Fat Vampire

Fat Vampire is a whole new take on the "done to death" vampire story ...and now a TV show called Reginald the Vampire on Hulu, Amazon Prime, and The SYFY Channel!

Get ready for the sometimes-funny, often-bloody tale of Reginald Baskin: the outcast underdog vampire who's not good enough for the pretty, fit, glamorous vampires of the world ... but who turns out to be better than all of them because of it.

The problem is in the aspect of vampirism nobody ever talks about: Once you're a vampire, your body is fixed: You can never, ever change. That's bad luck for Reginald, who'd never fit in with the Twilight crowd; he's marked for death the second he's made.

What nobody saw coming, though, were the mental gifts vampirism gave Reginald when it couldn't give him sculpted cheekbones and a cover-model body. He can learn anything. Remembers everything. Solves impossible puzzles and algorithms. And outsmarts everyone.

As the series progresses, Reginald turns out to be just the unlikely hero -- and the impossible change -- the world's vampires will need if they have any hope of surviving an omnipotent new enemy.

*** Reviewers love Fat Vampire's dark humor ... and this time, the bloody underdog has the upper hand:

• "Truly original and a very fun, witty take on the "done to death" vampire story."

• "So funny! I love the dark humor in this whole series. Fat Vampire is horror, satire, and hilarious comedy rolled into one delicious occult bundle!"

• "If Eric Northman [from True Blood] ever gets staked, Reginald Baskin will be my new favorite vampire."

• "Got the book just before bed... Next thing I knew it was the wee hours of the night... It was impossible to put down."

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The Fat Vampire series contains the following 11 books:

THE CORE SERIES (6 books):

• Fat Vampire

• Fat Vampire 2: Tastes Like Chicken

• Fat Vampire 3: All You Can Eat

• Fat Vampire 4: Harder Better Fatter Stronger

• Fat Vampire 5: Fatpocalypse

• Fat Vampire 6: Survival of the Fattest

THE SIDE SERIES about Reginald's 2000-year-old maker, Maurice (4 books):

• The Vampire Maurice, in which Maurice becomes entangled with the Vampire Mafia in the 1930s as they bootleg a dangerous new synthetic blood called Thrilloglobin, and a series-long chase begins.

• Anarchy and Blood, in which Maurice squats with gutter punks in Austin in the 1980s, battling an old rival over existence and a priceless bottle of snooty wine.

• Vampires in the White City, in which Maurice does battle with real-life serial killer H. H. Holmes at the 1893 Chicago World Fair (in ways that could have actually happened because I didn't contradict any real-world facts about Holmes).

• Fangs and Fame, in which the Vampire Mafia story from book 1 comes full circle in meta fashion ... as producers make a TV show about Reginald that looks suspiciously like the real TV show made in the real world based on this series)

AND THE IN-WORLD PREQUEL:

• Game of Fangs, in which a team of Live Action Role Players enter a Vampire LARP tournament only to find that real vampires have entered too, and are creating a bloody melee.

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** DESCRIPTION FOR FAT VAMPIRE BOOK 1 **

When overweight treadmill salesman Reginald Baskin finally meets a co-worker who doesn't make fun of him, it's his own bad luck that tech guy Maurice turns out to be a two thousand-year-old vampire.

And when Maurice turns Reginald to save his life, it's just Reginald's further bad luck that he wakes up covered in blood to discover he's become the slowest, weakest, most out-of-shape vampire ever created … doomed to "heal" to his corpulent self for all of eternity.

But as Reginald struggles with the downsides of being a fat vampire (too slow to catch people to feed on, mocked by those he tries to glamour, assaulted by his intended prey and left for undead), he discovers rare powers in himself that few vampires have … and just in time, because the Vampire Council wants him destroyed as an inferior representative of their race.

If you love vampire stories like True Blood, Interview With the Vampire and the rest of Anne Rice's books, Dracula, or Let the Right One In (but maybe not Twilight or The Vampire Diaries so much), you'll love Fat Vampire! And if you also love black comedies (or horror comedies) like Shaun of the Dead, What We Do In the Shadows, you'll love it even more!