Introduction

Hello all.

This is my new blog. The intention is for this to be the place where any readers (I'm determined you exist out there) can come to be kept up-to-date on what is going on with me. What developments are being made to make the books I've got out there a little easier to buy, and what books are still on the way. There will, I suspect, be much to talk about on that front.

If you haven't noticed, this blog is named after Nightmaria, my latest book. The reasoning behind this is simple enough. Nightmaria is by far my most widely available book (amazon, barnes and noble, books-a-million, tower books, ebay--no joke) and not only that, the book is the first in a series of five. And I can promise you that the second book alone is almost triple the size. So this is a made-up fantasy land I intend to play around in for a good deal of time to come. I hope you join me. The weather can get kind of nasty and the people aren't much friendlier but, well, that's all part of its charm.

On that note, for the three of you who have read the book so far (oh, hell, the rest of you too), the second volume will be titled Cities of Ash, and the goal is for it to be completed and published by next Christmas. The first draft of this mammoth has been complete, but there's a lot of refining, a lot of reshaping and fleshing out. Transformations that I have no doubt will lead this beast to double in size, so be on the lookout for a great big book at the end of next year. If you'd like a small appetizer with the entree, I can arrange that too, as I'll be putting out a short story collection on kindle at the end of this year, titled Over the Red Rainbow. This will be a vampire-themed collection, and therefore it stands to reason that readers of the American Vampires trilogy may be able to point out some familiar things. A couple of the stories have been published before, most of them have not.

To talk about the old books for a second: The Pumpkin Patch is now available on Nook (the Barnes and Noble e-reader). It is also available in the iBookstore, and the hardcover can be purchased at lulu.com (and for some reason, amazon.co.uk...) American Vampires is about to make a similar transition. The ebook has been around for a while at smashwords, where it is selling very well, which is why it's about to make the leap to iBook, Nook and Kindle. So be on the lookout for all three. And Nightmaria is about to get a lot of press, so I remain hopeful there.

Of course, as this is my first blog post, you know nothing about the things I'm talking about and you know nothing about me. My name is Nathaniel Brehmer, and I am a writer. I'm very glad I did this part last. At the end of high school, I wrote a novella called American Vampires. I published it my second semester of college. Since then, I've published two sequels, as well as a short story collection (In the Dark) and three other novels (Requiem, The Pumpkin Patch, Nightmaria). I love to write. I want to be doing nothing else and I cannot wait to share all of it with you, the reader. If you still know nothing of these above books, we happen to be on goodreads. So please, check out the pages for these books, and if they sound remotely intriguing, why not check them out? If anyone actually has read American Vampires, Nightmaria, The Pumpkin Patch or any of the others, then my number one hope for this blog would be for it to become a discussion. It gets boring talking to yourself for extended periods of time (trust me) so please feel free to tell me what you liked, what you don't, and I'll tell you if you're going to have to deal with any of it in the future. As always, there's a lot more writing on the way, but for this particular piece... I've run out of things to say. I'm very hopeful about this blog, and I've honestly never been more hopeful about the future. So I think we could have a lot of fun together here, you and I. Nightmaria's a funny sort of place. It can get dangerous, and I can't promise you won't see things you'll wish you didn't. But take my hand regardless, and we'll travel together for a while. It's a strange world we're stepping into, but don't worry. I'll be your guide.