Aaron Perkins, soldier, now stationed in Germany, sketched his vision of Tucker and Lizzie. We think they are spot on, and that Aaron is pretty doggone talented. We’re in awe of people like Aaron who can bring an entire world into being with a pencil and brush.
A clever reader writes her own Top 10 reasons to read Blood and Whiskey. Love number 1 especially, yum but where’s the cowboy? It’s Elita and …?
10. Vampires
9. Cowboys
8. Awesome love story
7. Hot vampires
6. A consciousness realm called the Meta where Vampires hang
5. Nice nod to Oregon
4. There’s a blood farm in it!
3. MacGyver-style weapons
2. Kick-ass female lead with an even more bad-ass side-kick
1. Girl on Vampire-Girl naughtiness
Available widely at bookstores, libraries, and online vendors.
“Riveting.” Kirkus Reviews
The Cowboy and Vampire Thriller Series books are available through Ingram Book Company.
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REVIEW OF BLOOD AND WHISKEY: A COWBOY AND VAMPIRE THRILLER
Lizzie, Elita and the rest of the gang are back for blood in the second book of Hays and McFall’s (The Cowboy and the Vampire, 2010) series.
Following the climactic events of the first book, Lizzie Vaughan doesn’t get much of a breather. When a friend’s niece disappears, her Adamite (read: full-blooded human) boyfriend, Tucker, is still coming to terms with the fact that his woman is a vampire. While he leaves town to investigate, Lizzie is having trouble resisting the urge to kill, as the baby she carries—the one no one thought was possible—makes her hunger unbearable. Meanwhile, powerful elders are arriving in the western town of LonePine to decide if the prophecy has come true. Is Lizzie really their new queen, the one who can save vampirekind—or at least their own Messianic bloodline? Introducing racial issues isn’t the only adjustment the authors have made to the vampire mythos, but it’s more than just the details that set this series apart. Rather, it’s the way the authors utilize those details to create meaningful conflicts and world-altering choices for the characters. While a number of existentialist underpinnings give the series some depth, the book is first and foremost a thriller, upping the ante in every chapter as bullets fly and relationships strain under the weight of old loyalties and new revelations. In a way, it’s a shame, since more time isn’t spent exploring the existence of this meta world where consciousnesses wait out the daylight hours and immortality has all sorts of ramifications for human spirituality. But with strong writing, funny characters (no irony is lost on one vampiress who takes to sporting a “Future Farmers of America” jacket) and plenty of action, it’s hard to fault the authors for keeping the focus on a story this riveting.
Those who missed out on the first book will really have to hang on if they want to follow what’s happening, but it’s worth it for this tale of love and blood in the modern West.
This April 2 review is also posted on the Kirkus Reviews website.
Pumpjack Press is proud to announce its first book, Blood and Whiskey, A Cowboy and Vampire Thriller, will be in bookstores and online on May 1.
Wanted: Lizzie Vaughan, Dead or Alive.
Relationships are always hard, but for a broke cowboy and a newly turned Vampire, true love may be lethal. After barely surviving an undead apocalypse in The Cowboy and the Vampire, Tucker and Lizzie hightail it back to quirky LonePine, Wyoming (population 438) to start a family. But she’s got a growing thirst for blood and he’s realizing that mortality ain’t all it’s cracked up to be when your girlfriend may live forever.With a scheming Vampire nation hot on their boot heels and a price on her head, how far will Lizzie and Tucker go to protect their unlikely love?
Blending evolution, religion and an overly sensitive cow dog named Rex, Blood and Whiskey drags the Vampire myth into the modern west, delivering double-barreled action, heart-pounding passion and wicked humor.
This is the second book in The Cowboy and Vampire Thriller Series.
Praise for The Cowboy and the Vampire
“Deliciously dark, witty.” – BOOKLIST
“A must read for fans of vampire fiction. It’s one of the best in the genre that I have read this year.” – A Chick Who Reads Book Blog
“Sexy, dark, witty, and nothing less.” – Erin Cole, author of Grave Echoes
“Rawhide romance with bloody fangs. While mashing up all the stereotypical plot elements of Paranormal Vampire and Contemporary Western Romance, The Cowboy and the Vampire delivers unremitting fun, and a damn good read.” – Diana Troldahl, Freshfiction.com
“Writing duo Clark Hays and Kathleen McFall has succeeded in writing a unique story among all the vampire books that are out there today.” – Bertena Varney, examiner.com
“A sizzling dark tale, and surprisingly funny … an enigmatic journey from Wyoming to New York to New Mexico where vampires snap at your heels and what stands between you and your enemy is your cowboy and his sheer will to survive. Oh, and his cow dog too.” – For the Love of Reading Blog
Marketing is, obviously, essential to successful publishing. In 2009, the last year posted on Wikipedia, nearly 300,000 books were published in the U.S. And that is NOT including the explosion of 
e-books since then. How does one position their book to rise about the fray? There is no simple answer. First, the book has to resonate with readers, so write a great book. After that, rising above the fray means persistent and creative marketing, and a few lucky breaks.
There are lots of must-have tools in a well-stocked marketing arsenal; one of them is the character interview.
Here is a character interview from The Cowboy and Vampire Thriller Series. This time, it’s everyone’s favorite naughty luscious take-no-prisoners Vampire-of- the-Reptile-line Elita. Elita plays a crucial role in the sequel, Blood and Whiskey.
Hi Elita, welcome. Can you tell our readers a little bit about yourself?
Yes. I’m a Vampire. And I don’t like interviews.
Any chance you could a few more details?
(Sighing). Fine. I was born, hatched actually, so long ago that I can barely remember the early centuries. Mostly it’s just a delicious blur of feasting on humans and avoiding the sun. Some of my first concrete — or rather, sandstone — memories are of life in Egypt as the pyramids were built. It is worth pointing out to your readers that I am of the Reptilian line, not to be confused with the half-human mongrels of Royal line, or the Messianic line as they like to boast. Little more than a genetic quirk that arose some 2,000 years ago. I should have strangled them all when I had the chance. Read the rest of this entry »
