scattered Thoughts & Rogue Words

19-Apr: Wicked Faerie’s Tales and Reviews, Inked Rainbow Reads, Emotion In Motion, Book Lovers 4Ever

26-Apr: Bonkers About Books, Divine Magazine, Nephy Hart, The Hat Party

3-May: My Fiction Nook, MM Book Escape, Bayou Book Junkie

10-May: Dawn’s Reading Nook, Cathy Brockman Romances, Unquietly Me

17-May: Kirsty Loves Books, The Novel Approach

24-May: Elisa – My Reviews and Ramblings, Havan Fellows

31-May: MM Good Book Reviews, Making It Happen, Love Bytes

7-Jun: Happily Ever Chapter, Alpha Book Club

14-Jun: Molly Lolly, A.M. Leibowitz, Outrageous Heroes

 

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11 Responses to Blog Tour Stop including Author Interview, Excerpt & Giveaway – Dead Camp by Sean Kerr

  1. Sean Kerr says:

    Hey everyone, thank you so much for taking an interest in my Novels, and thank you so very much to BFD Book Blog for hosting this wonderful tour.

  2. Shirley Ann Speakman says:

    Hi Sean, I enjoyed the interview and the books sound really intriguing and I’ve added them to my wish list.

    • Sean Kerr says:

      thank you so very much, that is really kind of you. My email address is [email protected], you are always welcome to stay in touch, or join me on face books. Thank you for making my day!

  3. Sharon goodall says:

    Hi Sean I have added them to my wishlist on Amazon I thoroughly enjoyed your interview.

    • Sean Kerr says:

      thank you very much for your kindness, as a new author that means a lot!
      My email address is [email protected], you are always welcome to stay in touch, or join me on face books. Thank you for making my day!

  4. Wendy Stone says:

    Hi Sean, I enjoyed this interview very much. What a great start to your blog tour! Can’t wait to read this series.

    • Sean Kerr says:

      thank you so very much for your kind words, I am very grateful. Please feel free to stay in touch via Facebook, and thank you again xxx

  5. Ronnica says:

    Your never to old to start something you love. So thank you for following your heart to become a writer.
    You had me laughing so hard on the women who read m/m. I am one of those women. Lol!
    Thank u again!

    • Sean Kerr says:

      thank you Ronnica. Age is just a number I realise. I do wish that I had done this years ago, but life got in the way, and now my determination is almost maniacal lol. Its true, the women bit, and I am so so chuffed about that, because I have made some WONDERFUL friends because of that. The support has been off the chart, and I am, and will always be, VERY grateful for that. See you on the Dark Side my lovely xxxxxx

  6. H.B. says:

    Thank you for the interview. The book sounds really interesting and I’ve added it to my wishlist.

    • Sean Kerr says:

      thank you so much H.B, really appreciate you taking the time to read the interview and your interest in my books is very much appreciated, thank you.