David Dvorkin sold a collection of new and reprint novels to Vera Nazarian at Norilana Books. Included in the sale are:
Business Secrets from the Stars (first published by Wildside in 2004) is scheduled for a trade hardcover release in April, 2009. It is “the story of Malcolm Erskine, a moderately successful writer, who hits the big time with a book of nonsensical business advice that he claims was telepathically beamed into his mind by a top business executive living in a faraway galaxy. Malcolm succeeds in making a bundle, but he also attracts the attention of loopy politicians, dangerous televangelists, senile assassins, and even stranger and creepier types. The only way Malcolm can escape disaster is to change the world.”
Dvorkin’s sensual paranormal series, “The Prisoner of the Blood”, introduces “Richard Venneman, devoutly religious and repressed. He’s averse to sexual passion, but while on vacation, he is seduced and murdered by a beautiful woman and wakes up a vampire—captive of uncontrollable desires, thrust into the company of terrifying creatures who revel in dark lusts that Venneman considers repulsive and sinful. Desperate to escape what he’s become, Venneman commandeers a physics experiment he worked on when he was still human, but manages to convert himself into a super-vampire who lives on the blood of other vampires. Now he’s on the hunt for the female vampire who converted him, even while he’s still subject to her erotic spell.” The sale includes the first two in the series, Insatiable (originally published by Zebra in 1993) and Unquenchable (Zebra, 1995), and two new, as-yet-untitled sequels.
Also included in the deal are: Dawn Crescent (Wildside, 2003), an alternate history written with Dvorkin’s son, Daniel, set in “the world that results when the first American war against Iraq goes terribly wrong (and written before the current, second American war against Iraq went terribly wrong)”; and Pit Planet (Wildside, 2003), a science fiction adventure inspired by Dvorkin’s professional experience in the mining industry.