BITTWT:Hssssss! Where Wall Street Vampires Get Their Fangs

Hssssss! Where Wall Street Vampires Get Their Fangs

Father Sebastiaan van Houten, who is neither a priest nor a dentist, is a professional fangsmith — and, he works year-round, not just at Halloween.

He got bit by the vampire bug at age 9 after reading Anne Rice’s vampire novels. You could say he has dentistry in his blood — both his aunt and grandfather were dentists. So, when his grandfather passed away, he tinkered with the dental tools to make himself a pair of fangs and later served as an apprentice to another dentist.

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Blood is Thicker Than Water: Vampire Vineyards

The story behind Vampire Vineyards

Rumor has it that the Vampire Vineyards are actually owned by a circle of vampires and our company’s founder, Michael Machat, an entertainment attorney from New York, is actually just a front. Whether he and his convertible were commandeered by a Vampire is still a subject for debate. The truth may never be known, but we do know however that Michael first began talking about branding wine with the vampire Mark back in 1985 after picking up a mysterious hitch-hiker on a late night drive through the pitch black Nevada desert.

Shortly thereafter our first modern day Vampire Wine product was introduced. It was a Syrah, of Algerian origin, that was bottled in France. In 1988, we sold the first five hundred bottles of this cuvee to Alice Cooper and MCA Records in London, England, and began offering the wine in high-end London wine shops, including Selfridges.

Owing to the nomadic nature of vampires in general, within a year of the Algerian release, the Vampire Board of Directors voted to move production to Verona, Italy – home of Romeo and Juliet. Their familiars began planting Sangiovese (Italian for blood of Jove), and in 1989 Mr. Machat arranged for the sale of some 672 bottles of this Vampire Sangiovese to be shipped from Europe to the Anne Rice Fan club in New Orleans.

At the beginning of the 1990’s, when raves and house music were the rage in London, Mr. Machat met up again with the hitchhiker from the Nevada desert. It was at 4:30 am, at a rave on an unsuspecting farmer’s property. At the time Machat was tending to the careers of Adamski and Seal, whom he managed and whose song “Killer” was topping the European charts. No one knows what was said,— and not even the UK’s No. 1 Rock and Roll Lady, Lisa Dominique, who would soon become his wife, could seduce the scary truth out of Mr. Machat (as far as we know). We do know however that after the rave, Machat suddenly announced another change in production. This time, the vampires were going back to Transylvania.

The Berlin Wall had come down, and Transylvania was a free land once more. Machat fought his way through the chaos that resulted from the perils of communism —fighting off wolves, gypsies and thieves along the way. After years of closed darkness, the Transylvania people had become as afraid of Westerners as Westerners were afraid of Vampires. Machat persuaded friends to risk their souls and join the quest. First to enlist was Leo Adelman, back in 1994, who assumed the role of banker to the vampires. Then, Don Lewis in 1997, who became the graphic designer of choice for the immortals. Mark Morton joined in 2002, as the mortal who would exponentially increase sales to mortals and immortals alike, and Inayat Ishaak joined in 2003 as the mortal responsible for running and controlling the vampire’s finances.

The early trips to Transylvania were treacherous to the psyche, and some came home with haunting dreams of the insanity they left behind. But by mid 1995, the blood of the vine began to stealthily trickle through New York and small pockets of America, becoming a prized possession for those in the know. The wine was coveted by those “in the know”, who hoarded it as quickly as it was produced. At the turn of the millennium, Faith Popcorn, the leading futurist and Nostradamus of marketing prophesized that Vampire Wine would spread and become a trend. Her prophecy came true.

Soon thereafter, the blood of the vine appeared in Maxim, Elle, and In Style magazines, and was broadcast on CNN Headline News, Food TV and MTV. Sales grew to 600,000 bottles per year. Then unexpectedly, in September of 2006, while the Machats were dining at Spagos, an unexpected guest joined them at dinner. The dark hitchhiker had new directions. The Vampires were packing up and moving once again – this time to Paso Robles, California – half-way between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Not far from the Pacific Ocean, surrounded by hills full of intricate winding caves, this was a perfect hideout for vampires. Rural, but just 200 miles from two major metropolitan areas, it was also chosen because it is a perfect location in case the vampires get hungry.

At Creston, where the wine is bottled, the mortal population is a mere 1303 people. So with scarce notice, Machat went out and recruited two well recognized wine makers to create the perfect blends for his discerning clientele. Due to reasons pertaining to confidentiality, and for the winemakers' own protection from other envious vampires, the winemaker names cannot currently be revealed. Suffice it to say however, that the lead winemaker recently received a rating of 96 from the Wine Spectator – a grade almost unheard of. The new Vampire wines from Paso Robles are light years ahead from the wines from the past. Our most demanding clientele would have it no other way. Sip the Blood of the Vine and Enjoy!

 

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BITTWT: Inamorata Day!

Welcome to Blood is Thicker Than Water Thursday’s.

It’s Inamorata Day! Yey!

in•am•o•ra•ta

Inamorata definition:

A female lover or a woman who is loved.

Laura Easter lives in and owns a comic book store in mall. If you asked Laura what she suggests you read. She would tell you the Avengers Sanction; it is a comic book that will lead into the biggest story of the summer, Avengers Vs. X-men. That’s going to be legendary.

 

Laura Easter ~ Inamorata

 

Anna Claire is the immortal house maid to the Sturdevant clan. Over the following months she will share recipes and cleaning tips.

 

How to store your Vampire

 

You need a cool dry place free of clutter and sunlight. This can be either a traditional coffin, an underground box or even a sealed bedroom is okay.

Perhaps one of the first questions asked about vampires is the nature of their sleeping habits.  Where do vampires sleep?  Do vampires have to sleep in coffins?  Are vampires only able to sleep under a layer of dirt?  Must vampires sleep during the day?

 

Do vampires sleep at all?

This is one of those cases where it depends on which variety of vampire to which you’re referring.  If you’re talking about the fictional Twilight vampires then the answer is a resounding, no, they do not require sleep.  This isn’t the case with real vampires.

 

Unfortunately, not every real vampire is a cookie cutter copy of the next so there’s no general rule they all follow when it comes to sleep. 

 

Basically, vampires are just regular people who have an energy deficiency.  Like other living creatures, vampires need sleep, too.

 

Anna Claire~Inamorata

 

 

Complete synopsis

 

Inamorata is the first Novel in the “One Bloody Night Series”.

 

They are supposed to be low key and get their nightly fix from a bag. But what if they could spend a cozy evening eating an old fashioned meal and then when they were done they would simply set the place on fire and walk away—no one would be the wiser?

 

That’s the plan when a group of rogue Vampires has poisoned the entire security staff at a Christmas Eve party at a mall in Chicago and proceed to take over for the evening and feast upon their own kind of tradition, four house keepers, a maintenance man, a girl who lives in the mall, a lonely late night worker and a couple who have escaped to the department store where she works so their spouses wouldn’t be privy to their affair and some other delightfully unexpected guests.

 

Everything goes exactly as they expected until the group leader Lucius Sturdevant, and second oldest Vampire to date, realizes that the woman that lives in the Comic book store that is trying to figure out how to kill him is the reincarnation of Laura, the love of his life, that died in his arms of old age, because he didn’t have the heart to turn her.

 

Coming Late Fall/Winter 2012

 

Comment for a free chance to Win a print copy of Inamorata when it comes out. And walk away with a free ecopy of Bloodbreeders: Living in Darkness, in the format of your choice today.

 

Thank you for stopping by.

Cheers,

Keira Kroft

 

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P.S. There are a lot of great things happening here on Blood is Thicker Than Water Thursday’s. The home for Vampires.

 

Vampires VS. Zombies

Vampires VS. Werewolves

I hear a rumor that JoAnne Kenrick will be bring by some of her vamps for a visit.

You can always count on Robin Renee Ray to pop up with her Bloodbreeders.

There will be in-depth pieces, interviews, links and deep exploring into all that is Vampire, every Thursday right here on Keira’s Corner. Where Vampires are always welcome.

Why yes, please come in!