Mozart's Blood by Louise Marley

$15.00

Paperback

As I prepared to help my publisher promote my first book with them, Mozart's Blood, there was a lot to consider.  First of all, what genre is this book?  It's historical, covering nearly four hundred years.  It's musical, with a protagonist who is an opera singer.  It's fantasy, because the opera singer is also a vampire, though the word is mentioned only once--and in Italian--throughout the novel.  It was a challenge to know how to find the audience for the novel.

After a few false starts--an abortive attempt at a book trailer, for one--I settled on the Virtual Book Tour that's now available on my website.  It took hours and hours of work, but it was a labor of love, and has been well-rewarded with reader comments.  I don't know that the device works for any other novel of mine, but in this case, with the music of Mozart's divine Requiem as background and a number of public-domain images for visual effects, it seems the perfect fit.  It takes readers on a tour of the many places my opera singer visits and performs.  The pictures are beautiful, and the Lacrymosa is moody and evocative, and so very, very Mozartean.

I hope you'll try the tour.  As my website says, turn up the volume on your speakers, and click the icon in the lower right to make the image full-screen.  It's a quick journey through four centuries and as many continents--the Virtual Book Tour for Mozart's Blood.  Enjoy!