Dracula Dossier Conspyramies

Once is an accident. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action – at least, according to the apocryphal Moscow Rules.

Our kickstarter for the Dracula Dossier was due to launch on October 17^th. That target was, perhaps, overly ambitious. While we’d completed the draft of the Director’s Handbook – the mammoth compendium of conspiracies, connections, criminals and, um, carotid-craving critters – by then, it took longer than we planned to put together all the other assets.

Like the gorgeous draft layout.

Like the mock-up of the still-in-progress Dracula Unredacted novel, complete with its annotations by three generations of MI6 analysts.

The pitch videos.

The alcohol.

The second, considerably more relaxed takes for the pitch videos. (There are reasons why writers rarely crave the spotlight!)

The draft covers for both books, by Dennis Detwiller and Jerome Hugenin.

The map of Europe, so we can track the progress of Mina Harker and Van Helsing in our little game within the kickstarter.

And, of course, all the behind-the-scenes juggling of numbers and stretch goals and pledge levels, so we can deliver the best possible books at the most affordable price while not diving the Pelgrane off a financial cliff. A well-executed kickstarter is a wondrous thing; a badly-planned or unlucky one can become a hellish millstone.

So, the 17^th didn’t happen. But the 31^st of October! All Hallow’s Eve, a night to conjure with! A night, no doubt when blue flames blaze above hidden graves and treasure troves in Transyvania, a night when spies skulk down alleyways in London and Bucharest, a night of terror and magic and…

… a night when the Pelgrane internet connection went mysteriously offline.

(Actually, it was the day before, but this makes for a better story).

Co-incidence, you say. A mere glitch. You may be right.

Our new official launch date for the Dracula Dossier kickstarter is

If it doesn’t launch on that day, we must discard both accident and co-incidence as possibilities, leaving only enemy action as the only explanation – and if that’s the case, then run, because we’ll already be dead and you know too much already, so HE will be on your trail too.

So pray, gentle reader, that the kickstarter launches on Monday. Tell your friends. Better yet, tell your enemies – maybe they’ll slow Dracula down when he goes hunting.