What do you get if you cross a vampire and a snowman?
Frost Bite.

Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year
from The Tempest Twins Fan site.

If you are looking for something to read over Christmas try http://www.fanfiction.net/book/Vampirates_series/

If anyone is interested in who created the new vampirates website, I found this piece.

"Launch of Vampirates, 1st November 2008
BPI’s first project for publishers Simon & Schuster – Vampirates is an adventure series written by author Justin Somper. BPI were chosen to design and create a new site to support the books online. Amber CMS was used to create the backbone for the site and allow Justin to update his blog and the client’s marketing team to upload new features and content on a regular basis.
Watch out for a new book in March 2009.

If any of you wondered what the first page of Black Heart looks link (thanks to the nocturn) here is a link to it.
http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?tab=65&pid=633937&agid=4

For those interested in Anthony Horowitz here is something I have just found.
"Meet Anthony Horowitz at Waterstone's, Piccadilly . Anthony will be signing books at Waterstone's in Piccadilly Circus, London, on Saturday 13 December. For the full details of how to book click here:
http://www.powerof5.co.uk/necropolis/news/"

From the official website - Do you want to be one of the first Vampirates fans to get your hands on a copy of Black Heart? They are looking for 5 Vampirate VIPs to review the new book ahead of publication. All you’ve got to do is tell them why you should be one of the first people to review the book.  As usual it is only open to UK, Channel Islands and Eire residents, aged 16 years and below on 20 January 2009.

Did you hear Go4It with Justin Somper today. If not here are some temporary links.

See http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/gfi/bestbits/ for a written account with photos,
and http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/radioplayer/go4it.shtml to listen.

"Wine bottles of blood"!

Boatswain Duck's Foot Darcy is a member of the deviantart community. She asked Bob Lea about the whole cover thing and he is not allowed to say anything about the new covers, but "since bob isn't doing the covers anymore, he uploaded his own view of lorcan. this is how bob lea really visualised lorcan furey..." I am going to miss his drawings in the front of the books, I was hoping to see Darcy, Bart and Cate (oh and Ma Kettle but that is just cause I dress up as her).

http://boblea.deviantart.com/art/Lorcan-Looking-All-Sexy-Like-103186500
http://boblea.deviantart.com/art/Lorcan-s-Gonna-Get-You-103136649

See also http://boblea.deviantart.com/gallery/#3D-Vampirates

Don't forget on Sunday (7th December 2008) at 19:15 on Radio 4 is Go4It with Justin Somper on it.

If you ever wondered why the Black Heart tour is going to the UK from 2nd to 13th of March 2009 and the USA in April 2009. Check out where most of our pins are in the Tempest Twins map.
See http://www.tempesttwins.co.uk/ourcrew/where/where.html