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BLOOD SLAVES and BLOOD RISING
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Huge thanks to @markusredmond for starring in Black Cat’s first “episode” of Undercover Author 🤪

If you want to snag some SIGNED copies of Markus’ books, we have them available at blackcatmedina.com! Trust us, they’re worth the read 🩸🦇✨

#blackcatbooksandoddities #booktok #indiebookstore #indiebookshop #bookstore #bookstagram #bookrecs #shoplocal taken in Black Cat Books & Oddities by @markusredmond

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I’m still not over the fact that @publisherswkly gave Blood Slaves a starred review, so here is the entire thing snapped directly from their latest issue. Plus, there’s a link in the bio to it if you don’t want to exercise your fingers😊

#bloodslaves #thebloodsaga #blackvampires by @markusredmond

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Me and my baby are in New York City❤️ taken in Times Square, New York City by @markusredmond

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🩸 4.75/5 stars 🩸
This book was nearly everything I wanted and then some extra that I couldn’t have seen coming! Kwadzo, Rafazi and the rest of the newly freed people of the Barrow Plantation are back and figuring out what their next moves are. Full of betrayals, violence, revenge, and self-discovery, I will continue to scream about this series forever!

🌟 How to enter! 🌟
🩸 Must be following me (@teenasbookshelf ) and Markus (@markusredmond )
🩸 Like this post
🩸 Share to your story
🩸 Comment below with your favorite Black author and tag a few friends who would love this series

Bonus entry: share/send this post to me

Rules:
🩸 Must be willing to share your address as I will be buying from indie stores if possible!
🩸 Open to US addresses
🩸 Not associated with Instagram, Kensington, or Meta.
🩸 Ends 10/25 with winner to be announced 10/26 on my stories and through DM. Winner will have 24 hours to accept, or a new winner will be randomly chosen by @markusredmond

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A little while ago, @jaylene_pryor weighed in with her thoughts on Blood Slaves. Now, she gives us a play-by-play account of her Blood Rising reading experience. Spoiler alert: it went well. Additional spoiler alert for Jaylene: thank you so much for such kinds words and book 3 will be released summer of 2027.

If you would like to experience what Jaylene did, click the link in my bio.

Welcome back to the Blood🙏🏽🩸 by @markusredmond

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"Easily one of the boldest horror novels in recent years" and why else horror fans need to read Blood Rising 🩸 by @markusredmond

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I want to thank @whoisbrown, @haylieduff, @thekatywilson, @joekurak, @lexy_lex, @deenadill, @sarah_borne, the rest of the cast and crew, and @lifetimetv, and everyone who watched HER ONLY WAY OUT last night. It was a joy to see this story finally play out on screen after 2+ decades. The additional writers made it “Lifetime ready”and everyone involved did their jobs wonderfully.

Now, back to edits on volume 3 of The Blood Saga🙏🏽🩸 by @markusredmond

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Well, folks, it’s happening. I’m coming to @hauntthereaders in August of 2027! I’ve heard such incredible things about this fest and I’m thrilled to have been invited. I’m looking forward to seeing you all there and welcoming you into the Blood personally🙏🏽🩸 by @markusredmond

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🎧 Audiobook of the Week 🩸

Blood Rising by @markusredmond

The Barrow plantation fell. The people it enslaved rose as the Ramanga Tribe, vampires of an ancient African bloodline, and renamed the land the Crimson Plantation. The Native families who fought beside them live there too. 🌑

Kwadzo Okoro leads them now, and freedom is proving harder to keep than it was to take. The Crabtrees are rallying every slaveholder in the region for revenge. And Rafazi, the ancient Ramangan whose blood started the rebellion, has decided he answers to no one. 🔥

This second book picks up where Blood Slaves left off, in a Carolina where the enslaved freed themselves and now have to fight to stay free. Heads up, the violence is graphic. It's bloody and brutal, and it gives the people who suffered on those plantations teeth. ✊🏾

🎧 Listen through our Libro.fm partnership: libro.fm/audiobooks/9798899742026?bookshop=sistahscifi
📚 Or borrow it free on Libby

#SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction #SupportBlackAuthors #Library #AudiobookOfTheWeek #BlackHorror #VampireBooks by @markusredmond

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Hey kids! Her Only Way Out is a Lifetime movie that premieres this Sunday, October 11th at 8/7 central, and I’d love you all to watch it… because it took 26 years to happen.

Settle in. I’d like to tell you all a story that I don’t think any of the cast or crew know about.

Some of you know that before I became a novelist and wrote The Blood Saga, I was a screenwriter.

Well, 26 years ago, I wrote a screenplay called You Belong To Me. It was about a young girl named Kelly who, after being nearly killed by her abusive boyfriend, fakes her own death to escape him, only to realize that she must “come back from the dead” to save her younger sister, Haley, who was now dating the formerly mentioned abusive boyfriend.

Hollywood studios across the board turned it down for a barrage of reasons, though one of them made a film strikingly similar two years later.

Way it goes.

Over the years however, You Belong To Me would cross someone’s radar of interest but nothing came of it. Considering the themes, I rewrote the script; aged up the characters, raised the stakes, and gave it a new setting and a swanky new title: Her Only Way.

Still nothing.

Then, about 3 years ago, I met @whoisbrown, a cinematographer turned producer who was building a slate of films to take to several outlets, including Lifetime. By then, I was committed to becoming a novelist, but the script seemed to be a perfect fit. As always, there were notes and revisions needed, but being in full book mode, I couldn’t do them, so other writers were brought in to build on what I’d created.

Now, Her Only Way Out is about to enter the world, and judging by production pics I’ve seen and the official synopsis, much of what I created is still intact, character’s names (with the exception of “Dani” who used to be “Haley”), plot points, even occupations. For this I’m grateful.

So, though I’ve never met them, I want to personally thank director @haylieduff, cast @thekatywilson, @sarah_borne, @joekurak, @deenadill, @jamesaleadrocorso, @loganshephardofficial, @lexy_lex, et. al, the production crew and staff, @lifetimetv, and especially producer @whoisbrown for believing in my story and bringing it to life. by @markusredmond

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This spooky season, go back in time to 1710 and witness history being changed by a group of enslaved men and women so desperate to be free that they give their actual lives for their liberation.

The audiobook editions of Blood Slaves and Blood Rising are available now.

Welcome to the Blood🙏🏽🩸 by @markusredmond

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October is here. We all know where this is going. There are many vampire choices that can be made but if you’d like a new non-European origin story for your vamps, want to see them as the heroes instead of the villains, and want to witness them change history… then do I have the book for you… by @markusredmond

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