I’m so delighted to announce that my long out of print vampire novel, The Opposite of Life, has been re-released by Clan Destine Press as an ebook.
First released in 2007, The Opposite of Life was praised by author Kerry Greenwood as ‘A well-made plot with a killer (literally) ending.’ True Blood author Charlaine Harris also read it and said on her website that, ‘It’s certainly a most unusual vampire novel. Lissa Wilson is a wonderful character; not because she’s an heroic supergirl, but because she rings true. If you can get this book, do.’
The Opposite of Life is the story of a very geeky librarian who stumbles into a series of murders in Melbourne. In trying to make sense of the deaths and her a past filled with traumatic loss, she discovers that vampires are real – but not all of them are killers. She meets another total geek – the painfully awkward vampire Gary Hooper, whom the vampire community has set onto investigating who is killing humans in such an unnecessary and awkward attention-getting way.
Lissa and Gary joins forces to get to the undead heart of the matter and to their joint surprise find they are becoming friends. But the idea of living forever can be a big temptation for someone who has lost so much, and the consequences of this investigation may affect Lissa much more closely than she could have expected.
Its sequel, Walking Shadows, currently being serialised on Narrelle’s Patreon, will be re-released in 2024. A third book in the series, Beyond Redemption, is being written and after being serialised on Patreon, will be released in late 2024.
The new covers were created by Jill Harris.