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TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2011

Welcome Amy Mah on Her Blog Tour - A Day Walker Type of Vampire Girl...

Being a Day Walker type of Vampire Girl

Ok let’s see if I can be of help to our teenage vampire readers, lots of humans get it very wrong about what a vampire can or can’t do, and as I have said many times, it is the fault of the film industry and popular TV showing the evil actions of criminals such as Buffy and Blade .

So let’s talk about the dreaded sunlight and the fact I am a daywalker... Er...ok so maybe more of ... Overcast Rainy Day Walker...or Foggy, or Snowing  ...look, do you get it? Sunlight is a problem...  If I say I am a day walker it sounds kinda cool...but as a overcast or rainy day walker it  just sounds sad...But Strong sunlight is a problem for any vampire. The Undead sort have the worst time as they can burn in strong light, but we living ones also suffer. 

Sunlight is deadly to a Turnling/Undead (a human turned into a Vampire) and it is not a pretty sight to see one of our undead maids forgetting the time and stepping out into a nice sunny day... Yuck... 

FANGS RULE; a girls guide to being a vampire  is a young Adult book for anyone between Puberty and Senility as it takes a close up look at life as a female teenage vampire in easy to follow A to Z advice for the reader.

Giving helpful advice such as how to explain to your Mom that as a teenage blood curdling denizen of the night you would like to paint your cave bedroom black without having a shouting match over why you don’t like the way she painted the stalagmites bright pink to go with the large stuffed pink bats hanging from the ceiling.

Everything is explained from how to polish your fangs to fashion tips and ways of climbing across a ceiling wearing a nightdress without showing your underwear.

Fangs Rule is a must for every teenage vampire and from these pages you will see why Amy says “Vampires Don’t Sparkle! …. They Bite!

Let me read you an excerpt:

BOYFRIENDS (also see DATING)

Boyfriends are boys that are not friends. Handsome, charming, caring, strong, sweet, cute, hot, fit... Er...the difference is obvious. If not then you are still too young for a boyfriend and should stick with your stuffed bats.

Meeting the boyfriend's parents for the first time is a problem, like what to wear and how to act. It's best to have some simple rules to follow.

1. Don't talk about boys you have bitten or have bitten you in the past.

2. Don't tell risky stories like the first time you came on heat and what you tried to do with the head of the council until guards pulled you off him and forced you to give back his pants.

3.  Don't offer to raise your dress to show them your family brand at the dinner table.

4.  Don't comment on the food, ever. Even if it is still alive and you have to catch it before it runs off, if you have to say anything just point out how you enjoy frisky fresh food.  

5.  Lastly, no matter how weird, strange, odd, peculiar and down right creepy his parents are or act, try very hard not to point this out to him.

Reasons:

A:  Strangely he has somehow failed to notice.

B:  Or, he has noticed and is praying hard that you haven't.

C:  Remember what your own are like. 

CLAW MAINTENANCE

Yes, I know our claws are naturally sharp but we should still use a block of wood as a scratching post so as to keep our fingernails strong. I keep a few blocks of wood under the bed so that I can (as my Aunt calls it) "play the piano" while watching TV wildlife films. Some people say it's not ladylike to do this but my Aunt informs me that it is perfectly normal for a girl to play with herself in this way. But I do wish my Aunt would word it differently.    

Hi, Thanks for coming to visit today at Book Reader's Heaven! My name is Amy Mah and I am Asian Chinese by looks, I could say that I am oriental looking, but if I do, people would think I look like a carpet.

I’m in my 20s with a very strange sense of humor, I look at the world and see how stupid it is and like to point this out, to know what I mean just read my blog:

I just love anime and manga and so I have had my own image turned into a manga cartoon which is what you will see in my books.

What else?  Well I think faster than I can type...and I type faster than I can spell.

See more of me and my book -- visit my website 

at www.FangsRule.com

Follow me at http://amymahvampire.blogspot.com/  

BLADE TV Series is today’s Vampire Awareness Month Special by Amy Mah (VAM02)

BLADE TV Series is today’s Vampire Awareness Month Special by Amy Mah (VAM02)

As I am waiting on more reviews on vampire TV shows to arrive I may as well add this one tonight.

So to carry on with the Vampire Awareness Month ……….. Today you have me ……sorry but you do……… and my subject is Blade that evil criminal. 

Blade the Series as viewed by Amy Mah (Vampire)

Here we have a dark blood thirsty murdering evil that walks the night in search of new ways of killing ………

……. Am I talking about vampires?

No, I am talking about Blade! This monster is a cross between Buffy and Van Helsing but on Acid!

He is very special as he is a day walker type of vampire, this is very rare, but does he use his great gift for good? No just for death and mayhem, which is dished out with such great pleasure, to both his own kind and humans?

He likes to kill with a sword as he says it is a good way to kill vampires ……

….. duh …Like it is a good way to kill most things in both the undead and living world the loss of a head is nature’s way of saying goodbye to the need of visiting a hairdresser ever again.

So that he does not need to drink blood he has a special drug that has to be injected regularly as takes away his blood addiction, one just wishes it would also take away his gross antisocial habits.

Ho yes the drug also make you vomit if you eat food so not someone you will ever wish to have a meal with.

Different from the films in the TV series he has two partners          er…..  well I say partners “Shen” is someone to help with weapons and whom he treats like a vampire pet, and Krista who when turned into a vampire looks to me more normal when she is not taking the drug ……………. Well she kills a lot less people when not on the drug, so I think perhaps it is the drug that makes her evil.

Like the time when two vampires were helping to drive her to a meeting and she just killed them without any real reason!

See evil, ……… What normal person would do something like that if they were not on drugs!

But then normal goes out the window when Krista has to go swimming in a pool of blood ……….. er…. how stupid is that?

Just a way of letting everyone on the film set know she is female.

So the idea given of being nude is so she does not make the blood dirty? ……er……….Like would you like to drink it afterwards? And perhaps being the one that finds her pubic hairs in you mouth yuk     ………… and she was under the surface for like 10 hours …….without visiting the bathroom? …………. God she must have a bladder made of cast iron! And another reason not to risk drinking blood people have bathed in!

She must have been just sitting under the surface of the blood with her legs crossed as there is not a lot you can do in blood…………… it is way too sticky to swim in and it separates so quickly when it starts to congeal that you would need to brake the surface scab to let her out ……….

So this is a very good TV series about a mass murderer, someone that has nothing better to do but kill tax paying vampires and their human servants ………..sorry …ok he does not always kill the human servants…no sometimes he just gauges out the eyes!  ..  Er episode 12 – 13 …..for gods sake the now blind man was only an architect and all he was doing is designing a meeting house so why be so nasty? Look at the new jobs he had helped create on building construction sites and now he is blind.

Going back to Blade who is something like a born vampire who started out by just killing people for blood like a normal vampire and then turning the only people that befriended him into vampires leaving left them to be ostracized by the rest of the vampire world because of what Blade got up to by killing vampires for pleasure.

At this point we learn that all gang members that were his friends and have the same gang tattoos as blade has and when they meet up he kills them all!  Well that is not someone I would like to have as a friend on Facebook.

Apart from the normal day to day killings he is kinda pissed off with the House of Chthon but never quite sure why as it is a very good vampire business which supports the arts and local politics, the manager of the House is a turnling called Marcus he is mega cute and without the drug Krista enjoyed being bedded by him on a number of occasions, at least once while Blade watches! The Pervert!!

The ending of the series is good but needs a second series hopefully showing a great and glorious permanent death of blade so that we can all sleep a little easier in out coffins.

Review By:  Amy Mah, Vampire, Blogger and Author of “Fangs Rule a girls guide to being a vampire”

BLADE - The Series

Blade TV series trailer

http://saraheglenn.blogspot.com/2011/07/vampire-awareness-month-blade-series-as.html

Amy Mah  Author of “FANGS RULE a girls guide to being a vampire” http://www.fangsrule.com     is a new and very funny author who writes and blogs  http://amymahvampire.blogspot.com/  about life as a modern teenage vampire trying to put up with both humans and fellow vampires........... The author Amy has been transformed into a manga character and her real image has been changed into the wonderful images you will see in her books and this is all anyone has seen of what she looks like in real life, this may sound strange but then all you see of: A listed celebrities are photoshopped pics in magazines.

We are not saying she is really is a vampire but it is just very hard to take her photo and sometimes bites people.

Her book Fangs Rule can be found as a Paperback or Kindle on amazon:

 http://www.amazon.com/Fangs-Rule-Girls-Guide-Vampire/dp/1874192480/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1301589874&sr=8-1



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Fangs Rule Vampire Book Reviews

Fangs Rule Reviews

Amazon

If you are tired of the constant barrage of teen Twilight-esque vampire thrillers and need a break from the norm, then Amy Mah's Fangs Rule is the vampire guide for you. Written in the very naturalistic style of an angst-ridden teenager, Fangs Rule is a book designed for teens, be they 6 years old or 600 years old.

Amy is a vampire who is almost 400 years passed her thirteenth birthday, but her well-observed insights show a vampire who still suffers the growing pains as much, if not more, than her human counterparts.

Imagine living in a cave that your Gran has decided would suit you if it was painted in pink? Imagine having underwear delivered that was decorated in drawings of bats - again bright pink! Try to tell yourself how you would reveal fangs without seeming rude and stand-offish to your neighbour! All these avenues and more are explored in the funny and incisive world of Amy Mah.

Accompanying the text are the cute drawings from noted Manga artist, Heby Sim, perfectly complementing each and every nuance uttered by this young, all-knowing heroine. It is probably one of the most perfect collaborations ever in a children's book. Oops! Did I say Children? Yes, it could be described as a child's story, on the surface, but if you care to dig deeper, you will find that it is an incredibly funny, quirky and marvelously entertaining piece of work designed for kids of all ages.

In a sandstorm of vampire literature, Fangs Rule is an oasis in the desert. One of the most interesting and highly original takes on the vampire theme. Ms Mah is definately one to watch out for. But beware, because she bites!

Charles E Butler

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I love, love, love this cover. The colors are much more vibrant when you're holding the book in your hand than what you see in a picture.

Plot/Characters There's not much of a plot since it's an A-to-Z guide on being a vampire. The guide is smart, funny and educational ... no matter if you are a vampire or a human.

The guide is being told to you by the author herself, Amy Mah - a self-proclaimed vampire.

Overall Even though I have no inclination into becoming a vampire, I loved this book. I would recommend this to everyone ... whether you enjoy a quick, fun read or want to know more about being a vampire or you like quirky humor ... this book is for you.

=) MRShemery

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This is not your typical vampire story. If you are expecting hunky male vampires, then you are in for a big surprise. You won't find vampires jumping in and out of every bed they pass. You won't find murder and mayhem. What you will find is a teenage vampires journal in which she is trying to set straight all of those not so true stories you read about vampires. Amy is also trying to make you understand what it is like being a teenage girl vampire.

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Amy has written her own A to Z journal of everything you need to know about being a teenage female vampire in a human world. You will get all kinds of great information about everything and anything from fangs, biting, kissing, love, clothing, school, immortality and yes, there is a little about sex. Come on folks. Teens do know about sex whether you want them to or not. This is not an x-rated pornographic book. This is a light hearted, funny and sometimes silly account of being a teenage vampire. There are wonderful manga pictures throughout the book which were created by none other then Heby Sim. Layout and design was done by Nicholas Reardon. The book is printed like a teenager's journal so the writing is not your usual type print. It was presented like a teens writing; but I had absolutely no difficulty reading it. Throughout the book are cute little pics of bats, cats, ravens, and snakes. Each numbered page has bats on either side. It definitely adds to the affect of the book. I thoroughly enjoyed this light hearted read about vampires. I enjoyed so much; I read it in one sitting. I highly recommend this book if you are looking for something different and do not want heavy reading. I love vampire stories. Even though this was not your usual vampire setting, it was quite enjoyable and there is nothing wrong with this book for a young adult to read it. I venture they see and hear more sex on a television screen.   Well, there you have it. This book would make a great gift for any teenager. Try it. You will like it. I did.           

Eva J. Coppersmith ""vintage vixen""

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i am totally impressed with this book....i brought it for my niece .... she is a teenage and totally into vampires.... i read it myself and found it very funny and quite interesting.....the author has a good sense of humor....which is what i loved most....plus all the live and colorfully illustrations....brings such dept to the imagination and life to the book.....i highly recommend this book....

Amazon

www.fangsrule.com

Today's world is difficult for everyone, especially teenagers. They face the stresses of school, deciding whom to date, and the biggie of sex, just to name a few. Imagine all of those things ten times worse, and you might get an idea of what it's like being a living, breathing teenage vampire. At last, the world can read about the life of a girl with good teeth, her problems with strong sunlight that gave her spots, and the sunblock that made her hair go yucky and produced more spots. Yes, sunlight was dangerous, as she could be the first teenager in history to die from terminal acne! In her everyday life, older vampires expected her to walk about at night in the traditional female uniform, a see-through, 18th-century nightdress, without undies! Well, this female vampire knew why the cold winds blowing along the corridors were called, "male winds," so she wore her see-through nightdress over jeans and a very thick jumper. To be sure that people would still know she was a vampire, the jumper had a very large, pink bat on it. And as to guys, well, it was normal for a girl to dream about guys; she just wished the dreams could have involved chocolates and holding hands, not leaping out at someone, ripping off his shirt, and demanding to know what blood type he was (at least not on the first date).