Angela Lockwood AuthorUntil the outbreak of the First World War, young Cameron Blair would have liked nothing better than to stay in Edinburgh and marry his childhood sweetheart. As the call to arms goes out, Cameron and his pals sign up to fight for their country. They are soon delivered into the nightmare of war, and there Cameron more than meets his maker. The story follows Cameron as he comes to terms with his new ‘life’, from his first days as a hapless vampire in war-torn France to the glamorous modern day setting of the Côte d’Azur. Along the way, he develops a distinctive taste for the finer things in life: jewels, yachts, small dogs and champagne-infused human... Follow language in the blood on Facebook: Angela Lockwood Author pageBuy the book on Amazon Kindle Here Follow the blog Here After meeting his maker on the battlefields of the First World War,
Cameron Blair has spent almost a century coming to terms with his new
vampire identity. Along with a taste for human blood and lapdogs, he has
acquired the linguistic skills of his victims and learned to survive in
the shady underbellies of Europe’s great cities. The end of Language in
the Blood sees Cameron facing a dilemma when blame for one of his kills
gets laid at his best friend George’s feet. Cameron discovers a deeply
buried vestige of humanity and surrenders to the French authorities - a
decision he soon regrets as it becomes clear they don’t have quite the
same heroic role for a vampire agent in mind that his own vivid
imagination does. Locked up, his needs denied, misunderstood and plagued by an unhealthy obsession with his friend’s daughter, the bored vampire edges close to insanity. Before long, Cameron starts plotting his escape. Buy the book on Amazon Kindle Here Other books Angela has contributed to. Something Short is a collection of short stories from French and
Scottish shores by two female writers; Elspeth Morrison and Angela
Lockwood. We meet a variety of interesting and amusing Scottish
characters in Begonia, The Wee Baldy Man, The Pop Star and a mad
scientist in Animals, but also some personal experiences in dealing with
arthritis and depression in Begonia and The Goldfish Bowl. The stories
are short but impactful and we hope they leave a lasting impression on
you. About the authors Elspeth Morrison is a published author of historical non-fiction, namely The Dorothy Dunnett Companion vols I & II and editor of The Lymond Poetry. She has always enjoyed writing but only recently has had the nerve to publish her fiction. Some of her work is quite close to the bone, but in her short stories and her poems she strives to make an emotional connection with the reader. Elspeth works and lives in Edinburgh. Angela Lockwood-van der Klauw was born in the Netherlands. She learned her trade as a jeweller and gemmologist at the Vakschool Schoonhoven before moving to Edinburgh as an apprentice jeweller. There she met and later married her husband Adam. Angela ran her own jeweller’s shop in Edinburgh for ten years before she and her husband moved to the south of France in 2011. Angela prefers the climate there, but often thinks about the town she left behind and its people. Angela started writing in the spring of 2013, a very wet spring during which she found herself climbing the walls, frustrated that she couldn’t go out and have her usual long walks along the seafront. Seeing his wife’s frustration, Adam suggested ‘Why don’t you write a book?’ Angela thought about it for a few days, then switched on her laptop and started writing. She published her first book ‘Language in the Blood’ in August 2013. Having met many moons ago in Angela’s jewellery workshop when Elspeth discovered a passion for jewellery and wanted to know more about their manufacture, they now share another passion; writing. Even though these friends now live on different shores they have pulled together to release this bundle of short stories. Buy the book on Amazon Kindle Here |