The Kingdoms of Blood - Book Tour and Giveaway

 Life as humans know it comes to a close when vampires take over as dominant species in our world, and magic makes its return. It's up to several unusual heroes to protect the innocent in a select few areas around the world.  
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The Dancing Crow
The Kingdoms of Blood Book 1
by Des M. Astor
Genre: Vampire Horror, Dystopian Urban Fantasy

 Hey, I’m Ares. Big, bad, scary vampire that your kind is supposed to be afraid of. And I’m here to help save you!

They call me the “Dancing Crow”. Don’t ask me who ‘they’ is. No idea. Anyway, my kind has emerged from the shadows and ripped the mantle of ‘dominant species’, or whatever, right from your hands. Shame, really. If only you didn’t erase magic from your history.

Anyway-z, I used to prowl the streets, ripping to shreds the evils of your society. Like some twisted superhero, or something. Everything changed when other vampires had enough, and well, here we are. Now my gang and I are trying to establish harmony in this city, at least. Not many would expect a gang, of all things, to be heroes. But here we are.

Our job is to help you widdle humans by getting rid of an evil tyrant, Ash, in this unnamed city. Well, that’s hard to do, so we got allies. A half-dragon, a Tasmanian Devil shapeshifter, you know, cool stuff like that. Now, if only I could get this vampire hunter to leave me alone. No idea what her deal is, but she clearly can’t kill me despite ‘trying’ her hardest. Ah well, I know my job, and it’s to continue doing SOMETHING to help out here.

CONTENT WARNING: Heavy gore, sexual assault and rescue from it, extreme religious indoctrination/manipulation, and heavy profanity.

This is Book 1, version 2 of “The Kingdoms of Blood” series.


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Huntsmaster City
The Kingdoms of Blood Book 2

 Ever see a Tasmanian Devil shapeshifter before? Well, you’re about to meet one. The name’s Darcia Deville.

We might have established harmony in Elapid City, but there’s a bunch of twisted vampire hunters eyeing us now. If they get their knives into our vampires, well, that can only end badly. So, now, we’re taking the fight to them.

Everything just had to go wrong, though.

My partner, Robert Smoke, a turned vampire, ended up captured by an insane scientist known as Doctor Astral. I need to save that brat in distress before he gets himself tortured to death. Not only that, but this woman is messing around with magic and science to an alarming extent. Wolfmen never existed before.

Apparently, they do now.

CONTENT WARNING: Extreme gore, descriptive sex scenes, profanity, rescue from sexual assault, & graphic torture.

This is Book 2 in “The Kingdoms of Blood” series.


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 Des M. Astor is a dystopic urban fantasy author who twists everything you know about creatures like vampires. If you're looking for gory, action-heavy novels that take several steps away from common myth for a flavor of her own, her works are the ones for you. She has a fascination with horror, and is unafraid of spiders, bats, and serpents. In fact, she adores all three. She takes pride in her worldbuilding, to the point where you might question if she's stepped out of an alternative Earth onto ours in order to tell these stories...


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Something different... Blasphemous, even - Vampires of the SUN!
by Des M. Astor

 (Image by https://twitter.com/Harcloniterxd)

When it comes to vampires, I absolutely adore doing something different. Well, to a point. I absolutely hate Twilight (sorry, Twilight fans! I just dislike the lore is all) but can at least commend it for doing something different, even if that ‘different’ is…well… something I hate. The only time my vampires sparkle is when glitter is dumped on them. (That link is a canon short story but be warned it does have spoilers for ships in my books.)

However, there’s ways to do something absolutely unusual and pull it off very well. There’s something I’d never want taken away from vampires… blood drinking. To me, they’re no longer vampires then. I also prefer them to have fangs, though some can pull off fangless vampires well, too. It’s a preference thing. But creatures of the night… I do prefer that, too, greatly.

However, what if we play with the idea of diurnal vampires who are empowered by the sun? Crazy, right? Traditional vampire lore has them burning in the sun! But it also has them undead (something I don’t do in my series given my vampires are living) . It has them repelled by garlic, needing to be invited inside… you get the point. Well, at least that’s the case for the traditional ‘western’ vampire - I did a Deep Dive into vampires on my own blog a while back that explored different vampire myths, so blooddrinkers of the west aren’t the only ones out there. However, my lens is on what we know of from western vamps!

Anyway, vampire fans may be wincing right now, but hear me out. Humans are a diurnal species, and it would make sense for vampires to take the diurnal predator route. Some diurnal predators include the lion (though they do hunt at night too, it depends), cheetah, eagles, hawks, and similar. You can’t have every single predator hunt only at night, after all.

Vampires who hunt during the day can blend with daytime jobs of humanity and merge with society even more since most people are active during the day. What better to help them than be empowered by the sun? Plus… given the vampire myth in our modern society (if your world is ours or like ours) very few would expect that.

Even better. What if werewolves in this hypothetical lore were empowered by the moon, and vampires by the sun? I think that would be so cool. Vampires could have flame-like powers as well, which would be very neat. They likely wouldn’t see very well in the dark, just like their prey. (Lions cheat, they can see fine in both places, but we have to have nerfs somewhere, come on!)

I love the idea of multiple vampire species (and multiple species of EVERY mythical monster, mind you!) so you could play with this concept as one species of many in your worlds.

Hopefully this inspired a little bit of ‘huh…never thought of that!’ I personally would love to see a romance between a sun vampire and moon werewolf. That could be super interesting.

Keep open minded for this concept if it comes up, or if it’s out there in a story already! There’s so much that can be done with it while still keeping our vampires very chompy and bloodthirsty.  
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