BEING A VAMPIRE
SEATTLE VAMPIRE TALES ‐ BOOK ONE
October 1st, 2024 (Intrepid Turtle Press)
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Image Description: Front of book cover, showing the face of a vampire in the foreground, and a woman walking alone beside a lake at dusk. White stylized text reads, "Seattle Vampire Tales" in medium font, "Book One" in extra small font, "Being a Vampire" in large font, and "Ramona Ridgewell" in small font at the bottom.
The vampire Rix has always been on the run.
On the eve of the pandemic, Rix struggles to survive. Unlike most of his undocumented peers, he possesses fake ID which allows him to work at part‐time coding gigs that provide him with a little cash—until the contracts inevitably end. With tenuous housing, all his belongings‐including his essential laptop‐fit in his backpack, ready at a moment's notice to vacate and find another safe place to spend his days. His undead world upends when mysterious forces abduct another vampire. With long forgotten memories of the Army's pursuit rekindled, Rix flees, unhoused again.
In his hunt for refuge, Rix finds himself drawn to a human nurse, who unwittingly invites a vampire to become a more permanent part of her lonely life. Her attraction to him, and his to her, blossoms. And things begin to change for the better. But with him hiding his true self from her, can it last?
An urban fantasy of trust and safety in the face of ever‐encroaching darkness.
Genres: slice of life / dark literary / new weird.
PRAISE FOR BEING A VAMPIRE
"Ramona Ridgewell breathes warmth and human life into vampire fiction and bends it to speculative fiction's highest purpose: using the imaginary as a lens to see reality more clearly than we could otherwise. We mortals may age and forget, but BEING A VAMPIRE captures the soul of a specific time and place—Seattle in 2020—and makes its memory immortal, enthralling, and sharp enough to break skin." — ELLY BANGS
"In this work of vampirica literatura vérité, Ridgewell explores vampirism as a slice‐of‐life lens on the cyclical societal pressures which impact marginalised communities and weave fear and violence into the fabric of survival. There is a constant balance in this work between the need to be part of a community, the peril of being caught in toxic circles, and the difficulties of trying to escape, knowing you may never break the cycle you are trapped in, but trying regardless because without the hope that there might be something better, eternal life just might not be all it's cracked up to be." — DAN RABARTS
"A deeply immersive tale and disturbingly realistic story of a vampire trying to create a safe, and moral, existence in the margins of contemporary Seattle. Coding gigs, coffee dates, rising rents and—blood." — K.G. ANDERSON
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