I do hope you had a wonderful Christmas and your new year is brilliant.
I am really looking forward to EMPIRE OF NIGHT that will be coming out in 2010. Especially after the Captain wrote in his blog that Lorcan "has to get busy with swords".

From Chlotsuintha Ague
A few simple questions; Have you figured out the actors?
- Sorry until they officially announce they are making a film there will be no figured out actors. We are just making a wish list here and on the Vampirates Forum.

Anyway, when is Empire of Night coming out? I was left in suspense at Sidorio's parental side! Anyway, thanks!
- In the UK the provisional publish date is Thursday 4th March 2010 in paperback according to Amazon.co.uk. The States side of the ocean have to wait until August 1st 2010 according to the Vampirates blog.

Does that answer your questions?

According to the Vampirate Blog on www.vampirates.co.uk the first edit is finished and the artwork has been released, so the UK release date (March) is safe.

For everyone in the Americas it has been delayed till published August 1st 2010, Sorry folks I will be waiting here too.

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.

I looked on You Tube for pirate christmas carol an found Rusty Cutlass playing We Wish You A Pirate Christmas.
See www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiUH1oVdvwM

It looks positive for another tour like the one for Black Heart for the next book. In the last blog Justin Somper wrote: "Little Brown has asked me to do my second tour of the US next September. I’m really excited about this and looking forward to hearing which cities they are lining up for me this time. Maybe, they’ll even send me to Canada – you never know!" and "California will form part of my 2010 US tour."

Fingers crossed the UK tour will include lots of public events too. I especially have my fingers crossed for central Canada.

Justin is excited as he is close to finishing the first draft of EMPIRE OF NIGHT. He says "I can honestly say that I have never enjoyed writing as much as in the last few weeks."

The book will still be released in March in the United Kingdom but sadly the US date has slipped. Justin wrote in his blog "I’m afraid that you will have to wait just a bit longer for it as it will now be published August 1st 2010. This is because it has taken me a bit longer to write than we’d hoped, but I promise you guys it will be worth the wait."

Yippee, there is a competiton on Vampirates.co.uk in the VIP section and Justin Somper has confirmed "The current competition is definitely open to those living outside the UK (I especially requested that!). Nor is there an age-limit on this one."

All you have to do is answer a Vampirate question to enter the Audio book competition. The answer can be found on the official website as well as the fan sites.

The new blog is out in the VIP section of vampirates.co.uk. A taster from the blog: "Talking of foreign territories, I’m delighted to report that we’ve just signed a deal for VAMPIRATES to be published in Hungary. This will be the 26th country in which the books are published. As you can imagine, I’m pleased as punch about that."