New Vampire Novel

"The Vampire Valkyrie" takes off where "The Dancing Valkyrie" concluded and resumes the tale of young female vampire who just may become the most dangerous vampire in vampire fiction to date.
The new novel,"The Vampire Valkyrie," by Adirondack author Pete Klein, is the story of a young woman who is an erotic dancer at a topless club she owns in Schenectady, NY.

Indian Lake—August 5, 2008 — A vampire like no other, "The Vampire Valkyrie" continues the tale of Mary Hoffman, aka Erica, the Dancing Valkyrie, who fights to protect her erotic dance club and her girls from mobsters who want to control her and her club - or kill her if she resists.
A Schenectady City Councilwoman wants to pass legislation to close down or strictly limit the operation of adult businesses, an a upstate crime boss wants control of Mary and her club and a New York City crime family seeks to discredit the upstate crime boss through Mary and her club. Many people die, both the innocent and the guilty, as a result of Mary's determination to save herself, her girls and her club, while wondering if she should stop being involved with humans and just kill all who infringe upon her freedom as a vampire.
The new novel is now available at www.lulu.com/ravenwolfpublish and will soon be listed in Books in Print, Ingram's database in the US; and Bertrams & Gardners, Nielsons Bookdata in the UK and at most popular online book sellers from Japan, the US and Canada, and the UK, France and Germany.
Klein says, "When I found Anne Rice and her vampire novels, I felt someone was finally seeing beyond the cli' ches that had developed over the years. But I wanted to probe deeper by developing vampires, not demons, created by God for whatever reason God might want to create vampires. They would have to be of flesh and blood. They would have to be a unique creature not yet captured or studied by humans. Mary was the result, a vampire more deadly than any vampire I have read about in books or seen in the movies - deadly but strangely moral in the ways of a vampire."

Book Publish and Promoting

Thoughts on Lulu.com

My feeling about Lulu comes down to money. For about $100 you get an ISBN and what they call Global Distribution , which means your book is printed by Lightning and distributed through Ingram to online and regular retailers who chose to purchase a print on demand (POD) book.
Cost per book is based upon pages. To give you two examples: my Adirondack Hikes in Hamilton County costs me $7.66 when I order for local sales, while the Dancing Valkyrie cost me $9.18.
I did all the work; writing, editing etc.
For someone who wants extra help, services are available for a cost.
My reason for going the POD route was simple. Time. I do have an old and dear friend, a literary agent at Harold Ober Assoc. Inc., NYC. She did accept The Dancing Valkyrie and sent it out to a traditional publisher who took 7 months before passing on it. I know a first rejection does not mean a manuscript will never find a home. I also know it is not unusual for a manuscript to go through many publishers before finding a home. But considering I was approaching 65, which I now am, I thought "who knows how long I will live" and decided to go with the least expensive POD I could find.
When one considers even a book published by a traditional publisher has no guarantee sales will exceed a few thousand copies and even a $5,000 advance on royalties might never hit the breakeven point for the publisher, I think it is a mistake for those who choose to self-publish, to lay out more money for a book than the traditional publisher is willing to front.
Out of curiosity, I recently checked out Xlibris and saw where they charge from $299 to $12,999 to publish with them. The $299 only gets you an ISBN and a web page listing with them. To get a package similar to what Lulu offers for about $100 would cost you $499.
Do the math! I think some of these POD outfits are selling a dream that will probably never be reached.
All marketing efforts have been done by me.
In addition to the above, Lulu has some stock front and back covers available for free. They also have templates for covers as no charge. If you use the templates, just convert to jpg and send. Pay for services are also available.
I convert my document to PDF using the free CutePDF.
After you download everything to Lulu, within a short period of time, you order a proof copy which should not take more than a week to receive. After receiving, if everything is up to snuff, you place an order for the distribution package you want, decide on the price and set up your own Lulu web page - and you are done.
The way everything is set up, even a caveman could do it.
By the way, want your book reviewed? I can highly recommend AllBooks Review. Both of my books were reviewed there for modest fee, with reviews posted on Amazon, Barnes and Noble etc. I am a reviewer there and, if you want, you can choose me to do the review. Check them out at: http://www.allbookreviews.com/
"Adirondack Hikes in Hamilton County" the hiking guidebook and the vampire novel "The Dancing Valkyrie" are now available from Pete Klein at http://www.lulu.com/ravenwolfpublish
New! Talk about book and promote it with Pete Klein (no charge and you can later download the podcast for your marketing) on Saturday evenings, 6:30 pm EST, by going to http://www.blogtalkradio.com/The-Dancing-Valkyrie
For more information, email Pete Klein at kleinpete@hotmail.com

Where to buy books by Pete Klein

Where to buy The Dancing Valkyrie and/or Adirondack Hikes in Hamilton County as if May 28 2008
In New York, book stores where copies of Adirondack Hikes in Hamilton County or The Dancing Valkyrie may be purchased at the store or online include the following:
Mysteries on Main Street, Johnstown; Adirondack Country Store, Northville; Charlie Johns, Speculator; The Lake Store, Sabael; Pick-It-Patch, Indian Lake; Pines Country Store, Indian Lake; The Adirondack Museum, Blue Mt. Lake; The Ol' Station, Blue Mt. Lake; Blue Mountain Outfitters, Blue Mt. Lake; Hoss's Country Corner, Long Lake; Adirondack Reader, Inlet; Old Forge Hardware, Old Forge; Fact & Fiction, Saranac Lake.
Where to buy (over 31 online stores throughout the world)
Nationally and internationally at: Half.com, Barnes&Noble, BookQuest, Abebooks, Amazon USA, Canada, UK, FR, GR, JP, A1books, The Adirondack Book House, TextbookX, Half.com, Buy.com, Ecampus, Booksamillion, Booksamillion, eBay.com, Alibris Powells, USA and Canada, Biblio, Valorebooks, Bookfellas, Computer Manuals, Sprintbooks, Biggerbooks, Page1book, Indigo, Tesco

Saving the Environment

Just about everybody says they want to save the environment, stop global warming, save the polar bears, reduce polution, etc.
Really? I wonder.
Saving the environment in all its forms is beginning to remind of the War on Poverty. Remember that war, the one that has been almost as successful as the War on Drugs and sure to be as successful at the War on Terrorism.
I think all of these 'wars' are fought with the best of intentions, especially the War on Poverty and the War to save the Environment. But there is a problem. It's called "human nature."
In the case of efforts to save the environment, in my view, all efforts are doomed to failure if the basic problem is not recognized and dealt with. I am talking about the continued growth in the human population.
Every additional human equals more and more consumption of everything. As the bad guy in the Matrix movies so cruelly noted, humans are the disease. "We have met the enemy and the enemy is us," said Pogo, a cartoon character.
What I most fear is that we will do nothing, be like a cancerous growth, and stop growing only after we kill off our host.

Books not to read

Books not to read

I will read just about everything and anything, including what is printed on cereal boxes. I do have my preferences. Fiction in just about any category comes first, followed by science, philosophy and theology.
What I tend to avoid is any and all of what I call "By/With" books. If you can't write it yourself, nuts to you and your book. Neither do I care for autobiographies and memoirs. What is the difference between an autobiography and a memoir? I'm not really sure but tend to think something is called a memoir when it less throughly researched than an autobiography. In other words, "I'm not sure what really happened to me or why someone did what I think they did to me, but this is how I feel" No thank you. If you're not sure, I couldn't care less.
But probably the number one group of books I won't read no matter if they are fact or fiction or what is any book that has the name of anyone who is famous and has lots of money. Screw all books by all CEO's, famous actors and others in the entertainment industries, including sport figures, politicians, etc.
You know darn well the books were written to make more money for the eternally greedy. No thank you very much

Clinton and Kennedy

The media is full of creeps who wish to destroy free speech while they claim to be its protectors. To suggest Clinton did anything wrong in mentioning the assassination of Bobby Kennedy shows nothing but the media's faggy bottom political BS.

Promote your book

Want to be on (interviewed) on Pete Klein's Adirondack Book House?
It's simple and fun to do.
The program is a half hour on most Saturdays, 6:30 - 7 p.m.
The location is on Blog Talk Radio www.blogtalkradio.com/The-Dancing-Valkyrie
You can go there anytime to listen to past programs and see when the next program is scheduled.
Feel free to call in during any show while in progress at 1-646-716-8094.
If you want to scheduled an interview, send an email to me at kleinpete@hotmail.com
In the email, tell me what your book title is, what it's it about, a copy of a review if you have one and what Saturday date (6:30 - 7 p.m.) would be best for you.
If the date you pick is open, I'll confirm. If it isn't open, I'll suggest a different date.
That's all you need to do to be scheduled on the show. But like I said, you can always call in.
One last point.
If you haven't had your book reviewed but would like to have it done and have the review posted on Amazon, may I suggest you check out All Books Review at www.allbooksreview.com
Thanks, for your interest and I hope to soon be talking with you.
Pete Klein