Welcome back to StarWarp Spotlight, a series of posts that runs each Monday to shine a spotlight on one of our titles, as a reminder of the awesome books and comics we publish and to introduce new SWC fans to our backlist.
This week, we look at our most popular young adult title…
Blood Feud: The Saga of Pandora Zwieback, Book 1 is a dark-urban-fantasy novel by Steven A. Roman (that’s me!) about a 16-year-old Goth girl from Queens, NY, who’s spent the last decade being treated for mental health problems because she thinks she can see monsters. It’s only after she meets an immortal, shape-shifting monster hunter named Sebastienne “Annie” Mazarin that Pan discovers she’s never been ill—her so-called “monstervision” is actually a supernatural gift that allows her to see past the human disguises worn by the inhabitants of Gothopolis, the not-so-mythical shadow world of actual monsters that exists right alongside the human world. It’s right after that revelation that Pan, her parents and friends, and Annie are drawn into a conflict among warring vampire clans searching for the key to an ultimate weapon (or so the legend they’re following goes)—a key that just so happens to have been delivered to the horror-themed museum owned by Pan’s father!
It’s a character-driven story that balances the tribulations of a teenager just trying to make sense of her bizarre life with the fast-paced frenzy of an action-adventure movie loaded with monsters. Critics certainly enjoyed it:
“Far and away one of the best young adult supernatural fantasy novels released in the last few years…. Pan is exactly the kind of teen heroine that readers should be standing up and cheering for.”—HorrorNews.net
“Blood Feud is a roller-coaster read; the action never lets up. Author Steven A. Roman has an incredible gift for running lateral plotlines that intersect with a glorious crash.”—Monster Librarian
Blood Feud: The Saga of Pandora Zwieback, Book 1 is available in print and digital formats, so visit its product page for ordering information.
Be sure to check out the other StarWarp Spotlight titles we’ve featured so far: the writers and gamers creative how-to Terra Incognito: A Guide to Building the Worlds of Your Imagination, the nonfiction comic history From the Stars…a Vampiress: An Unauthorized Guide to Vampirella’s Classic Horror Adventures, and the classic vampiric love story Carmilla—all available from the SWC webstore and online retailers like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon UK.
