I got a few enquiries through some channels about TransGothicExpress so I decided to collate them here. If you haven't read the book, it won't make much sense.

Questions about TransGothicExpress

Who is Sarah in the dedication?
I’m married to Sarah. The novel was for her. I don’t write vampire novels. I hate vampires so it took a lot of work to come up with something I could live with. It was a gift based on her favourite genre. Because we are still very much in love, I’ll have to write a sequel for our next big anniversary.

Why is Mick so foulmouthed?
It’s because he is immortal, and most of his foes are too. Mick can’t use sticks and stones to much effect against his enemies so he plays dumb and tends to call them names instead. His rule of thumb is that sticks and stones will break your bones and words will ALWAYS hurt you. As is evident later in the novel, he doesn’t really care who or what you are so long as you leave him alone.

I don’t get how his Comanche friend is immortal. Mick made him immortal but not a vampire?
Mick’s blood is the secret ingredient. It makes people Immortal, but not vampires. You need to mix it with another Vampire Queen’s blood to make a vampire.

Why do they call each other names?
Like Very Pale Face for Mick and Tonto? This is just banter between them.

What is the Dorian Gray angle? It’s mentioned a lot.
George/Georgina cannot see themselves. The last picture of her never ages and neither does she. Being immortal and living with the horror of being a vampire, she habitually defaces images of people that look like her to externalise the horror of what she feels. In Dorian Gray, the painting ages to show Dorian Gray as he really is, but he does not. In this respect they are parallel.
Mick does the same, but verbally. You hear his self-loathing rather than see it, but he also uses it as a weapon.

Why is art important to them?
They don’t show up in photographs. This is why art is so important to them.

So, Georgina gets this cool bike, a Ducati Monster called Justine and she only rides it a few times and it doesn’t do much of anything else?
It does play a larger part in the sequel, Spanish Democracy.

So….vampires are ancient gods like Zeus and Jupiter?
That’s the premise. When people became more technologically advanced the Gods were no longer needed. Mick mentions this as his key fear for the future. They were gods that walked the earth as vampires with extraordinary powers according to the storyline. This meant that I don’t have to write a complex backstory. I could use ancient myths that people were familiar with.

So Mick is Dionysus, Georgina is Nemesis, the Master is Hades, and Griselda is….who?
Drusilla. She’s on the cover of the book. I was amazed that nobody got that.

What about Penelope and Violet?
Well that would be giving away the plot of Spanish Democracy.

There are spelling mistakes on pages x,y,z….
Thanks for that. I’ve updated the hardcopy and the soft copy will appear updated as soon as Amazon pass it through their checking process.

Can I get a sneak peek at the sequel?
I’ll post some preview chapters on my blog on Goodreads.